
"Noteflight Learn" Online Tools for Teaching and Learning
VMTA subscribes to online music notation software that can inspire and liberate you and your students. Noteflight Learnis an online...


Helping Musicians Feel and Sound Their Best
Winter 2023 Sometimes you just have to cram in a lot of practice over a short period of time. I get it. It happens. But how to recover...


2022 MTNA Summit
VMTA Board member, Michael Sitton, attended the 2022 Summit, held at MTNA headquarters in Cincinnatti Ohio, on September 30. The goals...

World Premiere of the 2021 VMTA Commissioned Composer, Noah Marconi
As part of MTNA’s composer commissioning program, VMTA commissioned Vermont composer Noah Marconi to write a new work that was presented...


Notes from a Judge
It's Spring - the season of music competitions. I've already judged three within the last month (one piano-only, and two concerto...


Elder Statesman and Stateswoman of Music in Burlington
Each year, the Vermont Arts Council, in association with the Governor’s office, recognizes outstanding individual and organizational...
Pianos and Elephants Clash at Statehouse
Published in the Burlington Free Press on April 11, 2015 Written by April Burbank, Free Press Staff Writer MONTPELIER – Activists are...
Béla Bartók’s Other Microcosmos
Sylvia Parker's article entitled Béla Bartók's Other Microcosmos is found in the September 2014 issue of MTNA e-Journal. It is about...
Teaching theory a bit differently...
Many years ago, I grew weary of theory books. Theory books can be great...they teach important things...but so many of my students would...
Claude Debussy’s Gamelan
Introduction The year 1889 marked the 100th anniversary of the French Revolution and the nation celebrated with the Paris Exposition...