News Releases for Media

2023-2024

Executive Director Emeritus Dr. Steven Schopp Receives Lifetime Achievement Award from Alma Mater Ithaca College

 

2022-2023

NYSSMA Hosts 2023 Eastern Division Conference

Fiftieth Annual Joseph R. Sugar NYSSMA Day in Albany Held Virtually

White Paper – History of Music In Our Schools Month in New York

Five Hundred Sixty-Nine (569) Students Selected for 2022 All State Conference in Rochester

Forty-One (41) Students from NYS Selected for 2022 All National Festival in Maryland

 

2021-2022

NYSSMA Recognizes Music Educators Selected as GRAMMY Quarterfinalists

NYSSMA Returns to Rochester for In-Person All State/Winter Conference

 

2020-2021

NYSSMA Welcomes Renee’ Fleming as Keynote Speaker for All State Festival Renamed Cyber Summit 2020

Pandemic Causes Cancellation of 2020 All State Festival

NYSSMA Takes Lead in Providing Guidance on Music Programs in the Reopening of Schools

NYSSMA President Writes Interim Commissioner with Concerns of Six-Foot Distance in Music Classes

NYSSMA President Writes to NYS Leaders with Concerns of Six-Foot Distance in Music Classes

NYSSMA Statement on Resignation of Interim Commissioner Shannon Tahoe

President Brown Tapped to Join NYS Re-Opening Task Force

 

2019-2020

NYSSMA Returns to Albany to Kick Off Music In Our Schools Month 2020 – News Release

NYSSMA Returns to Albany to Kick Off Music In Our Schools Month 2020 – White Paper

DeRuyter School Superintendent Assumes NYSSMA Presidency

NYSSMA Returns to Rochester for 84th Annual All State/Winter Conference

Dr. David Gaines Named Executive Director

 

2018-2019

Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s Proclamation Declaring March, 2019 Music In Our Schools Month in NYS

For Media – 2019 Music In Our Schools Month White Paper

News Release – NYSSMA Returns to Albany to Kick Off Music In Our Schools Month

900 Students Selected for All State Festival

NYSSMA Supports NY Rep. Velazquez’s GAAME Act

 

2017-2018

NYSSMA Returns to Albany for Music in Our Schools Month

Michael Salzman Assumes NYSSMA Presidency

900 Student Musicians Attend 82nd All State Conference in Rochester for 20th Anniversary with City

Churchville Chili High School Choir Performs at 2017 Winter Conference

One Third of All State Musicians From Long Island School Music Programs

 

2016-2017

Past-President Marc Greene Named NAfME Eastern Division President

NYSSMA Advocates for Music Education in Albany as Part of Music In Our Schools Month – 2017

NYSSMA Returns to Rochester for Eighty-First All State Conference

One Third of All State Students Come From Long Island School Music Programs

Robin DeSantis Elected Third Vice President

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