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Your Body Is Your Strad posits that our real instrument is our body. The sound that an instrument produces, whether string, wind, keyboard or voice, depends on the way the musician moves and activates it. In order to gain the ability to meet any composition’s demands, instrumentalists must have a vast repertoire of movements that will give them the freedom to use their bodies with maximum efficiency. Most people accept the way they move, ascribing it to genetic makeup. In reality, human learn to move by trial and error and their nervous systems are wired according to experiences. Unless a musician questions and challenges this historic wiring, possibilities for expression remain limited.

Twenty-two cellists, selected by audition submissions, delve deeply into the connections between body awareness and higher degrees of cellistic proficiency, artistic performance and creative and effective teaching. Participants are exposed to a range of performance and pedagogical topics, presented by internationally acclaimed faculty. All selected participants attend the full two-week Your Body Is Your Strad program, which includes the Feldenkrais for All Musicians component.

National Summer Cello Institute activities help participants advance instrumental performance and injury prevention by examining the integration of body and mind through movement and providing an introduction to the Feldenkrais Method of somatic education. The 2013 event will include master classes, movement classes, seminars, individual sessions and lessons, group discussions, chamber music, cello choir, as well as improvisation and baroque dance sessions.

Event Director: Uri Vardi

This six-day workshop is for all instrumentalists, singers and National Summer Cello Institute participants. Its focus is to enhance awareness of the intimate relationship between the way musicians use their body and the music they create with their chosen instrument. The benefits of greater awareness are increased artistic vocabularies in performance and teaching, the ability to efficiently express musical intention, personal injury and pain prevention, and healing from current injury.

Feldenkrais for All Musicians activities help participants advance instrumental performance and injury prevention by examining the integration of body and mind through movement and providing an introduction to the Feldenkrais Method of somatic education. The Feldenkrais Method involves the use of movement, touch and imagery as tools for learning new ways of functioning. Because it improves mind-body awareness, it has proven to be highly effective in alleviating pain, anxiety, and movement difficulties. Benefits of heightened awareness include improved body image, organization and function, all relevant to performance and teaching.

The Method is based on theoretical and practical knowledge of the nervous system and its capacity to learn. It provides a process of self-discovery in a gentle and safe learning environment. Unlike a medical model that prescribes actions toward a correct state, the Feldenkrais Method leads the participant to discover his or her own solution in a non-competitive, nurturing atmosphere.

Event Director: Uri Vardi

CMS Endorses the Following Professional Development Event:

June 6–9, 2013
University of South Carolina School of Music

A Retreat Like No Other…

The Savvy Musician in ACTION is an intensive, experiential 3 1/2-day retreat designed to cultivate music entrepreneurs and leaders. Think The Apprentice meets Higher Education.

Combining in teractive presentations, games, team challenges, breakout groups, video conferencing, mentorship, networking, and competitions, each day of this solutions-based event is built around a different challenge facing the music world.

Join us to learn what it takes to thrive professionally and increase impact in our exciting but unpredictable era.

Focus

Each day of The Savvy Musician in ACTION has a different emphasis:

• Thursday—Entrepreneurial mindset and the arts world. Setting the stage for the rest of the retreat.
• Friday—Arts marketing. Constructing a comprehensive marketing campaign that works. Lessons learned can be applied to marketing any aspect of a music career.
• Saturday—Arts-based ventures. Imagining, designing, and building an arts-based business with the potential to generate revenue and impact.
• Sunday—Music in higher education. Exploring the future of music schools and the role entrepreneurship / leadership should play for students and faculty.

For more information, visit http://www.music.sc.edu/CILEM/Retreat.html

Who Should Attend?

• College music students
• College music faculty & administrators
• Professional musicians

• David Cutler (pianist; composer; author of The Savvy Musician)
• Tayloe Harding (dean, University of South Carolina School of Music; past-president, The College Music Society)
• Michael Harley (bassoonist, Alarm Will Sound; director, Southern Exposure New Music Series)
• Janet Hopkins (mezzo-soprano, Metropolitan Opera)
• Ariel Hyatt (founder & president, Cyber PR)
• Justin Kantor (cellist; founder of le poisson rouge)
• Lance LaDuke (trombone, euphonium, & ukelele, Boston Brass)
• Ken May (executive director, South Carolina Arts Commission)
• Rebecca Nagel (oboist; director of Spark: Carolina's Music Leadership Laboratory)
• Armen Shaomian (pianist, founder & CEO of Armenize)

A full list of participating personnel will be released closer to the retreat date.

Student Chamber Music Competition

A student chamber ensemble affiliated with a North American music school will be awarded a cash prize, full retreat tuition, career counseling, and an opening night performance (June 6). Selection criterion includes artistic excellence and innovative event design. For more information, visit: http://www.music.sc.edu/CILEM/chambercomp.html.

For More Information

More detailed information is available at http://www.music.sc.edu/CILEM/Retreat.html
Please direct inquiries about The Savvy Musician in ACTION to: retreat@mozart.sc.edu

CMS Endorses the Following Professional Development Event:

June/July/August/September, 2013 
The Art Song Preservation Society of New York (ASPS)

Monthly master classes and recital events devoted entirely to some of the most important cultural aspects of the art song tradition:

• Women Art Song Composers
• German Art Song
• French Art Song
• Contemporary Art Song
• American Art Song

These events will culminate with a free American Art Song Recital in tribute to September 11th.

For more information, please contact Event Director Blair Boone. 
Website: http://www.artsongpreservationsocietyny.org

All CMS members are welcome to participate in the 2013 conferences of the Society's Regional Chapters.

	34th Southern Regional Conference February 28 - March 2, 2013 Clayton State University Morrow, Georgia		28th South Central Regional Conference February 28 - March 2, 2013 University of Texas-Brownsville Brownsville, Texas
	43rd Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference March 15–16, 2013 Longwood University Longwood, Virginia		34th Northeast Regional Conference March 15-16, 2013 Keene State College Keene, New Hampshire
	31st Great Plains Regional Conference March 16-18, 2012 Luther College Decorah, Iowa		28th Rocky Mountain Regional Conference March 22–23, 2013 University of Denver Denver, Colorado
	31st Great Lakes Regional CMS Conference March 22-23, 2013 University of Dayton Dayton, Ohio

The annual meeting of the membership of The College Music Society is scheduled for Saturday, November 17, 2012, 8:00 a.m., in the Elizabeth Room at the Manchester Grand Hyatt in San Diego, California. The agenda for the meeting will include reports from national officers of the Society, as well as international, national, and regional issues and concerns. All members of the Society are encouraged to attend.  Kindly note the meeting's change from late afternoon to early Saturday morning.

The 2013 CMS Summit will focus on Developing the Artist Citizen.  Scheduled for Martin Luther King weekend, the 2013 Summit will take place at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, January 19-20, 2013.

Click here for complete information.

What does it mean to be an artist? What does it mean to be a responsible citizen? How does one infuse artistry with citizenship and citizenship with artistry? And how do we practice, model, and teach concepts of artistic citizenry? As Ben Cameron challenged us in his 2011 Trotter Lecture, "Can we, in short, increasingly embrace a vision of the arts that are firmly rooted in the world, rather than insulated from that world?"

These are some of the questions to be addressed at the 2013 CMS Summit, "Developing the Artist Citizen." Through interactive workshops, keynote presentations by distinguished leaders in the field, and plenty of convivial conversations in true CMS style, we will explore the idea of artist citizenship and its place in 21st-century higher education in music.

Following the Olympic spirit of cooperation and its five iconic rings, we'll look at five intersecting rings where Artist Citizenship can be grown and practiced:

• In the Academy
• In the Local Community
• In the Region
• In the World
• Via the Internet

Mark your calendar now and plan to be part of this exciting event. Complete information will be forthcoming from CMS.

Looking forward to Dallas!

Bill Everett, Chair
CMS 2013 Summit Steering Committee

The College Music Society will hold its Fifty-Sixth National Conference in Cambridge, Massachusetts, October 31–November 3, 2013, at the Hyatt Regency Cambridge. The conference will be held in conjunction with the 2013 National Conference of the Association for Technology in Music Instruction (ATMI) at the Hyatt Regency Cambridge. The CMS National Conference routinely attracts over 500 faculty, administrators, graduate students, independent scholars, composers, publishers, and music business personnel who share a common interest and dedication to the improvement of music and its relationship to the other academic disciplines of higher education.

The conference program presents higher education's broadest array of topics dealing with music. The Society's national topic for 2013 is "Inclusivity and Invention" and this theme will be prominently interwoven throughout the conference activities. Academic citizenship, administration, music business and industry, careers in music, community engagement, composition, cultural inclusion, ethnomusicology, higher education, mentoring, music education, music in general studies, music technology, music theory, musicology, performance, and the scholarship of teaching and learning are explored in a variety of formats, including open discussions. Through papers, performances, lecture-recitals, lightning talks, panels, posters, and workshop sessions, CMS conferences provide the opportunity to consider the philosophy and practice of music as an integral part of higher education. Through formal sessions, open forums, and dialogue with colleagues from around the world, these meetings provide the opportunity to share insights and perspectives on teaching, to hear new and unusual musics, to experience regional musics, to discuss American musical life and culture, and to consider future directions for the art of music.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE - Proposals must be submitted by 12:00 noon MST on Thursday, November 29, 2012.

Call for Program Participation

The Program Committee solicits the broadest representation of our profession and its interests, and welcomes submissions from all including those (a) in academia (full-time and adjunct faculty, community college faculty, graduate students, and retired faculty), (b) in the music industry, and (c) active as independent musicians and scholars.

The Program Committee welcomes proposals for demonstrations, forums, lecture-recitals, panels, papers, performances, and workshops that relate to all aspects of music creation, performance, scholarship, teaching, learning, career considerations, and other areas of interest to the music professional. Click here for a description of proposal formats. For complete details, please visit the 2013 National Conference Home Page and click on the link for the Call for Program Participation. Please click here for a pdf of the Call for posting and distribution to colleagues and students.

Call for Scores

Integral to the conference is the performance of works composed by CMS members. The Program Committee invites submissions of original works for trios and works for composer-provided performers. As always, CMS welcomes proposals from students, faculty, retirees, and independent musicians from all educational and professional settings. For further details, please visit the 2013 National Conference Home Page and click on the link for the Call for Scores. For PDF files for posting or distibution to colleagues and students, please click here for the Trio Call and click here for the composer-performer Call.

Further information will be available on the CMS Web site.

We look forward to seeing you in Cambridge and Boston in 2013!

The 2013 International Conference of The College Music Society will be held June 18–24, 2013 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Considered the capital of the Tango, Argentina has produced numerous world-renowned composers, performers, and conductors. Its fascinating history, spectacular geography, and cosmopolitan culture will provide participants with the perfect setting to awaken the themes of Inclusivity and Invention by rethinking musical multiculturalism in/for the 21st century, learning about evolving musical traditions, and establishing transnational initiatives.

The program will include scholarly discourse and the presentation of new music by CMS members, interaction with Argentinean scholars and performers, and guided sightseeing opportunities.  All members of the Society are welcome to submit proposals for consideration by the Program Committee.

Further information is available on the CMS Web site.

We look forward to seeing you in Argentina in 2013!