spring newsletter 2014 the academy accent · 2014-05-12 · mille cherubini in coro, one of my...

SPRING NEWSLETTER 2014

The Academy Accent

Table of Contents 2 String Festival 3 Vocal Festival 4 Guitar Festival 5 Finding My Voice 6 This Summer at MANC 8 Lessons for Life Lunch 10 Merit Scholarship Winners 11 Student News

Upcoming Events 5/18 Student Showcase Recitals,

12:30 pm, 2:00 pm, 3:30 pm 5/18 Merit Scholarship Winners’

Recital, 5:00 pm 5/24-25 Holiday: studios and offices

closed 6/9 Last Day of Spring Trimester 6/13 First Day of Summer

Trimester (10-week session) 6/20 Artist Faculty Concert Series

#1: Stephanie Foley Davis, mezzo-soprano and Susannah Steele, piano

7/4 Independence Day: studios and offices closed

7/18 Artist Faculty Concert Series #2, 7:30 pm: Samee Griffith and Aaron Mood, piano

8/15 Artist Faculty Concert Series #3, 7:30 pm: Colleen Chenail, Heather Lofdahl, Ruth Metheny, and Karl Ronnevik, string quartet

8/17 Student Showcase Recitals, 12:30 pm, 2:00 pm

8/17 Adult Student Recital and Reception, 4:00 pm

8/22 Last Day of Summer Trimester

8/23 First Day of Fall Trimester (18-week session)

Introducing the Volunteer Committee Hi All, I wanted to let everyone know a little about me as volunteer coordinator for The Music Academy. My name is Debbie Little and my daughter, Alex, takes voice lessons from Stephanie Foley Davis. Right now I am a stay at home mom which is a job in and of itself. Our family has been with The Music Academy for two years now and it has truly been the best decision my husband, Tad and I could have made for our daughter. Alex has excelled under Stephanie, and we could not have found a more positive experience. Two years ago my husband and I were searching for a voice teacher for our then eleven year old daughter. Little did I know just what a wonderful place The Music Academy would be for us. Over the last two years, I have come to love The Music Academy and its mission. Music in any form is so very important as I am sure all of you already know. I decided that I wanted to do more than just bring Alex to lessons. I wanted to help such an important place help others learn music. Currently, I am coordinating volunteers via Sign Up Genius for events at The Music Academy. I hope that others here at The Music Academy can sign up to volunteer whenever they are able. My goal is to have enough volunteers at each event so that our wonderful teachers can spend more time with the students. Please if you are able, donate just a little or a lot of your time to help make every event at The Music Academy a success. The Music Academy is happy to have volunteers that only give us one hour of their time a year if that's what their schedule allows. I personally look forward to working with all the wonderful volunteers at The Music Academy!

-Debbie Little MANC parent and Volunteer Committee Coordinator

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Fall 2013 • The Music Academy of North Carolina • Greensboro, NC

The Fifteenth Annual String Festival and Competition This year’s String Festival offered playing for comments and a rating, a performance competition, masterclasses in violin and cello, a guest artist recital. We welcomed Janet Orenstein, Simon Ertz, and Emanuel Gruber, guest artist performers and competition judges. Students competed for prizes in four divisions, from Primary to the Young Artist performance level.

AND THE WINNERS ARE…

Primary 1st- Honour Ann Carter - Greensboro

2nd - Hope Carter - Greensboro Honorable Mention - Zoe Zhang - Greensboro

Honorable Mention - Grace Sowder - Greensboro

Elementary 1st - Leo Zhang - Greensboro

2nd - Ada Walker - Greensboro

Middle School 1st - Kevin Agner - Salisbury, NC 2nd - Bailey Yang - Bluffton, SC

High School

1st - Eva Wetzel - Winston-Salem (Germany) 2nd - Emilia Sharpe - Winston-Salem Honorable Mention - Daniel Malawsky

Young Artist

1st - Lucia Kobza - Winston-Salem (Switzerland)

Congratulations to all the students who participated for all of their hard work and preparation!

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I Shoulda! 72 Years Young January 5, 2013 is a date I will remember for a long time. My singing fire was rekindled. Judy and I went to hear the Cornell Men’s Glee Club sing in Greensboro. It seems like only a short time ago I was a member of the Glee Club. Truth be known, that was from the fall of 1959 as a freshman at Cornell through the fall of 1960. Mono struck and singing ceased and was not resumed until January 15, 2013 - only ten days after hearing the performance. The concert provoked a terrible guilt trip while enjoying the music. I kept thinking “I shoulda” kept singing and tried to stay in the club. “I shoulda” quickly became “I’m gonna” and I did have my first ever voice lesson on January 15, 2013 at MANC with Charlene Marchant. My wife Judy is an artist. I have watched her encourage our grandchildren to develop their artistic talents. Our oldest granddaughter is about to enter design school at NCSU. Another granddaughter takes piano and loves to sing. I have been to her recitals and she came to one of mine. At Christmas last year Meredith asked if we could sing a carol together at our family gathering. She played her keyboard and we sang. Can life be better than that? Music has many rewards. Want to get away from it all? Get into music. You can’t sing or play an instrument and think about much else. In retirement music has sure kept me stimulated and mentally active. I have learned a lot in a short time and have been challenged to memorize and perform. I stand in awe of the talented faculty at MANC and wowed by the young students of all ages. Opportunities to advance and improve abound at MANC. The recent Vocal Festival was a prime example: small seminars, a professional performance, a masterclass, and feedback on my own progression. I shoulda. Now I did – it’s never too late! Thank you Charlene Marchant. Thank you MANC.

-Art Harron, MANC voice student

Fifth Annual Vocal Festival March 21-22 Once again, the Vocal Festival was a success! 26 singers participated in the adjudication portion where they sang two pieces from memory for three voice teachers. They all received comments, a certificate and a ribbon if they received a rating. The Voice Faculty welcomed guest judge, Bridget Moriarty who is currently working toward her Doctorate in Voice at UNCG. Dr. Julie Celona-VanGorden, faculty at Elon University, was our guest artist this year! She and our own Christy Wisuthseriwong gave a beautiful and diverse recital on Friday night. Julie also gave a masterclass to four Music Academy singers and one student from the studio of local teacher, Amberly Foulkrod. All the masterclass participants showed great improvement after working with Julie in this "public voice lesson." To close out the wonderful day, 14 Music Academy voice students performed in the Vocal Festival Celebration Recital! The audience was treated to classical, musical theater and pop songs from our talented students. Thank you to the amazing Voice Faculty, Christy Wisuthseriwong and Susannah Steele who were here all weekend working the Music Academy's mission to make this years Vocal Festival a success and celebration! See you next year!

-Stephanie Foley Davis, Chair of the Voice Faculty

Alexander Technique Workshop March 29, 2014 Certified Alexander instructor Ashley Hyers (Greensboro College) led an interactive workshop exploring movement and breath. Students learned about integrating breath with movement to help remove unnecessary tension so that they can perform more freely and easily.

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Ninth Annual Guitar Festival: March 8, 2014 pes

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This year’s Guitar Festival was a big success! Thanks to all the students, guest artists, and clinicians who participated. Despite a late start due to snow, the festival began with a Music

Academy Student Concert with Keagan Burgess, who performed a transcription of Isaac Albeniz's famous piano work Asturias (Leyenda) and Waltz Espanol by Jose Ferrar. Keagan was followed by Carl Humphreys who played Ferdinando Carulli's Allegretto, and Elijah Buist, who played Paul McCartney's Blackbird. We at The Music Academy are extremely proud of all three students and thank them for sharing their talent. After the concert, all festival participants were given insight into the world of songwriting with festival clinician and MANC faculty member Brad Dickerson.

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and. audience members were treated to a beautiful performance and an informative harp demonstration After lunch, the festival continued with a MANC guitar Faculty concert including Mark Mazzatenta on jazz guitar, guitarist Brad Dickerson performing his own compositions with violinist Colleen Chenail, and Ken Brown performing on sitar and baglama saz with violinist Ruth Metheny. After the concert attendees enjoyed getting creative with Robin Hrdlicka's “Rock Star Photobooth” workshop. We wrapped things up with a wonderful concert of South American guitar music from guitar duo Patrick Lui and Jason Rogers. Their performance of guitar works by Maximo Diego Pujol kept the audience on the edge of their seats. We would like to thank all the artists, attendees, and organizers for making this ninth annual festival a year to remember!

-Ken Brown, Artistic Co-Director

This year’s festival also included a very special Celtic harp concert by Mike Conners. Mike is the head of the Guitar Program and founder of the Harp Program at Penn Griffin, a

Faculty and Friends Showcase Concert Faculty and friends of MANC performed in a showcase recital to raise money for student scholarships on Friday, April 26th. With performances on marimba, piano, voice, guitar, viola, sitar, violin, flute, and

saxophone, we raised over $500 in ticket sales to benefit our student scholarship fund!

Students and Faculty of The Music Academy performed the National Anthem at a Greensboro Grasshoppers Baseball game this May. Go MANC!

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• GreFall 2013 • The Music Academy of North Carolina

The first challenge, one year into my weekly lessons was my first recital in August 2013. I sang an Italian lullaby, Mille Cherubini in Coro, one of my favorites. With my first grandson due in mid-December, I wanted to learn as many lullabies as I could. Although I had sung that song along with my Andrea Bocelli CD in the shower, singing the high notes in front of a group was a challenge. In the

ensboro, NC

Finding My Voice

I found my voice at the Music Academy of North Carolina.

The story of how I lost my voice is a little like the lyrics of a country song, “bad man done me wrong.” After 36 years of marriage, my husband decided he wanted to grow old with someone else, and my life was shattered. After living in Kentucky and raising two children with him during that time, I decided after an absence of 40 years to return in July 2011 to my hometown of Greensboro, North Carolina, to be with my 93 year-old father and my extended family.

After I was settled, I decided that I wanted voice lessons—not because I am any great singer—but because my voice had been choked by the divorce. I didn’t know who I was or what I thought, independent of my husband.

So I asked around and eventually found that the best resource in Greensboro was the Music Academy of North Carolina. I went online and looked at the photos of all the voice teachers, and I decided to contact Charlene Marchant based on the friendliness of her photo and the description of her accomplishments. I signed up for lessons beginning August 2, 2012.

For me, the advantage of taking lessons at the age of 66 is that I am not training to be on American Idol; I am doing it for myself. I cringe at what Charlene had to listen to in the beginning—if you sing from your throat and not your inner core, then it’s probably like a scratchy record. But the faculty at the Music Academy are magnificent teachers, and they understand the learning process. And there is no embarrassment because it’s just the two of you. I look forward to my lesson each week and try not to miss if I can help it.

When I sang in high school and college choirs, I was classified as an alto. The first lesson I learned from Charlene was that I was a soprano! As I listened to sopranos that she recommended, I imagined that I could never reach those high notes.

After six weeks of lessons, Charlene provided a written review of my progress. She recommended that I stand nobly in my voice, shoulders back, and let the sound emerge from my core. I sobbed as I read her words. Here was someone who believed that I could stand nobly, that I deserved to honor my voice. Having been beaten so low, this was indeed a message of hope.

audience were other adult students and faculty plus my dad, brother, sister-in-law, and a friend who were very gracious with their applause after my performance. However, when I listened to the recording later, I wanted to send them all a sympathy note for having had to listen to my singing. I was pleased that I had sung in the recital; it was a big step for me, but I knew that I still had work to do to really sing from my core.

My second challenge came with the Vocal Festival in March 2014. I had to memorize two pieces (also lullabies), wear a dress (having retired, I had to search the closets for something presentable), and sing before three of the Academy’s teachers. Those twelve minutes were so special: I reached the high notes in my songs without a problem, felt confident in my ability to sing, and received some positive and helpful feedback. Most importantly, Charlene said, it’s all starting to work.

I owe a debt of gratitude to the Music Academy for so much and to Charlene Marchant in particular for her patience and for her gift of recognizing that everyone has the potential to sing, and believing that people want to hear me sing is the key. My grandson, Asa, particularly enjoys my voice as I croon him to sleep, and though he might not be the most discerning audience, he is the best to me.

After nearly two years of lessons, I am walking more nobly, shoulders back, breathing a little better, and the songbird in my soul and my voice is resounding. And I plan to keep on learning and improving at the Music Academy.

-Katherine Kelleher Sohn, MANC voice student

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SUMMER MUSIC CAMPS, MINI-CAMPS, &

CLASSES Registration for all camps and classes may be found on our website (www.MusicAcademyNC.org)

Musical Medley Camp: June 23-27, 9 am- 12 pm

Explore the world of music by experiencing a variety of instruments and musical styles! No experience necessary. Recommended for ages 6-10. $135

Musical Theater Camp: July 7-11, 9 am – 12 pm

Campers will put together a mini-musical with songs, dialogue and movement to be presented on Friday for family and friends. No experience necessary! Just lots of energy and fun! Ages 6-12. $135

Fiddle Camp: July 28-Aug 1, 1-4 pm

We will learn the basics of playing harmonies together. The camp ends with an informal performance for parents and friends. All ages; students must have experience at the level of Suzuki Bk. 1 Perpetual Motion and above. $135

Guitar Camp: Play & Record: June 16-20, 9am – 12pm

Expand your guitar skills with other guitarists of all skill levels. Explore different styles of music and record a song of your choosing with guidance from instructors in a professional setting. Grades 3-8. $135

Suzuki Violin Camp: July 28-Aug 1, 9 am – 12 pm Suzuki camp will include general music as well as daily masterclass and group lessons. There will be a concert on Friday for parents. Students must be Book 1 Perpetual Motion and above. All ages. $135

Band Prep Camp: June 23-27, 1 -4 pm Pre-Band Camp provides an opportunity for rising 5th- 7th graders to get a head start on their music reading and playing skills. Students should bring their own instrument. Open to all beginning wind and brass players. $135

String Chamber Music Camp: Aug 4-8, 9 am – 12 pm The Chamber Music Camp is a chance for string students to enjoy making music in small groups. Open to all string instrumentalists with one year of lessons, grades 3 and above. $135

Choral Camp: July 14-18, 1-4 pm Ensembles will sing choral music of varied styles and in at least one foreign language. No prior voice training required but choral experience and ability to follow a voice part in choral music is desirable. Rising 7th-12th grades. $135

Audition Prep Camp: July 7-11, 1-4 pm

Campers will be practicing a kid-friendly dialogue and song suitable for children’s theater or musical theater auditions. They will have a “mock audition”on Friday, with family and friends being their auditioners! This gives children an idea of what to expect at an audition, and gives them tools to take with them to be ultimately prepared! Ages 8-12. $135

Garage Band Camp: Aug 4-8, 1-4 pm

Students will gain experience playing in a group, song writing, recording, and more!!! Students must own and bring their own instrument. Students must have at least a year experience at their instrument (or voice). Rising 7th-12th grades. $135

Jazz Mini-Camp: June 23-29, 10 am – 12:30 pm Students will learn tunes by jazz masters Duke Ellington and Miles Davis among others and develop improvisational skills in the jazz genre. No previous experience necessary. Students meet daily from 10am-12:30pm, excluding Sunday when students will perform for their families in the afternoon. $145

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Rhythm Mini-Camp: June 23-27, 1:00-2:00 pm Feel the beat and improve your rhythm while you make music, socialize, learn and grow! This camp will include activities to challenge and engage campers with structured instrument play, ensemble participation and rhythm games. Campers should have at least one year of experience on an instrument/voice. Rising 3rd-8th Grades. $75

Violin Twinkle Mini-Camp: August 4-8, 5:30-6:30 pm The Violin Twinkle Class is an opportunity for beginning violin students to enjoy learning together. They will learn about position and making music as well as develop music reading skills. Ages 4-10, no experience or currently studying up to Go Tell Aunt Rhody. $75

Flute Choir Mini-Camp: June 23-27, 2:30-3:30 pm Challenge yourself in a fun and instructional week for flute players of all levels. Students will strengthen their flute technique, learn new repertoire, gain performing experience, and make new friends! Students will also be able to try out the piccolo, alto flute, and bass flute! Rising 6th-12th Grades. $75

Adult Chamber Music: July 1 – August 24.

Rehearsals TBD: chamber groups will be assigned upon registration (by June 13), after which they will meet weekly at a day/time to be determined by the group and teacher. This class is for adults with all levels of experience, MANC and non-MANC students welcome.

In 2012, I toured mainland China as a jazz pianist and gave masterclasses on improvisation at a number of universities. There is one particular experience I remember very well. A handful of very talented university students played pieces by Chopin and Beethoven and Bach for me. When they finished, I asked the class, through a translator: “Have any of you ever improvised at the piano?” I first received a blank stare from the translator who did not understand what the word

‘improvise’ meant. I explained that it means to make up music on your own, something that is not written on the page. When he translated this, I then received a class full of blank stares, followed by the question: “What do you mean?” I further explained: “Have you ever played music that is not written down?” All of them not only

replied no, but were baffled by the concept. As a jazz educator, I run into these sorts of situations too often, where extremely talented, educated, and experienced players are completely oblivious to the concept of creating your own music. Improvisation is not limited to the jazz genre. J.S. Bach was an improviser, Liszt was an improviser, Chopin was an improviser, and Rachmaninoff was an improviser. Somewhere along the road, improvisation has been lost in the education of classical music, perhaps due to the understandable focus on teaching children how to read music properly. I however, am of the opinion that improvisation should not be learned only after we are semi-professional players, but during the process of learning to read music. The other skill that is too often neglected is listening. It is important to be reminded that music is an aural art form and that the two odd looking things on the side of our heads are our best friends when it comes to learning and playing music. We have become a very non-listening culture with a focus on visual acrobatics. When one is planning to attend a concert, they say: “I am going to see Tony Bennett.” Not “I am going to hear Tony Bennett.” Today’s pop concerts are over saturated with pyrotechnics, laser light shows, jumbotron presentations, anything to distract you from listening. A firm foundation in improvisation and listening is the core of my educational philosophy. This summer the Music Academy will be offering a one-week intensive look into jazz, led by yours truly. The jazz camp will meet every day from June 23-29 with a performance on Sunday evening the 29th. We will meet from 10am-12:30pm daily excluding Sunday. Students will learn tunes by jazz masters Duke Ellington and Miles Davis among others and develop improvisational skills in the jazz genre. No previous experience necessary. Allow me to say that again: No previous experience necessary. The cost of the camp is $145 and registration can be completed online. Please contact me, Antonio Truyols, with questions: 240.372.1535. Thank you for reading and keep listening.

-Antonio Truyols, MANC Piano Faculty

JAZZ CAMP

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6th Annual Lessons for Life Fundraising Lunch

On March 26, a little over 180 people gathered at The Empire Room downtown to support The Music Academy at its 6th Annual Lessons for Life Fundraising Lunch. The event featured testimonies from MANC parent Amanda Ismail, Head of School at The Piedmont School Tim Montgomery and MANC alumnus Kevin McDonald. Artist Faculty Jorge Rodriguez Ochoa and Antonio Truyols gave inspiring performances throughout the program and Accelerated Program student Elijah Buist played guitar as guests arrived. The Music Academy would like to extend our gratitude to the faculty, staff, board, students, volunteers, and members of our community who made the Lessons for Life Lunch a success. To date, $58,118 in gifts and pledges were raised in support of our mission. Thank you also goes to Chris Fulk of Piedmont Music Center for generously donating the use of their Seiler grand piano, Evelyn Smith of Noteworthy Piano Service, for donating her time and expertise to tune the piano for our event, and Music Academy parent Jacqui Van Lier for donating her time and expertise to photograph our event. If you were unable to attend the Lessons for Life Fundraiser, please join us next year on March 25th 2015! See you there!

-Stephanie Foley Davis, Special Events Coordinator

All photos by Jacqui Van Lier, MANC parent. Thank you, Jacqui!

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The mission of The Music Academy is to enable students of all ages, interests, abilities, and backgrounds to discover, develop, realize,

and express their inherent talents.

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One Voice from the Music Academy of North Carolina Let me take you back in time with me. Together we see a young child living quietly in a small town. She loves to sing. Yet she abandons her voice because it squeaks on the high notes and causes her great embarrassment. In time she discovers that if she holds her breath on the high notes, she can carefully maneuver her lips into a large O-shaped ring, avoid the squeak, and make everyone watching her face think she sings with such angelic joy in front of family and church friends. Later, during her teen years, she hears Jackie Kennedy’s whispering voice luring the audience during that infamous televised tour of the White House. She thinks that breathless tone to her voice will serve her well as she finesses through life’s many social challenges. Little does she notice as her voice grew fainter from these childhood habits. She guesses she just wasn’t one of the lucky ones who were born to be a singer. Fast forward to 2012. This former cherubic-looking little angel is now sixty two years young and walking through the door of the Music Academy of North Carolina for her first voice lesson. Her heart feels as though it is beating close to the back of her tongue. How will she ever get a sound to come out on the easiest of those low notes that she had managed throughout her childhood? She wants to turn around and run when she sees two high school girls in the hallway who appear to have just finished a lesson. What was she thinking when she put voice lessons on her bucket list? She manages to flash a smile the girls’ way, but she what she really wants to

do is tell them how smart and lucky they are to know at an early age that they can take voice lessons and learn to hit those elusive high notes. With heart beating fast and feeling her voice shriveling by the second, she approaches that purple door she was told to look for with Charlene Marchant’s name to the left side of it. She holds her breath and enters, knowing there will be no long church pew filled with voices to hide behind. The life-changing moment comes then and there. She sees that warm, welcoming smile coming from behind that shiny black grand piano, inside a cozy quiet room. That delightful private space becomes a secret place where her little voice no longer feels invisible, but is acknowledged in a way that gives it a sense of being special and, more importantly, being filled with potential. That voice! Yes, it was a tender voice, but it now reflects on how it proved to have the potential to sing duets with two caring high-school girls, and to sing solo at the Music Festival. That voice no longer hides behind the voices of others. That voice says “Thank you” to the MANC and Charlene Marchant for giving it a safe and nurturing place to go and find its sound that had been hidden so long

-Jackie Tanseer, MANC voice student

Congratulations to this year’s merit scholarship award winners!

Kevin Agner, cello; student of Diane Bonds

Molly Auten, voice; student of Mittie Douglass

Elijah Buist, guitar; student of Ken Brown

Jonah Chiu, violin; student of Colleen Chenail

Rachel Cline, voice; student of Mittie Douglass

Harmony Dalton, flute; student of Peter Shanahan

Kathryn Evans, violin; student of Colleen Chenail

Ben Frens, percussion; student of Andrew Dancy

Arwen He, piano; student of Christy Wisuthseriwong

Jasmine Ismail, voice; student of Stephanie Foley Davis

Caitlin Lamb, clarinet; student of Cat Keen Hock and Trevor Davis

Alex Little, voice; student of Stephanie Foley Davis

Claire McDowell, piano; student of Susannah Steele

Shashwat Prabhakar, piano; student of Janice Wells

Rohini Rajarayanan, piano; student of Janice Wells

Karissa Sitepu, piano; student of Susannah Steele

Will Soler, guitar; student of Brad Dickerson

Bryan Wang, violin; student of Colleen Chenail

Eric Wang, piano; student of Christy Wisuthseriwong

Noah Woods, piano; student of Amy Zigler

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Student News From the voice studio of Stephanie Foley Davis: Alex Little will perform the role of Ariel in Kiser

Middle School’s The Little Mermaid. Chakra Cook was chosen to sing in Lincoln

Academy’s talent show on February 21st. MANC alumnus, Jahbril Cook, played Jesus

in Columbia University’s Godspell. Jasmine Ismail placed second in the

Advanced Women High School category at NATS on February 22nd held at UNCG. She is also a finalist in the Classical Singer Competition in San Antonio, Texas.

Josh Holley received an Excellent solo rating at the Southeast Association of Christian Schools International Music Festival.

Alex Little and Chakra Cook auditioned and will attend Weaver Academy of the Performing and Visual Arts as Vocal students next fall.

From the voice studio of Kristen Blumenfeld: Taylor Belk will be attending James Madison

University for Voice in the fall! She is a senior at Caldwell.

From the piano studio of Amy Zigler: Noah Woods recently won an audition to

attend the International Institute for Young Musician's Summer Music Academy at Kansas University this summer.

From the violin studio of Jorge Rodiguez Ochoa: Congratulations to Charlotte Crater on making

it to all-state orchestra this year! From the clarinet studio of Cat Keen Hock Denina Valletta was selected for Central

District Middle School Band. James Hong was selected for Central District

High School Band. Caitlin Lamb was selected for Randolph All-

County High School Band. From the piano studio of Susannah Steele Erin Humphreys will perform the role of

Snoopy in Brightest Star School of Performing Arts’ You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown.

Lessons for Life Society Thank you for your support! Your contribution helps us

reach our goal of long term sustainability.

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