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Deep in the Heart of Texas- KMTA Grant Recipients Perform in Holiday Concert

January 7, 2013, 5:11 pm
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Katy Music Teachers’ Association is pleased to present our three grant recipients:  Nicoletta Sarabtidis, Cameron Vhalkamp, and Spencer Taylor.  These students were chosen by Brett Nelsen, Cinco Ranch High School Orchestra Director, and Brandon Amison, private string instructor to receive the first ever KMTA String Outreach Grant.  The grant was provided jointly by Music Teachers’ National Association and KMTA to encourage string students to continue music study, reach out to the community, and excel in leadership in their school orchestra program.

Recently, these students participated in the holiday concert provided by the Cinco Ranch High School Orchestra program.

Nicoletta Sarabtidis                                           Nicoletta Sarabtidis

Cameron Vhalkamp                                             Cameron Vhalkamp

Spencer Taylor                                             Spencer Taylor

These students are slated to perform in recital for the Katy Music Teachers’ Association meeting in April.  In addition, they have been busy auditioning for All-Region and All-State Orchestras, and learning solos for the upcoming UIL Region Solo and Ensemble Contest in February. They are also members of the Texas Music Teachers’ Association Student Affiliate.

KMTA is grateful for the collaboration of Mr. Brett Nelsen, director of Cinco Ranch Orchestras.

Brett Nelson

The cooperation between public school directors, private teachers, and accompanists can only make for a better music education for these bright, young students. Thank you to Brett Nelsen, Brandon Amison, KMTA, and MTNA for enabling these musicians to achieve greater levels of success!


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SOME GREAT TIPS FROM KAY LOWRY

January 31, 2013, 6:00 pm
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2012 IN REVIEW- We had visitors from 45 countries!

February 18, 2013, 12:54 pm
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The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 3,800 views in 2012. If every person who reached the top of Mt. Everest viewed this blog, it would have taken 6 years to get that many views.

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KMTA BOYS RECITAL

March 19, 2013, 6:10 pm
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KMTA recently held its annual Boys Recital.  The following students participated:

(Pictured)

First Row:     Kevin Yang, Gavin Zhang, Graham Bacak, Kevin Li,   Alex Norman, Joseph Norman

Second Row:    Oliver Stalker, Gautam Seenivasan, Evan Jin, Kenrich Huynh, Joseph Thang, Vinay Gautam

Last Row:   John Phillip Marshall, Aditya Garg, Santiago Garcia,

Sebastian Andrade

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Also (not pictured)

Joel Han, Adam Dailey, Joshua Fan, Max Wang, Kevin Han, Rick Huang, Justin Xu, Austin Xu, Jared Feliprada, Garrett Mueller,  Paul Glenn, Andy Ye, Cameron Vhalkamp, Spencer Taylor


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KMTA ENSEMBLE RECITAL

April 1, 2013, 5:11 pm
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Katy Music Teachers held its first Ensemble Recital Saturday, March 23 at the Living Word Lutheran Church.  The following students participated: (pictured)

Ensemble recital

Front Row: Connie Yang, Amory Tin, Nadia Troung, Isabella Troung, Kenrich Huynh, Evan Jin, Danny Tang, Sunny Tang, and Johann Pally.

Row 2: Garret Mueller, Madison Mueller, Adam Dailey, Mary Dailey, Hannah Townsend, Brooklyn Brumfield, Nicoletta Sarantidis

Row 3:  Lily Magenza, Madeline Dayton, Kirsten Moore, Jamie Wheeler, Avery Skinner, Madisen Skinner

Participating Teachers: Brandon Amison, Linda Bryan,Kay Lowry, Nancy Stevenson,Catherine Tetreault, Carmen Yip


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SHARON ZHU EARNS AWARDS FOR PIANO STUDY

May 14, 2013, 11:48 am
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Pictured is Sharon Zhu, Katy piano student of Mary Ann LaCour with awards received at the annual May Spring Recital held at Living Word Lutheran Church on May 4, 2013.  Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Zhu, Sharon received (awards left to right) the Katy Music Teacher’s Association Student Affiliate Award, the Studio Senior Award trophy, the Katy Music Teachers Spring Festival trophy – for the second time – and the Studio Superior Award trophy – also for the second time.  Zhu, a Senior at Cinco Ranch High School,  has participated in many piano events including the Texas Music Teachers State Theory Test and has been selected to perform on the Katy Music Teachers Association Honors Recital at both the annual Sonata Festival and the KMTA Spring Festival, both adjudicated events.  In addition to piano, Zhu participates in band and tennis. 
 Sharon Zhu

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STUDENTS OF MARY ANN LACOUR IN RECITAL

June 2, 2013, 4:02 pm
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Pictured are Katy piano students of Mary Ann LaCour who were presented in a recital on May 4th at the Living Word Lutheran Church.  Performers were (left to right) (Front) Riley Hall, Joey Absi, Allison Yang, Hannah Kirby, Rajasi Kolhatkar, Ahnyka Stone, Rachel Rodriguez, Olivia Upshaw; (Middle)Lindsay Chu, Lexie Kwon, Sharon Zhu, Jon McCoy, Julia Rodriguez; (Back) Jo Alanis, Emily Hyde, Scott Lennard, Addie Kwon, Gloria Fernandes.  Many students participated in Katy Music Teacher Association and Texas Music Teachers Association events throughout the year and awards were presented at the Spring Recital.

LACOUR RECITAL


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STUDENTS OF MARY ANN LACOUR WIN AWARDS

June 2, 2013, 4:04 pm
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Pictures are (left to right) Lexie Kwon and Addie Kwon, daughters of Mr. & Mrs. Vincent Kwon and piano students of Mary Ann LaCour of Katy.  At the annual Spring Recital held on May 4, 2013 at the Living Word Lutheran Church Lexie and Addie were awarded ribbons for achieving the Top Talent Circle in the 2012 National Piano Guild Auditions and Gold and Silver Medals earned in the Texas Music Teachers Association Student Affiliate Theory Tests.LACOURAWARDS


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JAMES THIBODEAUX WINS KMTA SCHOLARSHIP; STUDENT OF FRAN MAYFIELD

June 2, 2013, 4:10 pm
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James Alexander Thibodeaux will be graduating from SevenLakesHigh School in June and will be attending The University of Houston studying Computer Engineering and minoring in music. He played trumpet in Concert and Symphonic band his freshman year and Wind Symphony his Sophomore, Junior and Senior years, and in Jazz band for all four years; He also played in the school’s full orchestra all four years. He was the lead trumpet for the pit orchestra for the musical this year, “The Drowsy Chaperon,” and they were nominated for best pit orchestra for the Tommy Tunes awards. He received the outstanding jazz musician of the year from his director Damon Archer. He as advanced to state solo and ensemble the past three years and has advanced to audition for the state band the past two years. He is the son of Currnel J. Thibodeaux, Jr. (Jim) and Norma Thibodeaux.

James has also taken piano lessons for the past 13 years and participated in numerous competitions and theory testing.

 

JAMES THIBIDEAUX

 


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KMTA NAMES OFFICERS FOR THE 2013-2014 SCHOOL YEAR

June 2, 2013, 4:15 pm
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KMTA has elected the following as officers for the coming year:

Pictured from left to right are:

Fran Mayfield, Treasurer, Gwladys Hare, Secretary, Susan Lieberman, President and Anna Golka, 1st Vice President and Program Chairman.  Not pictured: Dawn Ferrier, Membership Chairman.KMTA officers


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Wee Folks Recital

November 22, 2013, 5:52 pm
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KMTA presented the annual Wee Folks Recital on October 19, 2013 at the LivingWordLutheranChurch.

The following students participated in the 10:00 Am recital.

From left to right, row 1:

Annie Li, Brian Xiong, Emma Zeng, Anthony Li, Olivia Chong, Anthony Zhu, Lucas Yuan, Timothy Chau, Megan Chou, Nathan Oentoro,

Row 2: Tony Chen, Victoria Zhang, Regina Wu, Cristy Chau, Nicole Teerman, Clair Huang, Reika Truong, Christina Gu, Tess Chan, Bella Chan and Kenrich Huyuh.

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The following students participated in the 11:00 AM Wee Folks Recital:

Amelie Kwok, Mia So, Iona Forrester, Abigail Dailey, Sophia tamlin, Alex Shi, Tracy Li, Keira Dawson, Lu Lu Ma, Julia Hu, Riley Hall, Darcie Birbiglia, Raghav Rau, Andrew Marshall, Kathryn Marshall, Jessie Sun, Joshua Lyles, Arnav Rao.

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Participating teachers were LInda Bryan, Susan Lieberman, Cheryl Marshall, Colleen Stadnick, Nancy Stevenson, Catherine Tetreault, MaryAnn Whitworth and Carmen Yip.


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Katy Music Teachers Association Annual Jazz/Pops Recital

December 4, 2013, 5:53 pm
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The Katy Music Teachers Association held its annual Jazz/Pops recitals on November 9 at the Living Word Lutheran Church in Katy.  The following students performed in the 11:00 Am recital:

Row 1, from left to right:

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Gavin Yang, Kevin Yang, Caitlin Nhan, Kaitlin Shek, Max Wang, Henry Lu, Amy Peng, Stephanie Wang, Connie Yang, Joanna Wang.

Row 2, from left to right: Isabella Truong, Austin Xu, Nadia Truong, Kelly Hu, Raghavi Rajesh, Justin Xu, Joshua Fan, Hanna Teerman, Henry Botond.

The following students performed in the 12:00 PM recital:

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Row 1, from left to right:

Sunny Chen, Candace Li, Iman Al Harthy, Ellen Yue, Lauren Yao, Joseph Thang, Jesse Zou, Matthew Lyles.

Row 2: from left to right:

Sourav Banerjee, Teresa Hoang, Jon McCoy, Harshul Rao, Rachel Yuan, Sarah Zhang, Lindsay Chu ,Will Gambrell, , McKenzie Sweeney.

Participating teachers were Linda Bryan, Susan Lieberman, Nancy Stevenson, Catherine Tetreault, MaryAnn LaCour Whitworth and Carmen Yip.


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Testing Pianos Like A Pro

May 20, 2014, 4:52 pm
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PIANO PRICE POINT

May 20, 2014, 4:55 pm
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October Meeting Program

October 14, 2015, 2:08 pm
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KMTA held a lively discussion about practice tips and techniques after the September meeting? Do you have any advice you’d like to give if you are a music teacher? We are looking forward to this month’s program on October 21, entitled Alicia Fiderkiewicz “Challenges for Young Pianists Learning/Performing Chopin”.


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KMTA OUTREACH

October 14, 2015, 2:10 pm
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Editor’s note:  this is a bit outdated, but vital anyway!

 

Making a difference!

KMTA outreach

 

I would like to report to you about two of our members who are making a difference in the world through KMTA’s outreach funds.

 

Although KMTA does not have a TMTA grant this year, we kept the funds for matching that grant in the budget to help deserving students who need financial assistance.

 

Brandon Amison has applied for up to $270 .00 dollars to cover fees and expenses

for Grace Wojan.  Grace is a promising cello student at Mayde Creek High School for which Brandon is providing free lessons.  Kudos to Brandon for reaching out to her.

 

Dawn Ferrier is working with the Make-A –Wish foundation providing piano and voice lessons to Jamie, an 8 year old cancer patient who requested these lessons as her wish.  Their family has exhausted all monetary funds and resources (including funding from Make-A –Wish foundation) on her medical care.  Dawn is teaching her free of charge and KMTA will be providing funds up to $250.00 to cover the cost of her music books and a keyboard.  Although Jamie is quite ill and hospitalized much of the time, Jamie is loving her lessons with Dawn.  Dawn is finding the experience incredibly humbling and feels that she is getting as much or more out of the experience as Jamie.  What a profound testament that this child has chosen to fill what may be her last days with music.

 

 

Kay Lowry wrote a wonderful blog article about Jamie that can be found

here: A Little Girl’s Musical Wish

 

Just want to make you aware of the great things our organization is doing and I

Know you will want to join me in thanking Brandon and Dawn for their willingness to reach out on behalf of KMTA.

 

Musically Yours,

Sue Lieberman

 

 


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MUSIC’S ORIGIN

January 19, 2016, 5:29 pm
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I found this little blurb in the Houston Chronicle in the “Earthweek” section:

 

“Musical talent in humans and other creatures appears related to needs to move as synchronized groups in avoiding danger, one researcher says. Matz Larsson, senior physician at Sweden’s Örebro University Hospital says musical traits have been engendered by the need for some species to coordinate sounds that briefly prevent them from hearing predators and other dangers. Such behavior favoring evolutionary success is typically rewarded with the release of the ‘feel good’ chemical dopamine in the brain”.

I found this fascinating! What are your thoughts?

—Distributed by Universal Uclick

http://www.earthweek.com


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Diana Lopez will be our new blogger!

April 17, 2016, 12:01 pm
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Welcome, Diana Lopez as the new blogger. I wish you luck and thank you for taking over!


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Introducing Collaborative Piano

April 19, 2016, 3:34 pm
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At the Katy Music Teachers Association General Meeting on February 17, 2016, Dr. James Cho and his wife performed and introduced our music teachers to collaborative Piano through Suzuki String Repertoire.  It is something that we, as private music teachers, may not always include in our lessons but can be important for the students to learn to listen and play collaboratively with other students.

Dr. Cho took us through various selections of classical music that we could combine our students to play together.  The Katy Music Teachers enjoyed some wonderful excerpts of pieces that could be played with violin and piano.  It was a wonderful class and performance by Dr. Cho and his wife.


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Masterclass with Sergey Kuznetsov

April 19, 2016, 3:49 pm
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On March 9, 2016 at the General Meeting of the Katy Music Teachers Association, Sergey Kuznetsov gave a masterclass working with two students of teachers in the association. It was a wonderful opportunity to watch a master teacher teach and positively critique the students!

BIOGRAPHY

Born: 1978 – Russia

The Russian-born pianist and music pedagogue, Sergey [Sergei] Kuznetsov, was born to a family of musicians and started his musical education at the age of 5 at the Moscow Special Gnessin School of Music (Music School affiliated to the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatoire), and in 1998 was admitted to the Tchaikovsky Conservatoire to the class of an outstanding professor Mikail Voskresensky, graduating in 2001 with distinction. Since 2001, Sergey perfected his performing skills at postgraduate courses with Oleg Maisenberg in Vienna University of Music and, since 2003, at Moscow Conservatory with Mikhail Voskresensky. In 2003 he was awarded his Diploma with High Distinction. In 2002 Sergey received the prestigious Lili Kraus Scholarship at TCU (Fort Worth, Texas) and commenced his Artist Diploma studies with Professor Tamás Ungár. After winning a conspicuous scholarship, Sergey was widening his education under the guidance of Joaquín Achúcarro at Dallas Southern Methodist University. Currently, Sergey is a DMA (Doctorate Degree) student at University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles under the guidance of a legendary professor Daniel Pollack (Piano). Sergey also studies composition and electro acoustic media at USC.

During his studies in the USA, Sergey Kuznetsov has always enjoyed teaching and advocating classical music amongst various groups of people. In 2003 he organized series of educational projects in collaboration with Van Cliburn Foundation. The mission was to bring classical music to children whose parents can’t afford education. The project had become so popular in Texas that Sergey had to travel around the state with his lectures and concerts. In 2005-2007 he worked as a Teaching Assistant in Southern Methodist University in Dallas. Several of his students have won national and international prizes that supported their way towards studies in music. Sergey’s approach in piano pedagogy is to show his students how great and large the world of music actually is. His knowledge of piano repertoire is impressive after taking a special advanced piano repertoire course at USC. He uses methods and books published in Russia, Europe and the United States, incorporating music theory, technique exercises, ear training and composition into his lessons. Sergey is a member of MTAC and MTNA.


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