Jonathan Lee (11) third place

Jonathan Lee, in his first year performing, took third place in the Temecula Young Artist Piano Competition. Congratulations, Jonathan, you worked so hard!

Emika Saito won 1st place in the Temecula Young Artist Piano Competition

Emika performed at the Temecula Library

Emika Saito performed today at the Temecula Library. The recital was hosted by IVS.

Emika Saito in recital May 2, Temecula Library

Hello all,
Please attend Emika Saito's (age 13) performance this Saturday at 2:00 at the Temecula Library

Emika Saito will be performing works by Bach, Mozart, Schubert, Lecuona and Hisaichi.

Inland Valley Symphony presents MUSIC @ THE LIBRARY. Admission is Free.  The recital begins at 2:00 pm and are part of the symphony's community outreach in partnership with the Friends of the Temecula Library.  The library serves refreshments.

Venue:  Grace Mellman Community Library in Temecula
41000 County Center Dr, Temecula, CA 92591
(951) 296-3893

Jonathan Lee 2nd place Young Pianist Competition

Jonathan Lee (age 11) performed in the MTAC Young Pianist Competition and was awarded a second place, trophy and cash prize.
Congratulations!

Jonathan Lee first time performer in Steinway Awards Festival

Jonathan Lee (11), from Moreno Valley, demonstrated his outstanding talent and hard work over the past 7 months. First time performing in the Steinway Awards Festival. He performed the Prelude op 232 by Albeniz, the Mozart Turkish March and the Brubeck Struttin'

Emika Saito wins Steinway Awards Festival second time

Emika Saito, age 12, second time Steinway Awards Festival competition winner, Junior Division. She performed in two master classes and one recital. The event, held at Rancho Mirage High School, in Rancho Mirage, started at 2:00 pm and ended at 7:00 pm. Emika performed the Schubert Impromptu Op 90 #4, the Joe Hisaishi Wind Forest, and the Mozart Sonata K 333, Allegro. She was awarded a $500.00 study scholarship

Emika Saito (12) wins 3rd place in IEPF

Congratulations to Emika Saito's performance of the Mozart Sinata K 333 in B flat Major, Allegro.

Inland Empire Piano Festival 2015

Ophelia Herabadi (age 9) received an Honorable Mention, Jonathan Lee (age 11) received an Honorable Mention and Emika Saito (age12) received a third place award in a very competitive class. Pictured Ophelia and Jonathan

Stacey, Kathleen and Cynthia Phan are awarded the Advanced Bach Plaque

Stacey (age 11), Kathleen (age 13) and Cynthia Phan (age 16) received the Advanced Bach Plaque from the American College of Musicians. They successfully performed double programs each, earning them double gold medals. The programs included 15- piece Bach programs, that included 2 and 3-part Inventions, Preludes and Fugue from the WTC book I and movements from the second English Suite. The second program included all styles performing a total of 25 pieces.

Emika Saito receiving the Steinway award

Here is Emika's Steinway award presentation.
Emika performed beautifully.
Big moment, here it is:

Inland Empire Piano Competition Results

I am very happy that every student who performed yesterday, received an award.

Congratulations to all your hard work.

Trisha Leungsikul - 1A - 3rd place
Ophelia Herabadi - 1A - Honorable Mention
Emika Saito - 3A - 2nd place
Sebastian Gonzales - 4B - Honorable Mention
Anais Perkins - 5A - 4th place
Cynthia Phan - 5A - Honorable Mention

Tara Romero - highest score in California Level 5 RCM

Tara Romero participated in the Royal Conservatory of Music examinations since 2012 and successfully completed levels 3, 4 and 5.

I am happy to announce that Tara received this invitation to perform, as the highest score for California for level 5 in 2012.

Here is her invitation from CAPMT- the California Professional Music Teachers Association:

Dear Tara:
 
Congratulations, you have achieved the highest performance mark for Level 5 Piano in California!
 
We invite you to the 2013 California Celebration of Excellence Recital & Awards Ceremony in Santa Clara on Saturday, February 1, 2014 to receive your certificate in recognition of this outstanding achievement.

Tara is currently working on RCM level 6, the Certificate of Merit and Piano Guild auditions.

CONGRATULATIONS TARA!

 

TVMTA Halloween Recital 2013 with Odelia and Ophelia Herabadi

Thank you for participating and playing so beautifully!!!

Royal Conservatory of Music Summer Session Results

I am very happy to announce that
Thulasi Yogarajah successfully completed performance Level 3;
Sebastian Gonzales completed performance Level 3;
Tara Romero completed performance Level 5.

RCM is an excellent and challenging program, that can provide a Conservatory education during K-12!

2013 MTAC Certificate of Merit Results

Most outstanding this year, Patrick Xu performed in the Advanced Panel auditions and was chosen a Finalist!

Sai Sivapalan, graduating Senior, also performed in the Advanced Panel auditions successfully, being awarded the graduating Senior Medallion and Plaque.

I am very happy to announce that Cynthia Nguyen Phan, Grade 9, passed the Certificate of Merit and achieved the theory exemption status, she was also invited to perform at the Branch Honors recital.

Also needing very special mention, Mary Conway and Jim Powers, both adult students participated. Jim is retired and Mary is now grandmother! What an inspiration to other adults wishing to play piano.

Congratulations to everyone participating:

Last Name	First Name	CM Level	School Grade
Conway	Mary	5	Adult
Dominguez	Eduardo	6	Grade 11
Ghilarducci	Adam	7	Grade 9  Branch Honors
Gonzales	Sebastian	5	Grade 6
Jones	Meisha	1	Grade 11
Ocasla	Kianna	2	Grade 9
Perkins	Anais	7	Grade 9  Branch Honors
Phan	Cynthia Nguyen	Advanced – Theory Exemption	Grade 9  Branch Honors
Phan	Stacey Nguyen	6	Grade 5
Pillai	Vishakh	7	Grade 10  Branch Honors
Powers	Jim	2	Adult
Rausch	Kelly	6	Grade 6
Romero	Tara	3	Grade 9
Sivapalan	Sai	Advanced(Panel)	Grade 12*  Branch Honors, Graduating Senior Plaque and Medallion
Xu	Patrick	Advanced(Panel Finalist)	Grade 11  Branch Honors
Yogarajah	Thulasi	6	Grade 7  Branch Honors

Play Piano In All Keys Fingering Charts are the secret to success

All my students learn to play piano with a regular method book and immediately, at the same time, in lesson "1", start with my Play Piano In All Keys Complete Workbook fingering charts book.

Students start one octave, two octaves, then four octaves all while learning to play early beginner pieces. This way, we make use of the golden time working the fingers and teaching the ear. This time is golden, because the students cannot yet play repertoire which without doubt is more fun than practicing scales, chords/cadences and arpeggios.  But in defense of practicing scales - when older students have been busy with home work and could not practice, they enjoy to relax the mind and just run their fingers (with the metronome) and we still accomplish lots.

As soon as students can play scales, chords and arpeggios, we can program pieces that include those elements and onward.

Stay tuned, more exciting student performances coming.

More description of the Complete Workbook:  http://playpianoinallkeys.com/complete-workbook/

So far every student who started playing piano with me could benefit from practicing scale, chords and arpeggios skills using this book.

TVMTA Recital October 13, 2012

Ophelia and Odelia Herabadi, Trisha Leungsikul, Anais Perkins, Eduardo Dominguez and Sebastian Gonzales performed their current pieces.
Ophelia performed the Macaroni Cha Cha by Keveren, Odelia and Trisha performed lovely pieces from the Hal Leonard Series.

This recital marked Trisha's first performance and Odelia's and Ophelia's second performances.

Anais Perkins delighted the audience with the Scott Joplin Stop-TIme Rag and a Chopin Nocturne; both Eduardo Dominguez and Sebastian Gonzales performed the J. S. Bach Invention #1.
The performance was hosted by the Temecula Valley Music Teachers Association at the United Methodist Church in Temecula, CA.

Eva Martin Hollaus 2012 Piano GUild audition results

	Eva Martin Hollaus 2012 Piano Guild adutition results
# students	# years in Guild	# years Gold	First	Last
	Judge: Laura Daly		Temecula, CA
1	7	7	Chloe	Lovato	ID	N-10
	Judge: Terry K Moore		Florida
2	4	4	Cassiopeia	Bostan	PBM	PS-15	Advanced Bach Plaque
	Judge: Mary F Feyk		Ventura, CA	20-Jun-12
3	10	10	Sai	Sivapalan	PS	I-15	Paderewski Medal
	Judge: Judith Cataldo		Escondido, CA
4	2	2	Juliette	Beucler	HSD PD	I-15	Regular High School Diploma
5	8	4	Brittany	Durgiah	IB	N-10
6	6	6	Kelly	Rausch	IS	N-10
7	1	1	Tara	Romero	IA	N-10
8	7	7	Thulasi	Yogarajah	IC	N-10
9	2	2	Raeva	Solbach	EC	N-10
10	1	1	Dia	Solbach	EA	N-10
11	1	1	Eduardo	Dominguez	IA	N-10
12	1	1	Odelia Nadira	Hearabadi	EA	N-10
13	1	1	Ophelia Chiara	Herabadi	EA	N-10
14	6	6	Cynthia Nguyen	Phan	IS	I-16
15	6	6	Kathleen Nguyen	Phan	IS	N-13
16	6	6	Stacey Nguyen	Phan	ES	N-12
	Judge: Coralee Gaytan		Fountain Valley, CA
17	1	1	Nubia Adeline	Gonzales	EA	N-10
18	1	1	Jim	Powers	EC	N-10
19	4	4	Anais	Perkins	ID	N-10
20	1	1	Meisha	Jones	EA	N-10
	Judge: Dr. Craig Ralston		Garden Grove, CA
21	7	0	Vishakh	Pillai	IC	S-8
22	1	1	Trisha	Leungsikul	EA	N-10
23	3	3	Patrick	Xu	PS	I-15
24	7	7	Mitchell	Johnson	HSD PD	I-15	Regular High School Diploma
25	9	9	Bret	Paddock	HSD PD	I-15	Regular High School Diploma
26	10	10	Bret	Paddock	PB	N-10	Paderewski Medal, $200.00 Scholarship
27	2	1	Yi Ni	Lee	PA	N-10

Patrick Xu and Ranen Unger Hicks winners

In the MTAC young pianist competition Ranen took first and Patrick took second place in their age groups. Ranen broke his wrist beginning of April and had 2 weeks to learn a left hand piece. He opted not to perform, but he still received his trophy and prize money. Patrick is pictured with his mom. Patrick received a second place trophy and prize.