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Steinway Society of Riverside County
September 18th, 2010, No Comments
2010 Festival Winners
2010 Winners will perform November 14 in Rancho Mirage
Ranen Unger Hicks is a Junior Winner.
via Steinway Society of Riverside County.
Old Town Temecula Community Theater
September 18th, 2010, No Comments
Old Town Temecula Community Theater.
Ranen Unger Hicks, Sai Sivapalan and Cassiopea Bostan will be performing in the winners recital at the Merc:
CLASSICS AT THE MERC
Performance Date: 9/19/2010, 3:00 pm
Piano Competition Winners (to be advised by Cecilia Unpingco)
The Golden Valley Music Society, the region’s premier classical music presenter, joins with the Old Town Temecula [...]
Eva Martin Hollaus Gold Medalists in the news
September 18th, 2010, No Comments
A very nice article about some of our Guild Gold Medalists in The Californian, 8/22/2010: “Pianists demonstrate accomplishments”.
Our students worked hard to accomplish these certificates.
Updating my website
September 17th, 2010, No Comments
Hello all: I have been trying to make several changes updating my website. As you can see it is still under construction, but bits and pieces are coming together little by little. The youtube videos describing my books about Major and Harmonic Minor scales and scales / chords / arpeggios are new. Maybe tomorrow, I can put my video about How to practice Hanon together, if not tomorrow, the weekend…
Glendale Piano Competition 2010
May 31st, 2010, No Comments
Cynthia Phan was so courageous and participated in the Glendale Piano Competition. She held her ground, beautifully performing the Bach prelude BWV 807, from the a minor English Suite.
MTAC Young Pianist Competition 4/11/2010
May 31st, 2010, No Comments
As always, this competition is quite difficult. Everyone who entered played very well. Here are our results:
Sai Sivapalan
HS I
9th grade
Liszt Etude and Bach Fugue
participant
Patrick Xu
JH
8th grade
Debussy Claire De Lune / Beethoven Bagatelle
Honorable Mention
Alex Few
HS 1
10th grade
Debussy Pour le piano / Beethoven Moonlight 3rd
participant
Kelly Rausch
E I
3rd grade
Streabbog Orphan, Bach Prelude
participant
Ranen Unger Hicks
E I
3rd [...]
Certificate of Merit ™ Results 3/21/2010
May 31st, 2010, No Comments
I am very happy with the results. Everyone who tested passed. We also received many Branch Honors and Convention eligibilities. Juliette Beucler and Bret Paddock received 90% -100% theory test scores and are now officially “theory exempt”. Congratulations.
Cassiopea Bostan, Anais Perkins and Patrick Xu tested in the Certificate of Merit ™ for the first time [...]
TVMTA Spring Music Festival 4/24/2010
May 31st, 2010, No Comments
A few students decided to perform two pieces in the local TVMTA Music Festival. This was Robechelle Mina’s very first performance and she pulled through beautifully. All is learned, how to prepared for a performance, how to present a performance, how to get ready. She received a Silver Medal for her efforts. Sierra Rupnow and [...]
Major and Harmonic Minor Scales, The Way I Teach Them using fingering charts,…
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