Colorado ASTA Newsletter January 2020 |
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CMEA 2020 - NEW Info! Our state conference is upon us! We are excited to see everyone in Colorado Springs! Stay tuned for details around a get-together on Friday evening, 1/24 where we can celebrate string education, meet new people, and see old friends! Watch your email for communication from Alison Mayes. Looking forward to another fantastic CMEA! |
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CMEA 2020 Guest Clinicians The featured clinicians will include: Richard Meyer (well-known composer and pedagogue) Liz Dinwiddie (Performing Arts Department Chair, Ashley Hall) Kirk Moss (frequent Guest Conductor and Clinician). |
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CASTA Bylaws Revisions - CMEA General Membership Meeting Watch for an email from Alison Mayes with a link to the proposed revisions. A member vote to approve revisions will be held at the ASTA general membership meeting at CMEA; Friday at 4 PM in Colorado Hall A. |
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Passing the CASTA Torch Signing Off as Colorado ASTA President Alison Mayes 1/10/2020 Colorado ASTA Members, It has been an honor to serve in the role as President for the past two years. I feel lucky that I was able to follow Rebecca Jonas; a pragmatic, intelligent, kind, caring, and effective leader who has done wonderful things for the health of Colorado ASTA’s membership and morale; simply by being her amazing self. Our upcoming President, Loni Obluda, will completely change the organizational scope of the various traditions and important things that we do each year: the summer camp scholarship audition process, the summer conference, and SO much more. Her impeccable talents for spreadsheets, online documents, color-coding, fonts - all incredibly useful - are bound to be wholly appreciated and undoubtedly effective. Loni has so much experience and optimism to offer. I am so excited to see where she takes us - with her big heart and sense of humor. I didn’t think that when I joined ASTA - in 2002 as a college freshman - that I would be helping to shape Colorado’s string teaching landscape today. Creating new Board positions to meet specific needs, supporting the inclusion of an ever-growing Large Group Orchestra Festival, expanding the CCAP program, and many other wonderful things that our Board and active members have been up to. Even in a state where string education is sometimes threatened and unsupported, what a great time to be a string teacher here, with ASTA continuing to advocate for and with you. You can use it as a very valuable and powerful tool. I encourage you to become familiar with the new connections being made on the National ASTA website through discussion threads and their mentor program. As our chapter moves forward into the next reign of leadership, I want to encourage you all to become more forthcoming, more outspoken, and ultimately, more involved. This association is for YOU - to better YOUR teaching, to better YOUR playing, to provide opportunities for YOUR students, YOUR school. What is it that YOU want to see? What resources do YOU want? What help or guidance can Colorado ASTA provide for YOU? Want to host a workshop? Want to serve on a committee? Want to engage in more solution-oriented thinking and problem solving? Please tell us. Thank you for the wonderful connections, for becoming my colleagues, for supporting my own professional development, for the wonderful memories, and for working with me to make ASTA a place where we can all belong. I do plan on sticking around, to continue trying to make a difference and remain an active part of supporting all string educators in Colorado.
Harmoniously and With Love Always,
Alison Reifschneider Mayes |
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Member Spotlight - Kat Fritz |
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Save The Date! - 2020 National ASTA Conference March 4-7, 2018 in Orlando, FL View the full schedule available below Presenters from Colorado: Lindsay Fulcher (UNC) Gregory Walker (CU Denver)
Margaret Berg (CU Boulder) Rebecca Jonas (HRHS) Colorado ensembles performing in the 2020 National Orchestra Festival
Cherry Creek High School Orchestra - Jennifer Poole, Director
Widefield High School Orchestra - Sara Miller, Director |
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Large Group Orchestra Festival - FULL! Regional Events: Monday, March 2 at Parker Performing Arts School
Tuesday, March 3 at Fort Collins High School
Wednesday, March 4 at Longmont High School State-Level Event (Invitational) Monday and Tuesday, April 13 and 14 at CU Boulder *Due to a surge in demand, 2021 will likely expand to four regional sites.* |
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2020 CASTA Certificate Advancement Program - NEW Info! Date and Locations listed here. Registration is OPEN! Fee rates are included in the registration link. Please direct any questions to Margaret Miller, CASTA CAP Chair, violaco@comcast.net This program is a member benefit for ASTA members. The new handbook will be on the ASTA website soon. Saturday, April 18 at Parker Performing Arts School Saturday, April 25 at Angevine Middle School in Lafayette
Saturday, April 25 at Fort Lewis College, Durango Saturday, May 2 at Front Range Community College, Ft. Collins |
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Colorado ASTA Members Reunite Reunion of Colorado ASTA members in North Carolina. We recently played quartets together in Raleigh, NC where Greg is now retired and living. Dr. Greg Hurley, former Colorado violist and music educator and Dr. Katherine Jetter, cellist and professor at Fort Lewis College |
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Colorado All State Orchestra February 6-8, 2020 at CSU Fort Collins |
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CMEA and CASTA Guest Clinician Suggestion Survey Please consider recommending your favorite clinicians to present on behalf of string education at our state conferences! Submit your suggestions here: |
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CMEA Ensemble Selection Survey Share your thinking around the CMEA ensemble selection process. What is working? What needs improving? |
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Job Openings If you know of any current string job openings, or any upcoming anticipated openings (retirements, maternity leave), please let us know so we can add it to our website.Send us the information and we'll put it on our website. |
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Looking to Advertise in the CASTA Newsletter? Just a friendly reminder: if you would like to advertise with Colorado ASTA (on our website and in our newsletter), your business or organization must be an institutional member of ASTA. The membership rate is only $175 per year! Looking to highlight success in the CASTA Newsletter? Please send program, area, school highlights, stories, article ideas, etc. to Webmaster leannarutka@gmail.com for our monthly e-newsletter and website. We would love to show-off you and your students! Additionally, Dr. Joel Schut from CU Boulder is serving as Editor for The American String Teacher Journal. You can send him your ideas at joel.schut@colorado.edu. |
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Do you have an article, announcement, or other information you'd like to share with the Colorado ASTA membership? If so, we'd love to include it in our monthly newsletter! Please send your newsletter submissions to leannarutka@gmail.com by the 20th of each month, and we will be sure to add them the next newsletter, which is published at the beginning of each month. Contact Leanna Rutka (leannarutka@gmail.com), Colorado ASTA webmaster and newsletter editor, with any questions. |
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