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MTAC Awards Recital Features Student Performers
Topics: music, piano, harp, recital, MTAC, music teachers, scholarships, youth
Posted by doburgess Thu May 8, 2008 12:29:47 PDT
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0 responses 0 comments Location: Corner of Fruitvale and Hageman, Bakersfield, CA 93308

  

The Music Teachers’ Association of  California (MTAC), Kern Branch, presents the annual Awards Recital on Sunday, May 18 at 1:00.  The recital features selected students who received “Honors” in this year’s MTAC events.  The public is invited to attend the Awards Recital, held in the choir room at Valley Baptist Church, corner of Fruitvale and Hageman.

The performers in the Awards Recital include pianists and a harpist.  Students were chosen from January’s Sonata/Sonatina Festival, March’s Certificate of Merit Evaluation, April’s Kern Branch Bach Festival, and the April MTAC Recital.  

The recipients of the Vaughn Malquist Memorial Scholarship and the Carol Rodgers Memorial Scholarship will also perform.  These scholarship recipients were chosen by active participation in MTAC events and other music opportunities, and by audition.  The names of these Scholarship Winners are engraved on perpetual plaques which are displayed throughout the year at California Keyboards.

Awards will be presented at the recital to outstanding MTAC students.  Youth Scholarship Awards in the form of Music Gift Certificates are awarded to a dozen students who have been active in MTAC music events throughout the past year.  These Awards are provided by California Keyboards, Stockdale Music, and Kern Branch MTAC. 

Trophies will be presented to five students who earned 100% on their Theory Exam at Certificate of Merit:  David Kim, Sunjung Kim, Olivia Nystrom, Kathryn Piper, and Claire Witham.  Three high school seniors, Gilbert Casabar, Kelly Gerhold, and Andrew Tubbs, will be awarded the Senior Medallion in Certificate of Merit in recognition of successfully completing the Certificate of Merit Evaluation at least three of the four high school years.  Certificate of Merit is an annual evaluation in performance, sightreading, technique, ear training, and theory for Preparatory through Advanced Levels.  Approximately 31,000 students throughout California have participated this year, including over 150 students from Kern County.

Students of MTAC teachers have monthly performance opportunities at the Branch level as well as performing in the annual MTAC State Convention Recitals.  The Music Teachers’ Association of California is a professional statewide organization of private music teachers with a degree in music, or equivalent studies and experience. Private teachers of any instrument are encouraged to inquire about membership.  You may view the website at www.mtackern.com for more information about membership or events. 

If you wish to be an individual or business sponsor of MTAC for the coming year, please contact Donna Calanchini at dcalanchini@bak.rr.com.

 

Dorothy Burgess is a member of Kern Branch, Music Teachers’ Association of California (MTAC).

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