Welcome!
| Are your dues current?
In order for your students to participate in the Festival, you need to have your 2012 dues paid. The ‘deadline’ for the $20 dues is January 31st. Thereafter they are $30. If you are planning to submit students for the Classical Festival (by Jan 9th), please renew right away. The registration system won’t let you in if your dues are not current. I have very few 2012 membership renewals as of today, so act now! Thank you. |
- What is NATS?
- NATS is an acronymn for National Association of Teachers of Singing.It is an organization that was formed in the 1940’s to uphold their mandate of quality vocal teaching in the United States. NATS is now the largest singing teachers’ association in the world with members in over 25 countries.The headquarters of the National Association is in Jacksonville, Florida, USA.
- Why should I join?
- NATS strives to be a resource for both voice teachers, beginning voice teachers (SNATS- student chapter), choral conductors, and those who work in the field of voice including everyone from actors to speech-language pathologists.There are different levels of membership: Full membership to affiliate memberbship. Visit the Membership page for more information.
- Looking for a Voice Teacher?
- Find a voice teacher in SW Washington or Oregon area, by accessing the profiles of teachers accepting students on the National NATS site. To find a comprehensive list of local teachers, simply enter any city and choose “Oregon” or “Washington” from the drop-down list. You don’t need to enter the country.
Dear fellow singing teachers,Thanks to so many who supported the fall musical theater festival with your fine singers and your presence at the festival. I think we had a great concert and the cocktail hour preceding the concert was met with success and lots of sharing.
There has been a committee working diligently in the past weeks to continue to “tweak” our festivals’ regarding how we group our singers, our repertoire requirements and how we might be more in line with the national guidelines. To that end, a new document with some great changes has come from the festival revisions committee which the membership selected earlier this fall at our last meeting.
Led by Natalie Gunn, festival chair this year, April Duvic, Nancy Olson-Chatalas, and Beverly Park, there is a new document which will go into effect for our Classical Festival early in February. Please read it carefully and ask questions, by all means. No change is without some glitches, but I believe this will make our lives all easier and be more in line with what our organization is trying to do at all levels.
The biggest change is in categories, as we move from High School, College 1 and College 11, to only two categories based solely on age groupings, and divided by time-studied as needed.
I commend the document to you and heartily thank these four teachers for their wisdom as we move forward. To read, print or download the document, click here.
All best for a peaceful and lovely holiday season full of singing. Sue McBerry, Cascade Chapter President |
New Guidelines for Email Announcements
We are instigating a few new ways of communicating within our chapter. As you all may have seen, we are getting the new website up and running, and we have a Facebook page! One major change to be aware of is that for notices to be sent by email to the chapter, the subject must be regarding a NATS sponsored event.
| Read our current Newsletter |
There are two ways to notify your fellow NATS colleagues about all non-NATS sponsored information, including performance announcements.
1) We will be publishing a newsletter which will be posted to the website quarterly. Find the Instructions for newsletter submissions on the Newsletter page. The newsletter will also have the capability of being printed so you can view a hard copy as well.
2) For any event or announcement that does not make the deadline for publication in the newsletter, our Facebook page would be a great place to inform our members! (Facebook pages: Members Group (only members) / Chapter Page (public)) If you are not yet part of the Members Only NATS Cascade Chapter Facebook page, please contact Natalie Gunn at natalie@nataliegunn.com for more information on how to get connected!