U of MN CNAfME

03/18/2025

🎶 2025 Spring Speaker Series 🎶
Student Teaching Survival with Dr. Emily Heuschele

With the second half of the spring semester CNAfME is hosting a series of sessions and speakers covering a wide range of topics within music and music education.

For our first session we have UMN Faculty Dr. Emily Heuschele giving a Student Teaching Survival Guide to help prepare students ahead of time for what to expect!

03/08/2025

What’s a better way to start your Spring Break than by volunteering! Three UMN music ed students volunteered at the 2025 UMN-TC Concert Band Festival. Good job and congratulations to all who participated and helped out!

02/07/2025

💕 Do you have a special person in your life? Get them a Love Gram! 💕 C-NAfME is selling goody bags with a personalized note. 💕

Show that special person how much you appreciate them!

01/24/2025

This past Saturday several Music Education students helped Dr. Danni Gilbert at the Bell Museum’s Science of Sound exhibit “The Joy and Wellness of Music”, featuring:

🎨 Instrument-making — Visitors crafted shakers, maracas, and kazoos.
🎶 Community music-making — Using visitor made instruments, they danced and played along to uplifting music.
🎧 Listening Station — Visitors also explored how music evokes emotion and marked responses on a “Feelings Scale.”
🌎 Cultural Demonstration and Participation — UMN students demonstrated the Chinese Hulusi, gourd flute, to listen, ask questions, and help gain an understanding/appreciation of music from cultures outside of the United States.

Student Volunteers:
Charlie Buboltz (Junior), Bryanne Klienert (post-bacc), Brandon Wu (Senior), Carmela Thiele (MM), and Ziyue Tan (PhD)

01/31/2022

RSVP form link: https://forms.gle/SZbuTkXCwet97GHN8

Stay tuned here for updates on the schedule of speakers and workshops

03/01/2021

Hey everyone! UMN’s CNAfME has been organizing the 2021 spring music education conference, this year on zoom! We’ve lined up some really good presenters so it will be an outstanding opportunity to have discussions with fellow current and future music educators. It’s completely free, and you can come to all or some or even just one session, from the comfort of your home! Please fill out this form if you’re interested and you’ll receive emails with the updated schedule, speaker info, and zoom link related information: https://forms.gle/wW65qpbaTJQFTw3w7

06/05/2020

We as the officers of the University of Minnesota Chapter of CNAfME stand against police brutality and recognize the murder of George Floyd as a result of systematic racism within our country and our police force. We support and appreciate Dr. Kim's statement to the School of Music, as well as the statements put out by MMEA and NAfME (links below and in comments).

As future music educators, we must stand up for and listen to our BIPOC students. One way of doing this is to educate ourselves now on issues of race and diversity in the music classroom. Both statements from MMEA and NAfME provide steps to diversify our music classrooms and be better teachers. We encourage everyone to take a look at these links below as the first step to a lifelong journey of educating ourselves and being there for our students.

Black Lives Matter. Ask yourselves what you can do today to help.

MMEA’s Statement and Actions to Address System Racism and Violence MMEA stands with our community, our state, our nation, and our world as we mourn the brutal police murder of George Floyd. It is time to take meaningful steps to put an end to systemic racism and violence against people of color an...

01/22/2020

This year, CNAfME is hosting our collegiate workshop, Music for All, on Saturday, February 15th. One of the speakers at this years workshop is current U of M graduate student, J. Nick Smith (he/him/his, who will be a part of the graduate student panel session.

John Nicholas Smith is pursuing a Doctor of Music degree in Wind Band Conducting at the University of Minnesota, where his primary studies are with Dr. Emily Threinen. His professional experiences range from work with middle school musicians through adult community and professional ensemble musicians. Prior to doctoral studies, Smith received his Master of Music degree in Wind Band Conducting from the University of Michigan, where he studied with Michael Haithcock. He earned a Bachelor of Music Education degree from Auburn University, where he was named the “Outstanding Undergraduate Student in the College of Education.” As a public school educator, Smith served three years as an Assistant Director and three years as Director of Bands at Hillcrest High School in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. As Director of Bands, he instructed the Wind Ensemble, Percussion Ensemble, Jazz Band, the “Pride of Patriot Parkway” Marching Band, and taught AP Music Theory.

If you are interested in hearing more about the life of a graduate student or want to ask questions to our graduate student panel, register NOW for the 2020 workshop at https://forms.gle/JwY3kCpKpPJe6PvF9

01/09/2020

This year, CNAfME is hosting our collegiate workshop, Music for All, on Saturday, February 15th. One of the speakers at this years workshop is Professor Betsy McCann (she/her/hers) discussing score study.

Betsy McCann is the assistant director of bands and director of athletic bands at the University of Minnesota, where she directs the Marching Band and University Band, teaches conducting, and administers the Athletic Band program. McCann earned degrees from the University of Minnesota and Northwestern University and is an active guest conductor, clinician, and speaker.

If you are interested in hearing more about Professor McCann's views and methods regarding score study, keep checking our social media pages for the event registration link within the next week.

10/30/2019

Less than 30 minutes left for our spooky bake sale, come get a treat without any tricks!!! Only $1 each and the proceeds support our chapter with funding future events, such as the Music for All workshop we host each year.

10/29/2019

Come out to Ferguson Hall tomorrow between 8:00am and 2:00pm to purchase $1 treats from our super spooky bake sale!

09/27/2019

Paint the Bridge 2019 was a success! Let us know what you think of CNAfME’s new look- can you name what part of Ferguson Hall we painted??? @ Washington Avenue Bridge