• The Elfriede Chapin Fund has been established principally through member contributions to provide a source of funding an annually awarded grant to one NYSMTA member or more than one member if they are working on the same project together.  The members will share the money equally. The recipient(s) will use this grant to work on a special project that will benefit member-teachers.  The project must be used to establish new research developed during the grant.  When the study is complete, the recipient(s) must present their findings in a published article or presentation. 

• The amount of award is $250

• Questions: please contact Michael Merolla 

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• Grant Information

• The maxiumum amount of award is $1,500, less may be awarded depending upon specific circumstances

• The NYSMTA Citation Committee requests nominations for the 2020 NYSMTA Citation Award. Nominees should have demonstrated service to the music teaching profession by reason of leadership at State, Division and/or National levels of MTNA, and/or have made outstanding contributions to music and the arts through community, cultural and artistic activities. 

• Please submit nominations by email, with detailed reasons for the recommendation, by 
  Thursday, September 1, 2022 to:
  Michael Merolla mbm00@optonline.net
   

Past Citation Award Recipients:

(Note: This is a “list in progress”.  If you would like to provide any of the missing information below, please contact Dr. Gary Fisher at gfshr@frontiernet.net)

2022 – Beverly Smoker
2020 – Elier Suarez and Brian Preston
2018 – Bonnie Choi
2016 – Harriet Zimmerman & Patricia Hanson
2015 – Gary Palmer
2013 – Joseph Fennimore & Bruce Berr (Special Citation)
2011 – Richard Hihn
2010 – Gary Fisher
2009 – Diane Birr
2008 – Deborah Martin & Paul Stewart (special)
2007 – Sylvie Beaudette
2006 – Paul Sheftel
2005 – Malcom Bilson (special) & Janice Nimetz
2004 – Jean Barr
2003 – George Bryant
2002 – Lee Evans
2001 – Ludwig Sheffield & Genevieve Federico   
2000 – Robert Sherman
1999 – Maurice Hinson
1998 – Michael Merolla
1997 – Robert C. White
1996 – Ruth Lakeway & Sr. Dorothy Flood
1995 – Neva Pilgrim & Fernando Laires
1994 – Barbara Woods
1993 – Wilma Machover & Antonia Lavanne
1992 – Samuel Adler & Vince Lenti
1989 – 1991 ???
1988 – Nelita True
1987 – Brock McElheran
1986 (25th anniversary) – Lynn Freeman Olson, Robert Freeman
1985 – Joseph Polisi
1984 – ???
1983 – Hadassah Sahr
1974 – 1982 ???
1973 – Leon Barzin
1972 – ???
1971 – Walter Hendl
1961-1970 ???          
Year ??? – Rosetta Goodkind

• Professional Certification exists to improve the level of professionalism within the field of music teaching, helps readily identify competent music teachers within the community and provides these teachers with prestige, recognition and the potential for student recruitment and increased earning power. Learn more about MTNA’s Certification Program here.

• The program is based upon a set of five standards defining what a competent music teacher should know and be able to do. Upon fulfillment of these standards, applicants are granted the MTNA Professional Certification credential with the designation, Nationally Certified Teacher of Music (NCTM). All music teachers actively engaged in the profession are eligible for MTNA Professional Certification.