2024 NCMEA Professional Development Conference

11/09/2024 - 11/12/2024
In-Person Event

Benton Convention Center
301 W 5th St
Winston-Salem, NC 27101

This year, we are “Putting the Pieces Together” at the NCMEA Professional Development Conference! Yes, we are referring to putting actual pieces of music together for performance and to putting together the pedagogical building blocks we collect from experts and peers to use in the classroom. But most importantly, we are referring to every music educator’s contribution as a piece of the puzzle that makes our community complete! No matter who, what, or where we teach, we each have a unique fit that together creates a beautiful whole, and we look forward to celebrating all of the outstanding music educators in our state.

Clinic Details

Sunday, November 10

9:00 am – 9:50 am CST

Retention and Recruitment in a Post-COVID World

Mike Kamuf

Monday, November 11

1:00 pm – 1:50 pm CST

Twenty Minutes Tomorrow to Transform Your Students' Musical Journey

Mike Kamuf

Sunday, November 10

4:00 pm – 4:50 pm CST

Sight Reading Better

Mike Kamuf


Clinician Details

Mike Kamuf

Mike Kamuf

Mike Kamuf holds Bachelor of Music degrees in both Jazz Performance and Music Education from the Dana School of Music at Youngstown State University (Youngstown, OH) and a Master of Arts degree in Instrumental Conducting from George Mason University (Fairfax, VA). Mike’s compositions and arrangements have been performed by numerous jazz artists and ensembles including the Woody Herman and Glenn Miller Orchestras, the USAF Airmen of Note, the US Navy Commodores, James Moody, Eddie Daniels, Sean Jones, Terell Stafford, Bill Watrous and Nick Brignola to name a few. Mike is an exclusive writer for the Belwin Division of Alfred Music Publishing with titles in their jazz, orchestra and concert band catalogs. He also has compositions for jazz ensemble published by UNC Jazz Press, the Neil A. Kjos Music and the FJH Music Company. Many of Mike’s published jazz ensemble arrangements have become standard literature for young jazz ensemble and he currently has over 100 publications in print.