Newsletter
Volume 19, Issue 5 | January 2018
Millie Chiem,  President
Jesse Micek , Vice President
Michelle Chi, Second Vice President
Susie Kim , Treasurer & Parliamentarian
Fonny Chandra , Corresponding Secretary
Kristen Normann , Recording Secretary
Jung-Hee Park , Membership Secretary & Referrals Chair
Grace Cheng,  Director
Ruth Zhou,  Director
Maria Ehlert,  Director
Marina Grudskaya,  Director & Student Recitals
Olya Katsman.  Director & MSSL Community Outreach
Sophia Vu,  Director & Website Administrator

Sandy Fong & Maria Ehlert, Hospitality
Sr. Andre Marie Fujier & Ruth Zhou,  Historian
Carmencita Aspiras,  Sunshine
Dr. Jiang Wu,  VOCE (Voice, Strings and Woodwinds)

Gloria Ho,  CM Chair and North Region Chair, (Piano, Strings, Woodwinds and Voice)
Grace Cheng,  CM South Region Chair
Ling Lee & Ji An,  Honors Recitals
Katherine Lee & Ruby Cheung,  Theory Site Coordinators
Upcoming Events
Jan. 2 - Jan. 15, 2018
Period to put CM repertoire

Apr. 21, 2018
Senior Scholarship and YAG Scholarship deadline

Apr. 30, 2018
The Regina Mastrantonio Memorial Fund deadline
Important News
Scholarships applications and deadlines for high school students:

Senior Scholarship - $1000
Deadline: April 21, 2018
To apply please send the following information to jessemicek@yahoo.com
  1. Student name
  2. MTAC teacher recommending the student
  3. Performing instrument
  4. An acceptance letter verifying enrollment in the music program from the college as a music student starting in the Fall of 2018
  5. A personal bio with attached picture
  6. 30 minutes recital program for the Spring Luncheon

YAG Scholarship - $1200
Deadline: April 21, 2018
To qualify, student must achieve YAG in Junior or Senior year. Performance at Spring luncheon and Major in music is NOT a requirement.
Send the application to Jesse Micek at jessemicek@yahoo.com

The Regina Mastrantonio Memorial Fund Community Music Service Recognition Award - maximum of four winners and each will receive $250 award and a certificate
Deadline: April 30, 2018
To qualify, the candidate has to be a student of an MTAC-SACB teacher.
Send the application to:
Jesse Micek
4558 Alma Ave.
Castro Valley, CA 94546
jessemicek@yahoo.com

Special thank you to children of Regina Mastrantonio for donating the $1000 scholarship!

For more details on MTAC-SACB scholarships go to:
Or see page 16, 17, and 18 in the directory

CM News
January 2 to January 15
Period to put in your repertoire, choose Branch Honors or Convention. Also, contact Grace Cheng if you are a south region teacher for special preference time and day requests. Contact Gloria Ho for north region special preference time and day requests. You do not get to choose. You must make a request with a GOOD reason for student asking for a particular day. Otherwise all students must be prepared to be open to do performance over 2 weekends.

You also get to put in your repertoire now too. But after January 15 you will be blocked out. So, don't wait until the last minute.

The dates above is the official period, but you can do both now if you already know the day your student needs to take the exam.

Plus if your student has a conflict AFTER the schedule has been published, we will open for swapping. For those of you with at least 5 students or more, this is a good reason to spread your students on all the days, so that you can swap within your own studio. REMEMBER, you only swap students with the SAME number of minutes.

Also, I know it seems unfair that you cannot just choose your preference times on line, and must go through Grace or I to get a student to be able to pick a day they need. However, after years of the abuse of this privilege thus making our scheduling work near impossible to manage, we decided last year that you must now ask us for a preference, so we can hear the excuse of the student to determine if it is a fair request. Last year was the smoothest scheduling Grace and I experienced for the first time, since taking our positions. To support our decision, I have learned that most branches do not allow the teacher to control the preference option. We can see now why that occurs.

I will be out of the country from January 19 to February 12, but I will be looking at my e-mail and will try to help you if I can. There should be very little to do once January 15 is past. The only thing I expect is teachers asking for schedule preference as the students start to know their other activities' demands.

All South Region teachers should communicate with Grace Cheng regarding scheduling.

Gloria Ho
CM Chair
MSSL News
Next Event:
January 20, 2018 at 2:30-3:30 pm
Pacifica Senior Living In Union City
33883 Alvarado Niles Rd, Union City, CA 94587

January 27, 2018 at 3:00-4:00 pm
Sunrise Senior Living in Pleasanton
5700 Pleasant Hill Rd, Pleasanton, CA 94588

To apply for membership, please submit for MSSL membership application form CLICK HERE
Chamber Music Concert
Thank you Alison Lee and Isaac Pastor-Chermak for the wonderful perfomance!
Accepting New Students
Maggie Seuis
138 Paraiso Dr.
Danville, CA 94526
Phone: 510-305-0942
Piano For Sale!!!
This beautiful Yamaha C3 Grand Piano was purchased as new in 2011 and has been used in the studio since 2014.

NEW Reduced Price:
$25,000 or best offer!!!

It comes with on storage bench and three caster cups.

For more information, please contact:
Ji An
Email: jian10@sbcglobal.net
Phone: 510-582-7127