CMISC 2010
Chamber Music Institute
Southern California
Chamber Music -- Private Lessons -- Composition -- Improvisation
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MTAC State Convention 2010
Sunday, July 4 LAX Marriott Hotel

Congratulations!
violinist Michelle Antimie
2:00 pm Recital in the Scottsdale Room
Bruch - Finale from the Violin Concerto in G Minor
music lessons
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ASTA Solo Competition 2010
May 8 Greater Los Angeles Final Competition

Congratulations!
violist Adam Cottrell
Second Place Winner, Intermediate Solo


Adam Cottrell with piano collaborator, Marla Devich

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ASTACAP 2010
May 1, 2010

American String Teachers, Greater Los Angeles Area
CERTIFICATE ACHIEVEMENT PROGRAM
Cheryl Scheidemantle, Examiner


Congratulations!
violin lessons, viola lessons, cello lessons

Kendra Base, Level 1 violin
Lawrence Koh, Level 3 viola
Sayoni Saha, Level 6 viola
Nathen Huang, Level 6 viola
Bernard Koh,
Level 6 violin with Honors
Louisa Cottrell, Level 6 violin with Honors
Sihyun Ahn, Level 6 violin with Honors
Adam Cottrell, Level 9 viola with Honors
Michelle Antimie, Level 10 violin with Honors
Lynnie Sharzer, Level 10 violin with Honors

MTAC Whittier Branch
VOCE Competition --
State VOCE Finals ... April 24, 2010

Honorable Mention! Congratulations!

to Whittier Branch Winners --
February 21, 2010
violinist Michelle Antimie - Intermediate Solo First Place
and
the CMISC String Quartet - Senior Ensemble First Place
violinists Christopher Hunt and Michelle Antimie
violist Lynnie Sharzer and cellist Emmanuel Ventura-Cruess

Beethoven String Quartet op. 18, no. 1 - first movement
Turina
Prayer of the Bullfighter


the quartet is coached by Kay Pech, Dr. Charles Baker and Dr. Donald Ambroson

ViolaFest 2010
February 27, 2010
9:00 am to 4:30 pm
Renaissance Arts Academy, 1800 Colorado Blvd, Los Angeles


Congratulations!
violist Adam Cottrell
played for the Donald McInnes Master Class

 

Congratulations! to Charlie Sharzer, 1st Place Winner
in MTAC "Composers Today" 2008 State Competition
in Division 5 (High School Composers)

Charlie named the first movement of his first string quartet, "The Campaign"
He performed the quartet at the State Convention in Riverside on Friday, June 27, 2008,
with the help of violinists Jonathan Sun (UC-San Diego) and Kay Pech
and cellist Judy Kang (USC).
Charlie was a viola student in the Pech studio and
his composition teacher was Suzanne Wong, MTAC-Whittier Branch.
He now studies composition at Yale University where he plays viola in the orchestra.

CMI/SC Hall of Fame (VOCE State Finalists)

2010 String Quartet: Chris Hunt, Michelle Antimie, Lynnie Sharzer and Emmanuel Ventura-Cruess,
won Honorable Mention in Senior Ensemble Category

2009 Arensky Trio: Lynnie Sharzer, Ben Park, and Chris Zhang

2008 Olivia Cottrell, violin soloist

2007 Olivia Cottrell, violin soloist

2007 Cottrell Family Trio: Olivia, Anna & Nathan

2006 Cottrell String Quartet

2006 Peries-Sun-Murtough-Choi Quartet

2006 Darrell Peries, violin soloist

2002 Sunny Lin, viola soloist

Friends of Today's Music
commissioned Melissa Hui

to write a composition for violin and piano
"... and blue sparks burn"

Pech, Hui, Nadal and Sharifi

Chamber Music Institute/So. California
was honored to be selected

to perform this world premiere
of "... and blue sparks burn"
for the State Convention of MTAC,
July 2002
.

The duo of violinist Marina Sharifi
and pianist Justina Nadal was coached
by faculty member, Kay Pech.

Born in Hong Kong and raised in Vancouver,
British Columbia, Melissa Hui received her
Doctor of Musical Arts from Yale University.
Her mentors include Jacob Druckman,
Earl Kim and Mel Powell.

Completed in February 2002, Hui says,
"the work was conceived in October of 2001
soon after the tragic events of September 11, 2001,
in New York City and Washington, D.C.
While the nation was mourning the tremendous
and senseless loss of lives, I was haunted by
the images of dust and eerie calm that
permeated the news coverage in the
aftermath of the disaster.
This is my personal response."

First Place in 2000
in the State of California


Winning the
Senior Ensemble Division

of the California State VOCE Competition
provided by the Music Teachers' Association of California
on April 16, 2000

The CMI/SC Piano Trio included
violinist Marina Sharifi, pianist Jody Chou,
and cellist Jay Tilton
At their performance of the Shostakovich Piano Trio
on July 1, 2000, our CMI/SC trio was presented
the $1,200 First Place Award by MTAC

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