kingston suzuki music association · 2008-04-11 · susan gibbon [email protected] penny kingsbury...
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April 2008 Kingston Suzuki Music Association www.kingstonsuzukimusic.ca
2007/08 Executive
President: President: President: President: Kristin Cote (613-531-1988) (please note: after July 1/08, Kristin will be on sabbatical)
ViceViceViceVice----PresidentPresidentPresidentPresident: Paula Klink ([email protected])
Treasurer: Treasurer: Treasurer: Treasurer: Chuck Eddy
Secretary: Secretary: Secretary: Secretary: Cella Olmstead
Membership: Membership: Membership: Membership: Marsha Klinger (613-384-2216)
Bursary Committee: Bursary Committee: Bursary Committee: Bursary Committee: Volunteer needed
Flute Rep: Flute Rep: Flute Rep: Flute Rep: Chris Scott (613-384-2687)
Piano Rep:Piano Rep:Piano Rep:Piano Rep: Kristin Rae (613-384-9970)
Violin Rep:Violin Rep:Violin Rep:Violin Rep: Karen Kimmett (613-531-6039)
Once again our KSMA teachers have put
together a day of learning and fun that is
sure to stimulate your child and engage their
interest!
Just the facts…Just the facts…Just the facts…Just the facts…
Saturday, April 19, 2008 Cost: $20 Loyalist Collegiate & Vocational Institute (153 Van Order Drive)
(your schedule will be emailed to you or
given to you by your teacher a week before
the workshop)
See the attached registration form for more
details. Please register by April 7.
What’s in store…What’s in store…What’s in store…What’s in store…
Enrichment classes with Ed Sprunger, Jodie
Compeau, Chris Scott and the Kingston
Symphony Brass Quintet.
Ed Sprunger (violin)
Edmund Sprunger has taught violin for
over twenty years in his home studio and at
over 150 institutes, workshops, and master
classes throughout the U.S. and Canada. He
has served on the board of the Suzuki Asso-
ciation of the Americas and is a registered
Next Meeting:
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
7:30 PM
24 Napier Street
Anyone interested in helping to
guide the KSMA organization is
welcome to attend.
April 19—Spring Celebration!
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Suzuki teacher trainer. In addition, he has
been chair of the Committee on Studio
Instruction of the American String Teachers
Association. Also trained as a psychothera-
pist, he holds an MSW from the University
of Michigan and has done post-degree
training with the Michigan and St. Louis
psychoanalytic institutes.
Jodie Compeau (Dragon Drumming)
Jodie Compeau has been involved in Music
Enrichment and Education in the Kingston
area schools for the past 10 years. She has
provided Ministry of Education curriculum
support for teachers in their classrooms using
recorders, tinwhistles, glockenspiels, boom-
whackers, voice, percussion instruments and
most recently, garbage cans and paint pails
(dragon drumming). Being a former Suzuki
Method student, she went on to study piano
up to the university level and now teaches
piano privately. She runs a summer camp for
the arts called CREATION STATION based
in the east end of Kingston and will be on
faculty at the Kingston Suzuki Summer
Music Fest for her third year this year.
Chris Scott (Music and Movement)
Join in a variety of music and movement
activities and try some unusual instruments:
autoharp and hammered dulcimer, tone
blocks and Boomwhackers. Chris Scott
teaches Suzuki flute in Kingston. Before
moving here, she taught early childhood
music classes for private day care providers in
Massachusetts. She has been an enthusiastic
flutist for 35 years. She has performed flute
and piccolo in a variety of chamber ensem-
bles and orchestras, including the Kingston
Symphony. She has lived in New York,
KSMA Library Concerts, 2007/08 Season
Spring Celebration (continued)
Anyone can perform, but you have to let your teacher know
by the Monday (noon) prior to the concert (name, title of
the piece and age). This makes it easier for the organizers
to , well, be organized!
Please abide by concert etiquette at the concerts. Ask your
teacher if you have questions!
Each family is asked to bring drinks or food which can be left
on the table outside the Wilson room to be shared.
Last PlayLast PlayLast PlayLast Play----in:in:in:in: Saturday, May 10 (ask your teacher about the time)
The concerts are held at the Kingston Public Library, Central Branch (Johnston Street) in the Wilson Room.
Colorado, New Zealand, and Massachusetts before coming to Kingston,
where she lives with her husband, two children, and her cat Snap.
Kingston Symphony Brass Quintet
The Kingston Symphony Brass Quintet, a cham-
ber brass ensemble, is committed to reaching audi-
ences both through a yearly concert season and by
providing educational activities in the form of workshops
and concerts in schools. The group’s repertoire covers a
wide variety of styles, periods, and genres from classical to pop, and Ba-
roque to jazz. During the past 3 years, the KS Brass has done presenta-
tions in local elementary and secondary schools. The presentations in-
volve playing for and working with children at particular division levels.
The KS Brass has recently performed in St. George’s Cathedral with
Edward Norman (Director of Music and Organist at St. George’s), at
the Limestone District School Board’s ‘Music Day’ and in the Music-in-
the-Park summer series in Kingston
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It has been a goal to build a website for about the past year and we
finally did it! Although the website went ‘live’ in February, there are
still some additions that need to be made...namely pictures of the
teachers! (We’re going to take some, don’t worry!)
Check it out at www.kingstonsuzukimusic.ca. You will find informa-
tion about our teachers, contact information and past newsletters.
We also have our registration forms online to make things a little
easier.
If you have any suggestions about what should go up on the web-
site, please contact Carol Tomalty at [email protected].
We have a website!
KSMA Teachers
The following is a list of the current KSMA teachers. Please feel free to
give their name to someone who is interested in taking lessons. Our
teachers are great!
FluteFluteFluteFlute Chris Scott 613-384-2687 | [email protected]
PianoPianoPianoPiano Marilyn Armstrong [email protected]
Sheri Boyd [email protected]
Martha Hill Duncan 613.544.9936 | [email protected]
Susan Gibbon [email protected]
Penny Kingsbury [email protected]
Beverley Porter [email protected]
Kristin Rae [email protected]
Marnie Sherk [email protected]
Kathy Van Allen [email protected]
ViolinViolinViolinViolin Lisa Draper [email protected]
Karen-Michéle Kimmett [email protected]
Venetia Stewart 613.767.7897 | [email protected]
Denny Williams [email protected]
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KSMA AwardsKSMA AwardsKSMA AwardsKSMA Awards The Kingston Suzuki Music Association offers two awards every year
for outstanding students. Teachers—please submit your nomination for
students deserving of the following awards:
McFarlene Award: McFarlene Award: McFarlene Award: McFarlene Award: This award goes to an outstanding violin
student who is a KSMA member.
Phyllis Wood Award: Phyllis Wood Award: Phyllis Wood Award: Phyllis Wood Award: This award goes to an outstanding piano student
who is a KSMA member.
M ore in fo rmat ion i s ava i l ab le on our w eb s i t e
(www.kingstonsuzukimusic.ca).
Nominations should be sent to Kristen Côte by April 30/08. Please
include a letter explaining why this student deserves the award.
Bursaries for More Than Music Summer Festival in KingstonBursaries for More Than Music Summer Festival in KingstonBursaries for More Than Music Summer Festival in KingstonBursaries for More Than Music Summer Festival in Kingston Any KSMA member who is planning to attend this year’s More Than
Music Summer Music Festival in Kingston is eligible for a bursary from
KSMA. The deadline to apply is April 30, 2008. Simply send your
name, your teacher’s name and the program you are registered for to
Kristin Côte at [email protected]. If teachers would like to
forward a list of their students who will be attending the institute, that
is fine too.
This year, More Than Music is offering a $250 scholarship for one
KSMA student who will be attending one of the full programs at the
More Than Music Summer Festival AND waiving the registration fee
for that lucky student! To enter the draw, please send your name to
Kristin Côte by April 30, 2008. (See their ad on page 5 or visit their
website at www.morethanmusic.com)
Anyone attending the teacher-training program at the More Than
Music Summer Music Festival in Kingston is eligible to receive the
Valerie Lloyd-Watts Scholarship. Please submit your name to Kristin
Côte by April 30.
WOW! Lots of good stuff here, so don’t miss out!
Awards & Bursaries
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Congratulations to the following stu-
dents, who have done so well on their
Royal Conservatory exams (January 08)!
Grade 1 Piano—Tommy Pendergast
Grade 8 Piano—Mikela Witjes
Grade 6 Piano—Trevor Witjes
A big ‘well-done’ also goes
out to Katrina Hartmann, who
finished up Book 1a
We Rock!
Did you notice our new logo?!? We have a
winner! Cameron Taylor did an awesome
job with this logo for the KSMA. Each
of the instruments offered by
KSMA are represented. Thanks
to all the kids who submitted their
ideas.
String & Piano Program Suzuki Instruction 15, 20 or 30 minute lesson
Group Class, Keyboard Lab, Orchestra, Fiddling,
Chamber Music,
Music Theatre, Voice, Teen Program and so much more
For more information contact: More Than Music
275 Ontario Street
Suite 306 Kingston ON K7K 2X5
613-542-1486
www.morethanmusic.com
www.morethanmusic.com
Summer Music Festival—Suzuki Kingston
July 6th to July 11th, 2008, Queen’s University
Newsletter Editor
Are you interested in helping out the
KSMA organization in a creative way? We
are looking for a newsletter editor to take
over the job of...well, putting together the
newsletter! Contact Kristin Côte if you are
interested.
Instrument Make/model Price Contact Info
violin—1/16 size $275 Leslie Rose
613.545.1517 [email protected]
violin—1/10 size* Remeny House of Music, includes Remeny case and bow (additional Korean box—brand new, still in plas-tic sheath, never used, $60)
$350 Christine Armstrong
613-634-1372 [email protected]
violin—1/8 size* Albert Kramling, includes case and bow $360 Christine Armstrong
613-634-1372 [email protected]
violin—1/8 size $300 Trevor Paget 613.548.3497
violin—1/8 size
violin—1/4 size Suzuki violin, made in 1988; with case and bow $300
Vicki Macdonald 613-545-5935
violin—1/4 size* Stentor; includes bow and case; shoulder rest (KUN) $30
$355 Christine Armstrong
613-634-1372 [email protected]
violin—1/4 size Robyn Watts 613.634.6099
violin—1/4 size $300 Cindy Hatfield 613.634.2639
violin—1/4 size $300 Sian Phillips
613.547.4715
Violin—1/4 size Eastman (incl. shoulder rest) $300 Bridget Doherty 613.542.3680
violin—1/2 size* Stentor; one of the first made, beautiful shape, wood grain and colour; includes bow and case; KUN $30
$350 Christine Armstrong
613-634-1372 [email protected]
violin—3/4 size German-made, circa 1940’s, new case, bow needs re-hair, new dominant strings
$250 Andrea Greek 613.544.0752
violin—3/4 size* Joseph Guanerius, most special violin, smooth, melo-dious sound, rosewood apparels, new pegs
$750 Christine Armstrong
613-634-1372 [email protected]
Violin—full size Hilda Hollis
613.536.5026
violin—3/4 size violin in good shape with bow, case and chin rest $350 Mark Walters 613-548-1095
violin—3/4 size Stentor violin with bow and case $550 Alison Gowan 613-547-3120
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*All the instruments offered for sale by Christine Armstrong were appraised at The Violin Workshop by Marcel Picard, December 5, 2006. Do you have an instrument that you would like to sell (or buy)? Send in the details and we will list it in the next newsletter as a service to KSMA members. Any musical instrument (or item of interest to musical families) qualifies for this page. Be sure to include the all the information needed for the chart above. When you sell your instrument, or it becomes no longer available, please contact Carol and let her know so that information can be kept current. Carol Tomalty . 613-389-1798 . [email protected]
Instruments for Sale