Increased Scholarship
Congratulations to alumni Kimmi Levin, now in her second year at Chapman University, who has been awarded even more financial aid due to her outstanding performance and straight A's!
Summer Wins
Summer 2013 was rich with music, with Annie Chang winning a medal in the Orange County Korean Cultural Center Competition, and Katherine Park taking 3rd place in the Southwestern Youth Music Festival. Students Emily Godina, Katrina Butorac, and Evette Chung enjoyed chamber music immersion at the Capistrano Chamber Music Festival.
And I'd like to extend congratulations and best wishes to matriculating students Yurie Hanaoka, who is off to UC Davis, and Jessica Lim, who is starting UC Irvine.
Pacific Symphony Youth Orchestra Acceptance
Congratulations to my violin students for a year of great music and many achievements. To name a few: Katherine Park, Annie Chang, and Colleen Louie have all been accepted to the Pacific Symphony Youth Orchestra for 2013-14, and Julia Wang will be attending the Orange County School of the Arts. Bravo!!
Master Class August 13, 2013, 7 pm
The Eagle Pointe Chamber Series
presents
Violin Master Class
with
Deanna Lee Bien
Tuesday, August 13, 2013, 7:00 pm
Eagle Pointe Manor, Aliso Viejo, CA
Violinist Deanna Lee Bien joined the National Symphony Orchestra in 1992. She made her solo concert debut at age nine with the Northwest Chamber Orchestra in her native Seattle, Washington. Since then she has made numerous solo appearances with the Seattle Symphony, the Juilliard Orchestra, and ensembles in New York, Aspen, and Los Angeles. Before joining the National Symphony, Ms. Bien spent four seasons with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, where she was featured as soloist in several critically acclaimed performances of Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto. Ms. Bien was a prizewinner in the 1988 Washington International Competition, where she received the Alessandro Niccoli Memorial Scholarship for study in Siena, Italy. In 1985 she was a winner in the Los Angeles Young Musicians Foundation Debut Competition, and in the same year performed the Glazunov Violin Concerto under Sixten Ehrling's direction at Alice Tully Hall. An active chamber musician, Ms. Bien has recorded on the Bay Cities and Albany record labels. She has appeared with National Musical Arts, the Chamber Artists of Washington, and on the Holocaust Museum Chamber Series. A graduate of The Juilliard School, where she was a scholarship student of Dorothy DeLay, Ms. Bien continued work with Paul Kantor at Yale University. Her other teachers have included Ivan Galamian and Emanuel Zetlin.
The program will include Bartok’s Romanian Dances, Mozart Concerto in G major, de Beriot Concerto # 9, Sicilienne and Rigaudon by Kreisler, and Paganini Caprice # 13
This master class is free and open to the public; donations are welcome.
RSVP to danafreeman@cox.net, or 949-614-3614
I am so proud of my students!
I could tell you what had for dinner, but I'd rather brag a bit more about my students. Natalie Bickel was awarded Most Outstanding Player in her Aliso Niguel HS orchestra, while Elise Esplin was Student of the Year at Ladera Middle School. Christopher Chan was Concertmaster of the Capistrano 6th grade Honors Orchestra, and Evette Chung won the Pacific Symphony Santiago Strings audition, and was Concertmaster of St. Margaret's Middle School Orchestra. Thanks for your beautiful music, and a very successful school year!