There is an exciting event coming up in November!   Please mark your calendars and plan to attend the 2016 DSMTA Convention on Saturday, November 5.  This year it will be held at the University of Delaware Bayard- Sharp Hall

The MTNA Competitions will be held the weekend before on October 28 & 29 at the University of Delaware. The Honors Recital will be held on the day of the Convention in the afternoon.

Our clinician this year is Dr. William Carr. 
Concert Pianist and Steinway Artist, Dr. Carr, is Professor of Music at Immaculata University and President of Informance Associates. As a concert pianist, Dr. Carr continues to perform with area orchestras including the Ocean City Pops Orchestra, the Delaware Symphony Orchestra, the University of Pennsylvania Symphony Orchestra, the Philadelphia Doctors Orchestra, and the Philadelphia Classical Symphony Orchestra. Because of his reputation as performer and teacher, he often adjudicates in piano juries and competitions.

Dr. William Carr has given corporate seminars and recital presentations on creativity to the graduate schools of business and to over thirty Fortune 500 corporations worldwide. Some of his lectures touch upon the role of creativity in leadership and strategic thinking, the creative process, insight restructuring, intrinsic vs. extrinsic motivation, and a comparison between the elements of music vs. the elements of management and their implementation in the teaching studio. 

Your $25.00 registration fee (member or non-member) will provide you with valuable teaching materials, coffee and breakfast items, lunch, and a very fulfilling day.  The registration fee for students, including college students, is only $9.00. 

CONVENTION LETTER

Convention REGISTRATION FORM

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​On Sunday May 29th Alicia and Dennis Chu, residents of Newark, were two of forty other young pianists from around the country to play the stage at Carnegie Hall as
part of a 36th anniversary concert of the Piano Teachers’ Society of America. The two were chosen from a large number of applicants after auditioning for a panel of judges.  Alicia, age 9, a fourth grader at North Star Elementary School, performed Debussy’s First Arabesque.  Dennis, age 13, who attendsH.B. du Pont Middle School, played Dance of the Water Grass, a Chinese classical piece made famous in the West by Lang Lang. The two study piano with Mitzi DeWhitt of Hockessin.

Six students from the piano class of Loretta Jankowski were winners in “The Piano Teachers Society of America” and performed in the Winners Recital on May 29th 2016 at Carnegie Recital Hall. In the photo above from left to right are Dylan Ortega, 10, of Bear; Pranav Padmanabhan, 12, of Pike Creek; Trysha Ortega, 15, of Bear; Matthew Ebron, 13, of New Castle; Grace Li, 13, of Bear; and Zachary Villamor, 12, of Bear. “The Piano Teachers Society of America” is a highly respected and competitive organization which originated in New Jersey and is now active in the East Coast. For more information about this fine organization, please contact Loretta Jankowski, who is the Chairperson for the Delaware, Maryland, and east Pennsylvania area at [email protected].