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Piano Studio photos

August 20th, 2011, No Comments

Shanti Ryle Piano Guild High School Diploma Certification and MTAC Graduating Senior Plaque and Advanced Level Certificate with Branch honors. Shanti has been taking lessons with me since January 2000. This year marked Shanti’s 10th gold medal award in the Piano Guild auditions. Shanti is seeking an acting and music career.

12 students could come today [...]

Cassiopeia Bostan, Pianist blog

August 15th, 2011, No Comments

I am very happy to announce that I could include working links to my students blogs. And I will continue to add links:
Please, enjoy Cassiopeia Bostan’s blog. SHe is now 11 years old, had her birthday a couple weeks ago.
Cassiopeia Bostan started studying with me in March 2009. Cassie added a few videos of some [...]

The Last of the Piano Guild Auditions for 2011

August 14th, 2011, No Comments

I wanted to acknowledge the last students who participated in the Piano Guild auditions:
Raeva Solbach performed a brand new 10-piece program that she learned in 6 weeks. Her former teacher taught excellent Suzuki piano, which was excellent memory work, but lacking in reading and confidence learning new pieces. This program was the perfect opportunity to [...]

Piano Guild auditions Results July 8 and 13 2011

July 20th, 2011, No Comments

15 students from the Eva Martin Hollaus piano studio tested July 8 and 13, 2011 in Escondido in the Annual Piano Guild auditions. The students performed 159 pieces from memory. They all performed scales, chords/cadences and the 10-15 piece programs included full sets of arpeggios skills as well. The students were prepared using the Play Piano In ALl Keys Complete Workbook by Eva Martin Hollaus featuring fingering charts.

Eva Martin Hollaus piano studio TVMTA Annual Piano competition results

June 5th, 2011, No Comments

Congratulations to Ranen Unger Hicks age 10, being awarded 1st place in the 6th grade and under category. Ranen received a trophy and a cash prize. Stacey Nguyen Phan age 8 received 4th place.
Sai Sivapalan received an Honorable Mention in the 9-10 grade division. He is a very busy High Schooler and he had an [...]

Piano Guild auditions through May 2011

May 23rd, 2011, No Comments

I am very happy to congratulate the following students to their amazing accomplishments. They all performed musicianship phases. It was George Bostan II’s first Guild audition; he performed all white key scales in Major and harmonic minor and 9 Elementary pieces. Cassiopea Bostan performed All Major, Harmonic and Melodic Minor scales, Chords / Cadences and [...]

IEPF 2011 Ranen Unger Hicks 2nd place

April 16th, 2011, No Comments

In the MTAC Inland Empire Piano festival 2011, we are happy to announce that Ranen Unger Hicks received a 2nd place trophy in the II-B division; Anais Perkins received an Honorable Mention in the III-B division and Patrick Xu received an Honorable Mention in the IV-B division. Students of Eva Martin Hollaus. Pictured Ranen Unger [...]

Cynthia Phan received an Honorable Mention in the Piano Guild International Composition Contest

April 16th, 2011, No Comments

Cynthia Phan age 12 started to take Piano lessons 5 years ago. She is playing Advanced Level repertoire, passed Level 9 in the MTAC Certificate of Merit (TM) and enjoys composing beautiful music. Her style is unique, creative and musical. Her composition “Sweet Dreams” 140 measures, handwritten, took an Honorable Mention in the Piano Guild [...]