Welcome to the HMTA website.

HMTA News: 

The first HMTA meeting for the year will be Friday, September 22 at 10:00 am in the UAH Choir Room (Room 201). Our vice president, Susan Hoop, will be presenting a program covering all the new changes to the AMTA Theory requirements for the District Auditions this year. This is a great opportunity for everyone to become familiar with the new requirements and a chance to find the answers to any questions you may have. Make sure to go online to the latest “Sound Board” issue (Opus 70, #3) for a summary of the theory changes to the 2024 AMTA Handbook as well.

Also coming up, the Huntsville Music Study Club will be hosting a pedagogy program at their Friday, October 13^th meeting, also in the UAH Choir Room at 10:00 am, to which they are inviting anyone interested in coming. Casey Rickles Loudin will present “Music Through Play” – games to play with piano students. I’m sure she’ll have some fun ideas for you to share with your students.

We’re excited to get this year started and hope to see you soon!

Ingrid von Spakovsky Weaver

President, HMTA

AMTA District VIII Piano Auditions for 2024:

The distict audition registration dead line which via https://amta.tenutoweb.com ; March 29th, 2024.

District VIII Auditions, April 13, 2024 First Baptist Church, Governors Drive;

State AMTA Auditions, May 11th, 2024, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa;

Concerto Auditions, April 20th, 2024, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa;

AMTA State Convention, June 1 – 3, Jacksonville State University.

Susan Hoop is the District Chair overseeing these auditions. For more information on this, please email Susan Hoop. Susan Hoop’s email address is susanhoop96@gmail.com

HMTA Honors Recital: 

HMTA will have an in person Honors Recital, Sunday, April 21st, at 2:00pm, 2024.  The HMTA Honors Recital will be held @UAH Roberts Recital Hall. Free parking is located across from Roberts Hall for this event.  Masks are no longer required for performers or audience members for this event.  The deadline to register your student for the HMTA Honors Recital is April 12th. To register your student to perform for the HMTA Honors Recital, please email Ingrid Weaver. Ingrid Weaver’s email address is weaveri@uah.edu  Thank you to Ingrid Weaver for hosting this year’s HMTA Honors Recital.  You must be a current member of HMTA to enter your student for the HMTA Honors Recital. Also:

1) The 2pm Honors Recital recital is for any student.
2) The 3:30pm Honors Recital is for high school seniors only.
3) To register your student for the HMTA Honors Recital, please email the following to Ingrid Weaver: Teachers name, name & age of student performing, name of piece, composer’s name of piece being performed, & timing of piece.

You can email Ingrid Weaver at this email address: weaveri@uah.edu

This project was made possible by a grants from the Alabama State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.

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This project has been made possible by a 2016 Arts & Cultural Grant from The Arts Council funded by the City of Huntsville .

http://www.artshuntsville.org/our programs/arts-assembly-description-a-member-benefits/Huntsville-arts-a-cultural-grant-program

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The mission of the Huntsville Music Teachers Association (HMTA), an organization of independent and collegiate music teachers, is to further the art of music through teaching, performance, composition and scholarly research and to advance the value of music study and music-making to society while supporting the careers and professionalism of music teachers.

HMTA members  include teachers of composition, brass, strings, woodwinds, percussion, piano, organ guitar, voice and choral music.

HMTA is the local affiliate of the Music Teachers National Association (www.mtna.org), and the Alabama Music Teachers Association (www.almta.org). Membership in MTNA, AMTA, and HMTA is open to all music teachers actively engaged in any field of musical activity.

To join HMTA, visit the MTNA website at www.mtna.org and click on membership. Identify HMTA as your local affiliate and send in the HMTA membership dues* to MTNA along with the MTNA dues and the AMTA dues (both of which are indicated on the form on the MTNA website).

 *Membership Dues in the Huntsville Music Teachers Association are as follows:

General Membership/ Active or Retired Teachers = $20.00 per year
Patron Membership                                                             = $20.00 per year
Student Membership                                                           = $5.00 per year