Piano teacher joins music educators group
VERNON — Cherwyn Ambuter, piano teacher at "Piano Lessons By Cherwyn" in Vernon, has become a member of the Music Educators Assn. of New Jersey, an organization serving piano teachers and students in northern NJ since 1927.
Through the studio's membership in MEA-NJ, Ambuter's piano students have available to them further opportunities for musical growth and challenge.
Every year, the MEA-NJ makes available to students the following: the chance to play in additional recitals, including an auditioned "honors recital"; non-competitive auditions which yield written evaluations by the teacher-adjudicators to gain the insight and perspective of other teachers into the individual student's playing; a piano competition; a music composition competition; an annual music theory assessment; and scholarships for musical study in college or at music camps.
The organization also provides enrichment and development opportunities for the teachers, such as monthly "teacher recitals" held in various teachers' homes and master classes just for teachers with renowned pianists (with the master class teacher this past year being the world-famous Joseph Kalichstein). Monthly teacher meetings throughout the school year provide fellowship for the individual teacher as well as the chance to confer regarding piano curricula, advice for the solving of technical problems for a student, etc. This provides teachers with ongoing education and sharing of ideas and approaches to add to the teacher's "toolbox" in how to work with their students.
Ambuter is the only member of MEA-NJ from Sussex County. She said she looks forward to all of the enrichment and challenging opportunities from which both she and her piano students will benefit through the studio's active membership in MEA-NJ.
Ambuter's studio is taking piano-related field trips this year to a piano rebuilding factory, a concert, and a private walking tour of the Met Museum of Art's Musical Instruments Collection to look at development of the keyboard instrument.
More about the Piano Lessons By Cherwyn studio may be found at www.cherwynambuter.com or by calling (973) 862-0668.