Colorado ASTA Newsletter September 2019 |
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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 |
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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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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! |
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2020 Colorado ASTA Large Group Festival Registration opens 9/2 and closes 9/27
Three regional sites this year:
Monday, March 2nd, Parker Performing Arts School Tuesday, March 3rd, Fort Collins High School Wednesday, March 4th, Longmont High School Confirmed Judges and Clinicians: James Pryzgocki, Deborah Perkins, Mark Laycock State Level Dates (Invitational): Monday, April 13th and Tuesday, April 14th, Macky Auditorium at CU Boulder Confirmed Clinicians: Larry Livingston and Sey Ahn |
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Upcoming Audition Deadlines: Western States Honor Orchestra
September 20, 2019, 5:00pm Colorado All State Orchestra
November 12, 2019, 5:00pm |
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Monster No More! An Interview With ASTA President-Elect, Loni Obluda I had the great pleasure of interviewing Loni Obluda this past month. The first question I had for her was perhaps the most superficial of all: where does your last name come from? She relayed that it is her married name and as best she could gather it emerged from her husband’s heritage by way of Czech influence. The actual definition of the name is at odds with Loni’s pleasant, upbeat demeanor because, as her students like to chide her, Obluda refers to a monster in folk stories! Needless to say, Loni is far from a monster as the rest of this interview will amply prove. Continue reading the rest of Philip Ficsor's interview with Loni here |
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Western States Honor Orchestra Workshop - FREE! The University of Northern Colorado string faculty invite you to attend our annual Western States Honor Orchestra Audition Workshop. The techniques practiced will also help with All-State auditions. Work on your audition music, get help with fingerings, practicing, scales, excerpts, and solo repertoire, and learn how to make a great audition recording. *Join us Saturday, August 31, 2-5pm, at the new Campus Commons Performance Hall* Bring your instrument, audition music, pencil, questions, and open mind! Please register online by August 23rd Follow this link for more information! |
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Western States Honor Orchestra Has A New Facility! The University of Northern Colorado faculty are excited to share that the Western States Honor Orchestra Festival will be in the brand new Campus Commons building this November! Along with this new space we are going to try a new format. We will form a conductorless chamber orchestra and symphony orchestra (conducted by Dr. Guyver) from the invited high school string players; wind and percussion musicians will be from the UNC Symphony Orchestra. There will be two days of intense rehearsal, interspersed with workshops, coachings, lectures, and masterclasses by UNC string faculty. Western States is November 7-9 and auditions are due by September 20th. Follow this link for more information! |
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New String Faculty At UNC We are excited to introduce our TWO new string faculty. Dr. Sarah Off is Assistant Professor of Violin and Music Business and Vijay Chalasani is joining us as instructor of viola. Sarah is particularly eager to make connections with teachers around the state. She would love to help you and your students in any way she can. Please reach out to these new faculty with any requests you might have for support from UNC. Follow this link for more information! |
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CMEA 2020 Registration is open! |
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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). |
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CMEA 2020 Ensemble Performances Congratulations to these ensembles and their directors for their acceptance to perform at the Colorado Music Educators Association Conference in January 2020: Evergreen High School Chamber Orchestra Wiley Cruse, Director Grand Junction Central High School Chamber Orchestra Amber Campbell, Director Rocky Mountain High School Symphony Orchestra Courtney Dowling, Director Prairie Middle School Chamber Orchestra Chen Wu, Director Denver School of the Arts Middle School Full Orchestra Enrique Lasansky, Director |
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I Can Show You the World - Disney Style! Is your group planning a trip for the upcoming school year to Disney World or Disneyland? Are you interested in putting something together? Would you like a string specialist to be your guide? Contact Michelle Ewer if you're interested or for more information. "Let me show you Disney!" ewermichelle30@gmail.com |
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Save The Date! - 2020 National ASTA Conference Orlando, Florida, March 4-7th, 2020 Registration opens in September 2019! |
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Job Openings Send us the information and we'll put it on our website. |
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Next General Membership Meeting Saturday, November 9th at 10:00am, UNC Greeley. Please be there! |
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Please Welcome New Colorado ASTA Board Members... Kirstin Miller, Denver Metro Area Representative Leanne Griffey, Secretary Cathy Hanson, Southern Colorado Representative Leanna Rutka, Webmaster and Newsletter Editor. Please send any items you'd like included in the newsletter or on the website to leannarutka@gmail.com. Just a friendly reminder that all newsletter submissions must be received by the 20th of each month. |
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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 |
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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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