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We’ve opened our workshop sign-up form for Saturday, May 26th, and Sunday, May 27th.
We’ve posted the schedule for the upcoming honor recital.
Date: Saturday, April 7th, 2012
Location: Chapman University, 333 N. Glassell Street, Orange, CA 92886
Attention recital participants:
Please arrive 20 minutes early for check in with presiding teacher. Program will start on time. Plan to stay for your entire program, and please have audience members stay for the entire program. Recital attire, please.
Directions:
Salmon Recital Hall, room 100, and the Choral Room, room 109, are both located on the first floor in Bertea Hall. The number on the building is 245. Bertea Hall is across the courtyard from the Waltfmar Theatre, and at the intersection of Grand and Palm Street.
Parking:
Parking is available in the University parking structure on Sycamore, west of Glassell. $1 for 2 hours, $2 for 4 hours. Automated machines are on every other floor of the parking structure and take dollar bills. Parking on residential streets is restricted and ticketing enforcement is routine.
Updates for March 2012
Spring is almost here, and we have some updates for you.
First of all, we would like to congratulate the winners of the 2012 Fullerton College Piano Ensemble Festival Competition:
Grand Prize Winners:
Jessica Nguyen and Jade Hoang
Circle of Winners Intermediate Category:
Megan Pham and Nicole Phan
Karen Vuong and Lynda Bui
Circle of Winners Late Intermediate Category:
Mayvera Doaran and Maggie Bui
Winning Teachers: Hieu Nguyen, Ruby Shih, Pheobe Lee, Hisako Michishita, and Melody Chiang.
Great job everybody! Now it’s time to resume our workshops and continue building those competition skills. Performance and Evaluation for March will be held on Saturday the 24th and Sunday the 25th. Please visit our workshop sign-up form to reserve your seat.
Did you miss our portrait picture day? We will be having a Make-Up Picture day on March 12th at 3:30PM – 4:00PM. We will also be filming for a new T.V. Show on March 12th at 4:00PM.
In other news, we’ve updated our media library. You’ll find 125 new photos in the 2011 Christmas Recital album, and 12 new videos in the 2012 Television Show and 2012 HD Videos albums.
The Certificate of Merit piano auditions are coming up fast, and we’ve opened up our workshop sign-up form for Saturday, February 11th, and Sunday, February 12th. This event is for Certificate of Merit audition PARTICIPANTS only. Please DO NOT sign up if you are not a participant.
Our workshop sign-up form has been opened for Saturday, February 4th, and Sunday, February 5th. These workshops are for Certificate of Merit audition PARTICIPANTS only. Please DO NOT sign up if you are not a participant.
The Sunday schedule has been altered due to the Professional Music Teachers’ Association of California recital at our studio on Sunday at 4:00 PM. Please check the time carefully. Thank you.
Our workshop sign-up form had been opened for Saturday, January 28th, and Sunday, January 29th. In the spirit of the Lunar New Year, we would like to ask the participants to wear traditional clothing.
In other news, we’ve recently updated our media library. You’ll find 36 new videos in the 2011 Television Show and 2011 HD Videos albums. We’ve got new videos on the way for 2012 so stay tuned!
Update 12/14/2011: We’ve made some minor corrections, and the schedule is now final. Thank you for your patience!
We’ve posted the schedule for our upcoming Christmas Recital. We’re still making some changes here and there, and will let you know as soon as it is final. We should have it all finished by Monday evening.
You can access the schedule by clicking on “CHRISTMAS RECITALS” under Upcoming Events over on the right side of the page.
All students are required to wear formal attire for the recital. Ladies must wear a fancy dress which goes below the knees, and tie their hair up high. Gentlemen are required to wear a complete suit and tie.
It is mandatory that students attend the rehearsal this weekend in order to prepare for the recital. Thank you!
We’ve opened up the workshop sign-up form for Saturday, December 10th, and Sunday, December 11th. Recital participants are required to attend this workshop to prepare for the recital.
The moment you’ve all been waiting for…is…NOW!
Yes! The primary event of the year, with all of its ever growing anticipation and glory, has come to you now, in the darkest of times. The whole lot of Little Chopin Students have been preparing for the Certificate of Merit (CM) audition, with classical songs…and classical songs…and classical songs… You know, the songs which do a bunch of scales and trills. The ones that just change keys after pages and pages and stuff. Classical stuff. Yup.
You like?
Slap it! Give it a back hand slap with your recital piece! Blow it away with the amazing piece you’ve chosen for this Christmas Recital. Finally! A chance to show your skill and your fervor in a song that YOU get to choose (If your teacher isn’t Molly…), for family and friends, for teachers and lovers! Serenade them, serenade everyone, everyone you can think of…maybe except those annoying babies that keep crying during these recitals.
And so the students of Little Chopin have come together once more in a vast display of songs from different cultures, different time periods, songs of old and new, songs of vibrancy and sorrow! Get ready! The deadline has already past! November 30th was your deadline to pay $40 for food, for fun, for medals, for glory, for songs you never get to play, and pictures! Well, if you missed it, you can now pay the extra $10 late fee to get in. Yes, you love pictures! But…you’ll need formal wear, so don’t be thinking you’ll get ALL the guys with those skimpy clothes, ladies! Remember, the less you reveal, the more they can wonder… *wink wink* (That’s Emma Watson for you!) Ladies need a dress that goes below the knees, formal shoes, and hair tied behind the back. Gentlemen, you know the deal: Dress shirt, tie, suit, pants, formal shoes. No Converses, Vans, Sneakers, or any form of Sport shoes, Life style shoes, no! Make them formal!
Okay? 
Anyways, before the recital, we’re going to need some help shifting stuff around, cleaning pianos, moving chairs, sofas, plants, tables, organizing papers and all that good stuff. Get your community service hours and come! It’s on the Friday right before the recital (the 16th of December), but you can leave whenever you want (just don’t all leave at the same time… 
) Plus there’s food. And people. Yum-I mean-Yes. Yes.
After that day is the recital, and if you want even MORE service hours, there will be some positions open for two people at each program to usher, monitor the door, hand out the certificates, medals, and trophies!
NOW GO FORTH! Win those trophies!!!
PS: LCP will be closing from December 24th through January 2nd. A great break after all that work (you shouldn’t get one if you didn’t work! Of course… but that’s just how it is.) Also, lesson days on the 17th and 18th will be rescheduled for a later date; those are the recital days.
The above was written by Tedman Nguyen, our senior pianist and writer. Little Chopin Piano is not responsible for any loss or injury from reading the above post. (Just kidding. Maybe.)