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
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Nov. 10 - 12, 2017 - Time to send CM students list to Gloria Ho by snail mail or e-mail
Nov. 12, 2017 - Student Recital at First United Methodist Church at 1 - 6 pm
Dec. 8, 2017 - Christmas Luncheon at Papillon Restaurant at 11:30 am
To sign up:
- Go to http://www.mtacsacb.org/news-events/christmas-luncheon-form/
- Pick the menu
- Send check in the amount of $15 payable to MTAC-SACB to Michelle Chi, 43604 Hopkins Ave. Fremont, CA 94538 (Each teacher bring a wrapped gift $10-15 for gift exchange) (optional)
Jan. 7th, 2018 - Chamber music duo concert by branch YAG alumnus and pianist,
Alison Lee
(former student of Jed Galant and current DMA student) and cellist,
Isaac Pastor-Chermak.
- Pre-sale tickets $10, tickets at the door $15
- To buy tickets: CLICK HERE
- To watch Isaac Pastor-Chermak, Cello and Allison Lee, Piano CLICK HERE
- Teachers, please encourage your students to attend concerts such as this...a must-see for everyone and a source of inspiration for all!
Apr. 30, 2018 - Deadline to Apply for Community Music Service Recognition Award
Send the application to Jesse Micek at jessemicek@yahoo.com.
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- Please explore and utilize it.
- There is a Membership directory on the website. If you would like to add or update your picture to the directory, please send a 4” Height X 6” Width picture to Millie Chiem at m29338@gmail.com.
- Some areas in the website are protected. You need a password to view the protected areas. If you need to know the password, email Millie Chiem at m29338@gmail.com.
We are announcing the New Fund for Community Music Service Recognition Award "The Regina Mastrantonio Memorial Fund"
The detail will be in the flyer below.
Our Meeting in October for Tips on Preparing Students For a Successful CM Evaluation was very successful!!
Big thank you to
Susie Kim for hosting and
Olya Katsman for hosting and opening her house. Also thank you to all teachers who participated and shared many useful ideas.
CLICK HERE for some notes we gathered from the meeting.
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Nov. 1 to Nov. 10
Payment to state office for Certificate of Merit now over.
Nov. 10 to Nov. 12
Send in your teacher volunteer agreement and student list to Gloria Ho, CM Chair.
To get your student list, go to your portal in MTAC website. Go to your Certificate of Merit button. Above the student list is a grey button that says “reports”. Click on that and you will see the Student List option. Click on that and you will see the list of paid students. At the bottom of the page you will see the date you generated that document.
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.
Katherine Lee, Ruby Cheung, and I will now in November working to create the job list. I am hoping this year to get it out early.
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.
Again, I want to thank all teachers who have signed up for studio site. Please teachers consider doing this job. With teachers, retiring, moving out of the area, or personal family issues, etc., we are losing many studios and I am having a difficult time getting all the studios I need. If we cannot have places for evaluators to test the students, I will start having to find location where we pay for the use, and the examination fee for the students will go up dramatically.
Currently, I am in need of someone on February 24 and 25 or March 3 and 4 to be able to trade their day of studio to March 18, so that I can put in the last studio for piano.
Gloria Ho
CM Chair
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MSSL has a new application form for 2017-2018 School Year.
To apply for membership, please submit for MSSL membership application form
CLICK HERE
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Our Board Members and Chairs
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What's happening around the town
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This performance features three talented young musicians currently from the Columbia-Julliard Exchange Music Program in New York. All three young talents grew up and received their early music education in Bay Area. Before they went to universities, they had been winning many California and National competitions and they had been leading performers in Bay Area youth music scenes. Among their achievements, Yujin Ariza was a violin top prize winner of USIMC in 2002, 2008 & 2011 and Elena Ariza a cello top prize winner of USIMC in 2010, 2012 & 2015. Pianist Misha Galant was a recipient of MTAC YAG, got the audience award from Junior Van Cliburn competition and many other prizes in National and international competitions.
Tickets: $80 (VIP)/ $40/ $20
Or (650)257-0388
For more detailed information of these three performers, please log on:
Elena Ariza , Cello
Yujin Ariza, violin
Misha Galant
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The Eighth Annual Kathryn Gawartin Chopin Piano Competition
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The Eighth Annual Kathryn Gawartin Chopin Piano Competition sponsored by the West Los Angeles Branch will be held on Sunday afternoon, February 11, 2018 at Steinway Piano Gallery located at
8801 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills, CA 90211. Please mark your calendar. This is a high callibre cash award competition and is open to all branches of MTAC. Online application will be available mid December and application deadline is January 19, 2018. Please visit
www.mtacwla.org
for further information. Please pass along this announcement to your fellow branch members.
Should you have any questions, please feel free to contact Louisa Wong at
louikitw@yahoo.com or Dr. Wojciech Kocyan at
drkocyan@hotmail.com
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