Dear Members,
Happy New Year! Hope you all had a relaxing and joyous holiday season.
We have several important deadlines approaching in this month:
- January 14th — VOCE competition application due
- January 15th — CM Panel students to enter repertoire online
- January 31th — CM students’ online evaluation/repertoire information due
- January 31th — Sound of Baroque/ Bach Festival online application deadline
Orange Coast Cities and Long Beach branches will be joining the VOCE recital on February 14th, 2015. To access the online application, login to www.mtac.org and find the VOCE tab. Please contact Junko Nojima , our VOCE chair, for any questions.
CM online base is now opened for repertoire entry, Branch Honors (for level 5 and up), and Convention Recital Applications. This year, we have two different locations for Keyboard evaluation on March 22nd. Please be very careful when you request “Carpool” for siblings and ensembles. Also, please follow the guidelines for repertoire entry. Visit MTAC website for helpful tips: https://www.mtac.org/cgi-bin/mtac/mtac_documents.php?mtac_documents=1
Sound of Baroque and Bach Festival will be held on February 28th, 2015. You may enroll students on our branch website mtacsouthcoast.org, under festival. An email announcement will be sent out soon once the online registration is open. For any questions, please contact Chi Asada.
You will soon be receiving a survey from our Festival committee. In order to increase and to balance the enrollment for our four festivals, we would like to hear your opinions about the order of festivals. Your comments and suggestions are valuable and important to us!
Our next branch meeting is coming up on February 18th. We are pleased to have one of our new members, Dr. Jonathan E. Mann, for conducting a masterclass. All instruments are welcome! Please contact Chi Asada if you or your students are interested. You can find more about Jonathan on http://mannhands.blogspot.com/
We cannot get away from computers in our daily lives. Please enjoy this short video from YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGKwx-BFO0E
Let us waltz into a successful 2015!
Musically,
Melody Lu