University of Oklahoma MTNA Collegiate Chapter

What an amazing crowd and an exciting night! 🧧✨ Thank you to everyone who came out Tuesday to celebrate with us at our Lunar New Year Concert. It was a joyful evening full of music, dance, and community!

A huge thank you to our MTNA members for performing and helping everything run so smoothly, and to our wonderful collaborators from the OU Chinese Program and the Share and Grow Association for making this celebration so special. Here’s to a new year filled with creativity and collaboration! 🎶

🧧 Celebrate the Lunar New Year with the OU MTNA Collegiate Chapter, OU Chinese Program, and Share and Grow Association at this festive evening concert featuring lively music with cultural flair and traditional performances! 🍊🍊 🎶

Congratulations to our members who participated in the MTNA Collegiate Symposium 2026 at the University of South Carolina last weekend!

Lynnae Hurst delivered a lightning talk on “Fostering Creativity and Artistry through Chee-Hwa Tan’s Compositions for Pianists.” Holden Meech presented his research in the poster session: “Expanding Ukrainian Piano Repertoire: The Music of Yakiv Stepovyi.” Katie Larson both performed Joan Tower’s Sixth Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman and presented her poster, “Pathways into Contemporary Music: Emma Lou Diemer’s Intermediate Piano Works.” Anna Dunbar presented a poster titled, “Integrating Choctaw Heritage into the Piano Studio: Choctaw Animals for Piano by Charles Shadle,” and additionally served as Chair of the Collegiate Symposium Planning Committee. We celebrate her outstanding leadership and dedication in making this event possible!

The best way to spread Christmas cheer is by✨playing piano✨loud for all to hear!🎄🎶 Thanks to everyone who helped bring Christmas joy to the residents at the Rivermont Independent and Assisted Living Centers on Saturday!

A musical afternoon unfolded at McFarlin United Methodist as Chapter members presented a musical storytime for PreK–5th graders last week! From the moment the children settled in, their eyes lit up with each story—Khalida and the Most Beautiful Song, the story of a little girl who plays by ear, an unfolding of a musical friendship in The Cat Who Loved Mozart, and the inspiring journey of a bear who became a concert pianist in The Bear and the Piano 🎹✨ In Over the Meadow, children sang freely and moved with colorful scarves. 🍂🍃

Music featured included Mozart’s Piano Sonata K.545, Over in the Meadow, and Robert Schumann’s Rundesang, F***y Mendelssohn’s Songs with Words, Op. 8 No. 4, and Christopher Norton’s “Feeling Silly.” Thanks to all MTNA members who helped make this event a success!

We had a blast helping out with NAMTA’S Fall Festival last weekend! From carnival games and the bake sale to temporary tattoos and monitoring performance rooms, a huge thank you to all who volunteered! 🍁🎃

We are so excited for NAMTA’s Fall Festival tomorrow! 🎃 Stop by Gothic Hall to play some games and grab some sweet treats at our bake sale! 🍁🍪

MTNA membership deadlines are coming up soon‼️(Collegiate dues Sep 19th, National dues Oct 1st) Scroll to learn the simple steps to sign up or renew your membership! 🎶

Fill out the collegiate chapter form here:
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We had an absolute blast at our ice cream social yesterday!☀️ It was the perfect way to kick off the semester: a gorgeous day, musical community building, board games, and ice cream!✨🍨🎶

🎶 Thank you to everyone who came out today— we’re so excited to make music and memories together this year! 💛🎵

If you haven’t had the chance to fill out our interest meeting questionnaire, visit the link via the QR code ✨