2011-2012 A Review of the Year

Nampa Musicale President's Report 2011-2012

by Melissa Warnick, president

To open our 2011-2012 Musicale season we held our Fall Social at the First Presbyterian Church in Nampa, Idaho featuring beautiful music by member, Robyn Wells McDonnell and guest violinist, Jennifer Dunn.

                                                       

Robyn Wells McDonnell 

Jennifer Dunn

In October we had a workshop on using duets in our studios and creative teaching techniques.

We held two festivals: a Fall Festivals with duets, hymns, folk and patriotic music and the Spring Festival featuring piano solos, theory test, and all other events. We had almost 500 entries between the two festivals.

In January, we held our Founder’s Day Luncheon at the Ruth Lane LDS church building. We enjoyed a spring fashion with styles from Dress Barn and musical entertainment featuring piano duets from students of Cheryl Beymer and flute and piccolo numbers from a student of Carol Sue White.

In February, we held our second Nampa Music Idol 2012. It was a great success as an event, but a failure as a fund raiser.  It was a lot of work and fun to award students from 3-8^th grade prizes, but not at the cost of raising money for our main objective as a club which is the Music Awards for 7^th-12^th graders.

Music Awards were held the week after Spring Festival. We awarded $1,170.

In April we held a small spring business meeting. We discussed ideas for different fund raisers, voted to access monies in our CD early if needed for Music Awards in 2013 and voted to move some money into a liquid savings account when the CD terms came up in 2013. We lost our treasurer, Michelle Williamson to a move and gained Deanna Beames as our new treasurer.