2022 CAPMT SCV Discovery Day 2022 Program

Sunday, August 28, 2022 Santa Clara University Music Building

Santa Clara Valley Chapter

California Association of Professional Music Teachers

Santa Clara Valley Chapter

Discovery Day 2022 Bridging Divides Santa Clara University

Table of Contents

Welcome President’s Welcome

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About CAPMT Santa Clara Valley

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General Information Schedule

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Map + Parking

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Opening Performance, Masterclass Teachers

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Masterclass Performers

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Bios

Feature Recital Performers

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Session Information Presentation Descriptions

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Exhibitors

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Recital Programs Masterclasses

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Solo & Ensemble Recitals

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Creativity & Pops Recital, Teacher Recital

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Feature Recital

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Front artwork by Neon Yeh Back artwork by Taryn Tsuji

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President’s Welcome Dear Discovery Day Participants and Attendees,

We are very excited to welcome you to our inaugural Discovery Day – an event to bring together teachers, students, and parents in our local community to celebrate, collaborate, and innovate music making. Thank you for taking the time and effort to prepare for and participate in today’s event. We also encourage you to check out all the programs that CAPMT Santa Clara Valley has to offer. Visit our website at www.capmt-scv.org for all the details!

Here in the Bay Area, we have so many diverse and talented musicians and what an exciting group we have to feature today! This year’s theme, Bridging Divides, is about bringing together not only different areas of music (pop music, classical music, jazz music, improv and arranging, world music, music for TV/movies/video games, songwriting and composition, different instruments, etc.) but also connecting music with larger life applications of human connection, self-expression, creativity, confidence, and so much more! I encourage you to explore where your past experiences have brought you and where you could continue to go in your own unique way.

Lastly, my humble gratitude goes out to the Discovery Day Committee, each of whom has contributed greatly to seeing this vision through to reality. Even within our Committee, each member brought their unique skills (not just music-related!) and perspectives. Thank you for all that you do for CAPMT and the greater community.

Have a great time and I hope to chat with you sometime at Discovery Day. If we have never met, definitely say hello!

Curious and inspired,

Discovery Day Committee

Grant Kondo President Santa Clara Valley Chapter

Alli Gessner Kyra Johnson Grant Kondo Julie Poklewski Yvonne Reddy Karin Swanson

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About CAPMT Santa Clara Valley 2022-2023

Santa Clara Valley Chapter Executive Board President Grant Kondo, NCTM

Vice President (Open)

Treasurer Ginger Kroft

Members at Large Allison Gessner Will Schneider

Secretary Crystal Nichols

Immediate Past President Amy Bhatnagar

Event Chairs Festival Recital Series (Open)

Student Evaluations Glenda Timmerman

MusicIN Evaluations Grant Kondo, NCTM

Emerging Performer Recital Series (Open)

Piano & Ensemble Auditions Jui-Ping Chou, NCTM

Hospitality Kyra Johnson

Adult Recital Series Julie Poklewski

Honors Competition Dr. Yu-Ting Huang Dr. Vicky Wang

Webmaster Karin Swanson

Pedagogy & Play Yvonne Reddy

Contemporary Competition (Open)

Social Activities Yvonne Reddy

Young Professionals Leadership Network (YPLN) Chair Tingyuan Luo

Why join? Become a Part of CAPMT California Association of Professional Music Teachers (CAPMT) is a vibrant network of professional and progressive music teachers. We are fully committed to promoting the arts through our various programs -- both for student and teacher development. Through this organization, we strive to connect individual studio teachers with school teachers and university faculty to create a strong community.

Our Chapter is Santa Clara Valley, consisting of the South Bay area, which is part of District 2 (San Francisco Bay Area). When you join the Music Teachers National Association, you can register to become a member of District 2 of California Association of Professional Music Teachers and a member of the local Santa Clara Valley Chapter.

Information and application forms are on the MTNA website here.

Getting Involved The best way to learn about the benefits of CAPMT/MTNA membership for you and your students is to get involved! Send us a hello via our "Contact Us" page above.

Our Chapter Meetings and Pedagogy & Play are great ways to get an introduction to our organization and meet some of the members. Check out Teacher Programs for more information!

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Schedule

Time

Main Recital Hall

Ensemble Room

Registration

9:30 AM

(9:30 AM - 4 PM)

10:00 - 10:50 AM

Welcome CAPMT Programs Overview Opening Performance

11:00 - 11:50 AM

Masterclass: Advanced Piano

12:00 - 12:50 PM

Solo & Ensemble Recital

1:00 - 1:50 PM

2:00 - 2:50 PM

Foyer

Presentations: Nate May & Ting Luo

Solo & Ensemble Recital

Pedagogy & Play: "Student vs.

Teacher-Directed Lessons"

Creativity & Pops Recital

Panel: "Teacher/Student/ Parent Success"

Exhibit Hall (11 AM - 3:50 PM)

Lunch & Exhibit Hall

Exhibit Hall 3:00 - 3:50 PM

Teacher Recital

4:00 - 5:00 PM

Feature Recital & Closing Remarks

Masterclass: Voice & Winds

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Map + Parking

Ensemble Room

Foyer / Exhibit Hall

Restrooms

Recital Hall

The Recital Hall is located on the first floor of the Music & Dance Building on Santa Clara University’s campus.

The closest parking lot is located on Alviso St. at Benton St. There is free parking all day on weekends.

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Opening Performance Spencer Cha, 17, is a pianist and composer from Los Altos, CA. He currently studies piano with Dr. Frederick Weldy and Jon Nakamatsu and composition with John Syzygy. A two-time YoungArts winner in classical music, Spencer has won prizes in multiple national and international competitions, including third prize in the San Jose International Piano competition and first place in the Music Teachers National Association Composition Competition. Spencer had his orchestral debut with the Palo Alto Philharmonic in 2019 and performed with the Golden State Youth Orchestra, the Harker School Orchestra, and the Peninsula Symphony in 2022. He won the Chopin SF Competition and CAPMT State Honors Competition, and he was inducted into both the Music Teachers Association of California Young Composers Guild and Young Artists Guild in 2021. A graduate of the Harker School and rising freshman at Stanford University, Spencer also enjoys skiing, playing tennis and serving in student government.

Sonata No. 2 in G minor (Op. 22) I. So rasch wie möglich

Robert Schumann

A Lost Island Rhythmic Etude No. 5, "Lively"

Spencer Cha Spencer Cha

Masterclass Teachers Advanced Piano Masterclass Robert Schwartz Pianist Robert Schwartz has pursued an active career as a performer and teacher that has spanned five decades and covered four continents. His concerts and masterclass engagements have brought him to Argentina, China, France, and numerous cities in the United States. A native of California, he lived in Bloomington Indiana, Paris and New York City before settling in San Francisco where he now teaches at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and maintains a private studio. He holds degrees from Indiana University, Juilliard and Manhattan School of Music and his teachers have included Abbey Simon, Pierre Sancan and György Sebok. In his spare time, Schwartz enjoys cooking, reading and listening to opera as well as jazz and popular vocal music.

Winds Masterclass Ginger Kroft Ginger Kroft is Principal Clarinet of Carmel Bach Festival and Sacramento Philharmonic. As a chamber musician, she’s collaborated with Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, Bridge Players, ADORNO, and Avenue Winds. Mrs. Kroft is on faculty at San Francisco Conservatory of Music and Santa Clara University. She also directs a private teaching studio, ClarinetStudio.org. An education advocate, Mrs. Kroft is a frequent adjudicator of solo competitions and serves on the Board of Directors for CAPMT. Outside of music, Mrs. Kroft loves swimming and has ‘escaped’ from Alcatraz numerous times — making it to shore, of course.

Voice Masterclass Joseph Frank Since his 1974 San Francisco Opera debut, tenor Joseph Frank has specialized in the lyric character tenor repertoire. In a career spanning over 40 years, the tenor has garnered acclaim in over 80 roles. He has sung with many of the world’s greatest voices, including Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo, Leontyne Price, and Jose Carreras. He has sung at the most prestigious opera venues including the Metropolitan Opera and the opera companies of Los Angeles, Houston, Seattle, Washington, San Diego, London, and Paris.

His DVD discography include Ariadne auf Naxos (with Jessye Norman and Kathleen Battle,) and Der Rosenkavalier with Dame Kiri TeKanawa and Luciano Pavarotti both for the Metropolitan Opera, Turandot (with Eva Marton) for the San Francisco Opera. Recordings include Boris Godunov, Adriana Lecouvreur, Madama Butterfly, Pagliacci (with Domingo) and Turandot (with Pavarotti).

As a professor of voice, art song and opera, Joseph Frank recently retired from San Jose State University with a tenure of 28 years. Last year he inaugurated the Joseph Frank Opera Excellence Endowment which has raised over $137,000.00.

Mr. Frank received a Bachelor of Music, Masters of Music and the coveted Performers Certificate from Indiana University and an Opera Diploma from the Curtis Institute of Music.

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Masterclass Performers Advanced Piano Masterclass | 11 AM | Recital Hall Kyle Lieu is currently a senior at Ruth Asawa School of the Arts in the piano department. He has participated in the Certificate of Merit program for many years and completed Level Advanced with state honors in 2022. He is exploring college programs that can meld his interests in piano performance, psychology and music therapy. He really enjoys volunteering with organizations and ministries that support children with special needs.

Siddharth Pant is a senior at Stanford Online High School. He studies piano with Dr. Irina Prilipko Morgan in San Jose. Siddharth was a winner of the Celia Mendez Young Pianists Beethoven competition this year, following which he participated in a masterclass with noted pianist Ronald Brautigam. He was judged Best Beethoven Performance at the Great Composers competition and also won prizes at the Enkor and Pacific Stars international competitions this year. Siddharth also attends the San Francisco Conservatory of Music where he studies composition with Mr. Arkadi Serper. He has written for solo piano, chamber ensembles and orchestra, is a member of the MTAC Young Composers Guild, and was the winner of an ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award this year. Outside of music, Siddharth has deep interests in mathematics and philosophy.

Voice Masterclass | 3 PM | Ensemble Room

Medha Sarkar is a soprano from Los Gatos High School. She has been singing from the age of 5 and has not stopped singing since then. Other than singing, she loves science and playing the piano.

Winds Masterclass | 3 PM | Ensemble Room Matthew Lee is a 7th grader at Redwood Middle School. He is in school band and he has played the clarinet for one and a half years. He enjoys playing his instrument. During the last summer, he has played with more experienced musicians at Sequoia Chamber Music Camp. In my free time, he finds interesting pieces to play, code, do math, and play golf.

Jin Cho is a 15 year old oboist from Cambrian Park, San Jose and she is a sophomore at Branham High School. Jin started playing oboe in fourth grade.

In her freetime, Jin likes to play with her dog and get boba with her friends.

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Feature Recital Performers Hiroshi Corro is 10 yrs old, and in 5th grade at Durham Elementary school in Fremont.

He started playing piano when he was 3 yrs old. Since he was 4 yrs old, he performed at recitals and competitions. In 2022, Hiroshi won first place in the CAPMT Honors Competition and concerto competition and competed in the State finals. He also won the outstanding gold medalist award in the 2022 United States Open Music Competition in Oakland. When he has some free time, he likes to do handicrafts or skateboarding with his siblings.

Oliver Corro is in 10th grade at Irvington School, Fremont CA. He started playing piano when she was 3 yrs old. He participated in his first piano competition when he was 6 yrs old. In 2021, he won first place in Ranun International Piano Competition in Japan. He also got first place in Chambana Music Competition in Illinois. In 2022, he was second place in Gavilan College Youth Piano Competition Junior Division. He also competed in the final round in Golden State Youth Orchestra, Palo Alto Philharmonic, and Amador Symphony concerto competitions. Oliver also plays violin and guitar. He speaks Japanese and Spanish fluently. When he has free time, he likes to skateboard with his siblings.

Sora Corro is in 7th grade at Walter Middle School, Fremont CA. She started learning piano when she was 2 yrs old. She participated in her first competition when she was 4 yrs old. In 2018 and 2020, she won first place in the United States Open Music Competition Showcase Piano Solo and was awarded the outstanding Gold Medalist. In 2022, She was an alternate in the CAPMT concerto competition and Amador Symphony Concerto Competition. Most recently, she was the 3rd place in the Vineyard Music Festival Solo competition. When she has free time, she likes to skateboard with her brothers.

Minseo Kim is a senior in California High School and has been playing the flute for 6 years. She is a student of Ai Goldsmith for 5 years and has been part of the Golden State Youth Orchestra for 4 years. Minseo is a recipient of various prizes and honors, including a 2nd prize from American Protege Competition International Concerto Competition (2022), 2nd prize from the Silicon Valley Philharmonic Music Competition Woodwinds High School Winds category (2020), and 67th Annual Junior Bach Festival Winner. Outside music, Minseo enjoys traveling and watching movies.

Calvin Shawler fell in love with the performing arts from an early age and has been pursuing it since through eleven years of piano, voice, and composition lessons, and five years of theatre training. He’s won numerous awards for his compositions, and theatrical productions, including [INSERT future HERE], for which he contributed music and lyrics, and which was performed by his local high school. His most recent artistic projects include Stitch by Stitch, a musical review staged at the Granada Theatre, and a short film titled “A Beautiful Night,” of which he is in the midst of editing.

Looking forward, he hopes to major in music composition and theatre.

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Session Presenters 11 AM | Ensemble Room Ting Luo Discussion and Showcase: Creative Piano Works with Audio Visuals and Multimedia Meet Ting will discuss the interdisciplinary art project New Arts Collaboration around the topics of project curation, the creative approaches to visuals and multimedia, and showcase a few works from the project.

New Arts Collaboration is a not-for-profit interdisciplinary art project for sound and multimedia that has been featured widely in national and international festivals, exhibitions and conferences.

Ting Luo is a pianist and the director of New Arts Collaboration. She has performed and lectured in prestigious venues in China and the U.S., advocating contemporary and classical music. Her interdisciplinary art project New Arts Collaboration has been featured in many contemporary music and film festivals around the U.S. and internationally. Ting also enjoys walking, traveling and ice cream.

Nate May Think With Your Fingers: A New/Ancient Approach to Music Fundamentals One of the earliest known music pedagogy devices is the Guidonian hand. Dating from over 1,000 years ago, it is a way of mapping pitches from musical scales onto the fingers of the hand. Today research in neuroscience has demonstrated a strong link between mathematical ability and the parts of the brain used for representing fingers, suggesting an embrace of the age-old practice of counting on one’s fingers to learn abstract operations. As students struggle to wrap their heads around staff-based approaches to scales and chords, is it time for a 21st-century return to the Guidonian hand? How can technology unlock this ancient potential?

Recognized by the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the Yale School of Music, Nate May is a versatile American composer, improviser, and educator whose music has been heard across four continents: in jazz clubs and DIY spaces, on radio and television, in museums and modern dance venues, and on mainstage classical events at New York’s Sheen Center, the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, and others. His music spans a wide array of genres: he has composed orchestral, choral, chamber, electronic, and experimental music, scored a feature film, played in a post-rock band, and given fully-improvised performances on piano and Fender Rhodes. Also an award-winning educator, he served on faculty at Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music, Montclair State University, and the Walden School, before founding his own online music school, Synthase. He is currently a doctoral candidate in composition at Yale.

Pedagogy & Play 1 PM | Ensemble Room

Teacher-Student-Parent Panel 2 PM | Ensemble Room

Pedagogy & Play is an informal setting to discuss various pedagogical topics, and also a chance to perform for each other (optional)!

A panel featuring a teacher, student, and parent (from different studios) and what success means to them and how to achieve it.

Topic: Student- vs. Teacher-Directed Lessons

Topic: Teacher/Parent/Student Success

Moderated by Yvonne Reddy

Teacher Panelist: Amy Stephens Student Panelist: Avani Thakur Parent Panelist: Bin Fan Moderated by Yvonne Reddy

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Exhibitors Steinway Society New Arts Collaboration Synthase Amy Stephens & Red Leaf Pianoworks Alli Gessner: Oboe CAPMT Santa Clara Valley Chapter

Masterclass Programs Advanced Piano Masterclass | 11 AM | Recital Hall Sonata No. 18 in E-flat Major (Op. 31, No. 3) II. Scherzo. Allegretto vivace Kyle Lieu Le Tombeau de Couperin VI. Toccata

Ludwig van Beethoven

Maurice Ravel Siddharth Pant

Voice & Winds Masterclass | 3 PM | Ensemble Room Se tu m’ami

Alessandro Parisotti Medha Sarkar (soprano)

Divertimento No. 17 in D Major (K. 334) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart III. Menuet & Trio Matthew Lee (clarinet) Etude No. 1

Franz Wilhelm Ferling Jin Cho (oboe) 12

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Solo & Ensemble Recital

Solo & Ensemble Recital

12 PM | Recital Hall

1 PM | Recital Hall

Waltz No. 19 in A minor, B. 150 Clarisse Chong Solfeggio in D Major Tambourin

Frédéric Chopin

The Haunted Harp

Christine Donkin Adelyn Massey

Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach François-Joseph Gossec Xingyao Li

Western Plain

Martha Mier Emma & Bin Fan

Variations (Op. 40, No.1) Dmitry Kabalevsky Invention No.4 in D minor Johann Sebastian Bach (BWV 775) Avaline Wang

Prelude No. 1 in C Major Johann Sebastian Bach (BWV 939) Prelude No. 4 in F Major Johann Sebastian Bach (BWV 927) Eleanor Wei

Theme and 6 Piano Variations Ludwig van Beethoven in G Major (WoO 70) Charisse Suen

March of the Grasshoppers (Op. 65, No. 7) Mina Uberoy

Prelude and Fugue in C minor Johann Sebastian Bach (BWV 847) Cailey Chong

A Stroll in the Hills

Sergei Prokofiev

Rachel Broadbent Christine Platt

Passacaglia Prelude in D-flat Major “Raindrop” (Op. 28, No. 15) Sophia Kim

Frédéric Chopin

Christian Friedrich Witt Misha Uberoy

Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum from Children’s Corner Steven Huang

Claude Debussy

Prelude and Fugue in B-flat Major Johann Sebastian Bach (BWV 866) Valerie Cheng Intermezzo in A Major (Op. 118, No. 2)

Prelude and Fugue in D minor Johann Sebastian Bach (BWV 851) Evangeline Zou Novelette in E minor (FP 173) O Polichinelo from “A prole do bebê”, No. 1 Johnny Du I Got Rhythm

Johannes Brahms Bin Fan

Oboe Concerto in C minor I. Allegro Moderato II. Adagio

Francis Poulenc Heitor Villa-Lobos

Alessandro Marcello

Eulina Ji

George Gershwin

Impromptu in G-flat Major (Op. 90, No. 3) Ruman Das

Franz Schubert

Etude in C minor “Revolutionary” (Op. 10, No. 12) Yeonjun Kim

Frédéric Chopin

Serena Bond Liebestraum (S. 541, No. 3) Taryn Tsuji

Franz Liszt

String Trio in G Major Alexander Borodin I. Allegro Ariel Zhang, Rebecca Spence, Emma Spence

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Creativity & Pops Recital

Teacher Recital

2 PM | Recital Hall

3 PM | Recital Hall

Chopsticks

Traditional / arr. Olson Emma Fan & Nicholas Poklewski

Someday

Improv on the Theme from Interstellar Selections from Melancholy Album ● Salado ● November ● Cielo Grant Kondo

Forrest Kinney / arr. Charlie Amend Charlie Amend

Surfboard Boogie

Hans Zimmer Myra Luu

Martha Mier Katherine Poklewski

The Orchard

Tyler Kline Mijung An

Neil’s Medley ●

安靜 Ān Jìng “Silence”

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Glacier from Soul Knight

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Piano Man

Jay Chou Enoch Feng

9 NYC Miniatures for Solo Oboe IV. Downtown Music V. Hustle and Bustle Alli Gessner

Billy Joel Neil Huang

I Dreamed a Dream

Gary Powell Nash

Claude-Michel Schönberg

from Les Misérables

Passing TIme

Alex Amend

Ting Luo Ting Luo

How to Save a Life

The Fray Chloe Teo

Rush E

Childhood Excursions: Are We There Yet!?

I. Riding the Rails II. Monarchs III. Night on the Town IV. Waterfall V. Harvest Amy Stephens

Andrew Wrangell Ryan Niu

Maple Leaf Rag

Scott Joplin

Over the Rainbow

Harold Arlen /

from The Wizard of Oz

Amy Stephens

arr. George Shearing Jaden Fong

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Sunflower

Nate May Nate May

LeeHi / arr. Taryn Tsuji Taryn Tsuji

San Francisco

Summertime George Gershwin from Porgy and Bess ¿Quién será? "Sway" Luis Demetrio & Pablo Beltrán Ruiz Solmaaz Adeli & Julie Poklewski

Kailyn Fong Kailyn Fong

Cars Outside

James Arthur Zahra Jeevunjee

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Feature Recital 4 PM | Recital Hall

The Blue Above and Below

Calvin Shawler Calvin Shawler

Etude (Op. 91, No. 7) Sonatina for Yvette III. Allegretto

Moritz Moszkowski Xavier Montsalvatge Hiroshi Corro

Sonata for Flute and Piano I. Heiter bewegt II. Sehr langsam

Paul Hindemith

Minseo Kim Étude in C Major (Op. 10, No. 1)

Frédéric Chopin Oliver Corro

Étude in G-flat Major (Op. 10, No. 5)

Frédéric Chopin Sora Corro

Tico Tico

Zequinha de Abreu Sora Corro & Oliver Corro

Dear Martha from Stitch by Stitch

Calvin Shawler Calvin Shawler

Galop Marche

Albert Lavignac Hiroshi, Oliver, & Sora Corro

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