President's Message

President
Mike Quilling

Welcome to the website of the
Kansas Music Educators Association!

The Kansas Music Educators Association is an organization of music educators committed to the concept that the study of music is a positive influence in the lives of individuals and society as a whole (KMEA Strategic Plan). KMEA remains the most influential voice for music education in the State of Kansas. However, our influence can only continue by adding more voices to the choir! If you are a music educator in our state, I invite you to become a member of KMEA. If you are a member, I encourage you to become an active participant in KMEA and our state's affiliate organizations. Every voice is important!

I'm very excited to announce that our National MENC President, Barbara Geer, will be a part of the 2010 KMEA In-Service Workshop. She has chosen "Music! Just Imagine…" as MENC's national theme because "imagination is often regarded as the deeply creative faculty which perceives the basic resemblances between ideas. Music also opens countless doors for creativity, and the possibilities for using that creativity are endless."

Just imagine the difference that music makes in the lives of your students. More importantly, just imagine the difference that you make in their lives. You are the inspiration behind the notes they perform and their greatest advocate. As their advocate, I encourage you to continue speaking out in support of music education. It's impossible for an advocacy website or surrogate to match the genuine passion that you have for your music students. Even when you feel like you're the soloist in a one-person-choir…Keep On Singing!

It's a privilege for me to serve as your KMEA President and to work alongside the outstanding educators on the KMEA Board. Kansas is blessed to have some of the greatest leaders in music education within our state willing to serve KMEA. With their help, I'm confident that we can meet the challenges that lie ahead and continue to make KMEA one of the nation's premier music educators associations.

Mike Quilling
President, KMEA


"Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul..." (Plato)