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| 2011 FSMTA Local Association of the Year | ||
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Upper Pinellas
Music Teachers Association Wins
FSMTA's Local Association of the Year Award seeks to recognize those organizations that uphold the highest standards in music pedagogy, participate in state and national programs and conventions, and go above and beyond the norm in such areas as programs for students, their community, and member education and support. A shining example of such a local association is the Upper Pinellas Music Teachers Association which has a history of excellence, having won this award in 2006. It is particularly gratifying that this award coincides with their fortieth anniversary.
Their commitment to all aspects of their organization deserves commendation and their level of activity is dizzying! They presented six student recitals, two outreach recitals, and a member recital, in addition to holding four competitions, two festivals, and District Student Day. All this in one year! But wait, that's not all!! They also hosted four speakers/performers at monthly meetings, a great way to encourage attendance and provide member education and support. They produced a teaching video and even published a book review.
As if that's not enough, they increased their membership by 10% and improved their local website by adding a membership link that enabled new and prospective members to download UPMTA, FSMTA, and MTNA applications. Of particular note, they instituted a new scholarship of $100 each for high school seniors who had studied with an UPMTA teacher their entire four years of high school and had 16 recipients.
They also produce a handbook, for which they increased sponsorship by 20%, a yearbook, and a monthly newsletter, in which they highlighted former and present members of their association in honor of their 40th anniversary.
Exceptionally impressive are their organizational objectives which are to:
Objectives which they fulfill magnificently. In the words of their former president, "This anniversary serves a s a testament to the fact that musical education plays an essential role in the social and musical development of our students in Pinellas County," Kudos to UPMTA for making it so!
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| 2010 Teacher of the Year Award Presented | ||
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Mary Lou Krosnick Receives Florida State Music
FSMTA’s Excellence in Teaching award is
the highest and most prestigious award conferred by this
organization and is reserved for its most outstanding
teachers based on criteria such as teaching and
professional achievement, student success, participation
and accomplishments in local, state, and national
programs, and community involvement.
We are honored to present the award this
year to a most distinguished and extraordinary teacher
and performer, Mrs. Mary Lou Wesley Krosnick of
Jacksonville.
Mrs. Krosnick, the daughter of a
Juilliard alumnus, made her debut performance at age 14,
when she won the NY Philharmonic Symphony Society’s
Young Composers Contest with her composition The Rain
Comes, which was later performed in Carnegie Hall.
She is an internationally acclaimed
performing and recording pianist who, in her own words,
“specializes in performing challenging, mostly major and
virtuosic works by recognized masters of classical
literature,” and was a former soloist with Boston Pops
under Arthur Fiedler and the Jacksonville Symphony under
Willis Page. She has performed at Carnegie Hall and
Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and was a national
winner for the Teachers Division of the International
Recording Competition and National Guild of Piano
Teachers. She has been a recording artist for the
Musical Heritage Society and Florida Public Radio in
addition to being a featured soloist at Rome Festival in
Italy for three summers. She was included in the 2006
edition of Great Women of the 21st Century, which only
recognizes 1000 women in the entire world.
Mrs. Krosnick’s contributions in music
education have been many and great. She holds degrees
from Juilliard, Yale, and the University of Wisconsin
and began teaching at Jacksonville University in 1978,
where she still holds the distinguished artist-in-
residence title. She developed her own pedagogy for
structurally analyzing and then tackling technical
challenges resulting in a meticulous methodology for
teaching her piano students. She served as Head of piano
faculty at Sewannee Summer Music Center for 11 years,
and most recently was selected as one of “75
Distinguished Dolphins”, in honor of Jacksonville
University’s 75th anniversary, for having been deemed to
have made the greatest contribution to school and
community. She has produced multiple student winners in
local, state, and national competitions (the list is 4
pages long covering 30 years), with an impressive record
of 25 straight years of having winning students in FSMTA
District IV competitions. She is nationally certified by
MTNA, a published author, and has been recognized by the
Arts in Education Program sponsored by FL Dept. of
State. |
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| FSMTA Local Association of the Year | ||
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2006 – Upper Pinellas Music Teachers Association 2000 – Tallahassee Music Teachers Association
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| FSMTA Excellence in Teaching Award | ||
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2005 – Deborah Ross (Pensacola MTA) 2003 – Leonard Mastrogiacomo (Tallahassee MTA) 2000 – Gary Wolf 1998 – Eleanor Wadsworth Morgan 1995 – Rita J. Hutcherson 1992 – Gray Perry (also Honorary Membership 1992 – Robert Sherwood 1991 – Lucille Sellars (1st teacher to receive this award)
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| Excellence in Teaching Award | ||
 At the 2008 FSMTA Conference in Gainesville, Helen Neidung was presented the Excellence in Teaching Award. She is a member of the Southwest Florida MTA. Our congratulations to her! |
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