MTAC SFEV

June newsletter is available from member only page.

Dear colleagues,

Attached is our another monthly  Newsletter, which became, thanks to our very own Arjang Hedayati, a source of important information and interesting events outside and inside of our branch.
An addition to that he never forgets to recognize a good jobs of our teachers and board members.
This time I want to take an opportunity to recognize his job as a recording secretary and a publisher of our newsletters.

Thank you dear Arjang for sharing with us your talents and for your devotion to the branch.

Dilara Khalilova.

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Please tell your students that MP3 players, cameras, cell phones or backpacks will not be allowed in the theory testing rooms.

At evaluations, your students have the choice of starting with either technique or sight-reading.  Make sure measures are numbered at the start of each system.  Advise your students that they should not bring photocopied music or any personal items into the evaluation room.

After evaluations are over, please check your students evaluation results online and let me know if there are any discrepancies.  The CM Council encourages you to make a photocopy of the front page of each student’s theory test (after they are returned to the them in April) and of their performance results to keep on file in their studios.

Please advise your students that they should arrive at
least 10 minutes before their evaluation is scheduled to begin.

For the theory test on Sunday, March 21, please have your students
arrive at approximately the same time as their scheduled evaluation the
following week.  If their evaluation is before 9 a.m., add an hour to
their time (i.e. if the evaluation is at 8:20 a.m., have your student
come for the theory test at 9:20 a.m.).  If their evaluation is late in
the day, have your student come early enough to finish the test by 5
p.m.

If you have submitted any students for Branch Honors consideration, be
sure you know the length (in minutes and seconds) of all of their
pieces.  That way if your student is chosen, you can tell the Branch
Honors team how long the selected piece is.

Thank You.

Pam Prasarttongosoth
CM Chair, SFEV Branch

PIPE ORGAN ENCOUNTER (POE)
Do you have piano students that might be interested in learning about the pipe organ? The Orange County Chapter of the American Guild of Organists is sponsoring a special week-long music camp this summer from July 25-31 at Concordia University in Irvine. This fun-filled week will include private organ lessons with master instructors, workshops and concerts by world famous artists. A day-long trip to Los Angeles will feature a visit to the magnificent organs of Disney Hall, the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels and First Congregational Church, the largest church organ in the world. Some scholarships are available. For more information visit Home page: http://members.cox.net/ocago, Facebook: Pipe Organ Encounter (POE) 2010 or Janet K. Thorson at music@ylpc.org.

Hello everyone and Cheers to the Sunny Day,

Our monthly newsletter arrived a few days later, but contains

some interesting announcements, that will definitely catch your attention.

Enjoy.

As always, we encourage you to send us your suggestions, your studio news and any valuable information to share with the colleagues.

Also, your opinion about our Newsletters is important and will help us very much in the future.

Musically  yours,

President – Dilara Khalilova

Recording Secretary – Arjang Hedayati.

Please click here to download the newsletter if you would like to keep the file on your computer.

Dear Colleagues,

1. Our next meeting will take place on January 25, 10:00 a.m. at Kim Newman’s house.

2. WE WILL BE VERY HAPPY TO SEE YOU AT OUR CONCERT.

PLEASE SAVE THE DATE AND INFORM YOUR FRIENDS, STUDENTS AND THEIR  FAMILIES  AS WELL.

WE PROMISE YOU A VERY EXCITING  PROGRAM.

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MTAC SAN FERNANDO EAST VALLEY BRANCH

FUND RAISER CONCERT FOR STUDENT SCHOLARSHIPS

Sunday, January 31, 2010 at 4:00 p.m.

Down Load the program from here.

Fund raiser january 31-2

Dear colleagues,

We spent many hours (with all the reading, discussing, e-mailing back and forth, consulting with the state representatives) to get to this point.
Please take it seriously, read it and if you’ll come with any suggestions do not hesitate to let us know.
The final reading will be on our next meeting on January 25.
I have to mention, that the hardest part of this job has been done by Connie Kuhne.
We are very lucky to have you Connie. I really appreciate your knowledge,
professionalism and very friendly help.

Thank you all,

Dilara Khalilova.

MTAC SAN FERNANDO EAST VALLEY BRANCH

JANUARY 2010 NEWSLETTER

Happy New Year to all of our dear teachers and colleagues! We hope that this will be a great year for our branch and all of its members. Please look over the following newsletter as it contains important information about CM dates, among other things. Once again, if you have any announcements that you would like me to post, please email them to me by the end of each month. And don’t forget that newsletters can also be found on our website at www.mtacsfev.com.

Sincerely,
Arjang Hedayati
Recording Secretary

ANNOUNCEMENTS

1. We’re very happy to announce that Mark Richman has accepted the vice-presidency of our branch! Thank you Mark for coming to our aid during a difficult time.
Also, Mark’s very talented student will be playing the Tchaikovsky piano concerto no.1 (first movement) at SCMC on January 13th with Mark on second piano. Please scroll to the last page of the newsletter for more about this exceptional young pianist.

2. Our new revised By Laws will be mailed to all active members to read and come up with suggestions 14 days prior to the January 25th meeting (this date not in our schedule. It will be very short meeting- just to accept the By laws and vote for the New 1st VP – Mark Richman)

3. Reminder: Paul Pitman will be conducting a master class on March 7th. If you are interested in having your students perform, please contact Dilara Khalilova at dilarapiano@yahoo.com.

4. OUR BRANCH WILL HAVE A FUNDRAISER CONCERT ON JANUARY 31st!

The performers are: Paul Pitman – piano, Bang-Eunn Lee – cello, Dilara Khalilova – piano, Laura Halladay – flute, Misuzu Kitazumi – piano, Araksia Nazlikian – violin, Sunjoo Yeo – voice.
We sincerely hope that you can attend this concert and support your branch. We also encourage you to inform your friends, students and their families about this concert as well. If you cannot attend, donations would be greatly appreciated.

IMPORTANT DATES FOR JANUARY 2010

General and Beginners Recital January 24th (application due on Jan 9th)
General Recital February 14th (application due on Jan 30th)
Fundraiser concert January 31st

IMPORTANT CM INFORMATION

Although most of you probably already received the following information from Pamela, we thought we’d include it here as well.

January 2 Database open for entering evaluation information and repertoire online. Please take your time to enter all the required evaluation information online correctly and completely. Do realize that how you enter your repertoire information, especially for potential Convention students, reflects how you want it to appear in the Program Book, individual recital programs, etc.
–Don’t use all caps
–Don’t use all lower case (unless the composer specifies this)
–Enter enough info to be able to look up a piece (Sonata in C Major by Mozart is not enough)
–Enter movements by the name or tempo (movement number is not enough [unless no other info is available], but may be included as well)
–Enter more than the last name of a composer when doing otherwise would be vague. It’s easier and more efficient to remove information later than to make educated guesses when it comes time to print.
Note: This year the convention will also have a Master Class on the works of Martha Mier. If you would like your student to be considered for this Master Class, then have your student select a piece by Martha Mier to be one of his or her CM pieces and enter your student for consideration for either a Festival Recital or New Materials Recital.

January 10 Deadline for Panel Strings South and Piano South and North Regionals students to enter repertoire online.

January 15 Deadline for Panel students to drop back to Non-Panel status

Feb. 20 Strings Panel Regional South Violin/Viola

Feb. 27 –28 Piano Panel Regional South – Whittier and Saddleback College

Feb. 28 String Panel Regional South – Cello and Young Artist Guild

March 1 Database closes. Be sure to un-enroll students who have dropped by this date.

March 6 –7 Piano Panel Regional South – Whittier College and Cal State Long Beach

March 7 Woodwinds CM Evaluations

March 13 Piano theory testing for Panel students (who are not exempt). Please notify me immediately if you have any piano Panel students who need to take the test.

March 13 and 14 Strings CM Evaluations

March 15 Deadline for Panel Final Application for South. No late application accepted.

March 21 Piano theory testing at the Valley College Music Building.
Mar. 26-28 Panel Finals South at Cal Poly Pomona
3/26-28: Piano
3/27 Winds (North and South)
3/28 Strings (North and South)

March 28 Piano CM Evaluations at the Valley College Music Building

April 15 Deadline for Convention Applications. No late application.

June 1 Convention recitals schedules posted on the state website

July 2–July 6 Convention at Los Angeles Airport Marriott.

July 31 Deadline for Membership dues for CM participation

UPCOMING RECITAL INFORMATION

(SEE NEXT PAGE)

JANUARY 13TH

SARA COMPINSKY MASTER CLASS
10:00 AM
HOME OF RONNA BINN-HERSH

Guest Leader: Mack McCray

As mentioned above, Ben Han will be playing the first movement of the Tchaikovsky piano concerto with his teacher Mark Richman on second piano.

Here is more about this exceptional young man from Mark Richman:

“Ben-han is also performing the Liszt Tarantella, the Barber 3rd Excursion, the Beethoven complete Op. 78 Sonata, the Bach Prelude and Fugue in am from WTC I, and the other two movements of the Tchaikovsky Concerto for both the Spotlight Competition at the Music Center and the Bronislaw Kaper Competition at Disney Hall. Ben-han is very talented–especially considering he was born practically deaf! He uses state-of-the art hearing aids which enable him to hear sounds. I (Mark Richman) think you will be rather amazed by him. I (M. Richman) did not pick this concerto for him–he insisted on learning it, as he is also an accomplished violinist and has studied the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto–can you imagine? His solo pieces are absolutely stunning, so I think the best use of the class instruction will be on this first movement, and it should be fun for the audience.”

Please try and attend this incredibly unique master class! Hope to see you all there!

Hi Everyone

Here are some important dates for those of you participating in Certificate of Merit:

January 2 Database open for entering evaluation information and repertoire online. Please take your time to enter all the required evaluation information online correctly and completely. Do realize that how you enter your repertoire information, especially for potential Convention students, reflects how you want it to appear in the Program Book, individual recital programs, etc.

–Don’t use all caps

–Don’t use all lower case (unless the composer specifies this)

–Enter enough info to be able to look up a piece (Sonata in C Major by Mozart is not enough)

–Enter movements by the name or tempo (movement number is not enough [unless no other info is available], but may be included as well)
–Enter more than the last name of a composer when doing otherwise would be vague. It’s easier and more efficient to remove information later than to make educated guesses when it comes time to print.

Note: This year the convention will also have a Master Class on the works of Martha Mier. If you would like your student to be considered for this Master Class, then have your student select a piece by Martha Mier to be one of his or her CM pieces and enter your student for consideration for either a Festival Recital or New Materials Recital.

January 10 Deadline for Panel Strings South and Piano South and North Regionals students to enter repertoire online.

January 15 Deadline for Panel students to drop back to Non-Panel status

Feb. 20 Strings Panel Regional South Violin/Viola

Feb. 27 –28 Piano Panel Regional South – Whittier and Saddleback College

Feb. 28 String Panel Regional South – Cello and Young Artist Guild

March 1 Database closes. Be sure to un-enroll students who have dropped by this date.

March 6 –7 Piano Panel Regional South – Whittier College and Cal State Long Beach

March 7 Woodwinds CM Evaluations

March 13 Piano theory testing for Panel students (who are not exempt). Please notify me immediately if you have any piano Panel students who need to take the test.

March 13 and 14 Strings CM Evaluations

March 15 Deadline for Panel Final Application for South. No late application accepted.

March 21 Piano theory testing at the Valley College Music Building.

Mar. 26-28 Panel Finals South at Cal Poly Pomona

3/26-28: Piano

3/27 Winds (North and South)

3/28 Strings (North and South)

March 28 Piano CM Evaluations at the Valley College Music Building

April 15 Deadline for Convention Applications. No late application.

June 1 Convention recitals schedules posted on the state website

July 2–July 6 Convention at Los Angeles Airport Marriott.

July 31 Deadline for Membership dues for CM participation

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Pamela Prasarttongosoth
Certificate of Merit Chair
San Fernando East Valley Branch
pianopam@gmail.com