Save the Dates! 2020 CASTA Certificate Advancement Program

Date and Locations listed here. Please look for information about registration in January. 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 in the ASTA website this fall.

Saturday, 4/18, Parker Performing Arts
Saturday, 4/25, Boulder and Ft. Lewis College
Saturday, 5/2, Front Range Community College, Fort Collins

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:

CMEA Ensemble Selection Survey

Share your thinking around the CMEA ensemble selection process. What is working? What needs improving?

Looking To Revitalize Your String Program?

From funding to technology, from relevance to creative contemporary music, what big dreams do you have that would help keep your program exciting and inspiring? Take this survey to submit ideas or connect with Colorado colleagues to continue this conversation!

Upcoming Audition Deadlines:

Colorado All State Orchestra 

November 12, 2019, 5:00pm

CMEA 2020 Registration is open!

CMEA 2020 Guest Clinicians

Start making plans now to attend the 2020 Colorado Music Educators Association (CMEA) Clinic/Conference at the Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs. The conference will take place January 22-25, 2020, and featured clinicians will include Richard Meyer (well-known composer and pedagogue), Liz Dinwiddie (Performing Arts Department Chair, Ashley Hall), and Kirk Moss (frequent Guest Conductor and Clinician).

Save The Date! - 2020 National ASTA Conference

Orlando, Florida, March 4-7th, 2020

Registration opens in September 2019! 

Job Openings

Send us the information and we'll put it on our website.

Next General Membership Meeting

Saturday, November 9th at 10:00am, UNC Greeley. Please be there! 

Nominations Now Open for Colorado ASTA's Exemplary Awards

Nominate a friend or colleague for a 2019 Exemplary String Teaching Award! You can also forward the link to a colleague or a principal if you want to be nominated.

Here are the links for each award:

Colorado Private String Teacher, Exemplary Award Nomination Form

Colorado Elementary String Teacher, Exemplary Award Nomination Form

Colorado Middle School/Jr.High String Teacher, Exemplary Award Nomination Form

Colorado High School String Teacher, Exemplary Award Nomination Form

Colorado College/University String Professor, Exemplary Award Nomination Form

Get Involved With Colorado ASTA

There are currently two openings on the Colorado ASTA board for the following positions:

Northern Colorado Representative

President-Elect

Please follow this link for more information about these positions

Contact Alison Mayes at alisonmayes523@gmail.com if you are interested in getting involved with the Colorado ASTA board. 

Upcoming Events and Important Dates

September 20, 2019: Western States Honor Orchestra Audition Deadline, 5:00pm

November 7-9, 2019: Western States Honor Orchestra Festival @UNC Greeley

November 12, 2019: Colorado All State Audition Deadline 5:00pm

January 22-25, 2020: Colorado Music Educators Association (CMEA) Conference

February 6-8, 2020: Colorado All State Orchestra @CSU Fort Collins

March 2-4, 2020: Regional Large Group ASTA Orchestra Festivals

March 4-7, 2020: National ASTA Conference in Orlando, FL

April 13-14, 2020: Colorado ASTA State Orchestra Festival @CU-Boulder

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.