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Alberta Scholarship MICCA Hall of Fame Links Commissioned Works Job Opportunities Our Policies MICCA Membership MICCA Mission Statement E-Board Calendar Contact Our NEW registration portal will be opening on Monday, January 6th, 2020. Please DO NOT submit Purchase Orders or Payment via e-mail to the Concert or Choral Festival Chairs. You will be required to upload the documents into our new registration portal which becomes active on January 6th. Principal forms will not become available until January 6th. If you are paying by a check, you may upload a picture of the check via the new registration portal. You can learn about our new registration portal here. --- Evening with the Stars - Dr. Louis Bergonzi MICCA will present a webinar about the issue of Social Justice in music education . Our guest speaker/clinician will be Dr. Louis Bergonzi, formerly of Massachusetts. Dr. Bergonzi grew up in Wellesley, attended Boston University and taught in the Lexington Schools and has conducted the Massachusetts All-State Orchestra twice. He will address topics of: LGBTQ issues for students and faculty Urban instrumental music programs Diversity in choosing repetoire and take your questions on any social justice issues. The webinar will take place on: Wednesday, January 20, 2021 at 7:00 PM EST. via Zoom (when you sign up please give your email and we will send the Zoom info that day) This evening will be FREE of charge! Click here for more info on this amazing Evening with the Stars! The Massachusetts Instrumental and Choral and Conductors Association (MICCA) and the Boston Symphony Orchestra want to help our state’s music educators and students during this unique school year. We are now offering FREE virtual clinics for educators to use with students for a live, interactive clinic with a musician from the Boston Symphony Orchestra! These virtual clinics are FREE , but will granted on a first-come, first-served basis . Click here for more info on thsi amazing Evening with the Stars! --- virtual Summer Institute FREE OF CHARGE to music educators. The theme of this year's programming is: Preparing for Remote Teaching. We have curated OVER TWENTY SESSIONS which all deal with this topic in some way. We hope that educators will leave feeling inspired and have new tricks up their sleeves to best-engage their students remotely. Sessions will be offered via Zoom on August 10 - 13 & 17 - 20 . Our sessions will delve into.... Improvisation in the large ensemble (over Zoom) Best practices in teaching band, chorus, and orchestra remotely Virtual ensembles The flipped classroom Student engagement And SO MUCH more! There is NO COST to participate but we ask that all participants register here by Saturday, August 8. All registrants will receive an email on Sunday, August 9 with links to all of the sessions. Attached to the email are a daily schedule as well as descriptions of each session. We hope you will help us promote this opportunity to learn from each other by sharing this email with the members of your department and colleagues in other states now that we are not bound by geography! We look forward to seeing you all next week! Click here for our Daily Schedule of all our sessions Click here for our Session Descriptions Click here to register for these amazing sessions! Thanks to the generous support of the David French Music Company there is no cost to participate! --- In the wake of last week's guidance from DESE, MICCA is working on a virtual series of clinics and sharing sessions for educators. The intent of these sessions is to arm you with as many strategies, ideas, and best practices to employ with your ensembles and beginning instrumentalists in remote and hybrid settings as possible. The intent is NOT to fixate on what we have no control over but rather to learn about and discuss what we CAN do to be effective and engaging educators. We have 20 sessions which will take place over Zoom between August 10 - 13 & 17 - 20 . The menu of sessions includes sharing sessions for band, chorus, and orchestra teachers, group improvisation techniques for the large ensemble, a musicianship refresher for educators, a mindfulness session for educators, teaching social justice and anti-racism through ensemble music, rec ruitment and retention, virtual ensembles, and SO MUCH MORE! We are excited to be able to offer these sessions FREE OF CHARGE thanks to the generous support of the David French Music Company ! More information, including the full schedule, our clinicians, and registration information will be available early next week. We hope you will be able to join us! --- Read more --- ‪ MICCA has an awesome, new opportunity for your students!!!! Please check out the VIRTUAL MICCA Solo Festival happening this spring!! Click HERE for more details and to register! Virtual Clinics The Massachusetts Instrumental and Choral and Conductors Association (MICCA) and the Boston Symphony Orchestra want to help our state’s music educators and students during this unique school year. We are now offering FREE virtual clinics for educators to use with students for a live, interactive clinic with a musician from the Boston Symphony Orchestra! These virtual clinics are FREE , but will granted on a first-come, first-served basis . Click here for more info so we can connect you with a BSO Musician! virtual Summer Institute FREE OF CHARGE to music educators. The theme of this year's programming is: Preparing for Remote Teaching. We have curated OVER TWENTY SESSIONS which all deal with this topic in some way. We hope that educators will leave feeling inspired and have new tricks up their sleeves to best-engage their students remotely. Sessions will be offered via Zoom on August 10 - 13 & 17 - 20 . Our sessions will delve into.... Improvisation in the large ensemble (over Zoom) Best practices in teaching band, chorus, and orchestra remotely Virtual ensembles The flipped classroom Student engagement And SO MUCH more! There is NO COST to participate but we ask that all participants register here by Saturday, August 8. All registrants will receive an email on Sunday, August 9 with links to all of the sessions. Attached to the email are a daily schedule as well as descriptions of each session. We hope you will help us promote this opportunity to learn from each other by sharing this email with the members of your department and colleagues in other states now that we are not bound by geography! We look forward to seeing you all next week! Click here for our Daily Schedule of all our sessions Click here for our Session Descriptions Click here to register for these amazing sessions! Thanks to the generous support of the David French Music Company there is no cost to participate! --- In the wake of last week's guidance from DESE, MICCA is working on a virtual series of clinics and sharing sessions for educators. The intent of these sessions is to arm you with as many strategies, ideas, and best practices to employ with your ensembles and beginning instrumentalists in remote and hybrid settings as possible. The intent is NOT to fixate on what we have no control over but rather to learn about and discuss what we CAN d...