2024 Conference Idaho Music
Teachers Association
FEATURED SPEAKER
BRIAN SHEPARD, MTNA CEO
The Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) announced Brian Shepard as its incoming Chief Executive Officer, effective July 1, 2024.
“It is a profound honor to have been selected to lead this remarkable organization,” said Shepard. “Through my own years of music study, I experienced, first-hand, the impact that MTNA has on the lives of its members and their students, so I am thrilled to have the opportunity to give back to the profession in this role.”
GUEST ARTIST
DINARA KLINTON
Ukrainian pianist Dinara Klinton is associate professor of music in piano at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music.
After winning prizes in international competitions such as Busoni, Cleveland, BNDS, and Paderewski, she embarked on a busy international concert schedule, appearing at festivals including the Progetto Martha Argerich in Lugano, Cheltenham Music Festival, Aldeburgh Proms, and La Roque d’Antheron.
Klinton has performed at many of the world’s major concert venues, including the Royal Albert Hall, Royal Festival Hall, Barbican Centre, and Wigmore Hall in London, Berliner Philharmonie, Laeiszhalle and Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Gewandhaus Leipzig, New York 92Y, Cleveland Severance Hall, Tokyo Sumida Triphony Hall, Great Hall of Moscow Conservatory, and Tchaikovsky Concert Hall.
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