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Keeping Music Alive and Freaky at the 2017 MTNA National Conference
The 2017 MTNA Conference was held in Baltimore, Maryland March 18-22, and several of our OhioMTA Southwest colleagues were front and...
Adventures with Accompanists: Finding the Collaborative Pianist
My violin teacher always found a pianist for me whenever I played a recital, contest, or master class. His wife was a piano professor at...
Photo Gallery: Fall Conference 2016
Thank you to Brendan Jeffrey Photography for these images from our Fall Conference on October 8, 2016 at the University of Cincinnati...
Grant Helps Send Miami University Chapter to MTNA
This past April, members of the Miami University Collegiate Chapter were able to attend the MTNA national conference in San Antonia,...
One of Those "Wow!" Books
Just a few pages into The Perfect Wrong Note by William Westney I found myself thinking, “This is terrific; I wish I’d read this years...
Cultivating Creative, Motivated Students - Part 3: Get Up and Move!
In part one we discussed multimedia, part two was improvisation, and now we are on to the third and final part: movement! One of the best...
Cultivating Creative, Motivated Students - Part 2: Improvisation
In the first article, we talked about using multimedia to foster creativity and motivate your students. (If you missed it, click here.)...
Cultivating Creative, Motived Students - Part 1: Using Multimedia
Despite music being a creative endeavor, teachers often get stuck in a monotonous routine of doing the same things the same way all the...
The Benefits of Rote Teaching
Dr. Julie Knerr (left) teaches piano at her home studio in Windsor, Connecticut. She holds degrees in piano performance and piano...
Productivity Tips for Piano Teachers
A Guest Post by Joy Morin of ColorInMyPiano.com Click here for Joy's biography. If you are like me, you probably wear many hats: teaching...
