Downtown Albuquerque, NM I’d be remiss if I let too much time pass without thanking my FSS students for allowing me the time to visit the recent American String Teachers Association conference in Albuquerque. I made the trip along with my dear friend and orchestra colleague, cellist Kyle Champion. Also making the trip were something [...]

Spring 2008 Now in session New Classes: Little Stars In addition to our regular group classes and ensembles we will once again be offering our Little Stars program for children ages 4 to 7. It’s a great way to introduce kids to music, and a perfect preparation for structured string lessons. Class content includes pitch, [...]

A scene from Wagner’s “Das Rheingold” (courtesy Metropolitan Opera) Richard Wagner’s epic The Ring is a collection of four operas that have inspired concert goers, film makers, film composers, artists of all manner and even soldiers in combat for 150 years. It’s twenty hours of music that encapsulate legend, love, war, incest, racism and even [...]

Just a quick reminder for currently enrolled FSS students: Please attend this week’s class dressed in concert attire, white tops/shirts and black slacks/skirts. Plan to arrive by 4:45 p.m. to allow time for tuning. We will video tape four songs for our Disneyland performance audition application. Immediately following at 5:30, our monthly recital will commence. [...]

Dear Students, Friends and Colleagues: Our second year of Foothill Suzuki Strings group classes are set to start on Thursday, September 13. We’ve got some exciting news to share, including new faculty, new classes and a completely revised class structure. We’re looking forward to seeing you soon! NEW CLASSES: Little Stars, a class designed to [...]

Don’t forget, today’s the first Thursday of our 5 week summer session! Pretwinkle and Book 1 at 5:00 p.m. to 5:45 pm. Please arrive in time to tune before class. Upper Level students 6:00 to 6:50. See you there!

By popular demand, we will hold a summer session. Classes will begin at 5:00 p.m. each Thursday between June 28 and July 26. Registration for this special session is $60, which includes all 5 sessions. If you are unable to attend each class, you may participate on a weekly basis, for $15 per week, plus [...]

Amazingly, our Spring session is already drawing to a close. Our semester final concert date has been moved to Saturday, May 12. All students should arrive no later than 1:45 p.m. for a 2 p.m. sharp performance. We are adding an extra class/dress rehearsal on Thursday, May 10. On May 10, 5:00 classes will meet [...]

One of the great benefits of Suzuki classes, is the frequent opportunity to perform as a soloist. Yet for many of us, public performance can begin as a mixed blessing. On one hand, it is our joy, and solemn duty as musicians, to share our song with the world. At the same time, the journey [...]

Film recording session at Capitol Records I recently completed a two day recording session at Capitol Records. It was a film score for an action movie currently in post production, The Rebel. At the session we were all updated about our another project that we completed more than a year ago. At the time I [...]