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Studio News
2003-2004

Fall 2003

MTAC-WLA Bach Festival Complete Works Auditions Rehearsal Recital

Anderson Alden

William Alden

Anna Naito

SCJBF Bach Complete Works Auditions (Finals)

Anderson Alden

Participant Award: Inventions & Sinfonias

William Alden

Participant Award: Miscellaneous Works (Long)

Anna Naito

Participant Award: Chromatic Fantasy & Fugue

Occidental College Department of Music Master Class with Robert Lehrbaumer (Austria), pianist

William Alden
Performer: William Bolcom Garden of Eden Suite, “The Serpent’s Kiss” (Rag Fantasy)

Winter 2003-2004

Laurette Goldberg Bach Master Class

Anderson Alden

William Alden

Hongyu Chen

Yukari Kudo

MTAC-WLA Robert Turner Piano Concerto Competition

Anderson Alden

Participant Award: Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Major, Op. 15: II

William Alden

Participant Award: Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 3 in c minor, Op. 37: I

Yukari Kudo

Winner: Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Major, Op. 15: III

Solo Concert Performance with the Los Angeles Doctors Symphony Orchestra

MTAC-WLA Romantic Festival

Hongyu Chen

Yukari Kudo

SCJBF West Los Angeles Bach Branch Festival

Anderson Alden

Winner, selected to advance to the SCJBF Bach Regional Festival

Hongyu Chen

Winner, selected to advance to the SCJBF Bach Regional Festival

Yukari Kudo

Winner, selected to advance to the SCJBF Bach Regional Festival

Harvard-Westlake School (Lower Campus) Chamber Music Concert

Anderson Alden

Soloist: Bach Double Keyboard Concerto in C Major, BWV 1061: I

Spring 2004

MTAC-WLA Certificate of Merit Evaluations

Ariel Blumenstrauch (Theory Honor Roll)

Hongyu Chen (Theory Honor Roll), selected to perform at the MTAC-WLA Certificate of Merit Honors Festival

Julia Gordon (Theory Honor Roll)

Millicent Kastenbaum (Theory Honor Roll)

Willa Dorn Lilien (Theory Honor Roll)

Benjamin Salk (Theory Honor Roll)

Hugh Salk (Theory Honor Roll)

Erin Ting

Hannah Ullman-Levine

MTAC State Certificate of Merit Regional Panel Auditions

William Alden

Winner, selected to perform at the MTAC-WLA Certificate of Merit Honors Festival

MTAC State Certificate of Merit Panel Finals (South)

William Alden

Winner, selected to perform at the MTAC State Convention Piano Panel Honors Recital, San Diego

MTAC State Concerto & Solo Competition

Hongyu Chen

Honorable Mention

Solo Division I (Ages 11 & under)

Yukari Kudo

2^nd Place (1^st Alternate)

Concerto Division I (Ages 11 & under)

CAPMT District III Master Class with Aiko Onishi (Japan), pianist

Yukari Kudo

Performer: Chopin Nocturne in f minor, Op. 55, No. 1

SCJBF Regional Bach Festival

Anderson Alden

Participant Award

Hongyu Chen

Medal Winner, selected to advance to the SCJBF Bach Complete Works Auditions (Finals)

Yukari Kudo

Medal Winner, selected to advance to the SCJBF Bach Complete Works Auditions (Finals)

MTAC-WLA Alice Frazier Kitchen Memorial Scholarship Competition

William Alden

Participant Award

Category 4 (Ages 18 & under)

Hongyu Chen

3^rd Place

Category 2 (Ages 12 & under)

Yukari Kudo

1^st Place

Category 1 (Ages 9 & under)

MTAC-WLA Contemporary Festival with Gloria Cheng

Anderson Alden

William Alden

Hongyu Chen

Yukari Kudo

NGPT National Piano Playing (Guild)

Anderson Alden

William Alden

Ariel Blumenstrauch

Hongyu Chen

Alyssa French

Julia Gordon

Millicent Kastenbaum

Yukari Kudo

Jason Li

Willa Dorn Lilien

Dylan Purvis

Hugh Salk

Erin Ting

Ryan Ting

Hana Trattner

Hannah Ullman-Levine

Summer 2004

Southwestern Youth Music Festival (SYMF)

Anderson Alden

Participant Award

Open American (Ages 14 & under)

Anderson Alden

Participant Award

Young Recitalist (Ages 13 & under)

Anderson Alden

2^nd Place

Open Duet/Duo (Ages 15 & under)

William Alden

Participant Award

Open Concerto (Ages 15 & under)

William Alden

2^nd Place

Open Duet/Duo (Ages 15 & under)

Hongyu Chen

Participant Award

Young Pianist (Ages 11 & under)

Hongyu Chen

1^st Place

Open Duet/Duo (Ages 10 & under)

Yukari Kudo

1^st Place

Open Baroque (Ages 9 & under)

Yukari Kudo

1^st Place

Open Duet/Duo (Ages 10 & under)

Yukari Kudo

3^rd Place

Young Pianist (Ages 11 & under)