Category: News & Updates

Inside NYSSMA® Interest Form

Please fill out this form if you’d like to be contacted to get involved in NYSSMA® 

Letters to the Editor of Scholastic News regarding the “Should kids learn music in schools?” article

Letter to the Editor from NYSSMA® President, Edmund A. Chiarello NAfME Response  from NAfME President, Deborah Confredo

The NYSSMA® 2025 Modern Band Showcase Pilot

  Modern Band Announcement   Emerging Ensembles Web Page  

2025 NYSSMA® Festival Calendar as of 12/20/24

2025 NYSSMA® Adjudicator Orientation Seminars

NYSSMA® Medal and Plaque Order Form

NYSSMA® advocates for music education at rally during “Joseph R. Sugar NYSSMA Day in Albany”

Majors Festival Ensembles Registration
(for ensemble directors ONLY)

NYSSMA® will be piloting major organization clinic evaluations at designated major organization sites in 2024

Pk–8 General Music Lesson Plan template

… to assist classroom music educators in the process of writing Standards-Based lesson plans.  This electronic form aligns with the NYS Learning Standards for the…