Events
New this season - our monthly events Calendar. Scroll down to see activities in a calendar format.
Monthly Master Classes will be held the 2nd Saturdays of each month. Sessions will be fun filled and designed to give current music students (in our program as well as outside students) a big BOOST in the key areas of music instruction. We will work on the basics of notes, rhythm, listening through games and activities designed for children of all ages. Our next session will be Saturday, January 9th. Time to be announced. Cost is $15.00. The focus of this session will be the creating your own instruments. Contact us if you are interested.
Musical Enrichment Opportunities
The Young Steinway Concert Series at the Skokie Library is held every first Sunday of the month. Concerts are free and showcase young people with extraordinary talent. Concerts begin at 3:00 pm in the Petty Auditorium. Free tickets are distributed on a first-come, first-served basis one-half hour prior to each performance. Tickets go fast for more popular shows so be sure to arrive early.
Next concert February 7, 2010
Christian Bourdon, piano
An eighth-grade student at Abraham Lincoln Elementary School in Chicago, Christian Bourdon has been studying piano for six years. His teacher is Regina Syrkin. Christian has appeared as a soloist with the Oistrach Symphony Orchestra as part of the DePaul University Community Music Division’s Concerto Festival for Young Performers. Christian was a winner in the 2008 Northeast District Audition of the Illinois State Music Teachers Association annual competition and advanced to finalist status in the 2009 Steinway Young Artist Competition.
Ryan Murphy, violin
Ryan Murphy is a senior at Maine South High School. He started playing the piano at age four and began violin lessons at age nine. His violin teachers are Almita and Roland Vamos and Marko Dreher. His solo performing experience includes concertos with the Oak Park/River Forest Symphony Orchestra, the North Suburban Symphony Orchestra, and the Maine South Symphony Orchestra. Solo performances include Elgin Public Library, Northeastern Illinois’ Mostly Music Series, and at a Silk Road celebration at the Art Institute of Chicago. He has also participated in Midwest Young Artists orchestras for six years and in a piano trio for three years. Honors for Trio Vita include being the 2008 overall winner of the Chicago National Chamber Music Competition.
February 21, 2010
Alumni Concert Brenda Huang, piano
Brenda Huang, winner of the prestigious 1991 Gilmore Young Artist Award, began studying piano at the age of four with her mother, and had principally studied with Emilio del Rosario, Russell Sherman, and Carolyn McCracken-Forough, Pawell Checinki. Currently, she is a doctoral candidate at Northwestern University under Alan Chow. She has performed as a soloist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Illinois Philharmonic, Toledo Symphony, Milwaukee Symphony, Taipei Symphony, and Taiwan Symphony. Ms. Huang was the first prizewinner of the New York Kosziuszko Chopin Competition, the national winner of the Music Teachers National Association (MTNA), an American Pianist Association finalist, and was chosen to represent the United States at the International Chopin Competition in Warsaw by the National Chopin Foundation in Miami. She has performed on the Sunday Piano Series at the Conservatory of Music at Kansas City, the Dame Myra Hess Concert Series at the Chicago Cultural Center broadcast live on WFMT, the Young Artist Series broadcast on New York City radio station WQXR, the Chicago Steinway Society Concert Series, and among many others, at the Polish Cultural Center in New York City, the Isabella Gardner Museum in Boston, the Rudolph Ganz Recital Hall and the Harold Washington Library in Chicago, and solo recitals in Taiwan. She is a member of the piano faculty at the Chicago Institute of Music and is currently maintaining a large private studio in Palatine.
March 7, 2010
Andrew Chang, piano
Andrew Chang, a freshman at Boylan Catholic High School in Rockford, has been studying piano since age seven, beginning in Sacramento, California. He currently studies with Soo Young Lee at the Music Institute of Chicago. Andrew won first place in the junior division of the 2009 Chandler Starr Miller Scholarship Competition and was chosen in January for a masterclass with Alan Goldstein at the Coronado Theater in Rockford. He has performed in the Young Musicians Series at the Mendelssohn Performing Arts Center in Rockford and in a Music Teachers Association of California Honor Recital in Sacramento.
Kiyoshi Hayashi, violin
A sophomore at Oak Park and River Forest High School, Kiyoshi Hayashi studies with Thomas Wermuth at the Western Springs School of Talent Education. He began playing violin at age seven. Kiyoshi won first place in the 2009 Musichorale Scholarship Contest and won honorable mention in both the junior (2008) and senior (2009) levels of the Walgreens National Concerto Competitions. He has performed in the orchestras at his high school, at Four Winds Waldorf School, and at the Western Springs School of Talent Education. He has also attended the Preludio advanced violin camp at Ithaca College Suzuki Institute.
