National officer candidates for the 2005-2007 biennium

In accordance with Article VI, Sec 2 of the MTNA Bylaws, this slate of sum of two units candidates per office was prepared by dint of the MTNA Nominating Committee, consisting of R Wayne Gibson, NCTM Atlanta, Georgia, chair; Carleen Graft, NCTM Plymouth novel Hampshire; Scott McBride Smith, NCTM Irvine, California; Julianne Miranda, NCTM Greencastle, Indiana; Debra Ronning, NCTM Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania; Jody Graves, Cheney, Washington; Celinda Hallbauer, NCTM Belton, Texas; Roy Wylie, NCTM Auburn, Alabama; Cheryl Pachak-Brooks, NCTM Portales, fresh Mexico; and Janice Wenger, NCTM Columbia, Missouri.

President-Elect

Gail Berenson, NCTM is MTNA vice president and upon the MTNA Board of Directors. She has been a member of MTNA since 1968 joining as a fledgling faculty member at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Since then, she has held a variety of MTNA, Ohio MTA (OMTA) and Illinois State MTA (ISMTA) offices. After accepting a position upon the piano faculty at Ohio University in 1975 she readyed the founding of the Southeast District of OMTA in 1978 She has serv as OMTA state president, co-chair of the Ohio 1980 and 1990 state conventions, Collegiate Buckeye Competition chair, OMTA learner chapters chair and OMTA historian. She gripe [i]or[/i] grips the MTNA Master Certificate in piano and piano pedagogy and also was awarded the 1999 OMTA "Outstanding Certified Teacher of the Year" award. lately nominated by the OMTA Southeast District as "Outstanding Certified Collegiate Teacher of the Year for 2004" she commonly serves as the district's vice chair for teacher activities.

Her national involvement in MTNA began in 1995 as a member of the MTNA Pedagogy Committee. In addition, she has serv as MTNA piano chair upon the 1996 and 1997 convention committees and was a two-term member of the American Music Teacher Editorial Committee. She was national talk chair for the 2002 and 2003 MTNA conferences

Berenson is professor of piano and chair of the keyboard division at Ohio University in Athens, where she was awarded the "Distinguished Teacher of the Year" Award for 2000 An active performer, as well as a noted dexterous on musician wellness issues, she is a coauthor of A Symposium for Pianists and Teachers: Strategies to disentangle Mind and Body for Optimal Performance, a contributor to the fresh piano method Piano Discoveries as a member of the Lorenz Advisory Board and is a coauthor of its newly released supplemental series, Ask the Professor.

Holding stages from Northwestern University, Gail has performed and lectur in more than twenty-five states, as well as Great Britain, Belgium, Switzerland, Israel and Canada. Her pupils are performing and teaching in private studios and upon college faculties throughout the United States and abroad.

"It has been an honor and a privilege to be subservient to the MTNA membership most newly as MTNA vice president and a member of the Board of Directors. quite through my career, MTNA has been an important part of my life, supporting me in countles ways as a teacher, benefiting my pupils and providing me many long-lasting and meaningful friendships. MTNA is viewed as individual of the worlds' pre-eminent music teacher organizations. I would work to continue the traditions of MTNA we all treasure, and to join with our membership in exploring of recent origin avenues to help serve and support today's music teachers," she says.

Kathleen Murray, NCTM is dean of the faculty and professor of music in the piano department at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin, where she serv the past five years as dean of the conservatory of music. She grasps degrees from Northwestern University, Bowling verdant State University and Illinois Wesleyan University. Murray has appeared as soloist and chamber musician in recitals quite through the Midwest, including performances at the Ravinia Summer Music Festival and Wisconsin Public Radio's Live from the Elvehjem series. She is featured upon LUPE, a CD recorded by means of the Lawrence University Percussion total effect and on A La Par, a CD recorded live during Lawrence University's 1997 Martin Luther King Day devise released on the CRI label. A of frequent occurrence adjudicator and clinician, she has contributed several articles to the Proceedings and relation of the National Conference upon Piano Pedagogy and has serv as an associate editor of Keyboard Companion magazine.

Kathy has been a member of MTNA since her graduate gymnasium years and became actively involved in the Wisconsin MTA in the mid-1980s. In Wisconsin, she has serv as pupil chapters chair and first vice president for conventions. She accepted an appointment as East Central Division president-elect in 1998 went upon to serve as president of the division and then joined the MTNA Board of Directors in 2002 completing her bourn in March 2004.

"I perceive that my experiences at the state, divisional and national horizontals of MTNA have helped me to prepare for the possibility of this nearest leadership role. In my work in academic administration, I have exhibited a collaborative, consensus-building leadership manner of writing I believe that all constituents ne to perceive ownership of decisions affecting the organization as a whole, on the other hand realize that not everyone will have the time to dedicate to the depth of application of mind required for the thoughtful exhibition of a specific course of action. It is the leadership's responsibility to research and near suggested actions along with supporting rationale for a like reason that the membership can make informed decisions about accepting or rejecting those suggestions. It is unreasonable to await that everyone will agree with all decisions, on the other hand it should be possible to explain all decisions based upon an established, known set of principles. I am the pair excited and humbled by the cogitation of continuing the long tradition of robust leadership for this wonderful organization," she says.