AM
FRIDAY
7:30 - 8:00
Free Continental Breakfast at Carlsen Center
Sponsored by the University of Missouri in K. C.
(included in Conference registration fee)
8:00 - 5:00
Exhibits are open
8:10 - 8:50
Introductions and Showcase Presentation
9:00 - 9:15
UMKC Presentation
9:15 - 10:00
Stephen Prutsman, Commissioned Composer
10:00 - 10:30
Refreshment break – Sponsored by the University of
Nebraska at Omaha
10:30 - 11:20
Stanislav Ioudenitch, Associate Professor Park College, MO UMKC Artist in Residence 2001 - 2003
11:30 - 12:20
Lunch - Paul Horsley, speaker, Kansas City Star Critic
“Each Performance is a New Piece: Improvisation and the
PM
FRIDAY
12:30 - 1:15
State General Meetings
1:30 - 2:30
Panel Discussion
“Improvisation versus Interpretation“
w/ Stephen Hough, Stanislav Ioudenitch, Bobby Watson & Ann
2:30 - 3:30
Martha Hilley University of Texas
 “ Improvisation Shouldn’t bring on the Prozac”
3:30 - 4:00
Refreshment break - Sponsored by Toon Shop of Prairie Village
(Visit Exhibits)
4:00 - 5:30
Master Lessons with Guest Artist Stephen Hough
1st Prize Naumburg International Competition, 1983
6:30 - 7:00
Social gathering before Banquet at Marriott
7:00 - 10:00
Banquet at Marriott

Entertainment – Jazz Ensemble “After Midnight”
                          conducted by Ron Stinson
                          Associate Professor JCCC

Speaker – Gary Ingle MTNA Executive Director
AM
SATURDAY
7:30 - 8:10
Free Local Association Continental Breakfast at Carlsen Center all invited
Sponsored by the University of Kansas
8:00 - 5:00
Exhibits are open
8:20 - 9:10
Keturah Lawrence & Wendy Stevens, KMTA officers
 “Creative Strategies for Teaching a Comprehensive
8:20 - 9:10
Jonathan Sokasits, Hastings College, NE
 “Creativity, Improvisation, & Composition in the
Private Studio”
8:30 - 11:30
Certification Test
9:20 - 9:30
Kansas University Presentation
9:30 - 10:30
Marvin Blickenstaff, Faculty, International Workshops
10:30 - 11:00
Refreshment break (Visit Exhibits)
11:00 - 11:50
William Wellborn - San Francisco Conservatory
 “The Big Jump: the Shift from Intermediate to
11:00 - 11:50
Ann Collins author of JAZZ WORKS
PM
SATURDAY
12:00 - 1:15
Independent Music Teachers Forum Lunch “...and all that Jazz“
1:30 - 2:20
Mike Moreland  JCCC
1:30 - 2:20
Ken Hoppmann, Assoc. Prof. Union College & Mahour Mellat, Student Univ. of Nebraska -  “Piano & Tar Improvisation in the
2:30 - 3:20
Ann Collins, “Elementary Jazz Piano”
2:30 - 3:20
Anthony Olson, Assistant Prof. NW MO State University & Eva Peng, Internationally Renowned Soprano “The ‘Unsung’ Chopin: Pauline Viardot’s Vocal Arrangements Chopin Mazurkas”
3:30 - 4:30
Bobby Watson, Endowed Chair in Jazz UMKC
8:00
Guest Artist Concert with Stephen Hough

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