Northern Nevada Music Teachers Association

09/02/2026

NNMTA teachers: See you all at our luncheon on Friday, Sept. 4th at Mimi's Cafe. It's on us!

08/17/2026

MTNA State Competitions- click HERE for complete guidelines/rules/information: https://www.mtna.org/Competitions.html

State Competition Dates: October 30-31, 2026
Location: University of Las Vegas, Nevada
Online Registration Entry Deadline: September 9, 2026 at 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time

06/18/2026

11/03/2025

Congratulations to all the winners of the 2025 MTNA Nevada State Competition. Thank you to UNLVMTA volunteers for all your help running the competition. Best wishes on your upcoming Southwest District competition !

10/29/2025

We had a great turn out for the annual Halloween Costume Recitals this past Saturday. Everyone had fun and the students played well 🎃🧡🎃

10/22/2025

07/09/2025

Join us for a summer fundraiser concert next Wednesday July 16, 6 pm at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, part of Reno's Artown festival. For the first half of the concert, local legend Squeek Steele (apologies for the typo in the Artown publicity) will accompany the silent film The Wooden Wedding. The second half will feature students of NNMTA teachers who have also written testimonials about how NNMTA has helped their musical studies!

https://artown.org/event-details.asp?ID=6856

06/18/2025

FLAMINGOOOOO and renew your MTNA membership today! Due date is June 30. https://www.mtna.org/

04/26/2025

NNMTA is honored to host Dr. Amanda Gessler for a continuing education session and as an adjudicator for our Young Artist Medal event next week. Please attend her continuing education presentation at the Steinway Gallery next Friday May 2 at 10 am. She will also perform a piano recital at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral the same day at 6 pm, featuring works by Debussy and the first movement of Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto accompanied by Bryan Chuan on organ.

Amanda Gessler is known for her deeply insightful and emotionally charged performances across the United States and Europe. As a First Prize Winner of the Bradshaw & Buono International Piano competition, she made her Carnegie Hall debut in 2014. She embraces a broad repertoire and enjoys a special connection with the music of Mozart, Beethoven and Brahms.

​She was first noticed as a prizewinner in the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition at age sixteen and received a full scholarship to study at the Interlochen Summer Arts Academy. She has since traveled widely and given performances at the Aspen Music Festival, the Duxbury Festival in Massachusetts, the Institute for European Studies in Vienna and the Wilhelm Kempff Foundation Beethoven Course in Positano, Italy. She is a laureate of the MTNA Steinway Young Artist Competition and her performances have been broadcast on Colorado Public radio and on Irish National Television in the documentary film "Beethoven Bootcamp”.