SCV Branch

Community Outreach

Saturday May 17, 2014 ten MTAC students performed in a piano recital at Westfield Valencia Town Center Mall in Santa Clarita at our usual spot on the outside patios near Coffee Bean and Macy’s. There was a variety of pieces ranging from classical to Martha Mier’s jazzy songs to ‘Let it Go’ from the Frozen movie. People were stopping to watch and sit down. The mall had set up 20 chairs for us.

It was a beautiful hot sunny day and Manak Khamvongsa and Lisa Kim, guitar and piano teachers respectively, helped set-up the keyboard in the shaded area beside the tree. Our Music Student Service League President, Sabeena Sebastien, helped me em-cee and she performed as well. Thank you to all of the MTAC students who performed and to Manak and Lisa for attending and helping. Also, a big thank you to Madeline Miller and Adam Bendorf for enrolling their students to perform. Great concert!

- Susan Carpenter, MTAC SCV Branch MSSL Advisor and Community Outreach Chair

Winners

Student #               Student Name                     Teacher Name
4                              Andrew Kim                        Hyunjoo Kang
5                              Chaewon Kim                      Adam Bendorf
15                            Erin Kang                             Hyunjoo Kang
18                            Caitlin Tang                         Agnes Kim
19                            Madely Smith                      Adam Bendorf
24                           Alysa Branda                        Adam Bendorf
29                           Spurgeon Rice                      Adam Bendorf
30                           Abigail Yang                         Adam Bendorf
31                            Cecilia Kim                           Jinny Noh
32                            Evan Kim                             Jinny Noh
37                            Sally Kim                              Adam Bendorf
38                            Catherine Chen                   Lisa Kim
40                            Jeannie Kim                         Agnes Kim
41                             Andres Salazar                    Rosalina Sackstein

Alternates

1st – 14                           Mijo Hwang                          Agnes Kim
2nd – 39                        Sarah Kim                              Adam Bendorf
3rd – 28                         Jeremy Smith                        Adam Bendorf
4th – 34                         Kathy Adhinatha                   Jinny Noh

Honarable Mentions

3                              Anne Gabrielle Go                 Adam Bendorf
13                             Aaron Kim                              Jinny Noh
17                             Angelique Guan                     Patreece Jamgochian
22                            Corey Dobbs                           Adam Bendorf

Thanks and have a wonderful spring break!!

Best,
Agnes Kim

Please read the following information from Agnes Kim:

Date : March 29, 2014
Place :  Little School of Music
Time  : TBA (tentatively starting at 9am)
Fee : $35/student
Online registration/Fee Due date:  Feb.22, 2014 (fees – needs to be in by this date!)

Website: www.scjbf.org

Please use one single check to cover all your participating students, drawn from the teacher’s account.
Also, please include the copy of registration of your students when sending the fee.
Payable to : SCVMTAC
Send to :

Agnes Kim
26932 Pebble Ridge Place
Valencia, CA 91381

Online registration is open now.
Please start registering teacher/student profiles and repertoire(s).

Thanks,
Agnes

From Recital host, Madeline Miller

The Fall Branch Recitals went very well! There were 55 students participating in 2 recitals. Twelve teachers participated; Mindy Cabral, Susan Carpenter, Elena Chao, Lauren Companeitz, Bill Foley, Wendy Hershey, Manyoung Hwang, Hyunjoo Kang, Lisa Kim, Madeline Miller, Teresa Wang, and Jiyoung Wheeler.

Teachers helped and that was wonderful. It seemed like all families were pleased and that is the important thing. I absolutely love the white curtain behind the piano. It makes the stage and our piano look really beautiful.

Bravo to all the performers!

THANK YOU to JOHN FAIRBANKS for hosting the Theme Festival!!

All three recitals were a great success and it was so fun to see all the costumes! Thank you to all the participating teachers, and to MSSL for helping to put goodie bags together, carving pumpkins, and helping to decorate! It was a BIG help!

Please see the Theme Festival Report from John Fairbanks:

Hi Teachers,
The Theme Festival this weekend was a huge success. We had 73 students and 15 teachers participate. Thank you to all the teachers who helped out on saturday. Everyone looked great in their costumes and it was a very entertaining afternoon of scary music.

Thanks to the teachers who were there in person to help:
Mindy Cabral
Susan Beaty
Virginia Feitelson
Susan Carpenter
Judy Kang
Madeline Miller
Teresa Wang
Joni Frey
Bill Foley
Elena Chao

Also thanks to Renee Choi, Rosy Sackstein and Jiyoung Wheeler who could only be there in spirit (or ghost)  Your students all did very well.

A special thanks to Roxanne at LSM (works at the front desk) for being extremely helpful and doing so much for our organization that she really doesn’t have any obligations to. If you see her be sure to thank her… and of course Mindy for the venue and all her help. Having the piano at LSM made everything so much easier and made my job very easy! They were great in dealing with “emergencies” and great at coming up with all the little things I forgot…little lights, extra programs, safety pins, tape, clip board, extension chords, etc…they really helped out!

If anyone has pictures to send me or Mindy for the website I think we would all love to see the costumes.

John Fairbanks

The Improvisation theme for 2013-2014 is “Holidays.” Log in to the teacher pages on the MTAC website and click on Improvisation>Documents where you will find sample assignments listed by year.
“Holidays” is at the top of the list labeled as the 2014 Theme.
Click on “Holidays” to open sample assignments for each month of the year. Several well-known and many not-so-well-known holidays are listed for each month. You can assign a particular holiday to your student or let each choose a holiday of their choice as the inspiration for their weekly or monthly Improvisation.
You may print the entire year’s Holiday assignments. Copy any or all of the pages for your students. You might put a studio copy in a binder for your students to begin looking at to choose a special holiday from each month’s list — a good activity if they arrive a little early for their lesson! If they find an unusual Holiday of interest to them, suggest that they do some research to find out the background of the holiday.
Students enjoy doing artwork to illustrate their Holiday — you might display their artwork in your studio each month, and then make a booklet of each student’s work to present to them at the end-of-year studio recital.
Include all the favorite Holiday Improvisations in your Recital. Students love to play their “own” music!
The deadline to submit recorded Improvisations for Evaluation is March 15, 2014. Students may opt for evaluation ONLY, or they may wish to also be considered for Convention performance.
Students may submit any Improvisation of their choice for the evaluation. Complete instructions for the Improvisation evaluation application and Convention performance are listed on the website.
Start now planning your Improvisation year!
Deborah Sanfilippo, State Chair Dorothy Burgess, State Assistant Chair Improvisation

Email Improvisation Branch Chair, Alyse Korn alysekorn@sbcglobal.net with questions.