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Conference 2008 - July 14-17, 2008
Welcome to our summer conference! For full color PDF files of the Conference 2008 Brochure (these files have been updated to reflect changes and corrections since the brochures were printed and mailed):
There is
still time to register for the 2008 Conference in Portland, Maine.
The 2008 UCCMA Portland Conference Committee is continuing its preparations for this summer's event. To date over 115 musicians, lay members and clergy have registered to come to Maine, and a full list of exhibitors are planning to attend, too. You will certainly want to be a part of this event!!!!! Our outstanding clinician leadership for the week includes Michael Kemp, Rev. Victoria Sirota, Rev. Bernard Wilson, Peter Niedmann, Daniel Moore, Peter Krasinksi and Patricia Snyder. Workshops, worship, and concerts will be educational and meaningful for you. Registration forms can be downloaded from the UCCMA website at www.uccma.org or contact Conference Chair Paul Schnell 207-727-6562. Conference Housing We have received word that the reserved block of rooms at the Best Western Merry Manor Hotel in South Portland. (207-774-6151) is now sold out. The Howard Johnsonıs across the street has agreed to extend to UCCMA the same Conference rate of $79 + tax, but only for 2 more weeks. This price rate will expire on June 12, 2008. Contact Hotel reservations at 207- 775-5343 The Portland area has a high summer tourism market, and participants are attendees are urged to make hotel reservations very, very soon. Calling for Scores for The Composers' Forums UCCMA composers attending the conference are encouraged to submit works for the Composers' Forums. Works will be sung and played by the forum participants and critiqued by forum clinician Peter Niedmann, who will offer advice on any aspect of composition, notation, or publication. Choral anthems, vocal solos, handbell music or organ music are all welcome. Submissions should be clearly legible, either in computer generated notation or camera ready manuscript and sent to: Harold Stover, 202 Woodford Street, Portland ME 04103. PDF files may be emailed to hstover@woodfordschurch.org. Deadline for submissions is June 15, 2008. Tuesday Night - Kotzschmar Organ Concert Thomas Heywood, our guest concert organist, regrettably has had to cancel his summer US tour. Ray Cornils and the Friends of the Kotzschmar Organ fortunately have since engaged Frederick Hohman for the Tuesday evening event. Frederick Hohman is known as an active touring organ virtuoso since 1984. He has appeared as guest organ recitalist before various organ trade conventions, at noted churches, cathedrals, universities and music festivals, has presided over the inauguration of some of America's largest and noteworthy new and restored pipe organs, and has appeared as organ soloist with symphony orchestras in the East and Midwest. A native of St. Louis, Missouri, with a background in both classical music and jazz, Frederick Hohman took the Performer's Certificate and all academic degrees (Mus.B., MM, and DMA) with David Craighead at the Eastman School of Music. In 1984, he won First Prize in both the Arthur Poister Organ Competition as well as the Eighth National Organ-Playing Competition (Mader Foundation, Pasadena, California). His 1986 doctoral essay and first CD recordings centered upon the symphonic organ era and Edwin Lemare, but his broader discography, which draws frequent airplay and editorial from broadcasters and music critics in America and England, reveals considerable expertise in all areas of organ literature. UCCMA 2008 Portland Conference Exhibitors Schulmerich Bells, Sellersville, PA Jazzmuze, Inc. Little Silver, NJ Maggi, Tucker, First Congregational Church of Houston, Texas Augsburg Press, Minneapolis, MN Malmark, Inc, Plumsteadville, PA Starbird Music, Portland, ME Friends of the Kotzschmar Organ(FOKO), Portland, ME Cliff Hill Music, Brook Park, OH Beyer Music, Torrington, CT Renaissance Voices, Portland, ME Handcrafting Justice - Fair Trade, Sponsored by Woodfords Church UCCMA Membership
Hospitality
Portland Planning Committee +++++++++++++ IMPORTANT Address Correction on Registration Brochure The registrations should be sent to: Kathy Miles P.O. Box 464 Bar Mills, ME 04004 - ( this is the changed part!) Contact phone: 207-929-6052 email- katie@sacoriver.net We have contacted both the Buxton and Bar Mills Postal Services, And mail will be forwarded from the previously listed address. Thank you for patience and understanding in this error. If you have any questions, please contact
Paul Schnell,
2008 UCCMA Portland Conference Chair
207-727-6562 |
