2002 State Convention
"Music Builds Bridges"
The Valley City Music Teachers proudly hosted the 2002 NDMTA State Convention in Valley City, North Dakota on the campus of Valley City State University.
Teacher of the Year: Carole Flatau
Composer of the Year: William Wieland
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Friday, October 25
12:00-3:00 Executive Board Meeting/Luncheon
1:00-7:30 NDMTA/MTNA Competition Rehearsals 2:00-4:00 Registration - Foss Hall Foyer
3:15-4:15 Gabriela Imreh
4:30-5:30 Geraldine Keeling and Deborah Erftenbeck
6:00-7:30 Round Table Salad Supper
8:00-9:00 Gabriela Imreh
9:00 Reception |
Saturday, October 26
7:30-8:00 Monitors' Meeting
Adjudicators' Meeting 8:00-9:00 Registration - Foss Hall Foyer
8:00-9:00 Leesa Levy and Richard Walentine
8:00-11:00 Certification Examinations
8:00-12:00 NDMTA/MTNA Competitions
8:00-5:00 Merchants' Exhibits
9:00-10:00 Sarah Altenburg
9:00-10:00 Robert Jones
10:00-10:30 Break
10:30-11:30 Angie Nolte
10:30-11:30 Sara Hagen 11:30-12:15 Break
12:15-1:45 NDMTA Business Luncheon
2:00-3:00 Gabriela Imreh
3:00-4:00 NDMTA/MTNA Winners Recital 4:00-5:15 Break
5:15-6:00 Student Composition Winners
7:00-9:00 Convention Banquet |
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Sunday, October 27
8:00-9:30 IMTF Breakfast: Kathleen Johnson, Laura McLean, and Lisa Schuler 9:00-10:00 Registration - Foss Hall Foyer
9:45-10:45 Gabriela Imreh 11:00-12:00 Geraldine Keeling and Deborah Erftenbeck Piano Duet Recital 12:00-12:15 Closing of the Convention |
Guest Artists/ Clinicians
Geraldine Keeling and Deborah Erftenbeck made their debut as a duet/duo team on the Pasadena Artist Series in 1986. That same year they participated in the international Liszt celebrations by performing and lecturing at the Symposiumon Liszt's Sacred Music in Weimar, Germany. Since then they have performed in Budapest at the Franz Liszt Museum and Research Center, in Japan for the Piano Teachers' Music Guild , in Canada for the Festival of the American Liszt Society, and New York for the Chromatic Club. They also have performed throughout Southern California, including the Los Angeles Music Center and the Long Beach Terrace Theater, and they twice were the featured duo teamat the State Convention of the Music Teachers' Association of California. They have published "Piano Duet Repertoire: A Graded List."
Deborah attended Ithaca College, University of North Texas and the University of Southern California. She has been on the staff at the University of Oklahoma, California State University, Los Angeles and Pasadena City College. She currently teaches in the Monrovia Unified School District and maintains an active private piano studio. She is a former State President of the Music Teachers' Association of California. She also is an active adjudicator in the southern California
area.Geraldine attended St. Olaf College, Indiana University, University of Southern California and University of California, Los Angeles. She was on the faculty of Valley City State University 1970-1977, where she founded the VCSU Piano Festival in 1973. She also helped begin the NDMTA Music Rallies, was organist and choir director of First Lutheran Church, was on the Community Concert Board, and was accompanist for the Valley City Troubadours. Gerry currently teaches piano privately in San Gabriel, CA, and is Founder/Co-Director of the Los Angeles Liszt Competition.
She has given papers and published articles on Liszt in the United States, Canada, England, Sweden, Germany, Austria and Hungary. She is a former Pasadena Branch President for the Music Teachers' Association of California and is currently State Ensemble Chair for the California Association of Professional Music Teachers (MTNA affiliate). She has been chair of the Pasadena Area of Junior Festival sponsored by the National Federation of Music Clubs since 1992.
Described by the London Sunday Express as "a fast rising Romanian born virtuoso" pianist Gabriela Imreh has captivated audiences throughout North and South America, Europe and the Far East.She has performed with many of the World's leading orchestras including the Vancouver Symphony, the National Russian Philharmonic, the London Mozart Players, the Hong Kong Philharmonic, the Tivoli Festival Orchestra (Copenhagen), and on several national and international tours with the Philadelphia Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra. In the USA she has performed in over 150 cities from coast-to-coast and appeared at New York's Lincoln Center and Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall as well as a number of prestigious halls in Europe.
Her recordings have been warmly received by record critics. Clavier commented on the "restrained Romantic sensitivity that is refreshing to hear in Bach performance" and the American Record Guide noted that "Her fingers are capable of negotiating the composer's polyphony with the utmost clarity at often breakneck tempos. She offers a sinewy strength balanced by a feminine delicacy and lightness of touch Franz Liszt was praised by former New York Times critic Harold C. Schonberg, for her "delicious playing," and Fanfare described Gabriela as "a major talent," and the recording as "state of the art(and) a delightfully ear opening release."
Born in Tirgu Mures in Transylvania, Gabriela began studying when she was five years old. She attended the "Gheorge Dima" Academy of Music and graduated summa cum laude as the top conservatory student in Romania.
Program for Gabriela Imreh's Recital
"REFLECTIONS"
| Toccata and Fugue in D minor | Johann Sebastian Bach | Transcribed by Carl Tausig |
| Prelude, Fugue and Variation | Ceasar Frank | Transcribed by Harold Bauer |
| Vocalise | Serge Rachmaninoff | Transcribed by Zoltan Kocsis |
| Liebeslied(Love's Sorrow) | Fritz Kreisler | Transcribed by Serge Rachmaninoff |
| Liebesfreud (Love's Joy) | Fritz Kreisler | Transcribed by Serge Rachmaninoff |
| Intermission | ||
| Totentanz | Franz Liszt | |
| Selections from the Gershwin Songbook | George Gershwin |
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