Archive for December, 2007

elementary music festival

Dear Piano Parents, 

Students in grades one through six are invited to participate in the Elementary Music Festival, which will be held Saturday, February 9 and Sunday, February 10 in Duerkson Fine Arts Center on the WSU campus.  In the past, it has been a motivating and fun event for piano students. 

Each student will play one memorized piece for the adjudicator, and will receive a rating of their performance on a scale from one to five.  After the student has played, the adjudicator will work individually with each student in a mini-lesson.  The student will have their own alotted time slot, which is assigned a couple of weeks before the festival.  (In the past, each student was  assigned a 15-minute time slot, and I assume it will be similar this year.) 

If you would like to have your child perform in this festival, I will need the following:

● $8.00 entrance fee by January 11.  I am required to send just one check for all of my students, so you may include the fee in January’s lesson payment if that is easier for you.

● Do you have a specific day/time request?  (It begins at 1:00 on both days.)  The organizers will try to grant those requests, but cannot make any guarantees.

● The student needs to write in the number of each measure of the piece they will be performing, for the adjudicator’s reference. I will be sending in the registration form and fees on January 11. 

If you have any questions, please call or email me.

Thanks!

Nicole (250-1725);    nicvandyke@hotmail.com

Christmas Recital

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me and some of my students from the garten’s location at our christmas recital, held at newman university:

clockwise from back left:

dustin, me (in red dress), megan (in yellow stripes), margaret, autumn, deanna, james (tall guy), julie (pink), maggie (middle row in red),  rachel, jessica, sarah, lindsay (blue), duncan, johnny (blue/yellow stripes)