September 2021

Newsletter

Volume 23, Issue 2 | September 2021

Jesse Micek, President

Olya Katsman, Vice President

Karen Wolff, Second Vice President

Millie Chiem, Treasurer

Philip Halseth, Corresponding Secretary

Ruth Zhou, Recording Secretary

Katherine Valdez, Membership Secretary & Referrals Chair

Grace Cheng, Director

Maria Ehlert, Director

Jed Galant, Director

Gloria Ho, Director

Lu Huang, Director & Website Administrator

Varvara Milinder, Director

David Ross, Director and Student Recitals

Maria Ehlert, Hospitality

Ruth Zhou, Historian

Carmencita Aspiras, Sunshine

Lu Huang, Composer Today

Olya Katsman, MSSL Community Outreach

Dr. Jiang Wu, VOCE

Gloria Ho, CM Chair and North Region Chair, (Piano, Strings, Woodwinds and Voice)

Grace Cheng, CM South Region Chair

Note from the President

Greetings -

Schools are back in session and our students - high schoolers especially - are busier than ever. I hope that in spite of the challenges of living through an ongoing pandemic you are off to a positive start with your teaching this year. I want to bring to your attention a presentation our branch is hosting this Sunday, 9/19. Music teacher Barbie Wong will be speaking about student motivation and what really works with kids and music practicing. We hope that you will attend and also that you will invite parents of your students to attend virtually. The in-person presentation for teachers will be hosted at Olya Katsman's home in Newark this Sunday, 9/19 at 5pm. Her address is 38733 Jonquil Drive in Newark. You will find the Zoom link below for parents and any teachers who wish to attend virtually.

All the best,

Jesse Micek

Important Dates

Barbie Wong:

September 19th @ 5pm

Topic: Helping parents to motivate students at home

Location: Olya’s house + Zoom (Hybrid)

Student Recitals

Location: Christ's Community Church, 25927 Kay Ave. in Hayward

Dates:

September 25th @ 4pm

October 23rd @ 4pm (costumes optional)

November 13th – Zoom Recital TBA

January 22nd @ 4pm

February 12th @ 4pm

April 23rd & 24th – BH Recital and Senior recital

May 13th – Scholarship Recital

Peter Mack:

October 15th @ 10am

Topic: "That's not the way it goes!" Can performers serve the audience

AND the composer?

Location: Zoom

Christmas Luncheon

December 10th – @ World Gourmet on Stevenson Blvd.

MTAC - SACB website

www.mtacsacb.org

password: mta1

September Student Recital

MSSL News

Branch Directory

2021-2020 SACB Teacher Directory

September Event: Barbie Wong

Click here to RSVP

A Message from Ling Ling Lin

Hello Everyone,

Thank you for your support in the past year for the Sight Reading and Ear Training book series. For these 2 series of books, some of the levels are sold out and are now out of print. We don't expect to print any more.

We are now selling these levels as web-based, online versions. You can purchase online and then access these through tablets. Both series are accompanied by audio piano music.

In the Ear Training series, you can answer through the tablet, as well as check the answers and explanations.

For the Sight Reading series, upon completing the exercise, you can press the answer button to check and verify. Nowadays a lot of families no longer use CD players, the Certificate of Merit, MTAC Piano Test will be online only. Now is the time to upgrade!

Please visit www.lllmusic.com for all available versions. All online versions have samples available. Thank you for visiting and supporting!