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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Jan. 2 - Jan. 15, 2018
Period to put CM repertoire
Jan. 7, 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!
- For more information see the flyer below
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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.
For those of you who had not seen the notes from our October meeting on TIPS on Preparing Students For A Successful CM Evaluation, here it is again:
CLICK HERE
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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.
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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Christmas Luncheon pictures
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Having fun watching the magic show by one of Jesse Micek's student, Jamie!
Thank you Jesse and Jamie!
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Thank you
Jamie
, the magician, for the wonderful magic show during the luncheon! We all enjoyed it!
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What's happening around the town
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MUSIC, CELEBRATION, and COMMUNITY
Enjoy a concert featuring
St. Anne's Music Director Giancarlo Aquilanti, Senior Lecturer of Music at Stanford University, on piano and his daughter,
Alessandra Aquilanti, playing viola.
The program will showcase works which blend the folk songs of Giancarlo's Italian upbringing with the sounds of his adopted American homeland.
Giancarlo will also give a short talk on how composers come up with, write, and present their musical ideas.
Join us for this uplifting music and spend an evening with friends, old, and new!
Reception to follow.
Tickets: $15
Suggested donation. All proceeds will go to support Abode services.
December 16, 2017 at 7:30 pm
St. Anne's Episcopal Church
2791 Driscoll Road
Fremont, CA 94539
510-490-0553
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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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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
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