Great Performers!

The 1998 Music Arts Performance Competition was held Saturday, May 23, and here are the results!

Our First Prize winner this year is Jessica Ward, flute student of Jean Box. Second Prize went to Ruh Tmeizeh, a violin student of Jacinta Howard. Third Prize went to Jamison Sevits, trumpet student of Anne-Marie Begley and Wayne Ackerman.

Honorable mentions were awarded to Susan Geist, clarinet student of Begley; Emily Mowrer, voice student of Lisa Griggs; Adam Griffith, saxophone student of Tom Johnson; and Rosann Wilson, trumpet student of Begley. The Director's Award was given to Adam Griffith.

Judge for the Senior Competition was Norris Dryer, Music Director of WUOT and violinist with the Knoxville Symphony.

The Junior Competition was judged by Jean and Vance Reese of the Asheville, NC Symphony, who chose:

First Prize:
Saif Tmeizeh, guitar student of Harold Nagge
Second Prize:
Emily Mitchell, piano student of Rudolph Nemeth, for
Third Prize:
Karen Cheng, piano student
Honorable Mention:
Michael Stinnette, piano student of Nemeth

Comings and Goings

First, the bad news:
Anne-Marie Begley will be leaving us at the end of Spring Quarter. She's been one of our most popular and versatile instructors for many years.

We're delighted, though, that she's been awarded the directorship of the Knoxville Girls Club/Boys Club music program over a field of 150 applicants. The full-time job will make great use of her many talents.

Now for some good news:
Wayne Ackerman, who taught with us for a short while several years ago as a graduate student at UT, has joined Music Arts and will be teaching trumpet.

Ackerman, now armed with his Master's degree in Music Education with a major in trumpet, teaches band in Knoxville schools and is a member of the Oak Ridge Symphony as well as several wind and brass groups in Knoxville.

More good news:
Lisa Griggs has been joined by Terry McCracken in our vocal department. McCracken was most recently heard as Bass soloist with the Oak Ridge Symphony and Chorus' production of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. McCracken has proved to be a valuable addition to our faculty! Although he's very qualified to teach any vocal range, he's particularly good with male voices, giving lots of pointers on projection, stage presence and all the rest which goes with teaching vocal skills.

Summer Quarter Discount??

As described in the Music Arts Student Guide, a ten percent discount is being applied to your Summer Quarter continuing lessons if you've studied since the beginning of the past Fall Quarter and have sent in all payments by the fifth of the month (postmarked by the 3rd). If you didn't qualify this summer . . . There's always next year.