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Welcome to the website of the Raleigh Piano Teachers Association! 
 

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Church Keyboard Festival

Those of you who attended the April RPTA meeting may remember Karen Sultan making the announcement about resurrecting the church keyboard festival.  Karen is a rising 12th grader who has taken on this project because of her love of...well I'm going to let her tell it.  Go to this website she has designed to read all about it:  ncchurchkeyboardfestival.com   If you do nothing else, read the "About Us" page...it will touch your heart.  I was surprised at the number of my students who are interested in playing church music.  Ask yours!

~Marie Willett~

 

Congratulations to RPTA Member Amy Gardner

RPTA member Amy Gardner is having her graduation recital for her MM degree at Meredith College on Friday, July 30, at 7 p.m. at Meredith College's Carswell Concert Hall.  Congratulations, Amy!

 

 

Recreational Music Making (RMM) Workshop with clinician Brenda Dillon will be held on Tuesday, August 3, 2910 at Burrage Music Company from 9 a.m. – 12 p.m.  Learn an alternative teaching path and how to recruit, retain, and inspire adult music makers.  To register call 919-872-0211 or e-mail piano@burragemusic.com

 

 

Message from Margaret Anne Smith:

I am creating a special committee which will be entitled "Events Coordination Committee.”  The chairman will be Kent Lyman and he will be in charge of working with the Events Office at Meredith College to schedule all of RPTA's events which occur at the college:

 

- regular monthly meetings

 

- Young Artists Auditions

 

-  the RPTA Scholarship competition and honors recital

 

- the Ensemble Festival

 

-  any other events which RPTA might like to have at Meredith

Kent may decide to add other Meredith piano teachers to his committee to help him.  We are all grateful to him for assuming this task.
The Raleigh Piano Teachers Association, founded in 1955, is a qualified body of professional music educators, teaching music through the piano, in an effort to foster the cultural and artistic aspirations of the surrounding community.  The purpose of this association is to exchange ideas and to discuss teaching problems, to create a love and understanding of the music we teach, and to promote cooperative interest in our professional activities.  The Raleigh Piano Teachers Association is affiliated with the North Carolina Music Teachers Association, founded in 1959, and the Music Teachers National Association, founded in 1876.

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