CMENC
Collegiate MENC-NYSSMA
CMENC/NYSSMA
Thank you for stopping in! CMENC-NYSSMA (Collegiate MENC-NYSSMA) is the new name for NYSMEA (New York Student Music Educators Assocation). CMENC-NYSSMA is our collegiate connection to the National Association for Music Education
MENC and the largest state organization of Music Educators in the country, the New York State School Music Association. Our collegiate Chapters in New York State make up about 1000 students from Upstate to Downstate, many other states in the U.S., and many countries in the world. Our members go on to be innovative, well-informed, and effective music educators in the field. Our members care about education, and about preserving quality "MUSIC" education for all students. By providing a support network for student music educators, we hope to help this transition period from
"student to educator" be a smooth one, as well as, one of the most rewarding times in our young careers!
Our advisor is Dr. Richard Sang.
2009-2010 CMENC/NYSSMA Officers
President - Meg Hannan, Nazareth College
meg.l.hannan@gmail.com
Meg Hannan is currently a senior Music Education student at Nazareth College of Rochester and is serving as the CMENC-NYSSMA President Elect. At Nazareth she is active as the Community Service Resident Assistant and has volunteered for the College's "Children Making Music" program. She also currently serves as the Fraternity Education Officer and Community Service Co-Chair of her local Sigma Alpha Iota Chapter. She hopes this is the first of many years of working with the wonderful educators who make up the New York State School Music Association.
Treasurer - Amanda Muskin, Eastman School of Music
amanda.muskin@rochester.edu
Amanda Muskin is currently a senior at the Eastman School of Music majoring in euphonium performance, music education and musical arts (architectural acoustics). She studies with Mark Kellogg and is a founding member of "Just Another Tuba Quartet," a chamber ensemble represented by Young Audiences of Rochester. Amanda is studying the renovation and expansion of Eastman Theatre and will give a lecture recital in the spring on aural architecture and concert halls in the 21st century. As an officer in Eastman's MENC chapter and on the NYSSMA/MENC executive board, she maintains an active role in the music education community.
Secretary - Allison Felicetti, Queens College
afeli86@gmail.com
Province 1 Representative - Meghan Koch, SUNY at Fredonia
koch2911@gmail.com
Province 2 Representative - Charlotte Olson, Eastman School of Music
charlotte.olson@rochester.edu
Province 3 Representative - Wesley Roy, Syracuse University
pwroy@syracuse.edu
Province 4/5 Representative - Benjamin April, Hartwick College
benapril27@gmail.com
Ben April is a junior music education major at Hartwick College, and president of that CMENC chapter. He participates in several performing groups, including the Hartwick College Chamber Choir, Brass Choir, and was most recently the piano/keyboard player for Smokey Joe's Cafe; a musical based on the music of the 1950s. After graduating from Hartwick, he hopes to pursue a masters degree in choral conducting, and eventually a career as a high school or college choral director.
Province 7 Representative - Audrey Rome, Long Island University/C.W. Post
audreyjrome@gmail.com
Audrey Rome is the current president of the Long Island University/C.W. Post CMENC as well as the CMENC Province 7 Representative for the Long Island. Audrey is a music education major in her senior year at C.W. Post, who has performed at Steinway Hall in Manhattan with members of the C.W. Post Keyboard Club, and at the Tilles Center as a percussionist and a pianist for the University Symphonic Band, Wind Ensemble, and Orchestra. In addition, Audrey participates in the early music based Merriweather Consort on various period instruments. Even above performing and dedicating time to these ensembles, Audrey takes the most pride in teaching her devoted piano and flute students. Her passion for teaching has led to her work with the inspirational Professor Elise Sobol as her mentor for her honors thesis entitled "Creative Methods for Teaching Concepts of Musical Form". Audrey is elated to announce that before her upcoming graduation and semester of student teaching, she will co-present a session at the December 2008 NYSSMA Conference on Teaching Special Learners using Boomwhackers, Frog Guiros, and Drum Buckets with her colleagues.
