University of Maine Music Education major Whitney Thurston and USM Music Education major Monica Tate are the Collegiate MENC members selected to represent the Maine Collegiate MENC chapters as 2009 CMENC Eastern Divsion Emerging Leaders in music education.

David Neves, Ed.D., President, MENC Eastern Division, states, "Selection for this honor was based on past and current work as a leader in your own CMENC chapter, as well as potential for future leadership at the local, state, division and national levels of MENC."

Whitney and Monica are among nineteen students recognized in this manner from the MENC Eastern Division, which includes Connecticut, the District of Columbia, Delaware, selected schools in Europe, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Vermont. All representatives will be officially recognized at the MENC Eastern Division CMENC Leadership Breakfast-Workshop at the upcoming MENC Eastern Division conference, at 8-10 am on Saturday, 3/14. In addition to breakfast, the students will view presentations from MENC Eastern Division and National leaders, share information from their CMENC chapters and set goals for the next two years. 

Please join us in congratulating Whitney and Monica on this accomplishment.

March 7, 2009 - Arts Education Advocacy Day, March 9

Celebrate and advocate for arts education! State House, Hall of Flags, Augusta - 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

February 28, 2009

ONLINE REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN FOR THE 2009 ALL STATE CONFERENCE - Please visit our Conference Page

February 22, 2009

The February Issue of our online magazine "The Bulletin" is now available.

February 9, 2009

The Portland String Quartet will be doing a concert with world renowned saxophonist Kenneth Radnofsky at the Woodford's Congregational Church in Portland on Sunday Feb 22nd at 2:00 p.m.

All students age 21 and younger can attend free of charge. The Saxophone Quintet by Gil Shohat (Israeli composer) is a wow of a piece! Quite exciting!! It will be "sandwiched" by Haydn and Mendelssohn - acknowledging their 200th year (Haydn's death and Mendelssohn's birth).

Now is the time to plan your World's Largest Concert® (WLC®) celebration for March 12, 2009 at 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time! Go to the Advocacy Page for more info.

February 8, 2009

DIRECTORS' ORCHESTRA AT All State THIS YEAR!

We do not yet have a definite commitment for a conductor, but expect to have that finalized soon. We would like to perform a piece for strings only and another piece or two for a full orchestra. If anyone is interested in performing with the Directors' Orchestra, please contact Margaret Hopkins with your name and instrument at Suznotes50@yahoo.com or call her at 207-651-5112.

January 23, 2009

Jazz Application and Scoresheets are now posted on the Jazz page.