As May arrives, the end of the school year is in sight! We have only 6 more weeks until the end of our Piano Year. All of these wonderful students have worked hard and made amazing progress in the past months. It has been delightful to see them every week, growing and learning as pianists and human beings!
This month and next, we have quite a few events, both optional and not!
May 7 @ 3pm: District IV Honors Recital - features winners of the regional honors competitions. Winners will be eligible to perform at the State Conference! Centralia, Church of the Nazarene. Congrats to Chloe and Alexander who will represent Olympia and our studio! Free and open to the public!
May 13 @ 11:15: Pop/Jazz/Duet Festival at Gloria Dei Lutheran, followed by the Music Literacy Program Theory exam. This fun and exciting event is free and open to the public. Grace, Sally, Charles, Landon, Alexander, Grant, and Josie will be taking part, playing pieces such as “This Land is Your Land”, “The Chicken Dance”, “Don’t Stop Believin’”, “River Flows in You”, “Weeping Willow Rag”, and more!
May 13 @ 10am: Masterworks Chorale Ensemble Competition - Good Luck to Alexander!
June 4, all day: National Guild Auditions! This is the big day we’ve all been preparing for. All students will perform up to 10 memorized pieces/phases for a wonderful judge. What a huge accomplishment!
June 11, 1pm: Studio Spring Recital - An awesome culmination of the piano year! End of Spring Quarter.
Other newsworthy items…Congratulations to our Scale Olympians! See “News” below for who won Gold, Silver, and Bronze!
“4 Pianists For Piano”
Thanks to all who came out for our “4 Pianists For Piano” concert. What a great crowd!
Congrats to Luke!
He was featured in the most recent Piano Guild Magazine as a scholarship winner, and recipient of both the High School Diploma and Paderewski Medal. He is now finishing his first year at UW as an engineering major, and enjoys playing the piano frequently in his spare time!