Peery Events

The TM National Festival held in Utah will be held June 24-26 in Provo, Utah. The PPA TM Festival, held on May 15, 2010, will determine the PPA students who will travel to Utah to represent our school and our state.

We are excited for this opportunity and look forward to a fun festival!

To assist you with your planning the schedule for fall enrollment is listed below.

Fall Registration is open to:

Summer quarter students – first week of august
Returning students – 2nd week of august
New students – 3rd week of august

The TM Festival begins at 3pm and ends at 5pm this Saturday at LDS CHURCH, 1300 GRANT ROAD, LOS ALTOS.

Remember that each family should bring one snack or drink to share.  The kids will eat and drink during TM Festival Half Time.

See you there!

WHAT IT IS:
The TM Festival is PPA’s big year-end event.  It includes student performances (each student plays one memorized piece), awards and games.  Each student is placed on and earns points for their team so it is very important to let us know if you will be attending or not.  Please email Missi if you WILL NOT be attending.

WHEN:  May 16, 2009 (see schedule below)

WHERE:  LDS CHURCH, 1300 GRANT ROAD, LOS ALTOS

WHO SHOULD ATTEND:  Everyone is welcome!  Bring family (young kids included), friends and neighbors.  Parents can stay for all or any part of the event.  Students should stay for the entire event – arrive at 3:00 and can be picked up any time after 5:00.

DRESS:  Casual

WHAT TO PLAY:  Students can play 1 memorized selection of their choice.  Be prepared to play your piece at next week’s showcase class for extra practice.

SCHEDULE
3:00-3:15 Student check in
3:15-4:00 Individual events (solo performances)
Each audience member get to vote for their favorite team so INVITE YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY and earn POINTs for your TEAM!!
4:00-4:15 Half time
4:15-4:45 Team events (Game Show and Beethoven Presentations)
4:45-5:00 Awards presentation.  Awards include:
-    individual certificates for each student
-    trophies for teacher’s choice students
-    trophies for Showcase and Share and TM Class winners
-    Extra tokens for the teams with the most points overall
-    Student of the Year
5:00-5:30 School store

Kids may be picked up any time from this point

The TM Festival is a very big event and we need a lot of parent volunteers to mak sure everything goes smoothly.  Please click here to find out more about volunteering for this event.

We need a lot of parent volunteers to ensure that the TM Festival runs smoothly.  If you can fill any of these positions please email me at info@peerymusic.com

Set-up Crew (2): 2:30pm – 3:00pm

1) We will need to set up chairs in specific rooms where the solo competitions will be held.  There are three rooms that will need to be set up.  The pianos will need to be moved to the center of the room and a judges’ table erected.
2) Registration Station, Student Store and Snack Station areas need to be created.  Christie will have the appropriate signs.
3) If you are able to help serve as traffic controllers after set up is completed, that would be appreciated.  You will be stationed in the door entryways to help the kids figure out where they need to check in and where the parents can drop off the snacks.  As the kids will be assigned to color groups, they will need to stay in their groups until the event starts.

Team Parent Leaders (3-4):  3:00-5:00

As parent team leaders, you will be assigned to a colored team.  You’ll have a schedule which tells you where your group needs to be at a particular time.  Please remember that you will be asked to stay the entire time of the festival.  You will be the team’s mentor, timekeeper and cheerleader.  It’s a very fun job.

Registration/Snack Station (2): 2:30-4:00

You will man the Registration Station and check the kids in.  It is a matter of checking off their names and giving them their colored name tags.  After all the children have been checked in, please set up the Snack Station and have all the food and drinks ready for the mid-event break.  The eager kids will all be very hungry and thirsty!

Student Store (3): 4:30-5:30

Set up the Student Store during the “Quiz Show” event.  You will also serve as cashiers for the store.  All of the items will be clearly marked with a “price” sticker and all you will need to do is to add up their total and collect their tokens.  I believe that there will be about 40+ eager bargain hunters shopping with their PPA tokens.

Clean-up Crew: 5:30pm-6:00pm

By 5:30 p.m., the event will be winding down.  Basically, everything needs to be put back into its original place.  I am sure of that all available parents will help with this.

Expect a little chaos, but it’s a lot of fun!

Please let Missi know if you have any questions.

Please note that the end of the Spring quarter is May 30th instead of the 29th.  Students enrolled in Saturday classes for the Spring quarter will have class on the 30th.  Email Missi if you have any questions.

Because the beginning and end of the summer quarter overlaps with the school year, we have adjusted the class times for our Tuesday and Thursday classes.  All classes have been pushed by 15 minutes.  For example, if you enrolled in Tuesday at 3:00 pm the class will now begin at 3:15pm .  I have listed the old and new class times below.

Old Class Time                                                 New Class Time

Tuesday 3:00pm                                             3:15pm

Tuesday 4:00pm                                             4:15pm

Tuesday 5:00pm                                             5:15pm

Tuesday 6:00pm                                             6:15pm

Thursday 4:00pm                                            4:15pm

Thursday 5:00pm                                            5:15pm

Thursday 6:00pm                                            6:15pm

Please email Missi if you have any questions.

PEERY PIANO ACADEMY EVENTS:

May 11th – 15th   Showcase/TM Week
May 16th          PPA TM Festival at 3pm
May 25th          No Lessons (Make-up on June 1st)
May 29th          Last Day of 9 mos term
June 2nd          First Day of Summer Quarter

OTHER EVENTS:

May 8th – 9th     RACE Theory Exams
May 9th               Kids Play the Darndest Things applications due – email Missi if you would like an application
May 11th -
June 7th               RACE Practical Exams
May 15th              CMTANC Preliminary Auditions – http://www.cmtanc.org/english/compidx.htm
May 16th              CAPMT Student Evaluations
May 16th – 17th  Kids Play the Darndest Things auditions
May 17th              MTAC Student Recital
May 23rd             CAPMT Student Evaluations
May 30th              CMTANC Final Competition
May 31st              Kids Play the Darndest Things final concert

The link to register for summer camps has been posted on the main PPA website at www.peerymusic.com.

Also, note that the deadline to register for summer camps has been extended to May 21st. 

You can find out more about our summer camps here.

The Sherman Clay Mini Festival scheduled for April 25th has been cancelled, but mark your calendars now for two important upcoming PPA events:

May 16th – PPA Team Music Festival (3pm)

August 29th – PPA Summer Ensemble Festival (5pm at Sherman Clay) – will include duets concertos and multiple piano works from our Habits, Playesrs and Mastery students.