9:00 - Social time: connect with colleagues and browse SMTA’s large selection of sheet music
9:25 - Live music by Dr. Michelle Huang
9:30 - Business
10:00 - 11:00 - The Art of the Phrase, presented by Peter Mack
It's easy to teach our students to play more musically, once we understand the basic principles of phrasing. In this entertaining and illuminating talk, Peter Mack teaches us how to recognize the basic phrase types, and how best to interpret them. Everyone can sound better, once they understand the art of the phrase!
Irish pianist Peter Mack is in great demand as a performer, clinician, convention artist, adjudicator, and teacher. Celebrated for his moving playing, and his easy rapport with audiences, he has performed throughout the United States and Europe, as well as in Australia, India, and the former Soviet Union.
His students are frequent winners of local, national, and international competitions. An active educator, he is current President-elect of MTNA, and VP of Teacher Development for the SMTA.
“Mack is one of those lucky ones, born with a completely balanced set of talents… In all capacities he is indefatigable....” --Los Angeles Times