WIU MTNA

Congratulations to our collegiate advisor, Dr. Landowski, for winning this prestigious award!

Congratulations to Dr. Natalie Landowski (Assistant Professor of Piano) for being selected winner of the 2024 COFAC Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching!

Congratulations to our MTNA members and guests who performed a splendid recital! The audience was treated to a potpourri of different musical genres and vocal and instrumental arrangements.

The School of Music Carnival was a success! MTNA put up a karaoke table in the event. Thank you for sharing your voices! 🎤🎼🎶

Congratulations to our newly elected officers for the academic year 2024-2025!

President and Media Designer/Marketing Chair: Evan Goodson
Vice President: Christian Gonzales
Secretary: Emily Claire Schlesinger
Treasurer: Mattias Luitjens
Webmaster: Nicolo Echague
Members: Gabriel Zahnle and Gabriel Galindo

We at WIU MTNA are inviting you to our final project this semester: A Spring Recital Showcase!

We will feature piano solo and duet, brass, string, and vocal works. We are thankful for our MTNA members and guest musicians, particularly the Faust Horn Choir for performing in our event!

We at MTNA are excited to host our visiting speaker and WIU alumni Alexis Pal in her presentation titled "Unlocking the Brain's Happy Hormones: Chicken Soup for the Music Major's Soul".

Come and watch her presentation on April 24 (Wednesday) at 12 noon in Browne Hall 215.

Congratulations to our MTNA members who rendered fantastic performances in the Chamber Music Festival!

(Photo credit goes to Dr. Ginny Boynton.)

A big thank you and congratulations to Mr. Kevin Chunko, who rendered his solo organ recital in First Presbyterian Church of Macomb last Thursday. We at WIU MTNA are grateful for your music!

MTNA is excited to welcome Mr. Kevin Chunko in a solo organ concert on April 18 (Thursday) at 7:30 pm in First Presbyterian Church of Macomb.

Organist Kevin Chunko is based in the St. Louis area. He studied organ with Frances Griffith, Stephen Widenhofer, Anita Eggert Werling, and Dana Robinson, early music performance practice and continuo with Charlotte Mattax-Moersch, and composition with Jeremy Brunk. He holds Bachelors and Masters in organ performance from Millikin University and Western Illinois University, respectively. He later completed doctoral coursework in organ performance at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. He was University Organist, adjunct vocal accompanist, and choral accompanist at Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington, IL. Kevin regularly collaborated with and assisted choral conductor J. Scott Ferguson while in Bloomington. Notable collaborative performances include Benjamin Britten's Rejoice In the Lamb, Ralph Vaughn Williams's Five Mystical Songs (choir and organ version), and selections from James MacMillan's Cantos Sagrados. In the distant past, Kevin worked in pipe organ voicing, tonal finishing, and tuning. Kevin has held organist positions for a range of denominations, currently the keyboardist for St. Paul United Church of Christ in Belleville, IL.

Due to unforeseen circumstances, Ms. Alexis’s presentation is postponed until further notice.

We at MTNA apologize for the inconvenience.

An exciting April for WIU MTNA!

We are proud to invite two excellent musicians to Macomb:

WIU alumni Alexis Pal will be presenting on Unlocking the Brain's Happy Hormones on April 10 (Wednesday) 12 nn in Browne 215.

Organist Kevin Chunko will be rendering a solo organ recital on April 18 (Thursday) 7:30 pm in the First Presbyterian Church.

We hope to see you in both these exciting events!

We at WIU MTNA would like to thank all of our sponsors who have supported our fundraising efforts!

We will use these funds to pay for membership fees, invite musicians and speakers, and allow for our members to attend MTNA conferences in the future.

Congratulations to our Collegiate Advisor, Dr. Natalie Landowski, for performing spoken word compositions by American female composers with Dr. Marian Wilson Kimber!

The School of Music organizations have decided to host a Big Pink Volleyball tournament on Saturday, March 23 from 5 PM to 8 PM at the Student Recreation Center. Teams of at least 6 people can be signed up (as an organization or your friends).

There will likely be a Mu Phi Team! Come support us or sign up to compete! (It is free to participate!)

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It's WIU MTNA's annual fundraiser, the Practice-a-thon!

This coming week, our members will put on their practice caps and log their hours as we raise funds for our future projects and events.

Are you interested in becoming a sponsor? Do you have questions about MTNA's past, present, and future projects? Scan the QR code to know more.

It’s Cleaning Day! 🧹

MTNA members volunteered to clean the lesson rooms for the Community Music School students. Thank you, Emily Claire, Denzel, and Nicolo!

Congratulations to our former MTNA President, Hannah Murray, for completing her block teaching!

Congratulations to our collegiate advisor, Dr. Natalie Landowski, for presenting at the College Music Society in California!

Thank you very much Dr. Yeon-Kyung Kim for sharing your insights and experiences on preparing for poster presentations!

NEED SERVICE HOURS?

As many of you may know, our chapter ushers many, if not all of the performances that happen at COFAC Recital Hall.

After a few people outside of the chapter demonstrated interest in ushering at COFAC, we decided to create an ushering club! This club is open to anyone in the university! Not just those in the School of Music (SOM)! This is an excellent way to get service hours and listen to great music! Also, for those in the SOM, you can collect service hours and recital attendance!

If you are interested, please come to our interest meeting! Details are in the flyer!

Are you looking to present in a symposium? Dr. Yeon-Kyung Kim is sharing her thoughts on how to prepare for poster presentations.

We hope to see you there!

Congratulations, MTNA for a successful Quiplash Social!

Stay tuned for more events this semester.

It's a battle of wittiness!

Come and play Quiplash with our MTNA members and get to know more about our organization. Thursday, 5 pm, Browne Hall 215. Save the date!

WIU MTNA had it’s first meeting for the Spring semester last Thursday. We are excited to share our plans soon!

WIU MTNA attends the 2024 MTNA Collegiate Symposium in University of Michigan!

Attendees include current members Denzel Abarquez and Nicolo Paulo Echague and former members and WIU alumni Alexis Faye Pal and Paul Casiano.

Congratulations as well to Alexis for presenting in the Lightning Talks!

Congratulations to all of our performers for a successful MTNA Fall Recital!

You can watch their performance in the YouTube link below:

MTNA 2023 Fall Recital

Congratulations to our MTNA members and guests for a successful recital!

Tonight, we heard music for piano solo and four hands, voice, erhu, flute, euphonium, and horn!