Listen to Colburn students perform on KPFK's radio show Halfway Down the Stairs with Uncle Ruthie Buell. The program features the stories and performances by four of our students: Nathan Lee is a cello student of Ronald Leonard, and Zihui Song is a piano student of Ory Shihor, both from the Colburn Young Artist Academy. Felix Jen and Haoxian Hu are piano students of Jeff Lavner at The Colburn School of Perfomring Arts.

Halfway Down the Stairs — Play the Tune Again, Part 1
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Halfway Down the Stairs — Play the Tune Again, Part 2
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Photo (from left to right): Academy student Zihui Song, Uncle Ruthie, Academy student Nathan Le, and Community School students Haoxian Hu and Felix Jen

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We outlined some exciting summer events in last week’s newsletter, but there is still a lot more happening around campus this summer. June 24 – 29 is the Colburn Community School of Performing Art’s half-day Choir Camp, Colburn performing in Downtown LA’s Grand Park starting on June 27, and July 28 – August 3 is Jim Walker’s “Beyond Masterclass.” Read more below.

Beyond the Masterclass
Jim Walker's sixth annual "Beyond the Masterclass" will be held at The Colburn School from July 28th through August 3rd.  Auditors are welcome to attend all classes and all evening concerts are open and free to the public. The daily offerings include chamber music for flutists, strategies for auditions, recording CD's and DVD's and will feature exhibits and flute repair classes by Burkart and Flutacious.

For more information and to view a detailed schedule of events please visit www.beyondthemasterclass.com.  

Choir Camp
Looking for a fun and music-filled week for your children this month? The Colburn School’s half-day Choir Camp is designed for students entering grades four through eight and is directed by Dr. Mikhail Shtangrud. The camp will be June 24 – 29 with a culminating performance on June 29 at 3 pm in Thayer Hall.  For more information and to register, click here

Colburn in the Park!
Join the Colburn School Wind Symphony for three performances in the beautiful Grand Park this summer.  Bring a blanket, some food, along with friends and family for a relaxing evening, featuring beautiful music from the Colburn School's Adult Studies program.  Food trucks and and a beer tent will be available at each concert.  Come out and unwind with music from the Colburn School this summer!

Details:
June 27 @ 7pm—A 4th of July Celebration
July 25 @ 7pm—Celebrating the American Songbook
August 22 @ 7pm—A night at the movies

Announcing a new program starting July 15 through August 2— called Beginning Band — for 4, 5 and 6 grade students interested in learning woodwind or brass instruments. This three-week intensive program is the perfect fit for students that have little-to-no experience playing musical instruments but have an interest and potential to develop the skills necessary to excel in the art form. Students will meet on the beautiful Center for Early Education campus in West Hollywood. To receive your 10% discount, click on the link below and type CEEBand at checkout.

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The Colburn School is home to some of the most talented faculty in performing arts education. Which is why it comes as no surprise that many of them will be spending their summers continuing their great work, teaching students in camps and festivals across the world. 

Colburn Conservatory of Music

Renowned violin instructor, Robert Lipsett, will be teaching in Aspen at the Aspen Music Festival.

Andrew Bain (French horn) will continue to perform with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and teach in Aspen, Japan, and Melbourne, Australia.

Cello professor Ronald Leonard will be teaching at the Perlman Music Program in New York.

Dean Richard Beene will be performing at the Sunflower Music Festival in Topeka, Kansas.

Music Director, conductor and clarinet professor Yehuda Gilad will be teaching at the National Orchestral Institute and Festival at the University of Maryland, The Banff Centre, Avila Music Festival in Spain, Martin Frost’s Stavanger Music Festival in Norway, Crussel Music Festival in Finland, and the Aurora Music Festival in Sweden. Maestro Gilad also served as the President of the Jury of the 2013 Carl Nielsen International Clarinet Competition in Denmark this past week.

Viola professor Paul Coletti will be performing in concerts at the Strings Music Festival in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, alongside the esteemed Menahem Pressler, among others. He will also be teaching at the International Academy of Music at the Festival Pablo Casals and will be serving on the jury of the 62^nd ARD International Music Competition Munich.

Colburn Community School of Performing Arts

Danielle Belen, is Founder and Artistic Director of the summer music camp, Center Stage Strings in Three Rivers, CA.  She will also be on faculty at the Luzerne Music Center in New York.

Violin faculty, Aimée Kreston, will perform and serve on the faculty of Chamber Music Unbound in Mammoth Lakes, CA.  She is also the Executive Director of the Sierra Summer Festival.

Chamber music coach, Ida Levin, will be performing at the Mainly Mozart Festival in San Diego, the Seattle Chamber Music Festival and will be in residence as a senior artist at the Marlboro Music Festival in Vermont.

Violin faculty, Elizabeth Pitcairn is President, CEO and Artistic Director of the Luzerne Music Center in New York.  Luzerne has a music camp for students ages 9 – 18 and a professional concert series for two months in the New York Adirondacks.

Dance faculty, Sarah Swenson, has been invited by the city of Modena, Italy to perform solo at the Contemporary Gallery of Art at the Ducal Palace.  She will also be in Aurillac, France at the Centre Chorégraphique La Manufacture to teach a youth repertory class that will perform in their Fête de la Musique.  And in August, Sarah will be going to Madrid, Spain to coach the performers in Simone Forti’s installation of Dance Constructions, at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia.

Dance Music & Technical Director, Michael Roberts, will be teaching and accompanying for the American Ballet Theatre Summer Intensive held at UC Irvine.

Piano faculty, Robert Thies, will be the new Director of Chamber Music at the European American Musical Alliance in Paris, France.

Harp faculty, JoAnn Turovsky, will be on faculty at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara and will be Chairman of the American Harp Society National Competition held at The Colburn School in June.

Cello faculty, Nancy Yamagata, is Director of the Southern California Suzuki Institute’s Chamber Music Workshop at Mount St. Mary’s College. 

Colburn Young Artists Academy

The Colburn Young Artists Academy’s Ory Shihor will be teaching at the Art of the Piano Festival, University of Cincinnati, and Colburn Academy Piano Festival this summer.

Click here for full list of conservatory accomplishments, click here for academy accomplishments and continue reading below for community school accomplishments.

Colburn Community School of Performing Arts Accomplishments

Alumna Lilla Crawford, age 10, studied at Colburn from 2003 – 2010.  She was a student in the Early Childhood Department, studied tap, drama, ballet and sang in our choirs.  Her family moved to New York in 2010 when she won her role in the international hit show Billy Elliot.  She was then cast as Annie for the fall 2012 Broadway season and was in the opening number of the 2012 Tony Awards.

Student Hao Zhou won the Junior Violin division of the ASTA State Solo Competition. Hao Zhou studies violin with Henry Gronnier.

Student Kristina Zlatareva, has been chosen as a recipient of the Jack Kent Cooke Young Artists Award by the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation and NPR’s From the Top.  Each year, approximately 25 pre-collegiate musicians are awarded this prestigious award.  Kristina studies violin with Danielle Belen.

Adam Walden, 15, received a special commendation from the West Hollywood City Council and performed at the 14^th Annual Disability Service Awards.  Adam studies cello with Francesca Bori.

Two of five prizes went to students in the 2013 Mondavi Young Artists Competition.  Benjamin Penzner won the Bouchaine Young Artists Prize and Geneva Lewis won the Honorable Mention.  Benjamin studies viola with Andrew Picken and Geneva studies violin with Aimée Kreston.

Aurora Brasher-Rues, A.J. Moore, Lyric Schwartz and Silk Shimamoto, all students in the Trudl Zipper Dance Institute, have been chosen to perform with the American Ballet Theatre in their production of Le Corsaire July 12 – 14 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. 

Nathan Wong won the first prize of the National Federation of Music Clubs’ Wendell Irish Viola Award, as well as the organization’s Western Region Award for the best performance from the region.  Nathan studies viola with John Hayhurst, plays in the Honors Quartet coached by Mina Perry.

Nina Peng, who studies with Leslie Carothers-Aromaa, placed 2nd in the non-classical dance division of the Grand Prize Finals of the Music Center's Spotlight Competition. And Joel Wenhardt, who plays piano in the Thursday Night Band directed by Lee Secard, placed 2nd in the jazz instrumental division.

Seven students received awards from the 2013 Downbeat Magazine Student Music Awards.  Aaron Shaw, tenor saxophone in the Thursday Night Band was one of two winners of the Jazz Soloist/Performing Arts High School category.  Jeremy Corren, piano in the Monday Night Band was one of two outstanding performance recipients in the Jazz Soloist/Performing Arts High School category.  The Monday Night Band was one of two winners in the Performing Arts High School Advanced Jazz Workshop category.  Luca Ferrara was the winner of Best Original Composition/Lead Sheet for Performing Arts High Schools.  Both winners in the Best Original Composition/Orchestrated Work were our students.  Sara Sithi-Amnuai, Thursday Night Band, for "Cindy's Song” and Jeremy Corren, Monday Night Band, for "Mikio Inni af Peim."  Jeremy Corren, Monday Night Band, was the winner of Best Jazz Arrangement for Performing Arts High Schools, for his arrangement of the Dizzy Gillespie composition, "Con Alma."

Among many other awards, Geneva Lewis (violin) won the First Place Discovery Prize in the Young Musicians Foundation Debut Concerto Competition.  Geneva studies violin with Aimée Kreston.

Colburn tap instructor, Melinda Sullivan, received first prize for Choreographic Excellence in the 2012 Dance Teacher Summit Capezio A.C.E Awards for her piece, Gone. As first prize winner, Melinda was awarded a $15,000 production budget to go toward her own full-length show in New York this summer.  For more information about Melinda and the competition, visit Dance Spirit Magazine’s article here.  To view the video of her winning piece, visit http://dancemedia.com/v/6898.

The American String Teachers Association of Los Angeles posthumously presented Lonie Bosserman with the 2013 Distinguished Service to the String Community Award on May 11.  Lonie Bosserman taught Suzuki violin at The Colburn School from September of 2000 to July of 2010 and passed away in November of 2011. She was a valued member of our school community.

Major congratulations are in order for Colburn Young Artists Academy student Youjin Lee. She just won 1st place at the 2013 Irving M. Klein International String Competition. Read more about her win in this Strings article.

Tune in to watch the Colburn Chamber Music Society on KCET’s Open Call Thursday, June 20 at 9 pm and hear students on a new radio show on KPFK Saturday, June 15 at 8 am.

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The Colburn School is pleased to host the American Harp Society's National Harp Competition and Summer Institute from June 16th-19th. The Summer Institute's theme is "Focus on Friends" featuring the finest in harp chamber music and pop and jazz small ensembles. Coaching, workshops, and master classes with world class artists such as Heidi Lehwalder, Elizabeth Hainen, AnneMarie Liss, Carol Robbins, Paul Baker, Delaine Leonard Fedson, and Leslie Stratton Norris. Or, come watch the finest young harpists in the nation compete in the National Harp Competition (free to observe). More information, including registration and tickets, available at here.

Just when you thought things were winding down on campus, we will be having our very own Young Artists Academy Piano Festival July 28 – August 10, Songfest June 28 – July 25, American Harp Society's  National Harp Competition and Summer Institute June 13 – 19, and Summer Encounter will be held July 22 – August 2.

The Trudl Zipper Dance Institute is pleased to announce two exciting summer workshops: The Teen Tap Intensive led by acclaimed tap dancer and Colburn faculty member Melinda Sullivan and the Musical Theater Camp led by Colburn Tap Chair Denise Scheerer and acting coach Lea Floden. The Teen Tap Intensive takes place in Colburn’s Dance Studio A from June 24-28, 11:00am-2:00pm and is $265. The Musical Theater Camp (for ages 9-14) takes place in Colburn’s Dance Studio B June 24-28, 12:30pm-3:45pm and is $300. For more information please call (213) 621-1085.

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There is still time to register for Colburn’s Adult Studies summer classes. Classes include Beginning Guitar for Adults, Jazz Combo, and Colburn’s newest ensemble, the Adult Wind Symphony (whose evening concerts will take place in Downtown LA’s very own Grand Park). 

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Announcing a new program called Beginning Band for 4, 5 and 6 grade students interested in learning woodwind or brass instruments. This three-week intensive program is the perfect fit for students that have little-to-no experience playing musical instruments but have an interest and potential to develop the skills necessary to excel in the art form. Students will meet on the beautiful Center for Early Education campus in West Hollywood.

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Seven Community School students received awards from the 2013 Downbeat Magazine Student Music Awards:

Aaron Shaw, tenor saxophone, Colburn Jazz Workshop Thursday Night Band was one of two winners of the Jazz Soloist/Performing Arts High School category.

Jeremy Corren, piano, Colburn Jazz Workshop Monday Night Band was one of two outstanding performance recipients in the Jazz Soloist/Performing Arts High School category and he was the winner of the Best Jazz Arrangement for Performing Arts High Schools, for his arrangement of the Dizzy Gillespie composition, "Con Alma.”

The Colburn Jazz Workshop Monday Night Band was one of two winners in the Performing Arts High School Advanced Jazz Workshop category.

Luca Ferrara was the winner of the Best Original Composition/Lead Sheet for Performing Arts High Schools.

Both winners in the Best Original Composition/Orchestrated Work were our students:

Sara Sithi-Amnuai, Colburn Jazz Workshop Thursday Night Band, for "Cindy's Song"

Come see the Session Squad this Friday evening, May 31 at 8 pm for an evening of jazz standards and new works with multimedia, featuring some of the finest jazz musicians in the city. This concert is free and open to the public.

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