Studio Fellowship winner.(National Association News)(Music Teachers National Association)

Joanna Grace of Madison, Wisconsin, is the recipient of the MTNA Studio Fellowship Award. The award, in the amount of $3,000, is made possible by the MTNA FOUNDATION FUND.

Grace holds a bachelor of music degree from the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University and a master of music degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In Madison, Grace is a full-time teacher offering private piano and horn lessons to students age 4 to adult. She started teaching piano lessons at age 8 to her neighborhood friends shortly after she started taking lessons. Her love of music is contagious to both enthusiastic and reluctant students. She nurtures creativity, including student compositions, and promotes a lifelong love of music.

"Grace exemplifies the type of independent music teacher the Fellowship was created to support," says MTNA Past President Joan M. Reist, NCTM. "She is organized, versatile, creative and demonstrates sincere caring for and wonderful interaction with her students. She displays a genuine passion for making music--and for teaching--and her goals are laudable: to enable her students to practice ...