Kristen Normann,
President
Olya Katsman
, Vice President
Michelle Chi,
Second Vice President
Susie Kim
, Treasurer & Parliamentarian
Fonny Chandra
, Corresponding Secretary
Ruth Zhou
, Recording Secretary
Jung-Hee Park
, Membership Secretary & Referrals Chair
Grace Cheng,
Director
Gloria Ho,
Director
Maria Ehlert,
Director
Millie Chiem
, Director
Marina Grudskaya,
Director & Student Recitals
Sophia Vu,
Director & Website Administrator
Sandy Fong & Maria Ehlert,
Hospitality
Sr. Andre Marie Fujier & Ruth Zhou,
Historian
Carmencita Aspiras,
Sunshine
Lu Huang
, Composer Today
Olya Katsman
, MSSL Community Outreach
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
Ji An,
North Region Honors Recitals
Karen Wolff
, South Region Honor Recital
Katherine Lee & Ruby Cheung,
Theory Site Coordinators
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April 9 (Tues) - Pedagogy and Play: "Thyme" for Tea
April 20 (Sat) - Branch Honor (North and South) and Senior Recital
April 20 (Sat) - Senior Scholarship and Young Artist Guild Scholarship Deadline
April 29 (Mon) - The Regina Mastrantonio Memorial Fund Community Music Service Recognition Award Deadline
May 9 (Thurs) - Spring Walk - Time to be determined
May 17 (Fri) - Spring Scholarship Luncheon at 10 am (Dominican Sisters, Auditoriium)
June 28 - July 2 (Fri - Tues) - MTAC Convention 2019, Hyatt Regency Santa Clara
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Pedagogy and Play: "Thyme" for Tea
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Please come, have fun, share, and learn at Pedagogy and Play: "Thyme" for Tea event!
Tuesday, April 9, 2019
10:30 am - 12:00 pm
at
Olya Katsman's house
38733 Jonquil Dr.
Newark, CA 94560
You can bring your favorite tea, tea cups, finger foods, questions about Pedagogy, etc.
You are welcome to perform a Solo, Duet, play own composition, share teaching success stories, bring teaching challenge, or to just come and meet new friends.
To sign up, please click the link below:
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CM News
Message from CM Chair
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April 15
Deadline to pay for Convention recitals. Remind your parents to pay through paypal in their portal.
April 20
Branch Honors for both North and South Region. Two different locations.
North Region: Castro Valley Performing Arts. Ji An has sent an e-mail indicating the times and directions on how to enter your students to play in the recital.
South Region: Dominican Sisters Convent, Fremont. Karen Wolff has sent an e-mail indicating the times and directions on how to enter your students to play in the recital.
June 28 - July 2
MTAC Convention 2019, Hyatt Regency Santa Clara
I wish to thank Ruby Cheung, Katherine Lee, Larisa Meller, Ruth Zhou, Karen Wolff, Grace Cheng, Ji An, Rita Chi, and Millie Chiem for stepping in to help me in this huge annual project we call Certificate of Merit. I am deeply grateful for their work and generosity of time. These teachers do more hours than their volunteer requirements, because they know how important the work is. I could not do this alone. I also want to thank Sr. Andre Marie Fujier for generosity in opening the Dominican Sisters Convent to support CM program.
I am also grateful to all studio site monitors who also are so generous to open their homes for testing. I know it is a big intrusion to their home, and I think I can say that we are all very grateful for their generosity. Sometime in late August, Grace and I would like to have a meeting regarding site monitor work, so that we can have all work done at the site with more accuracy and make sure the site monitors have a better knowledge regarding procedure. This can only improve accuracy in grading, and also help the evaluators do their work better.
I hope to see you all at Convention!
Gloria Ho
CM CHAIR
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Dear teachers,
Please encourage your
students of any age who are ready to perform to join MSSL.
It is a
great opportunity for them to perform more and get Community Service hour.
Membership fee is $15
- Next Event: Satruday April 20, 2019 from 1:30 - 2:30 pm. The recital will take place at Aegis Living of Fremont (3850 Walnut Ave., Fremont, CA 94538)
The March event was on March 9th, at Brookdale Senior Living (2860 Country Dr., Fremont, CA 94536) from 2:00 - 3:00 pm. There were a total 13 performers and around 15 senior citizens attending. The senior citizens were happy that the students came back to Brookdale to perform.
Below is the pictures taken by Erin Yu from March event at Brookdale Senior Living.
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What's Happening Around the Town
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William DeVan in Concert
Saturday, April 13, 2019
1605 Bonanza St., Walnut Creek
7:00 pm
William DeVan's Saturday night concert will include all of Chopin's Op. 10 and Op. 25 Etudes.
This is a rare opportunity for students and teachers to hear an entire concert of all the Chopin Etudes in Op. 10 and Op. 25. Chopin's etudes represent the high watermark of technical innovation on the piano. William DeVan will thrill his audience with his sense of gentle elegance combined with heroic virtuosity and an endearing touch of recklessness.
FREE Admission to MTAC students and teacher!!
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Kris Palmer
Flute, Piccolo, Alto Flute, and Bass Flute
Phone: 650-868-3150
Daivd Ross
Piano
Phone: 510-586-9163
Karen Wolff
Piano, Organ
Phone: 510-651-8140
Alice Huang
Piano
Phone: 510-709-8293
Email: hyh0118@gmail.com
Location: Castro Valley, CA 94546
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Joy Fisher
Phone: 510-862-6485
Email: joydarlenefisher@gmail.com
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