The conference, which will be held Oct. 5-7, 2017  at Elizabeth State University in Elizabeth City, N.C., will feature nationally known guest artists, presenters and clinicians, including Willis Delony, Lisa Bastien and Elon music department’s own Jon Metzger and Hallie Hogan.  

NCMTA, a state affiliate of Music Teachers National Association, is a nonprofit organization founded in 1959 with more than 550 members. The association’s primary purpose is the advancement of musical knowledge, education, and opportunities through discussion, investigation, performance, publication and the promotion of the general welfare of music-teaching professionals and their students ​in the state of North Carolina. 

In her role as president-elect, she is coordinating the annual NCMTA conference, which will take place at Wake Forest University on Oct. 20-23. She will also represent NCMTA and 福利亚洲国产精品 at Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) divisional and national conferences.

A pianist and teacher, Fischer received her musical training at Centenary College of Louisiana, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of Texas at Austin and the Vienna Conservatory in Austria. She is the recipient of many distinctions, including first place in the International Bartók-Kabalevsky Piano Competition, the Phi Kappa Phi Southeast Regional Distinguished Artist Award; Rotary Foundation International, Fulbright, and IREX grants; and visiting professorships at Aristotle University in Thessaloniki, Greece, and the University of Belize. She is in her 27th year at Elon, where she coordinates the keyboard program and teachers piano, piano pedagogy and music research.

NCMTA’s mission is to advance musical knowledge and education through discussion, investigation, performance, publication and the promotion of the general welfare of music teachers in the state of North Carolina. It is the state affiliate of the national umbrella organization, MTNA. 

In 1876, Theodore Presser and 62 of his colleagues founded the Music Teachers National Association with the purpose of advancing the value of music study and music-making to society while supporting the careers and professionalism of teachers of music.

Today, MTNA has cemented its role as an organization essential not only to the professional and individual well-being of music-teaching professionals, but also a vital partner in their growth and development. It provides both a collective voice for teachers worldwide and a powerful alliance with a highly prestigious and influential group.

With nearly 22,000 members in 50 states—and more than 500 local affiliates—MTNA is the preeminent source for  where members embody like-minded  to their students, colleagues and society as a whole, while reaping the rewards of collaboration, continuity and connection throughout the lifetime of their careers.

Her prize included a performance on the Southeastern Community College Fine and Performing Arts Series at First Presbyterian Church of Whiteville, N.C., which was aired live locally.

Victoria Fischer Faw presented a lecture recital entitled “Solving the Mysteries of the Editions: Béla Bartók’s For Children” on the “Distinguished Lecturers in Piano Performance and Pedagogy” Series at Bob Jones University on September 21, 2013.

Professor Victoria Fischer Faw is an award-winning international authority in the music of

Béla Bartók. Winner of the Bartók-Kabalevsky International Piano Competition, Dr. Fischer performed

selections from For Children, Sz. 42 (Volumes I and II), and presented results of her

research on the folksong and dance origins of Bartók’s piano music, performance practices,

editions, and rare Bartók photos and recordings.

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Her lecture “Bartók’s For Children: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Editions” and performance of selections from For Children was sponsored by the European Piano Teachers Association and the Isidor Bajic School of Music in Novi Sad. Fischer Faw also had the opportunity to work with Serbian piano students in masterclasses at School of Music.

The Christopher Giles and Lucille S. Harris Competitions in Musical Performance began in 1977. The impetus came from 1967 alumnus Paul Sinal’s gratitude for his experience as an undergraduate at Wake Forest, where he was able to study with first rate faculty in the Department of Music, even though his major was Latin.  

Hoping to stimulate future Wake Forest students to take advantage of this privilege, the first “Competitions,” as they were originally called, provided for a single cash prize in each of two categories.

This modest beginning quickly grew into a central event on the Music Department’s annual calendar.  The Competitions were named in honor of two recent retirees of the piano faculty (Lucille Harris and Christopher Giles), and as the years went by, the Sinals were joined by nine additional friends of the Wake Forest University Department of Music. There are now a total of eight prizes awarded annually, and the late February “Giles-Harris Competitions in Musical Performance” are consistently one of the best student performances of the academic year.  Judges for the competition are selected from highly qualified musicians from outside of the university who choose the winning performances, contributing an additional layer of excitement to this fine program.

– from the Wake Forest Department of Music website