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2021-2022
NYSSMA Recognizes Music Educators Selected as GRAMMY Quarterfinalists
NYSSMA Returns to Rochester for In-Person All State/Winter Conference
2020-2021
NYSSMA Welcomes Renee’ Fleming as Keynote Speaker for All State Festival Renamed Cyber Summit 2020
Pandemic Causes Cancellation of 2020 All State Festival
NYSSMA Takes Lead in Providing Guidance on Music Programs in the Reopening of Schools
NYSSMA President Writes Interim Commissioner with Concerns of Six-Foot Distance in Music Classes
NYSSMA President Writes to NYS Leaders with Concerns of Six-Foot Distance in Music Classes
NYSSMA Statement on Resignation of Interim Commissioner Shannon Tahoe
President Brown Tapped to Join NYS Re-Opening Task Force
2019-2020
NYSSMA Returns to Albany to Kick Off Music In Our Schools Month 2020 – News Release
NYSSMA Returns to Albany to Kick Off Music In Our Schools Month 2020 – White Paper
DeRuyter School Superintendent Assumes NYSSMA Presidency
NYSSMA Returns to Rochester for 84th Annual All State/Winter Conference
Dr. David Gaines Named Executive Director
2018-2019
Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s Proclamation Declaring March, 2019 Music In Our Schools Month in NYS
For Media – 2019 Music In Our Schools Month White Paper
News Release – NYSSMA Returns to Albany to Kick Off Music In Our Schools Month
900 Students Selected for All State Festival
NYSSMA Supports NY Rep. Velazquez’s GAAME Act
2017-2018
NYSSMA Returns to Albany for Music in Our Schools Month
Michael Salzman Assumes NYSSMA Presidency
900 Student Musicians Attend 82nd All State Conference in Rochester for 20th Anniversary with City
Churchville Chili High School Choir Performs at 2017 Winter Conference
One Third of All State Musicians From Long Island School Music Programs
2016-2017
Past-President Marc Greene Named NAfME Eastern Division President
NYSSMA Advocates for Music Education in Albany as Part of Music In Our Schools Month – 2017
NYSSMA Returns to Rochester for Eighty-First All State Conference
One Third of All State Students Come From Long Island School Music Programs
Robin DeSantis Elected Third Vice President
Related Documents
- Grammy Quarterfinalists.docx (PDF – 201 KB)
- AS Return (PDF – 225 KB)
- Release – Fleming (PDF – 262 KB)
- Letter to the Leaders of New York by Dr. David Brown (PDF – 758 KB)
- David Brown – Letter to Interim Commissioner (PDF – 816 KB)
- AS Cancellation (PDF – 223 KB)
- Virus (PDF – 579 KB)
- Tahoe Resignation (PDF – 570 KB)
- Brown NYS Task Force (PDF – 241 KB)
- David Brown President (PDF – 192 KB)
- Release – Rochester NYS (PDF – 226 KB)
- Gaines Executive (PDF – 192 KB)
- Proclamation (PDF – 1 MB)
- News Release – MIOSM 2019 (PDF – 222 KB)
- MIOSM 2019 White Paper (PDF – 171 KB)
- Release – Rochester NYS (PDF – 226 KB)
- NYSSMA Supports NY Rep. Velazquez’s GAAME Act Bill (PDF – 185 KB)
- NYSSMA Returns to Albany for Music in Our Schools Month (DOC – 144 KB)
- Michael Salzman Assumes NYSSMA Presidency (PDF – 197 KB)
- Churchville Chili High School Choir Performs at 2017 Winter Conference (PDF – 194 KB)
- One Third of All State Musicians From Long Island School Music Programs (PDF – 225 KB)
- One Third of All State Musicians from Long Island School Music Programs (PDF – 224 KB)
- 900 Student Musicians Attend 82nd All State Conference in Rochester for 20th Anniversary (PDF – 224 KB)
- Greene Pres. Eastern Div (PDF – 224 KB)
- miosm-2017 (PDF – 205 KB)
- desantis (DOC – 142 KB)
- release-rochester-nys-2016 (PDF – 183 KB)
- release-rochester-li-2016 (PDF – 211 KB)
- Michael Brownell Assumes NYSSMA Presidency (PDF – 190 KB)
- Release – Rochester LI 2015 (PDF – 179 KB)
- Release – Rochester NYS 2015 (PDF – 178 KB)
- Schopp Lowell Mason (PDF – 174 KB)
- Boilerplate Statement (DOC – 24 KB)
- NYSSMA Statement on Advocacy (DOC – 26 KB)