American Music Teacher

Scott Houston, host of the nationally broadcast public television show The Piano Guy with Scott Houston, recently won a Midwestern Regional Emmy Award for Program Host/Moderator of a TV program.

Houston, who will be presenting at the 2008 MTNA National Conference in Denver, Colorado, in March, was presented the award by the Ohio Valley Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences during the organization's 43rd annual Emmy Awards ceremony, held recently in...

Recently, the importance of "certification" was made abundantly clear to me. I was in Anchorage, Alaska, representing MTNA at the annual meeting of the Trust for Insuring Educators.

One of the events, sponsored by The Anchorage Convention and Visitors Bureau, was a "flight seeing" tour of the glaciers surrounding Anchorage.

For over an hour, we soared among the peaks and valleys, gazing upon some of the most spectacular sights in nature. The pilot...

Pianist Leon Fleisher, 2001 MTNA Achievement Award recipient, will be honored December 2, 2007, on the Kennedy Center Opera House stage as a 2007 Kennedy Center Honoree. The Honors Gala will be recorded for broadcast on the CBS Network on Wednesday, December 26, 2007, at 9 P.M. for the 30th consecutive year as a two-hour prime-time special. Fleisher will be honored along with actor and writer Steve Martin, singer Diana Ross, film director Martin Scorsese and songwriter Brian Wilson.