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MTAC Marin Branch Newsletter
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MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENTWelcome back to the new teaching year 2006-2007. I hope you all had a very restful summer. It has been two years since we launched our website at www.mtacmarin.org. This year we will continue to post our branch newsletters, the branch calendar of events, our membership list and student and festival recital forms. In the coming year we hope to implement a new web-based system from enrollment in our Branch Honors Recital for 2007. This project is in the development stages. You will be notified as to our progress. Meanwhile read the online newsletters every month! This should be an exciting year for new and efficient ways of communication with our members. It is essential I have all your correct email addresses. Please be sure to contact me at jblegend@aol.com for any changes in this area. For those of you not yet in the ‘internet age’, please be sure to give me the email address of the person you have designated as receiving your email. This is very important since most of our branch business is now done online. I hope you all have a very successful and satisfying music year!
POTLUCK/GENERAL MEETING 17 SEPTEMBEROur Back-to-School Potluck and General Meeting will be held at home of Carol LaRusso on Sunday 17 September at 5:00pm. This is a great opportunity to get together, enjoy good food, and get up to date on new branch projects. ATTENTION NEW MEMBERS: This is your chance to network with our members, get questions answered and find out about our programs. When: Sunday, 17 September at 5:00 pm Directions: North 101 to Novato. Take the Atherton/San Marin exit. Turn left on San Marin. Go over freeway approx 2 miles. Turn left on San Ramon Way approx 4 blocks to 14 San Benito Way. I look forward to seeing all of you! Let’s start the year with a party! CERTIFICATE OF MERIT UPDATE/INFORMATION UPDATEThere will be a Certificate of Merit Information Meeting Thursday, September 14th at 10:30 am. Here’s your chance to refresh your memory and get your questions answered! For reservations and directions, please call Helen Konowitz at 456-2132. Registration for CM opens on September 15 and closes October 31. All teachers participating in CM should go to the State MTAC website www.mtac.org and print out a copy of the CM Policy and then READ IT. Changes for this year are highlighted in blue on the website. If you’ve forgotten your user name and password, which you need in order to register students, please call me at the above number. You must have paid your dues and be a member in good standing. Our CM date is Saturday, March 31, 2007 at the College of Marin Music Department. IMPORTANT: Please go to your teacher page on the state website and make sure that all information is correct, including your email address. Make sure that your student names are spelled correctly, and please do not use commas in name, address, and other information; use upper case only for the first letter of first and last names, etc. Any incorrect information must be changed before the cutoff date. Helen Konowitz, CM Chair DISCOVERY SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAMThe Discovery Scholarship Program has room for 2-3 more students! Please contact ANNUAL SCHOLARSHIP BENEFIT CONCERTOur Scholarship Benefit Concert will be held at 2:00pm on Sunday 5 November 2006 at United Methodist Church in Mill Valley. As you recall, our concert last year featured many exceptional performers in a program that was outstanding! This year will be no exception. The proceeds support our M. B. Davis Memorial Competition and our Discovery Scholar Program (the former a merit and the latter hardship scholarship). These outstanding programs are our way of supporting our most gifted as well as most needy students! In order to boost branch membership support for these programs, you will receive in the mail a letter along with a group of tickets for the Benefit Concert. We ask you to help by either purchasing these tickets yourselves as gifts or selling them to friends, family member or students and their families. If you are unable to attend, a donation for the purchase of these tickets would be greatly appreciated. The letter with the tickets will go out sometime in October. For further information, please contact Donna Kline at 435-3017. (In addition volunteers are needed in the areas of publicity and hospitality for this event.) What: Scholarship Benefit Concert
SYLVIA JENKINS WORKSHOPMTAC Marin Branch is pleased to sponsor Sylvia Jenkins in the workshop Is There Life What: Sylvia Jenkins Workshop: Is There Life After Well known in the Bay Area and abroad, Ms. Jenkins is an award winning and highly accomplished concert pianist with many years of teaching experience. She is winner of the San Francisco Critics Circle Award, the University of California Alfred Hertz Scholarship and the Munich International Competition. Her studies include graduation “summa cum laude” from the SF Conservatory, studies in Vienna and Siena, Italy (Accademia Chigiana). “Beautiful performance,” wrote Zoltan Koday of her interpretation of his piano music at a special concert (Stanford University) honoring the composer on his single trip to the United States. Ms. Jenkins has concertized around the world, Hong Kong, Switzerland, France, Mexico City and over 125 concerto engagements. She was Music Director of the Crown Chamber Musicians and taught at the University of California Santa Cruz for 22 yrs. She currently lives in Nice, France. (Partial List)
MONTHLY STUDENT RECITALSDo you have students with pieces learned and memorized and your studio recital is months away? Why not have them perform at our monthly student recitals. The Monthly Student Recital Schedule is posted on our web site calendar at www.mtacmarin.org. Deadline for student applications is one week before the recital date. Late applicants are accepted only at the discretion of the recital chair. The student entry fee is $5. Remember the limit: 10 minutes of music or 7 students per teacher per recital, whichever comes first. Download these forms from our web site. For more information, contact Paul Agricola 383-2027.
BRANCH ANNOUNCEMENTS AND NEWSIt is with a heavy heart that we say goodbye and good luck to our member Laura Brandt. Laura, a long time member of the branch and past president, is moving out of state. Thank you for all you have given our branch. But most of all, thank you Laura for your warm friendship, generosity and excellent teaching. Member June Choi Oh would like to announce that her Tilden Trio will be one of the featured artists for the 2007 MTAC State Convention held in Santa Clara. The trio will perform a recital and give master classes during the Convention. Tilden Trio is made up of Juilliard classmates, Sarn Oliver (first violin, SF Symphony), Peter Wyrick (Assoc. Principal Cello, SF Symphony) and June Choi Oh (faculty at Dominican University and the SF Conservatory of Music). The trio performed on the SF Symphony Chamber Music Series at Davies Symphony Hall last April. The Tilden Trio with June Choi Oh will also perform 3:00 pm Sunday 1 October 2006 at the Guest Concert Series at Dominican University in Angelico Concert Hall. Our member James Marchand will sponsor a Master Class with the pianist Deborah Clasquin on Sunday 24 September. He also celebrates the release of his new book/DVD Introduction to Piano Technique written by James Marchand and Rebecca Underwood Thomas. For more information, contact James Marchand at his email jamesm@marchandmusic.net or his website www.marchandmusic.net. Branch member Max Perkoff is pleased to announce the release of Max Perkoff’s Standards, a solo jazz piano CD. It is 60 minutes of music, 14 well-known standards and 3 original improvisations. It my be purchased for $12 by mail or $10 in person. Send a check to: 12 Dorset Lane, Mill Valley, Ca. 94941. Free sound-clips and more info can be found at www.maxperkoff.com Virginia “Gini” Wilson and her jazz trio will be performing from 8 – 11 pm on 2 September 2006 in an exciting venue, BACAR Restaurant. Great food, great atmosphere. Check it out at www.bacasf.com or call 415-904-4100. More exciting news! On 8 October 2006 from 4 – 8pm come aboard The Sausalito Express and listen to The Gini Wilson Quartet. This special jazz party by Music On the Bay is open to the public. It’s a four-hour cruise with great food and a full cash bar which leaves from Sausalito. Price is $40.00. Make reservations at www.bayandelta.com. For more SFCJQ information, go to: www.chamberjazz.com. Member Phoebe Dong announces, “My piano teacher is selling a Steinway B. It’s a beauty and has a pretty nice tone. I will miss that piano in her studio.” The piano is 6’11’ from the best years, rebuilt and refinished, ebony, gorgeous tone. For information, call Margret Elson (510) 601-7044 or email margret13E@cs.com. The next issue of the MTAC Marin Branch Newsletter will be Oct. 2006. Deadline for the next newletter (Oct.2006) is Sept. 27, 2006. Attention members: Let us know what’s happening! Send updates, announcements and special request in writing (no phone calls) to Janice Clark, Editor at JBLegend@aol.com or to Janice Clark, 119 Legend Road, San Anselmo, Ca 94960. |
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