SPRING NEWSLETTER 2014 The Academy Accent
Table of Contents Introducing the Volunteer
2 String Festival Committee 3 Vocal Festival 4 Guitar Festival Hi All, 5 Finding My Voice 6 This Summer at MANC I wanted to let everyone know a little about 8 Lessons for Life Lunch me as volunteer coordinator for The Music 10 Merit Scholarship Winners Academy. My name is Debbie Little and my 11 Student News 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 Upcoming Events 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 5/18 Student Showcase Recitals, I could have made for our daughter. Alex has excelled under 12:30 pm, 2:00 pm, 3:30 pm Stephanie, and we could not have found a more positive 5/18 Merit Scholarship Winners’ experience. Two years ago my husband and I were searching for Recital, 5:00 pm a voice teacher for our then eleven year old daughter. Little did I 5/24-25 Holiday: studios and offices know just what a wonderful place The Music Academy would be closed for us. 6/9 Last Day of Spring Trimester 6/13 First Day of Summer Over the last two years, I have come to love The Music Academy Trimester (10-week session) and its mission. Music in any form is so very important as I am 6/20 Artist Faculty Concert Series sure all of you already know. I decided that I wanted to do more #1: Stephanie Foley Davis, than just bring Alex to lessons. I wanted to help such an mezzo-soprano and important place help others learn music. Currently, I am Susannah Steele, piano coordinating volunteers via Sign Up Genius for events at The 7/4 Independence Day: studios Music Academy. I hope that others here at The Music Academy and offices closed can sign up to volunteer whenever they are able. My goal is to 7/18 Artist Faculty Concert Series have enough volunteers at each event so that our wonderful #2, 7:30 pm: Samee Griffith teachers can spend more time with the students. Please if you and Aaron Mood, piano are able, donate just a little or a lot of your time to help make 8/15 Artist Faculty Concert Series every event at The Music Academy a success. #3, 7:30 pm: Colleen Chenail, Heather Lofdahl, Ruth The Music Academy is happy to have volunteers that only give Metheny, and Karl Ronnevik, us one hour of their time a year if that's what their schedule string quartet allows. 8/17 Student Showcase Recitals, 12:30 pm, 2:00 pm I personally look forward to working with all the wonderful 8/17 Adult Student Recital and volunteers at The Music Academy! Reception, 4:00 pm 8/22 Last Day of Summer -Debbie Little Trimester MANC parent and Volunteer Committee Coordinator 8/23 First Day of Fall Trimester (18-week session) 2
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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3 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 Fifth Annual Vocal Festival ceased and was not resumed until January 15, 2013 - only ten days after hearing the March 21-22 performance. The concert provoked a terrible guilt trip while enjoying the music. I Once again, the Vocal Festival was a success! 26 singers participated kept thinking “I shoulda” kept singing and in the adjudication portion where they sang two pieces from memory for tried to stay in the club. “I shoulda” quickly three voice teachers. They all received comments, a certificate and a became “I’m gonna” and I did have my first ribbon if they received a rating. The Voice Faculty welcomed guest ever voice lesson on January 15, 2013 at judge, Bridget Moriarty who is currently working toward her Doctorate MANC with Charlene Marchant. in Voice at UNCG. Dr. Julie Celona-VanGorden, faculty at Elon University, was our guest artist this year! She and our own Christy My wife Judy is an artist. I have watched Wisuthseriwong gave a beautiful and diverse recital on Friday night. her encourage our grandchildren to Julie also gave a masterclass to four Music Academy singers and one develop their artistic talents. Our oldest student from the studio of local teacher, Amberly Foulkrod. All the granddaughter is about to enter design masterclass participants showed great improvement after working with school at NCSU. Another granddaughter Julie in this "public voice lesson." To close out the wonderful day, 14 takes piano and loves to sing. I have been Music Academy voice students performed in the Vocal Festival to her recitals and she came to one of Celebration Recital! The audience was treated to classical, musical mine. At Christmas last year Meredith theater and pop songs from our talented students. asked if we could sing a carol together at our family gathering. She played her Thank you to the amazing Voice Faculty, Christy Wisuthseriwong and keyboard and we sang. Can life be better Susannah Steele who were here all weekend working the Music than that? Academy's mission to make this years Vocal Festival a success and celebration! See you next year! Music has many rewards. Want to get away from it all? Get into music. You can’t sing or -Stephanie Foley Davis, Chair of the Voice Faculty play an instrument and think about much else. In retirement music has sure kept me Alexander Technique Workshop stimulated and mentally active. I have learned a lot in a short time and have been March 29, 2014 challenged to memorize and perform. I stand in awe of the talented faculty at Certified Alexander instructor Ashley Hyers (Greensboro College) led an MANC and wowed by the young students interactive workshop exploring movement and breath. Students learned of all ages. Opportunities to advance and about integrating breath with movement to help remove unnecessary improve abound at MANC. The recent tension so that they can perform more freely and easily. 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
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4 Ninth Annual Guitar Festival: March 8, 2014
This year’s Guitar performing arts high Festival was a big school in Guilford success! Thanks to all County. His the students, guest performance and artists, and clinicians demonstration added a who participated. lot to the festival and Despite a late start due audience members were to snow, the festival treated to a beautiful began with a Music performance and an Academy Student Concert with Keagan Burgess, who informative harp demonstration. performed a transcription of Isaac Albeniz's famous piano work Asturias (Leyenda) and Waltz Espanol by Jose Ferrar. After lunch, the festival continued with a MANC guitar Keagan was followed by Carl Humphreys who played Faculty concert including Mark Mazzatenta on jazz Ferdinando Carulli's Allegretto, and Elijah Buist, who played guitar, guitarist Brad Dickerson performing his own Paul McCartney's Blackbird. We at The Music Academy are compositions with violinist Colleen Chenail, and Ken extremely proud of all three Brown performing on sitar and baglama saz with violinist students and thank them for Ruth Metheny. After the concert attendees enjoyed sharing their talent. After the getting creative with Robin Hrdlicka's “Rock Star concert, all festival participants Photobooth” workshop. were given insight into the world of songwriting with We wrapped things up with a wonderful concert of South festival clinician and MANC American guitar music from guitar duo Patrick Lui and faculty member Brad Jason Rogers. Their performance of guitar works by Dickerson. Maximo Diego Pujol kept the audience on the edge of their seats. We would like to thank all the artists, This year’s festival also attendees, and organizers for making this ninth annual included a very special Celtic festival a year to remember! harp concert by Mike Conners. Mike is the head of the Guitar -Ken Brown, Artistic Co-Director 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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5 audience were other adult students and faculty plus my Finding My Voice dad, brother, sister-in-law, and a friend who were very gracious with their applause after my performance. I found my voice at the Music Academy of North Carolina. However, when I listened to the recording later, I wanted to send them all a sympathy note for having had to listen The story of how I lost my voice is a little like the lyrics of to my singing. I was pleased that I had sung in the a country song, “bad man done me wrong.” After 36 years recital; it was a big step for me, but I knew that I still had of marriage, my husband decided he wanted to grow old work to do to really sing from my core. with someone else, and my life was shattered. After living in Kentucky and raising two children with him during that My second challenge came with the Vocal Festival in time, I decided after an absence of 40 years to return in March 2014. I had to memorize two pieces (also July 2011 to my hometown of Greensboro, North lullabies), wear a dress (having retired, I had to search Carolina, to be with my 93 year-old father and my the closets for something presentable), and sing before extended family. three of the Academy’s teachers. Those twelve minutes were so special: I reached the high notes in my songs After I was settled, I decided that I wanted voice without a problem, felt confident in my ability to sing, and lessons—not because I am any great singer—but received some positive and helpful feedback. Most because my voice had been choked by the divorce. I importantly, Charlene said, it’s all starting to work. didn’t know who I was or what I thought, independent of my husband. I owe a debt of gratitude to the Music Academy for so much and to Charlene Marchant in particular for her So I asked around and eventually found that the best patience and for her gift of recognizing that everyone has resource in Greensboro was the Music Academy of North the potential to sing, and believing that people want to Carolina. I went online and looked at the photos of all the hear me sing is the key. My grandson, Asa, particularly voice teachers, and I decided to contact Charlene enjoys my voice as I croon him to sleep, and though he Marchant based on the friendliness of her photo and the might not be the most discerning audience, he is the description of her accomplishments. I signed up for best to me. lessons beginning August 2, 2012. After nearly two years of lessons, I am walking more For me, the advantage of taking lessons at the age of 66 nobly, shoulders back, breathing a little better, and the is that I am not training to be on American Idol; I am doing songbird in my soul and my voice is resounding. And I it for myself. I cringe at what Charlene had to listen to in plan to keep on learning and improving at the Music the beginning—if you sing from your throat and not your Academy. inner core, then it’s probably like a scratchy record. But the faculty at the Music Academy are magnificent -Katherine Kelleher Sohn, MANC voice student 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 Thank You miss if I can help it. Playbill Advertisers! When I sang in high school and college choirs, I was classified as an alto. The first lesson I learned from A Cleaner World The Greensboro Charlene was that I was a soprano! As I listened to Carolina Bank Montessori School sopranos that she recommended, I imagined that I could Hicks, McDonald, Well•Spring never reach those high notes. Noecker, LLP Living History Kids Kisco Senior Living Lincoln Financial After six weeks of lessons, Charlene provided a written Knit Bin Foundation review of my progress. She recommended that I stand Living History Kids Isaacson, Isaacson, nobly in my voice, shoulders back, and let the sound Pam Murphy Sheridan, & Fountain, emerge from my core. I sobbed as I read her words. Here Music For A Great Space LLP was someone who believed that I could stand nobly, that I Noble Academy Chapman Law deserved to honor my voice. Having been beaten so low, Designature this was indeed a message of hope. Greensboro Day School Quaintance Weaver MANC playbill provided The first challenge, one year into my weekly lessons was The Painted Plate with the generous my first recital in August 2013. I sang an Italian lullaby, Eastern Music Festival sponsorship of Mille Cherubini in Coro, one of my favorites. With my first Piedmont Music Center Quality Printing. grandson due in mid-December, I wanted to learn as Interested in a tuition credit? Talk to us about many lullabies as I could. Although I had sung that song advertising your own company in our playbill! Contact alongFall 2013 with my• The Andrea Music Bocelli Academy CD in theof Northshower, Carolina singing • Greensboro,Stephanie NC Foley Davis (336.379.8748 x109 or the high notes in front of a group was a challenge. In the [email protected])
6 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 String Chamber Music Camp: Aug 4-8, 9 am – 12 pm Explore the world of music by experiencing a The Chamber Music Camp is a chance for variety of instruments and musical styles! No string students to enjoy making music in small experience necessary. Recommended for ages groups. Open to all string instrumentalists 6-10. $135 with one year of lessons, grades 3 and above. $135 Musical Theater Camp: July 7-11, 9 am – 12 pm Campers will put together a mini-musical with Choral Camp: July 14-18, 1-4 pm songs, dialogue and movement to be Ensembles will sing choral music of varied presented on Friday for family and friends. No styles and in at least one foreign language. No experience necessary! Just lots of energy and prior voice training required but choral fun! Ages 6-12. $135 experience and ability to follow a voice part in choral music is desirable. Rising 7th-12th Fiddle Camp: July 28-Aug 1, 1-4 pm grades. $135 We will learn the basics of playing harmonies together. The camp ends with an informal Audition Prep Camp: July 7-11, 1-4 pm performance for parents and friends. All ages; Campers will be practicing a kid-friendly students must have experience at the level of dialogue and song suitable for children’s Suzuki Bk. 1 Perpetual Motion and above. theater or musical theater auditions. They will $135 have a “mock audition”on Friday, with family and friends being their auditioners! This gives Guitar Camp: Play & Record: June 16-20, 9am – 12pm children an idea of what to expect at an Expand your guitar skills with other guitarists audition, and gives them tools to take with of all skill levels. Explore different styles of them to be ultimately prepared! Ages 8-12. music and record a song of your choosing with $135 guidance from instructors in a professional setting. Grades 3-8. $135 Garage Band Camp: Aug 4-8, 1-4 pm Students will gain experience playing in a Suzuki Violin Camp: July 28-Aug 1, 9 am – 12 pm group, song writing, recording, and more!!! Suzuki camp will include general music as well Students must own and bring their own as daily masterclass and group lessons. There instrument. Students must have at least a year will be a concert on Friday for parents. experience at their instrument (or voice). Students must be Book 1 Perpetual Motion and Rising 7th-12th grades. $135 above. All ages. $135
Band Prep Camp: June 23-27, 1 -4 pm Jazz Mini-Camp: June 23-29, 10 am – 12:30 pm Pre-Band Camp provides an opportunity for Students will learn tunes by jazz masters Duke rising 5th- 7th graders to get a head start on Ellington and Miles Davis among others and their music reading and playing skills. develop improvisational skills in the jazz genre. Students should bring their own instrument. No previous experience necessary. Students Open to all beginning wind and brass players. meet daily from 10am-12:30pm, excluding $135 Sunday when students will perform for their families in the afternoon. $145 Fall 2013 • The Music Academy of North Carolina • Greensboro, NC
7 Rhythm Mini-Camp: June 23-27, 1:00-2:00 pm Flute Choir Mini-Camp: June 23-27, 2:30-3:30 pm Feel the beat and improve your rhythm while Challenge yourself in a fun and instructional you make music, socialize, learn and grow! week for flute players of all levels. Students will This camp will include activities to challenge strengthen their flute technique, learn new and engage campers with structured repertoire, gain performing experience, and instrument play, ensemble participation and make new friends! Students will also be able rhythm games. Campers should have at least to try out the piccolo, alto flute, and bass flute! one year of experience on an instrument/voice. Rising 6th-12th Grades. $75 Rising 3rd-8th Grades. $75 Adult Chamber Music: July 1 – August 24. August 4-8, 5:30-6:30 pm Violin Twinkle Mini-Camp: Rehearsals TBD: chamber groups will be The Violin Twinkle Class is an opportunity for assigned upon registration (by June 13), after beginning violin students to enjoy learning which they will meet weekly at a day/time to be together. They will learn about position and determined by the group and teacher. This making music as well as develop music class is for adults with all levels of experience, reading skills. Ages 4-10, no experience or MANC and non-MANC students welcome. currently studying up to Go Tell Aunt Rhody. $75
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 JAZZ CAMP 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 Fall 2013 • The Music Academy of North Carolina • Greensboro, NC
8 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. Fall 2013 • The Music Academy of North Carolina • Greensboro, NC
10 One Voice from the Music Academy of North Carolina
Let me take you back in time with me. Together we see do is tell them how smart and lucky they are to know at a young child living quietly in a small town. She loves to an early age that they can take voice lessons and learn sing. Yet she abandons her voice because it squeaks to hit those elusive high notes. on the high notes and causes her great embarrassment. In time she discovers that if she holds her breath on the With heart beating fast and feeling her voice shriveling high notes, she can carefully maneuver her lips into a by the second, she approaches that purple door she large O-shaped ring, avoid the squeak, and make was told to look for with Charlene Marchant’s name to everyone watching her face think she sings with such the left side of it. She holds her breath and enters, angelic joy in front of family and church friends. Later, knowing there will be no long church pew filled with during her teen years, she hears Jackie Kennedy’s voices to hide behind. whispering voice luring the audience during that infamous televised tour of the White House. She thinks The life-changing moment comes then and there. She that breathless tone to her voice will serve her well as sees that warm, welcoming smile coming from behind she finesses through life’s many social challenges. Little that shiny black grand piano, inside a cozy quiet room. does she notice as her voice grew fainter from these That delightful private space becomes a secret place childhood habits. She guesses she just wasn’t one of where her little voice no longer feels invisible, but is the lucky ones who were born to be a singer. acknowledged in a way that gives it a sense of being special and, more importantly, being filled with potential. Fast forward to 2012. This former cherubic-looking little angel is now sixty two years young and walking through That voice! Yes, it was a tender voice, but it now reflects the door of the Music Academy of North Carolina for her on how it proved to have the potential to sing duets with first voice lesson. Her heart feels as though it is beating two caring high-school girls, and to sing solo at the close to the back of her tongue. How will she ever get a Music Festival. That voice no longer hides behind the sound to come out on the easiest of those low notes voices of others. That voice says “Thank you” to the that she had managed throughout her childhood? She MANC and Charlene Marchant for giving it a safe and wants to turn around and run when she sees two high nurturing place to go and find its sound that had been school girls in the hallway who appear to have just hidden so long finished a lesson. What was she thinking when she put voice lessons on her bucket list? She manages to flash -Jackie Tanseer, MANC voice student a smile the girls’ way, but she what she really wants to
Congratulations to this year’s merit scholarship award winners!
Kevin Agner, cello; student of Diane Bonds Caitlin Lamb, clarinet; student of Cat Keen Hock & Trevor Molly Auten, voice; student of Mittie Douglass Davis Elijah Buist, guitar; student of Ken Brown Alex Little, voice; student of Stephanie Foley Davis Jonah Chiu, violin; student of Colleen Chenail Claire McDowell, piano; student of Susannah Steele Rachel Cline, voice; student of Mittie Douglass Shashwat Prabhakar, piano; student of Janice Wells Harmony Dalton, flute; student of Peter Shanahan Rohini Rajarayanan, piano; student of Janice Wells Kathryn Evans, violin; student of Colleen Chenail Karissa Sitepu, piano; student of Susannah Steele Ben Frens, percussion; student of Andrew Dancy Will Soler, guitar; student of Brad Dickerson Arwen He, piano; student of Christy Wisuthseriwong Bryan Wang, violin; student of Colleen Chenail Jasmine Ismail, voice; student of Stephanie Foley Davis Eric Wang, piano; student of Christy Wisuthseriwong Noah Woods, piano; student of Amy Zigler
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11 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 Lessons for Life Society Kansas University this summer. Thank you for your support! Your contribution helps us reach our goal of long term sustainability. From the violin studio of Jorge Rodiguez Ochoa: Abbotswood at Irving Park Kenton and Page Kreager Richard R. Allen Dr. and Mrs. Michael Leddy Congratulations to Charlotte Crater on making David and Lori Belk Bill and Ellen Linton it to all-state orchestra this year! The Boles Family Avery Lloyd
Noah and Kellie Burgess Virginia and Michael Lombardo From the clarinet studio of Cat Keen Hock Holly Chambers and Rick Mother Murphy's Laboratories Denina Valletta was selected for Central Steedle Pamela Murphy District Middle School Band. Susan and Rasmus Fenger Bill and Patty McIvor James Hong was selected for Central District Sabine and Robert Ford Robin Morgan High School Band. Bob Gingher and Susan Marvin and Watty Pinson McMullen Caitlin Lamb was selected for Randolph All- Mittie Kay Smith County High School Band. Heritage Green B.J. Williams Dr. and Mrs. James Hochrein Jane and Ernest Whichard From the piano studio of Susannah Steele David and Laura Holley Earle and Lynette Wrenn Kisco Senior Living Erin Humphreys will perform the role of Doug and Kelly Wright Connie Kotis Snoopy in Brightest Star School of Performing Arts’ You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown. Interested in joining? Contact Stephanie Foley Davis at 379.8748, x109. Fall 2013 • The Music Academy of North Carolina • Greensboro, NC