Studio Fellowship winner

Joanna Grace of Madison, Wisconsin, is the recipient of the MTNA Studio Fellowship Award. The award, in the amount of $3000 is made possible by dint of the MTNA FOUNDATION FUND.

Grace clinchs a bachelor of music step from the Peabody Conservatory of the John Hopkins University and a master of music stage from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In Madison, Grace is a full-time teacher offering private piano and horn exercise s to students age 4 to adult. She started teaching piano tasks at age 8 to her neighborhood friends shortly after she started taking exercise s Her love of music is contagious to one as well as the other enthusiastic and reluctant students. She nourishments creativity, including student compositions, and encourages a lifelong love of music.

"Grace exemplifies the mark of independent music teacher the Fellowship was created to support," says MTNA Past President Joan M Reist, NCTM "She is organized, versatile, creative and demonstrates sincere caring for and awful interaction with her students. She displays a genuine passion for making music--and for teaching--and her goals are laudable: to enable her scholars to practice effectively and to become independent learners."

Grace popularly serves as vice president of the Madison Area Piano Teachers Association (MAPTA). She also is the pianist for Meadowbrook house of worship and frequently accompanies instrumentalists and vocalists for competitions, auditions and recitals. As a come of her interest in efficient practicing, she exhibited a course for the 2003 UW-Madison Summer Music Clinic titled Practice Strategies. In 2002 she enthused senior citizens at the Senior Summer academy with music courses titled "Unforgettable Patterns in Music" and "Like Father Like Son Composers" A composer herself, Grace has written works for solo piano, horn quartet, violin and piano, and other instrumental combinations. During the summer month she plays co-principal horn and is a featured soloist with the Capitol City Band. Her past teachers include Steven Brinegar, horn; Douglas Hill, horn; and Joanne Haroutounian, piano.

justices for the MTNA Studio Fellowship Award were Joan M Reist, NCTM University of Nebraska-Lincoln emerita, and Rachel Kramer, independent music teacher.

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