GOVERNOR’S NEWSLETTER, FALL 2006
NATS INDIANA CHAPTER Greetings to all of you! I hope that your school years are all off to a wonderful start. A hearty THANK YOU to our hosts at The University of Evansville for all that they did to make last October’s State Student Auditions such a success! These auditions were our first under the new structure, in which our State Auditions, held in the Fall, work in conjunction with the Regional Auditions, held in the Spring. Under the new guidelines, only our State Winners advance to the Regional Auditions. Congratulations to the many Indiana students among the winners at the Regional Auditions, held March 11, 2006 at Grand Valley State University, Michigan. This year’s INDIANA STATE STUDENT AUDITIONS will be held SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2006 at BUTLER UNIVERSITY in Indianapolis. Winners from these auditions will advance to the Great Lakes Region Student Auditions, to be held March 3, 2007 at Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana. Mark your calendars now! All the information you will need for this event is available for you on this website: General Information
Category Guidelines and Repertoire Requirements
Student Registration Form
Teacher Registration Form
Adjudication Form (submit three for each student)
Teacher Judging Waiver Form
Teacher Checklist The postmark deadline for applications is OCTOBER 6, 2006. Please note that in order to have students participate in the State Auditions, a teacher must be a current member in good standing, with both National and Indiana State Chapter dues paid in full. Our Chapter dues are $30.00 per fiscal year. If you have not yet joined either National NATS or State NATS, or are in arrears, please make a point to update your status at your earliest convenience, so that you may participate in October. The Indiana State Chapter officers elected at the State Chapter Meeting on October 7, 2005 for the term, July 1, 2006-June 30, 2008 are: Dr. Fritz Robertson, President
Dr. Karri York, Vice-President
Dr. Victoria Garrett, Secretary
Mr. David Mannell, Treasurer Congratulations to Dr. Caroline Smith, our new Great Lakes Regional Governor! Caroline, as well as several other Indiana Chapter members, attended the NATS Convention in Minneapolis in July, where there were many lively discussions among attendees concerning ideas for increasing chapter membership and participation. Please encourage your voice teacher friends and colleagues to apply for membership in NATS or to apply for reactivation of their membership, if they have lapsed in paying their dues. Norma Codispoti, the Great Lakes Liaison member for the NATS Foundation, recently corresponded with our chapter, encouraging us all to consider making contributions to the NATS Foundation. She writes:
The NATS Foundation is a partner of NATS and is responsible for generating support through the development and management of various endowment funds, such as are used to provide some of the prize monies for the NATSAA Artist Awards Competition, for example. The Foundation offers scholarship funds to qualified applicants for the Aspen Summer Music Festival and NATS workshops. It also sponsors the Van Lawrence Fellowship and Awards for Vocal Excellence. It utilizes its resources to help finance innovative programs such as the NATS Intern Program, the NATS Young Leader Awards, and the International Congress of Voice Teachers. If you would like to make a contribution to the NATS Foundation, please send your check made out to the “NATS Foundation” to: The National Association of Teachers Of Singing Executive Office
ATTN: NATS Foundation
4745 Sutton Park Court, Suite 201
Jacksonville, Florida 32224 A contribution of $50 or more will designate you as a member of the Circle of Friends. I thank you in advance for your support of this wonderful Foundation and its mission. Thanks for your help and to all of our members, have a wonderful teaching year. Our State Chapter WEBSITE is up and running! The address is
http://www.nats-in.org. The site is generously being maintained by our webmaster, Ron Berry. This newsletter, as well as all of the information, guidelines, and forms for the 2006 State Student Auditions will be available at that site, for your convenience. We would also like to post information about your upcoming performances and master classes. We want to know about faculty recitals and opera/musical theatre events, guest master teachers, etc. By spreading the word amongst our membership, we hope that more of us might attend each other’s performances, as well as to encourage our students to support their peers at other institutions. Please send an e-mail to kkelton@butler.edu with any information that you would like to have posted on the website. All good wishes for a happy, healthy, and successful year of teaching. I look forward to seeing many of you in Indianapolis in October! Sincerely,
Kathie Kelton District Governor, Indiana NATS
(317) 940-9217 (work)
(317) 257-5825 (home
kkelton@butler.edu