Raleigh Piano Teachers Association May our words be Dolce, Our hearts be Giocoso, Affiliate of North Carolina Music Teachers Association Our spirits, Con Fuco, And all our teaching, Con Amore Sunday: From the President April 2013 *I learned that I’m not the only teacher having Number 101 Marie Willett a problem with getting my students to practice consistently, and that I’m going to have to try some new creative tricks to make www.raleighpianoteachers.org What I Learned from the MTNA it happen. National Conference Yahoo group: raleighpianoteachers One idea I liked in particular is to have my The night before: students “blog” about their practice time, either on the computer or leave room Inside this Issue *Don’t “personalize” your luggage underneath each specific assignment. immediately after purchase because then you cannot return it to the store. • *There is a hidden Mickey Mouse in the From the President ceramic tiles of the hotel shower. I proudly painted a keyboard and paw prints 1 on the black suitcase for easy recognition. Monday:

*If your suitcase looks too big, it probably is. *The keynote speaker Rick Beyer told us

• Clavier Subscription some of the greatest music stories never told, 2 My “masterpiece” was 2 inches exceeding the from his book of the same title. I had to buy Deadline maximum and would cost me $150 round trip. the book, and of course had it autographed! • Musicale… Two very old duffle bags had to suffice • RPTA Meetings *I learned that earthquakes over there are not instead. • as big of a deal as they are over here. Dear Judge… • Piano for Sale The flight: Tuesday: • New Program at *Be sure the gate number on your ticket is the *I learned that just because I got my nerve up Meredith College one you are staring at for an hour. to go down the hotel waterslide a few times, • Featured Guest Artist- that I am now too old and chicken to ride Teacher Though we were most likely the first ones at even small roller coasters and scream at the the airport for that flight, we were the last two top of my lungs. to board the plane... only after they • Upcoming Concerts announced our names on the speaker... “It’s A Small World” is now more my style. 3 twice!! featuring RPTA *When audiences really like something there Members and Students *If things get rough, close your eyes and can be no end to encores. • Dear Raleigh Piano picture yourself on a bumpy hayride, and try to forget the fact that the pilot said no one Teachers… The famous piano duo Anderson & Roe gave was allowed to use the lavatory. • an amazing show, standing room only for two Important Dates and hours, and then the audience brought them Events *If your luggage is wet at baggage claims, back for FIVE encores. your clothes probably are too. Check them out on youtube and show your

Pedagogy Saturday: students! • Upcoming Ignat 4 Solzhenitsyn *I learned that it WAS possible to keep my Wednesday: attention focused on master classes and Concert sessions about playing big piano pieces with *I learned that the conference and our time to small hands even though I was surrounded enjoy California were over way too soon. by amazing sights and sounds of Disney.

*A men’s restroom CAN be converted to a *I learned, over and over and over again, that pleasant women’s room with the addition of Debbie had forgotten just how beautiful hanging plants in the urinals and a heavy California was (inside joke ;o). dose of Glade Sense & Spray.

***The 2014 MTNA Conference will be March th *The Ahn Trio was a fabulous ending to a first 22-26 in Chicago!!**** day in Anaheim.

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RPTA Group Clavier Subscription Dear Judge Piano For Sale

$20 for a year/ 6 issues ($25 for We teachers may often moonlight as Yamaha G1 baby grand, Walnut individual subscription, if not made adjudicators in the spring. finish-$4,750. Excellent condition through the RPTA group rate). The and regularly tuned. Priced to sell. deadline is April 17, (next meeting). The best judges are those who teach, of It's been a great piano, but I'm course. No, it is not right to approach inheriting a piano from my folks and Subscription is from June 2013-June judges regarding their comments about 2014, mailed directly to your address. your student, but what harm could there need room. be in addressing judges in general in our You can either mail the check to Pin Pin newsletter? Please contact Sooyoung Kang at Jong, or bring it to our April meeting. [email protected] for more If you have something to add, perhaps information. Pin Pin Jong, 511 Frontgate Drive, Cary, we could continue this list in next NC 27519 month’s edition: An email was also uploaded to the

yahoo board which includes a Questions? 919-447-0185 Dear Judge…. picture.

- Thank you for your willingness MUSICALE… to take on such an arduous task, but yet treating each student as if they have Meredith College Offers a New coming soon on April 21 in Carswell made your day by auditioning for you. Program!!! Recital Hall at 3:00 pm. - Thank you for giving at least a Meredith College Music Department starting compliment, even if you really I have received one entry and the is happy to announce its new have to be creative. Performance Certificate in Piano! promise of two others. However,

MANY MORE ARE NEEDED for a - Don’t over-compliment, successful program. I hope you are however, especially if you are giving any See Kent Lyman, Tom Lohr, or planning to send entries soon! The grade less than Superior. Margaret Evans for details. deadline is April13. I'll be checking my email and my mailbox daily! - Thank you for writing legibly.

- Be sure to make note if the Margaret Evans –Featured Guest Thank you for your participation in student stops and restarts; they don’t Artist-Teacher at FSU this important event in the lives of always tell us teachers. our students. Alma Sparks, Chair On March 22-23, Margaret Evans was - If the student shares with you one of three teachers nation-wide invited . his/her concern about the condition of to Florida State University as Guest . the piano and/or bench, it would be Artist-Teacher for its first annual . helpful to let the teacher know Symposium for Excellence in Teaching. . somewhere on the comment sheet She presented four sessions: a talk on RPTA - Don’t assume that the student her philosophy of teaching; a master has not practiced and prepared because class to performing pianists; a master MEETINGS of a memory problem; sometimes they class which critiqued FSU masters just have a bad day. students as they taught their own students; and she participated in a April 17, 2013 - Because you probably judge panel discussion/question-answer The Unknown Horowitz: The multiple events, take time to read the session. Man and His Music definitions of grades and consider the point range, for they are not all created The two other Artist-Teachers were the Presented by Sherrill Martin, equal. nationally known Mary Siciliano (Detroit, UNC-W MI) and Maria Gomez (Miami, FL). At - Thank you for making it clear to the end of the Symposium, all three me that I need to stress “more dynamic teachers were presented with plaques at May 15, 2013 contrast.” I don’t believe I had a single an Honors Ceremony. RPTA Teacher Solo and student who escaped that phrase this Ensemble Musicale year. This Symposium was sponsored by the Piano Performance division of the university.

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Dear Raleigh Piano Teachers Upcoming Concerts Featuring Association… I wanted to thank you for your RPTA Members and Students generous donation to the Young These are notes that have been Artists Audition! Playing the piano is a huge part of my life, so it means a Daniel Liauw received from students: lot to win an award. Your

contributions are very much Tuesday, April 16 th , 7:00 p.m. at Hopper Thank you for sponsoring the Young appreciated by everyone. Thanks! Steinway Piano Company Artists Honors Recital. Winning the competition meant a lot to me. If you Sincerely, William Aarons

hadn’t sponsored the honors recital (RSVP to Margaret Evans by April 10; the whole thing probably wouldn’t [email protected]) have happened. That would not Thank you so much for giving me

have been good. Winning the Young the amazing opportunity to really Program: Artists Auditions meant a lot to me enjoy and perfect my piano playing Liszt: Two Etudes ( Un Sospiro; and my family, and we were so through Young Artist Auditions every Variations on a Theme by Paganini ) excited, and I am so glad you year; playing the piano is a way for sponsored the honors recital. me to really express myself in such Debussy: Cloches a travers sur les From Jackson Klauke a unique way that I just cannot do feuilles with anything else. Winning third Thank you for sponsoring and place this year, in the Senior I Bartok: “Out of Doors” Suite (selections donating to the Young Artist Piano division, came as a wonderful include: Of Drums and Pipes; The Auditions. I really appreciated it and surprise! I am truly grateful for the Night’s Music; The Chase) thought it was very generous of your award I received! Thank you Raleigh company to do so. I enjoyed playing Piano Teachers Association!! Schumann: Kinderszenen (nos. 1-7) the piano (even though I was very Sincerely, Karen Xu Beethoven: “Waldstein” Sonata nervous) and it was an honor to play at Peace College. I was very excited As one of the piano students to be Daniel has won first place in the MTNA to win a trophy, since I don’t have invited to the Young Artists honors Senior Competition for the last two any other awards from piano. It will recital, I want to thank you for years. At Southern Division he was remind me of what a great time I including me as I was one of the awarded “Alternate”, (2nd place), in had while performing at Peace honorable mentions! I cannot tell 2013 and won “Honorable Mention”, (3rd College. Thanks again! you how much that meant to me to place), in 2012. Daniel is 18 years old, Sincerely, Cameron Hasund be called on stage with all of the majoring in polymer chemistry at UNC- other winners! Sincerely, Kaylee Bannon Chapel Hill. He has studied with I would like to thank you for hosting

Margaret Evans for the past four years. YAA. It has been a pleasure for me to play this year. I would also like to

thank you for the donations and contributions you have put to make Sandy Duran and Betty White this program possible. I appreciate . th your teachers for their teaching that Saturday, May 25 , 3:00 P.M in enabled me to deeply enjoy . Carswell Recital Hall, Meredith College classical music literature and . allowed me to play the best as IMPORTANT DATES AND “From Debussy to Piazzolla, a Mystical possible. Music really means a lot to EVENTS and Rhythmical Journey” me. It has become an essential part of my life. It is a great honor to win April 21, 2103 Featuring the music of Claude Debussy, 1st place in Royalty King. Without Musicale Maurice Ravel, and concluding with your efforts, I would not have come three of Astor Piazolla’s Nuevo Tangos to where I stand today in my piano November 22-23, 2013 arranged for two pianos by Pablo playing. RPTA Workshop Ziegler. Thank you for all, Alex Li Featuring Marina Lomazov

You are cordially invited to attend; admission is free.

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RALEIGH CHAMBER MUSIC GUILD PRESENTS:

IGNAT SOZHENITSYN Program: Schubert: Sonata in G Major, D 894 Messiaen: The Kiss of Infant Jesus Franck: Prélude, Choral et Fugue, M. 21

Recognized as one of today’s most gifted artists, and enjoying an active career as both conductor and pianist, ’s lyrical and poignant interpretations have won him critical acclaim throughout the world.

Principal Guest Conductor of the Symphony Orchestra, Ignat Solzhenitsyn has just stepped down after six seasons as Music Director of the Chamber Orchestra of , to become its Conductor Laureate. He is much in demand as a guest conductor, having recently led the symphonies of Baltimore, Buffalo, Dallas, Indianapolis, Nashville, New Jersey, North Carolina, Seattle, Toledo, and Toronto, the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie, the Czech National Symphony, as well as many of the major orchestras in Russia including the Mariinsky Orchestra, the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, the Moscow Philharmonic, the Bolshoi Symphony, and the Moscow Symphony. He has partnered with such world-renowned soloists as , , , , Sylvia McNair, Garrick Ohlsson, , and .

In recent seasons, his extensive touring schedule in the United States and Europe has included concerto performances with numerous major orchestras, including those of Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia, Saint Louis, Los Angeles, Seattle, Baltimore, Washington, Montreal, Toronto, London, Paris, Israel, and Sydney, and collaborations with such distinguished conductors as Herbert Blomstedt, , James DePreist, , , , , André Previn, Mstislav Rostropovich, , , Maxim Shostakovich, and . In addition to his recital appearances in the United States at ’s 92nd Street Y, Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center, St. Paul’s Ordway Theatre, Ann Arbor’s Hill Auditorium, Salt Lake City’s Abravanel Hall, San Francisco’s Herbst Theatre, and many others from coast to coast, Mr. Solzhenitsyn has also given numerous recitals in Europe and the Far East in such major musical centers as London, Milan, Zurich, Moscow, Tokyo, and Sydney.

An avid chamber musician, Mr. Solzhenitsyn has collaborated with the Emerson, Borodin, Brentano, and St. Petersburg String Quartets, and in four-hand recital with Mitsuko Uchida. He has frequently appeared at international festivals, including Salzburg, Evian, Ludwigsburg, Caramoor, Ojai, Marlboro, Nizhniy Novgorod and Moscow’s famed December Evenings.

A winner of the Avery Fisher Career Grant, Ignat Solzhenitsyn serves on the piano faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music and the Tanglewood Music Center. He has been featured on many radio and television specials, including CBS Sunday Morning and ABC’s Nightline. Born in Moscow, Mr. Solzhenitsyn resides in New York City with his wife and three children.

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