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Skills assignments are now posted online at ‘Parent Section’, ‘Skills Assignments’. There is a list of Pupil Savers in ‘Parent Section’, ‘Skills Assignments’, ‘Pupil Savers’ that contains pieces that might be fun for the kids to learn for their Choice piece portion of the Popular Skills assignment.

Mrs Skousen will be out of town all of next week. She will be emailing everyone within the next day or so as to when the makeup skills will be.

Mrs Skousen will be out of town the week of March 1-6. She has posted office hours the following week on March 9 and 10. If you are ready to certify please sign up for a spot during her office hours. These Certification are included in tuition.

REMINDER: You MUST bring a signed Certification form from your teacher stating that you are ready to Certify with Mrs Skousen in order to sign up for one of these spots.

To schedule a time with Mrs Skousen email schedule@peerymusic.com

Showcase and Share is next week – March 1-5. Print the assignment and bring to your class for your teacher to help you fill out. Go to Parent Section, Showcase Assignments to download the assignment.

Skills assignments will be updated later today.

Jessica was recently awarded 3rd Place Winner of the American Protege 2010 International Piano and Strings Competition held in New York. Excellent work Jessica!

Jamie was awarded 4th Place in the US Open International Piano Competition, concerto division playing Mozart’s K488 concerto, 1st Movement.

Way to go!

Top of the Empire State Building: wind, running kids, making movies, making their music above the rhythms of the city, in the context of the 360 degree skyline. So neat.
- split- some went to the 9/11 museum & wall street, others went on the ferry, others went walk the island of Manhatton. All met this evening for Lion King. Awesome. Tomorrow we head for D.C. for President’s Day. 7:05 a.m. to catch Amtrak at Penn Station. We miss you all !

We are having such a blast ! ! ! Highlights today were: masterclass with Dustin Gledhill, Jennie Naylor Richards, and Sorab Wadia. This performers were AWESOME. There feedback was extremely implementable for the kids. And, Dustin played a Mozart piece in a truly, truly masterful way. What a treat, the Bechstein piano was amazing as well. Then, this afternoon, all of the students had a chance to get on the stage in Paul hall. We’ll post photos of them at the piano soon! This evening we had seats directly above the Count Bassie and the Blues. Holy Smoke! It. Was. Awesome. All the kids were moving to the beat and humming little rifs from the blues even after we had gotten on the Subway. Man, it stuck. The pianist(s) were so smooth. Tomorrow is Empire State building and Lion King. We’ll let you know how it goes!

Just a friendly reminder…there are no classes next week, February 15-20th. Enjoy your ski week!

Just a reminder – as stated on the yearly calendar there are NO LESSONS NEXT WEEK – feb 15-20. Enjoy your ski week!

Two of our Players 7 students, Amy (one of our favorite PPA guides) and Shuan just won the SFMF (san francisco internationl music festival) audition held at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. They will perform in the winners concert on January 23rd at the Conservatory. Congrats Amy and Shuan!