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Announcements
Our fall classes begin the week of September 7, 2010 If we have to cancel classes due to inclement weather, there will be a message on our answering machine saying we are closed. Usually we cannot answer the telephone when we are teaching.
JOC AUDITIONS Will be held in the Library Auditorium Friday, November 12: 5:00 – to 9:00 pm Saturday, November 13: 9:00 am - 11:30 am
DRMI OPEN HOUSE Sunday, November 14, 2010
JAZZ RAGS BLUES FESTIVAL At the University Of Mary Washington Saturday, November 20, 2010 PRIVATE LESSON CHRISTMAS RECITALS Friday, December 10: 5:00 – 9:00 pm
Fredericksburg Yamaha Music School First Place: Samuel Martin and Micayah Upshaw Second Place: Isaac Chase Third Place: Conrad Carmichael, Ian Dow, Jason Estrada, Donald Fragale Honorable Mention: Richard Albright, Elizabeth Chase, Devon DiSanza, Patrick Mayer, Michael Mead Congratulations to our Yamaha students who were winners in the Virginia Federation of Music Clubs JUNIOR COMPOSERS CONTEST 2010
CLASS I First Place: Leah Morgan Second Place: Will Rowe Third Place: Grace Colburn Incentive Award: Conrad Carmichael Incentive Award: Emma Dreyfuss
CLASS II Second Place: Ian Dow Third Place: Mary Wallace Baker Incentive Award: Michelle Macaluso Incentive Award: Savannah Ellis Incentive Award: Lindsay Pett
CLASS III First Place: Elizabeth Chase Third Place: Hannah Motsenbocker Incentive Award: Johnathan Maitland Incentive Award: Charles Riley Incentive Award: Juliana Vossenberg
CLASS IV Incentive Award: Madeline Breedin Incentive Award: Alexa Steinbach
The 18th Annual Downtown Retail Merchants Holiday Open House was held on Sunday, November 15, 2009. Fredericksburg Yamaha Music students presented a continuous music program from 10:30 am to 4:30 pm. on the sidewalk in front of our school. About 135 students ages 3 - 18 entertained the shoppers and crowds of parents and friends. Santa Claus put in a surprise visit and led the crowd in a spirited rendition of Jingle Bells.
Yamaha Junior Original Concert Auditions were held on Monday November 16, 2009 at the Rappahannock Regional Library. Sixty eight students from the Fredericksburg Yamaha Music School presented their original works in a recital setting. The event was video taped so that the performances can be rated in California by a panel of judges. Also CD's were recorded for each student. The musical compositions included solos and ensembles. The ensembles included music for piano and vocalist, violin, guitar, clarinet, saxophone, etc. One number was accompanied by poetry. The performers ranged in age from 5 - 15. The audiences were amazed at the creativity of the participants as well as their polished performances.
The 11th Annual Jazz, Rags and Blues Festival was held at the University of Mary Washington on November 21, 2009. This event was sponsored by the Rappahannock Music Society, a member of the Virginia Federation of Music Clubs. Fredericksburg Yamaha Music School entered over 125 students in this event. Each participant received a blue rosette ribbon and a certificate.
Our Annual Christmas Recital featuring music for the holiday season was held on December 16, 2009 at the Rappahannock Regional Library. This event was for former Yamaha students who are no longer enrolled in a Yamaha class, but are still taking lessons at our school. About 60 students participated in the three recitals putting one and all in a Merry Christmas mood.
Congratulations! Jacqueline Holtzhauer on receiving a 75 point gold cup in Piano Solo/Concerto We are very proud of your outstanding achievement
Benjamin Brosche and Paula Motsenbocker performed their original compositions at the National Yamaha JOC held at Farleigh Dickinson College in Teaneck New Jersey on May 4, 2009 Their teachers are Nackie Steinbach and Elin Havrilla
Congratulations! Juliana Vossenberg First Place winner National Federation of Music Clubs Angie Greer Music in Poetry Contest Juliana wrote a poem about the Greek goddess Persephone and composed music to accompany it
The 86th annual celebration of National Music Week was held May 2-9, 2010. Yamaha Music School had 45 performers in the Music in the Library Lobby program on Monday May 3, 2010 from 5:45 - 8:30. All of the performers are recipients of a Gold Cup this year.
The National Music Week song and poster display was in the stairwell of the library on the Lewis Street side. We had over 189 entries on display for the entire month of May
The Virginia Federation of Music Clubs Junior Music Festival was held in Manassas on Saturday, February 27, 2010. Our school had 200 entries in this event.
VMTA Ryan Barry performed his original composition The Sneaky Bank Robber at the Virginia Music Teachers Association Fall Convention held at Shenandoah University in Winchester On November 7, 2008
Benjamin Brosche won a full scholarship to the Yamaha Music Education System Music Camp held at Biola University on July 23 - 27, 2008. He performed his original composition Gettin' the Low Down Patrick McClure performed Benjamin Brosche was a hit He was then invited to make a recording to be sent to the International JOC Committee in Japan. This event took place April 12-15 in Buena Park, California at the Yamaha Corporation of America Headquarters. Music Teachers National Association
BENJAMIN BROSCHE Congratulations! to Ben on his outstanding performances at the NAMM Convention! As you may know Ben was selected for this event as a result of his JOC entry in 2005. He has been placed in the Yamaha International Junior Original Concert Program. Yamaha sent professional musicians to his house in November, December, and January to instruct and rehearse with him. When we got to California there were more rehearsals at the YCA headquarters. And then the performance at NAMM (National Association of Music Merchants.) This year’s convention hosted 87,000 people – the largest convention ever held at the Anaheim Convention center. I was invited to luncheon with the heads of the IJOC Foundation from Japan They expressed their delight with Ben’s piece and performance. While we were in California, Ben was also chosen to record his composition to be entered in the JOC auditions for Japan. Ben’s co-performers and instructors include: M B Gordy – percussionist. For the past 18 years he has been involved with the Yamaha Education Division as a clinician and education consultant. He was a percussionist with the Doobey Brothers and has played in numbers film scores including Scary Movie, Wonder Boys, Country Bears, Men in Black, Spider Man, Terminator 3, X-Men, TV credits include The Tonight Show, Good Morning America, American Dream, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, He has performed with LA Philharmonic, and the National Symphony, Pop and rock credits include Frank Zappa, Three Dog Night, John Tesh, Lion King and many, many others Steve Pandis - bassist: Movie credits include his performance in A Mighty Wind. Steve recorded numerous blues albums including his Buddy Guy Blues album. He performs with various bands in the LA area. A recent review of the Steve Pandis band: “The evening started with a few easy tempo dance tunes & from the start things gelled very quickly with our guest Bassist, Steve Pandis. This Cat plays so well it just amazed each of us up on stage the entire evening. He took everything we threw at him & up'd it to the next level.” Keith Felch – alto sax and woodwinds: performs with numerous jazz bands in the LA area including Orange County Jazz Band and the Line Jazz Quartet. He is the author of the book Chord/Scale Mastery, an new and exciting approach to jazz improvisation, stemming from over 25 years of private lesson instruction. (He presented Ben with a copy )
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