Music Educators Association of New Jersey

Serving teachers and students since 1927

Welcome to the Music Educators Association of New Jersey Website!

Celebrating 90 Years of Music Excellence

The Music Educators Association of NJ is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization of private piano teachers founded in 1927. Our mission is to raise the standards of private music teaching throughout New Jersey, while encouraging musical excellence and instilling a love of music in our students. To achieve these goals, we provide continuing education opportunities for our member teachers through monthly lectures, workshops, recitals and master classes. For our students, we offer auditions, competitions, recitals, scholarships and master classes given by artist teachers. Our current President is Yudit Terry, 2019-2021. Click here to read Messages from the President. (These can also be found under Membership on the main menu.)

We invite you to browse our website and discover the exciting world of music MEA offers.

Please note that hyperlinks are noted in Bold Red and when clicked will bring you directly to related pages or forms.

Support MEA of NJ

The Music Educators Association of New Jersey is comprised of nearly 300 piano teachers across the state. MEA supports music opportunities through activities such as auditions, recitals, competitions, master classes, composition festivals and scholarship awards. Please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to these worthwhile efforts.

2021 HONORS RECITAL 
Deadline to Register: October 24, 2021
Deadline for Video Submissions: November 1, 2021

The 2021 Honors Recital is fast approaching and auditions will again be conducted via videos. The online registration deadline is Sunday, October 24, 2021 and the video submission deadline is Monday, November 1, 2021. Please read the complete requirements for repertoire, appropriate dress, etc., on the MEA website at:  For Students/Honors Recital.
 
Also available is a pdf—2021 Honors Recital Video Auditions Info—in the Forms/Download section (in General Forms) with instructions and guidelines to ensure that the videos submitted reflect the high-level musicianship of the performers. Please print this out and read it carefully. 
 
Last year’s video submissions were outstanding and we look forward to another opportunity to showcase the talents of our hard-working students! We are planning in-person Honors Recitals for Sunday, November 14, 2021 at the Randolph Performing Arts Center.
 
Any questions?  Please email Charlene Step, Honors Recital chair, at honorsrecital@mea-nj.org.
 

October 21st General Meeting: The Annual Piano Competition Committee Presents Music, She Wrote

 

9:45 AM @ The Madison Library Chase Auditorium, Madison NJ

Women have been composing music for centuries, much of it ignored, underestimated, or simply undiscovered. Five outstanding composers will be featured at the October 21st MEA General Meeting - Margaret Bonds, Lili Boulanger, Florence Price, Germaine Tailleferre, and Maria Szymanowska.  Highly regarded in their own lifetimes but mostly overlooked today, it is time to give their music the attention it deserves.  Brief biographies will be given, and selections of their music will be featured to show the diversity and depth of these talented women.

This fascinating topic will be presented by MEA members Rebecca Eng, Victoria Griswold, Youn-Hee Kim, Barbara Landi Hause and Anna Katznelson.  Also featured will be Beatrice Long, performing “Troubled Waters” by Margaret Bonds. 

 MEA THEORY REGISTRATION 
 October 1-21,  2021

There are two periods to register students for theory; October 1-21 and March 1 - 21. You can receive the tests via email or hard copy via snail mail and administer them at your leisure. You can register students online using the interactive registration form listed under Member Documents on your Member Homepage or you can mail in a downloadable registration form which can be be found under the link Forms/Downloads from our MEA Homepage Here.

The registration fee is only $5 per test.  Feel free to register students for multiple level tests at once.

For more info contact Marcia Maull, MEA Theory Chair:  Theory@mea-nj.org

 

The Glissando September 2021

The 2021 September issue of The Glissando has been published! You can view or download the PDF Here.

Many thanks to new Glissando Committee Chair, Judy Kessler, and her great committee for working so diligently throughout the summer to have this ready for our enjoyment!

2021 Annual Piano Competition
Winners’ Recital Video
 
The beautiful performances of the talented winners’ of the Annual Piano Competition are available by clicking this link: https://youtu.be/tfEKw9_OpNw
A copy of the program can be found Here. 
Enjoy!

JASMINE MEYER RECEIVES 2021 MEA COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIP

Jasmine Meyer, student of Dr. Julia Lam, has been awarded the 2021 MEA-MJN College Scholarship. An accomplished pianist, Jasmine is completing her senior year at West Mendham High School as a soloist and accompanist for various vocal and instrumental ensembles. Her MEA achievements include performing in the Young Artist Master Class in 2019 with Doug Humphereys, and winning First Place in the duet category and Second Place for solo piano in the Annual Piano Competition the same year. She has earned awards with MTNA, NJMTA, the NJ Federation of Music Clubs, and the Cecilian Young Artist Competition. In 2021 she was the Grand Winner in the International Young Artists Competition sponsored by the National League of Performing Arts. For more information about the amazing “Jazzy” Meyer, please click HERE.

Scholarship Committee
Charlene Step & Sondra Tammam, Co-chairs

Presenting the 2022 Annual Piano Competition Syllabus:
Discovering Women Composers

The Annual Piano Competition Committee is proud to present the 2022 APC interactive syllabus. The theme is "Discovering Women Composers". We hope you will find the repertoire fresh and exciting. Since much of this music is lesser known and difficult to find, detailed information on where you can get the scores is included in the syllabus.  Just click on this link 2022 APC Interactive Syllabus and enjoy!

September 23rd General Meeting: The Annual Piano Competition Committee Presents Discovering Women Composers: The 52nd Annual Piano Competition Syllabus

9:45 AM @ The Madison Library Chase Auditorium, Madison NJ

Welcome back to live music!

Come to the MEA General Meeting on Thursday, September 23rd to hear live performances of the solo and duet repertoire for the 2022 Annual Piano Competition.

This syllabus features the little known but wonderful music of some outstanding women composers, including works by Lili Boulanger, Cecile Chaminade, Germaine Tailleferre, Fanny Mendelssohn, Amy Beach, Dorothy Rudd Moore, Agnes Backer Grondahl, Marianne von Martinez and more.

The performers will be the members of the APC committee: Ana Berschadsky, Rebecca Eng, Vicky Griswold, Barbara Landi Hause, Anna Katznelson, Jongsun Lee, Beatrice Long, Kai Pangune Kim, Youn-hee Kim, Ruth Kotik, Michelle Kuo, Naomi Takagi, and Yuka Yanagi.

Hope to see you there!

The 52nd MEA-NJ Annual Piano Competition Syllabus

The June 2020 Young Artist Master Class with

Joseph Kalichstein

Read the Highlights Here

Congratulations to:
Rebecca Hsiao, pupil of Florence Liu
and
Conor Hampton, pupil of Sophia Osokov

Original Composition Festival April 25th 

BRAVO TO THE ORIGINAL COMPOSITION FESTIVAL STUDENT COMPOSERS

Read The Highlights for The Original Composition Festival and Eric Steiner Original Composition Festival Here.

The Original Composition Festival was held on April 25th, via the zoom platform, with 32 student composers altogether from the ESOCC and the Festival representing 13 teachers.  The program included compositions for piano solo, piano four  hands, and piano with ensemble.   All student composers received a certificate.  The judges of the ESOCC were also able to attend and speak to the students.  Committee member Joan Bujacich acted as host on the upgraded zoom and conducted sound checks prior to the start of the program to optimize the audio experience.  All teachers were also sent audio tips/recital protocol, prior to the Festival to disseminate to their students.  Committee member Lisa Gonzalez took screen shots of the composers.  The program was a huge success and there were many positive comments from teachers, parents and the students themselves. Congratulations to all the student composers!  Stay tuned for next year, you will not want to miss this!

 Original Composition Committee, Kathy Knittel, Chair

2020-21  MEA MEMBERSHIP DIRECTORY 
Available from your Member Homepage

The 2020-2021 Membership Directory can be found on your Member Homepage. Log on and take a look. It is listed under Downloadable Documents. You can view or Download. 

Thank you Lisa Gonzalez, Membership Chair, for putting this together for the membership each year!