History
NATS was founded in 1944 in Cincinnati, Ohio. As an outgrowth of the development of the Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) in the early years of the twentieth century, a group of singing teachers incorporated the Association in the state of New York on November 27, 1906. The first annual meeting of the new organization was held on January 7, 1908, at Steinway Hall in New York City. In 1917 it changed its name to the New York Singing Teachers Association (NYSTA). In 1922 the Los Angeles Guild of Teachers of Singing was chartered, and two years later it published a Code of Ethics that was later embraced by the national organization. The Chicago Council of Teachers of Singing was organized in 1930.
These local organizations began the process of becoming a national organization in the early 1940s. During the 1944 MTNA Convention, members of the various groups met on Thursday, March 23, 1944, at the Netherland Plaza Hotel in Cincinnati to create the National Association of Teachers of Singing.
More recent historical highlights are given on the organization's web site.
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