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From The President 1146353 STAXXX10.1177/00031313221146353American String Teacherwww.astaweb.com From The PreS idenT By ReBecca MacLeod Dear String Community, As we approach our national conference, I have so much to share with you about the progress we have made as an organization. Since adopting the new strategic plan https://bit.ly/ASTAStrategicPlan2022-2025, and receiving responses from our member survey, we have made a commitment to increasing professional development opportunities; reducing member costs; focusing on issues of diversity, equity, inclusion, and access; building strong networks for member engagement; and providing advocacy resources for our members. We have made strides in these areas and have been able to offer a new professional member rate, reduced student membership fees, and offered a special discount for conference attendees who bring a new attendee to conference. The National Conference, Building a More Inclusive Community, is rapidly approaching and will take place March 15–18 in Orlando, FL. Our conference will feature over 216 sessions. Keynote speakers July Duty, founder of United Sound, and Constance McKoy, coauthor of Culturally Responsive Teaching in Music Education, will speak about creating more inclusive musical spaces. They will be joined by violin virtuoso Adrian Anantawan and the Howard W. Blake High School Symphonic Orchestra under the direction of Jason Jerald, a performance you will not want to miss. Evening performances will feature the Marian Anderson String Quartet and freestyle fiddler, Darol Anger. We will continue the tradition of evening jam sessions, led this year by Jeremy Kittel and Julie Lyonn Lieberman. If you have never attended a jam session before, we are offering a special session on Thursday afternoon, hosted by members of the Eclectic Styles Committee, to introduce tunes and styles commonly played at these sessions. Master classes will be offered for both collegiate and pre-collegiate students and are an excellent way to learn from our invited clinicians! If you are looking to expand the repertoire you teach in the studio and school orchestra settings by historically excluded composers, plan to attend the New Music Reading Sessions hosted in collaboration with the Institute of Composer Diversity. The National Orchestra Festival (NOF) will continue this year, and students from across the United States will come to Orlando to receive feedback, perform for their peers, engage in a clinic, and attend conference sessions. Conference attendees may attend the performances throughout the conference, and competition winners will be featured at the Closing Concert on Saturday afternoon. In addition to NOF, ASTA is offering a series of sessions during the conference geared toward secondary students interested in pursuing a career in strings! One positive outcome of the pandemic was the increase in virtual professional development opportunities. Many of our members expressed an interest in continuing the online conference options that we presented in 2021 and 2022. We listened, and will launch the first ASTA Virtual String Teachers Summit on July 17–18, 2023. This summit will engage participants in both synchronous live and asynchronous sessions. Consider attending the Virtual String Teachers Summit for more opportunities to learn, grow, and share new ideas about string performing, teaching, and scholarship. I look forward to our time together at the national conference in Orlando. I am grateful for our ASTA community. Rebecca MacLeod American String Teacher Vol. 73, No. 1, February 2023, p. 7 DOI: 10.1177/00031313221146353 Article reuse guidelines: sagepub.com/journals-permissions Copyright © 2022, American String Teachers Association WWW.ASTASTRINGS.ORG | 7 http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png American String Teacher SAGE

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American String Teacher , Volume 73 (1): 1 – Feb 1, 2023
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1146353 STAXXX10.1177/00031313221146353American String Teacherwww.astaweb.com From The PreS idenT By ReBecca MacLeod Dear String Community, As we approach our national conference, I have so much to share with you about the progress we have made as an organization. Since adopting the new strategic plan https://bit.ly/ASTAStrategicPlan2022-2025, and receiving responses from our member survey, we have made a commitment to increasing professional development opportunities; reducing member costs; focusing on issues of diversity, equity, inclusion, and access; building strong networks for member engagement; and providing advocacy resources for our members. We have made strides in these areas and have been able to offer a new professional member rate, reduced student membership fees, and offered a special discount for conference attendees who bring a new attendee to conference. The National Conference, Building a More Inclusive Community, is rapidly approaching and will take place March 15–18 in Orlando, FL. Our conference will feature over 216 sessions. Keynote speakers July Duty, founder of United Sound, and Constance McKoy, coauthor of Culturally Responsive Teaching in Music Education, will speak about creating more inclusive musical spaces. They will be joined by violin virtuoso Adrian Anantawan and the Howard W. Blake High School Symphonic Orchestra under the direction of Jason Jerald, a performance you will not want to miss. Evening performances will feature the Marian Anderson String Quartet and freestyle fiddler, Darol Anger. We will continue the tradition of evening jam sessions, led this year by Jeremy Kittel and Julie Lyonn Lieberman. If you have never attended a jam session before, we are offering a special session on Thursday afternoon, hosted by members of the Eclectic Styles Committee, to introduce tunes and styles commonly played at these sessions. Master classes will be offered for both collegiate and pre-collegiate students and are an excellent way to learn from our invited clinicians! If you are looking to expand the repertoire you teach in the studio and school orchestra settings by historically excluded composers, plan to attend the New Music Reading Sessions hosted in collaboration with the Institute of Composer Diversity. The National Orchestra Festival (NOF) will continue this year, and students from across the United States will come to Orlando to receive feedback, perform for their peers, engage in a clinic, and attend conference sessions. Conference attendees may attend the performances throughout the conference, and competition winners will be featured at the Closing Concert on Saturday afternoon. In addition to NOF, ASTA is offering a series of sessions during the conference geared toward secondary students interested in pursuing a career in strings! One positive outcome of the pandemic was the increase in virtual professional development opportunities. Many of our members expressed an interest in continuing the online conference options that we presented in 2021 and 2022. We listened, and will launch the first ASTA Virtual String Teachers Summit on July 17–18, 2023. This summit will engage participants in both synchronous live and asynchronous sessions. Consider attending the Virtual String Teachers Summit for more opportunities to learn, grow, and share new ideas about string performing, teaching, and scholarship. I look forward to our time together at the national conference in Orlando. I am grateful for our ASTA community. Rebecca MacLeod American String Teacher Vol. 73, No. 1, February 2023, p. 7 DOI: 10.1177/00031313221146353 Article reuse guidelines: sagepub.com/journals-permissions Copyright © 2022, American String Teachers Association WWW.ASTASTRINGS.ORG | 7

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