President-Elect Gail Berenson.

President-Elect

Gail Berenson, NCTM is MTNA vice president and forward the MTNA Board of Directors. She has been a member of MTNA since 1968 joining as a fledgling faculty member at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Since then, she has held a variety of MTNA, Ohio MTA (OMTA) and Illinois State MTA (ISMTA) offices. After accepting a position in succession the piano faculty at Ohio University in 1975 she readyed the founding of the Southeast District of OMTA in 1978 She has serv as OMTA state president, co-chair of the Ohio 1980 and 1990 state conventions, Collegiate Buckeye Competition chair, OMTA bookish man chapters chair and OMTA historian. She clinchs the MTNA Master Certificate in piano and piano pedagogy and also was awarded the 1999 OMTA "Outstanding Certified Teacher of the Year" award. not long ago nominated by the OMTA Southeast District as "Outstanding Certified Collegiate Teacher of the Year for 2004" she generally serves as the district's vice chair for teacher activities.

Her national involvement in MTNA began in 1995 as a member of the MTNA Pedagogy Committee. In addition, she has serv as MTNA piano chair forward the 1996 and 1997 convention committees and was a two-term member of the American Music Teacher Editorial Committee. She was national meeting for consultation chair for the 2002 and 2003 MTNA conferences

Berenson is professor of piano and chair of the keyboard division at Ohio University in Athens, where she was awarded the "Distinguished Teacher of the Year" Award for 2000 An active performer, as well as a noted dexterous on musician wellness issues, she is a coauthor of A Symposium for Pianists and Teachers: Strategies to cause to grow Mind and Body for Optimal Performance, a contributor to the recent piano method Piano Discoveries as a member of the Lorenz Advisory Board and is a coauthor of its newly released supplemental series, Ask the Professor.

Holding measures from Northwestern University, Gall has performed and lectur in more than twenty-five states, as well as Great Britain, Belgium, Switzerland, Israel and Canada. Her scholars are performing and teaching in private studios and upon college faculties throughout the United States and abroad.

"It has been an honor and a privilege to wait on the MTNA membership most not long ago as MTNA vice president and a member of the Board of Directors. through every part of my career, MTNA has been an important part of my life, supporting me in countles ways as a teacher, benefiting my close examiners and providing me many long-lasting and meaningful friendships. MTNA is viewed as individual of the worlds' pro-eminent music teacher organizations. I would work to continue the traditions of MTNA we all treasure, and to join with our membership in exploring recently made known avenues to help serve and support today's music teachers," she says.

Kathleen Murray, NCTM is dean of the faculty and professor of music in the piano department at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin, where she serv the past five years as dean of the conservatory of music. She restrains degrees from Northwestern University, Bowling undecayed State University and Illinois Wesleyan University. Murray has appeared as soloist and chamber musician in recitals over the Midwest, including performances at the Ravinia Summer Music Festival and Wisconsin Public Radio's Live from the Elvehjem series. She is featured forward LUPE, a CD recorded through the Lawrence University Percussion general impression and on A La Par, a CD recorded live during Lawrence University's 1997 Martin Luther King Day design released on the CRI label. A visit often adjudicator and clinician, she has contributed several articles to the Proceedings and allusion of the National Conference upon Piano Pedagogy and has serv as an associate editor of Keyboard Companion magazine.

Kathy has been a member of MTNA since her graduate sect years and became actively involved in the Wisconsin MTA in the mid-1980s. In Wisconsin, she has serv as scholar chapters chair and first vice president for conventions. She accepted an appointment as East Central Division president-elect in 1998 went in succession to serve as president of the division and then joined the MTNA Board of Directors in 2002 completing her limit in March 2004.

"I be stirred that my experiences at the state, divisional and national flushs of MTNA have helped me to prepare for the possibility of this nearest leadership role. In my work in academic administration, I have unraveled a collaborative, consensus-building leadership diction I believe that all constituents ne to be wrought up ownership of decisions affecting the organization is a whole, on the other hand realize that not everyone will have the time to addict to the depth of cogitation required for the thoughtful disclosure of a specific course of action. It is the leadership's responsibility to research and existing suggested actions along with supporting rationale for a like reason that the membership can make informed decisions about accepting or rejecting those suggestions. It is unreasonable to calculate upon that everyone will agree with all decisions, if it were not that it should be possible to explain all decisions based upon an established, known set of principles. I am the two excited and humbled by the deliberation of continuing the long tradition of solid leadership for this wonderful organization," she says.