Gillian Smith 12/04/15 at 10:12 PM
Contemporary Festival - Benefit Concert -General Recital - Classical Romantic Festival - CM Honors Criteria
Gillian Smith 12/13/15 at 8:46 PM
Dear
MTAC SFEV Branch Members!
I hope you are all enjoying December with all the extra spirit that
it brings, celebrating the holidays, battling traffic, dealing with
students who have practiced more or perhaps less due to the
variables injected into the normal schedule.
Contemporary Festival
The Contemporary Festival will take place at Valley College, January
10 in the afternoon. There are typically three recitals.
The registration deadline is one week from today, Monday,
December 21st. Please send applications to Nobuyo Nishizaka at
655 Hamilton Avenue, Pasadena, CA 91106, and include one check for
all students made out to MTAC SFEV. Please also send an email
to nobuyon@sbcglobal.net with the names of your students and their
repertoire, so that Nobuyo can cut and paste directly onto the
program. If you are "on the fence" about whether or not to
enter a student, please enter them, since it will inspire them to
hear excellent performances and it is good for the branch to have
many entries!
Benefit Concert
Our Benefit Concert is scheduled to happen January 31st at
First Presbyterian Church of Encino, 4PM. This benefit concert
raises money for winners from the Scholarship Competition. It
is not a huge amount of money that students win, but it is something
they can put on their resumes, and the dollars represent concrete
accomplishment for their effort, talent, and achievement. We
are lucky in our branch to have a collection of very talented
teachers, many of whom perform for this concert. It is also a
lovely social occasion, a chance for all of us to meet and
enjoy the talent and company of one another. Please put this
event on your calendars and be there!
General Recital
Please be reminded that the registration deadline for the January
General Recital comes up fairly soon after the holidays. The
General Recital is scheduled for January 18th at Keyboard Concepts
in Van Nuys and the registration deadline is January 4th.
Classical / Romantic Festival
The Classical/ Romantic Festival will take place February
21, and the registration deadline is February 1st. Please see
Rules and Guidelines for this event. Please encourage your
students to participate!
Certificate of Merit Honors Festival
Those of us entering students in Certificate of Merit will
begin inputting repertoire information in January. Please know
the criteria for Honors Festival Consideration beforehand:
FIRST, MAKE SURE TO CHECK THE BRANCH HONORS BOX!
Piece selected must receive a rating of 5- or better
Piece selected must be memorized (not all pieces have to be
memorized - only the required number for passing CM is required)
Theory: 70% score or better
Sight-Reading: Average or better
Technique: Good or better
Southern California Junior Bach Festival
Get your students ready for the Bach Festival, April 12 -
registration deadline March 23!! Again, enter your students
even if you think they aren't "superb." They will benefit
hearing other excellent students perform, and the branch event will
be supported!
Have a wonderful December and New Year!
Gillian
Fwd: Music Competition for San
Fernando Valley High School Students
Gillian Smith 12/16/15 at 2:44 PM
Hello,
Valley Talent Music Scholarship Program Details:
Application Process:
· Applicants
must meet the following eligibility requirements:
o Be
14 to 18 years old and current high school students
o Live
in the San Fernando Valley (proof or residence will be requested)
· Applicants
must choose from one of the two categories below:
o Non-Classical
Performance (Pop, Rock, Jazz, etc.)
o Classical
Performance
Participants may play any instrument that fits under the categories
of woodwind, brass, strings, and percussion, vocal. (No
computer-based musical instruments allowed)
*Bands and ensembles may participate, but the award amount will
remain fixed.
· Applicants
must submit application forms along with video submissions and any
other attachments by December 30,
2015.
*We'll allow late submissions for the video portion since many
students may be out of town for the holidays (video can be a simple
recording on a smartphone).
More Information & Application:
http://www.valleycultural.org/community/scholarship-program/
Thanks!
Betsy Valle
Development Coordinator & Piano Teacher
Nueva Vision Community School
www.nuevavisioncs.org
cell: (818) 235-2280
email: betsy.valle@nuevavisioncs.org
-- Empowering our community through music education. –
Dear
MTAC SFEV Family!!
I don't know how many of you might have watched the Kennedy Center
Honors, last night. Perhaps, if you did not catch it, you can
find it on YouTube. It was quite moving to watch Cicely Tyson,
Rita Moreno, George Lucas, Seiji Ozawa and Carole King receive
awards. So much of the artistic achievement was music-based -
it was even pointed out that George Lucas' work was heavily
dependent on music. Performers included James Taylor, Yo-Yo Ma
and Aretha Franklin, who brought down the house and moved President
Obama to tears with her version of "Natural Woman." Music is
powerful, and we are very fortunate to enjoy lives which revolve
around this glorious art form.
Wishing all of you an inspired, creative, joyful, musical 2016, and
thanking you for contributing your time and expertise to your
students and to our organization, so that students who may not be
your own might benefit from musical opportunities contributing to
their development and passion for the art,
Gillian
