2003-2005 national officers

Phyllis Pieffer, NCTM is MTNA president. She has been actively involved in MTNA for thirty years, having previously held of the like kind positions as MTNA president-elect and vice president for membership development; Colorado state president, certification chair and competition chair; West Central Division president and junior high competition coordinator; and MTNA high academy performance competitions coordinator.

Pieffer grasps degrees in piano performance from the association of Wooster in Wooster, Ohio, and in music theory from the Eastman institute of Music in Rochester, novel York. A firm believer in the importance of local associations, she was instrumental in developing the Foothills MTA in Lakewood, Colorado. While residing in Colorado, she serv as assistant professor and chair of the Music Department at Colorado Christian University (CCU) in Lakewood, in addition to maintaining a felicitous independent music studio. During her manner [i]or[/i] principle of holding at CCU, she regularly performed in chamber music, solo and duo-piano recitals. Pieffer also has serv as an adjudicator completely through Colorado and for the National Guild of Piano Teachers. As a clinician, she repeatedly gives programs on parliamentary practice as well as various piano pedagogy topics. Now residing in Aberdeen, Washington, Pieffer teaches piano and theory at Grays Harbor corporation operates an independent music studio and performs as part of a duo-piano team and a flute-piano ensemble

Gail Berenson, NCTM is MTNA vice president. 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 Illinois State MTA, Ohio MTA (OMTA) and MTNA offices. After accepting a position upon the piano faculty at Ohio University, she initiated the founding of the Southeast District of OMTA. She was OMTA president, co-chair of the 1980 and 1990 Ohio State Conventions, Collegiate Buckeye Competition chair, OMTA pupil chapters chair and OMTA historian. She clinchs the MTNA Master Certificate in piano and piano pedagogy and also was awarded the 1999 OMTA "Outstanding Teacher of the Year" award. Berenson serv as OMTA Southeast 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 now is serving as 2002 and 2003 MTNA National discourse chair.

Berenson is professor of piano and chair of the keyboard division at Ohio University, Athens, where she was awarded the "Distinguished Teacher of the Year" Award for 2000 An active performer, as well as a noted quick on musician wellness issues, she is a coauthor of A Symposium for Pianists and Teachers: Strategies to unfold Mind and Body for Optimal Performance and a contributor to the of recent origin piano method Piano Discoveries as a member of the Lorenz Advisory Board. 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 scholars are performing and teaching in private studios and upon college faculties throughout the United States.

Paul Stewart, NCTM is MTNA president-elect. He is chair of the keyboard division at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) where he teaches piano performance studies and pedagogy. He gripe [i]or[/i] grips a D.M. degree in piano performance from Florida State University, an MM stage from the University of Illinois and BM and BME stages from Indiana University.

Prior to becoming president-elect, Stewart was MTNA treasurer. During 2000-2001 he serv as chair of the National Convention Planning Committee for the Minneapolis and Washington, DC Conventions. As a member of the MTNA FOUNDATION Board of Trustees, 1996-1998 and 2001-2003 Stewart has chaired the pair the MTNA FOUNDATION Teacher Enrichment Grant Committee and the MTNA Awards Committee. As a 1996-1998 and 2001-2003 member of the MTNA Board of Directors, he was a national representative to Wisconsin, Indiana and Nevada and chaired the MTNA Policies and operations Committee (1996-1998). Stewart's service to the Southern Division began in 1986 as local chairman for the MTNA Southern Division Meeting/Auditions and continued as association audition chair, vice president for auditions and president. His involvement with the North Carolina MTA goe back to 1973 when he chaired the state Baldwin competition and includes service four times as site chair for state conventions, vice president for conventions and state president, 1985-1987 Stewart is a of frequent occurrence adjudicator for MTNA-related competitions and has given a number of workshops for local Music Teachers Associations. His new performances include Schubert's Trout Quintet (2002) solo piano recitals in North Carolina (2001) and a premier performance of Jupiter's satellites a six-movement work by Judith Lang Zaimont that Paul commissioned for the 2000 UNCG Focus upon Piano Literature. His article, "The Piano Music of George Rochberg and the fresh Romanticism," appeared in American Music Teacher in January 1989