February Branch meeting

February Branch meeting

Date: Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Time: 10 AM
Location: Field’s Piano

A business lecture presented by Dr. Monica Lee. The lecture will focus on tax and advertisement (ways to reduce student drops/maintaining student enrollment).

Dr. Monica E. Lee oversees the piano program at Fullerton College, including piano performance and pedagogy. Before accepting her current position at Fullerton College in 2000, Dr. Lee has served on the piano faculties of Northwestern University, Concordia University, and Prince Georges Community College. In addition, Dr. Lee has been teaching privately for over 25 years.
As a pianist, she performed solo and orchestral pieces throughout the United States, Korea and Russia. She is currently the chair of the Annual Piano Ensemble Festival<http://music.fullcoll.edu/pianofestival> held at Fullerton College; A Member of the College of the Examiners of the Royal Conservatory of Music; and a member of MTNA and MTAC. She was appointed 2005-2007 member of the Community Advisory Council for Higher Education for the 56th District.

Hope to see everyone there!

Special Thanks

The South Coast board would like to express their sincere appreciation to our head Festival Chair, Chi Asada and
joint Classical Festival chair, Naoko Ono and Romantic Festival chair, Junko Nojima for a very well run festival weekend! We would also like to thank Andreas Eckstein for the professional set-up, stunning printed programs and student place name cards. Special thanks to Kevin Kao for helping Andreas with the set-up and to teachers for all their help in announcing programs and general help. All of you contributed in making our branch event a big success!

Special thanks to Andy Huynh for his excellent work with our Festival registration program. It is a nice added feature to be able to view results directly on the website!

Please see Lisa Honea’s VOCE column below.
Wishing all of you a wonderful and blessed Thanksgiving! Happy Gobbling!
The MTAC South Coast Board of Directors

VOCE Competition

VOCE Competition
This
year we will again be combining with both the Orange Coast Cities and Long
Beach Branches for our VOCE Recital.
This is a wonderful opportunity for our students to hear many other
excellent students from other branches.
However, our South Coast Branch students will only compete with other
students from our branch.So winners may
be selected from each of the branches to go on and compete at the State Finals.
Date:Saturday,
February 9, 2013
Time:TBA
Location:Saddleback College
Fee:$45
per soloist, $35 per each member of an ensemble
Time limit:10 minutes total (please
be aware that the time limit for the State Finals is 9 minutes).
Application
Deadline:January 19, 2013
There is a new application procedure this year.Please go to www.mtac.org
and login to access the online application and instructions.They will be found under the “VOCE” tab.Be sure to read all directions
carefully.
The state recently changed the payment requirement for the
branch competition.Payments will not be
made online.Instead teachers must make
one check payable to MTAC OCCN for the total of all student fees.Please mail the check and proof of age to:
Lisa Honea
1821 Stonehenge Drive
Tustin, CA 92780
Or you may scan the
proof of age information and email it to:
If you have any questions, please email lisa_honea@hotmail.com.
We are looking forward to another exciting VOCE Recital this
year.