2020 H. B. Goodlin Virtual Festival Results & Acknowledgements

Posted on June 22, 2020June 22, 2020 by Yuko Maruyama

Congratulations and a big thank-you to all of the students, teachers, and families who participated in the 2020 H. B. Goodlin Virtual Festival!

Back in March of 2020, the pandemic caused the schools to close down and all performing arts events were cancelled. As a result, the H. B. Goodlin Scholarship Foundation Board wished to hold an online event, to encourage students in San Diego County to continue their music studies and work toward artistic excellence during these difficult times. It was rewarding for us to see a total of 112 student applications received for this event.

Each applicant prepared and recorded their instrumental performances on video for this virtual festival. Now more than ever, it has become an important skill for young students to learn how to present themselves on camera and to create media for submission for various programs or projects. It is our hope that preparing and polishing the audition pieces, filming their own performances, and submitting the online program applications were all valuable learning experiences for the participants.

I would also like to acknowledge the participating studios, who quickly switched to remote lessons during these challenging times and continued to educate these talented music students:

Ning An, Yulia Atoyan, Irina Bendetsky, Ruslan Biryukov, Magdolna Bornemisza, Dana Burnett, Sun Yung Cho, Hernan Constantino, David Garrett, Rodney Girvin, Anna Grigorian, Sharon Halverson, Angelina Hardy, Eleanor Hum, Chaling Huynh, Inessa Litvin, Rinna Livshin, Pamela Martchev, Jane Masur, Alexander Myrolyan, Jared Nepute, Leslie Olson, Alexander Palamidis, Cho Hyun Park, Isabelle Roux, Lea Schmidt-Rogers, Viktor Shekhtman, Seiran Sohn, Xiao-yan Sui, Elaine Tokman, Michael Tseitlin, Lori Vickers, Angela Yun Yin Wu, Ariel Yang, Elena Yarritu, Mei Yin, Dan Yu, TingTing Zhang, Yao Zhao, and Jiasheng Zhou

We were fortunate to have the following distinguished adjudicators for this event. These judges worked long hours to review each video performance, and wrote thoughtful comments on how our students can grow artistically:

Isaac Allen, Neil Birnbaum, Dr. Karen Follingstad, Lynne-Marie Friedrichs, Michael Gerdes, Dr. Kirill Glaidkovsky, Dr. Hye Kyung Lee, Beth Ross-Buckley, Bryan Verhoye, Dr. Rob Watson, and Teri Watson

Finally, I would like to thank the H. B. Goodlin Scholarship Foundation Board President Jaclyn Summers, and the Board Members Sun Yung Cho, Connie Gale, Lee Galloway, Brian Goral, and Hua Wang, for making this event happen. A special thanks goes to Dr. J. Mitzi Kolar for her expertise and wisdom, and Lea Schmidt-Rogers for always being there for us.

Thank you again for your participation in this year’s Goodlin Virtual Festival. The judges’ comments will be emailed to each participant within the next few weeks. We hope to see you again next year.

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2020 H. B. Goodlin Virtual Festival Results

DIVISION WINNER DIVISION WINNER

Division I Keyboard ($100 Each) Addison K. Lee Division III Keyboard ($500 Each) Aaron Chizhik

Healin Lee Ursula Hardianto

MinhTu Nguyen Malvyn Lai

James Rong Claire Lewis

Aaron Ye Stephanie Ling

Keanu Zeller Alexis Wu

Sunny Xiao

Division II Keyboard ($225 Each) Victoria Chen Junior Instrumental ($225 Each) Brianna Baek

Julianne Cheng Anthony Kim

Frederick Chien Alvin Wang

Celina Jiang Caitlin Wang

Justin H. Lee

Eric Li Senior Instrumental ($500 Each) Janice Hu

Khang Nguyen Dylan Renk

Andrew Zhang Erica Wang

Leo Zhang Stacy Widyono

2020 H. B. Goodlin Virtual Festival Winners’ Repertoire

2020 H. B. Goodlin Virtual Festival Registration Now Open!

Posted on May 2, 2020May 2, 2020 by Yuko Maruyama

Registration for the 2020 H. B. Goodlin Virtual Festival is hosted by Acceptd, an online application platform for performing arts programs.

A student account must be created on Acceptd, in order to access the application form.
Applicants must complete the application on Acceptd, including the submission of the required documents and the audition videos.
The fee for the application is $15 and it must be paid at the time of registration before the deadline, June 1, 2020.

Please follow the link to learn more and begin an application for the 2020 H. B. Goodlin Virtual Festival:

https://app.getacceptd.com/hbgoodlin

2020 Piano Duo Results & Acknowledgement

Posted on February 26, 2020February 26, 2020 by Dan Yu

Congratulations to all those who participated and thank you to all those who came to support the 2020 Piano Duo Festival. The festival was held at Greene Music on February 22. This year, we had a total of 24 duo teams registered, of which 7 were non-competitive Student & Teacher and Student & Adult teams. The 17 competitive teams included 15 duo teams and 2 four-member teams playing selections written for eight-hands. Three recitals were presented in front of packed audiences, and our judges were very impressed with the level of the students’ playing. Thank you to Steve Baker and Joanne Stohs for adjudicating the event, and special thanks to Yuko Maruyama and Carol Ong-Chen for their help running the festival and all studios who participated. I hope to see you all next year!

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2020 Piano Duo Festival Winners

I: Ages 5 - 9	1st Place	Allison Duong & Katelyn Duong
	2nd Place	Aashray Kota & Elizabeth Grossman
	3rd Place	Vladimir Bayanduryan & Emma Nacher

II: Ages 10 - 12	1st Place	Grace Xu & Annie Feng
	2nd Place	Yiyi He & Ling Zhong
	3rd Place	Kyla Ho, Cate Tran, Sonya Yasuda & Joy Xu
	HM	Ethan Hu & Ryan Hu
	HM	Leah Nacher & Nikita Mouravyov

III: Ages 13 - 15	1st Place	Kyle Hong & Eddie Hong
	2nd Place	Sofia Korniyenko, Maria Korniyenko, Anastasiya Butov & Uliana Korniyenko
	3rd Place	Jacob Chabot & Sophia Lamb
	HM	Davina Zhu & Ruei-Chi Lai
	HM	Bryce Liu & Angela Liu
	HM	Peiran Liang & Wei-Shi Lai

IV: Ages 16 - high school	1st Place	Sahra Daneshmand & Ava Daneshmand

2020 Chopin Festival Registration Now Open!

Posted on February 18, 2020February 18, 2020 by Yuko Maruyama

The 2020 Chopin Festival Registration is now open. Follow the link to the Chopin Festival page for the registration form and the event guidelines. There is an entry limit of 18 students per category, so teachers are encouraged to register their students early.

https://mtacsd.org/chopin-festival/

2020 Concerto Results & Acknowledgement

Posted on February 5, 2020November 25, 2020 by Kay Etheridge

Congratulations to all students who performed in this year’s Concerto Competition! The first-place winners in each division will be performing with an orchestra this spring. Details coming soon.

I want to thank the distinguished panel of judges for taking time from their busy schedules to make this event especially meaningful for all participants: Tina Chong, Kookhee Hong, Crystal Rivette (piano judges); Pamela Vliek Martchev, Valentin Martchev, Amy Taylor (winds judges); Isaac Allen, Angela Choong, Paivikki Nykter (strings judges).

I am extremely grateful to all of the teachers who helped to make this event a success:
Sarah Victor, Magda Bornemisza, Dana Burnett, Glen Campbell, Hernan Constantino, Sun Yung Cho, Annelle Gregory, Scott Johnson, Inessa Litvin, Jane Masur, Alex Mirolyan, Alexander Palamidis, Cho-Hyun Park, Anna Savvas, Viktor Shekhtman, Claudia Smetona, Seiran Sohn, Chetan Tierra, Pasha Tseitlin, Michael Tseitlin, Elena Yarritu.

PLEASE NOTE: USD’s Shiley Theatre will not be available for this competition (or any other event) next year due to the major renovations throughout Camino Hall and Founders Hall. We need to find a different location in order to hold this competition in 2021!

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2020 Concerto Winners
Division I	1st place	Addison Lee - Mozart: Concerto in C Major, K.246, Mvt 1
	2nd place	Aaron Ye
	3rd place TIE	Sonya Yasuda, Tyler Chang
	HM	Ethan Zhou
Division II	1st place	Ethan Song - Beethoven: Concerto No. 3 in C Minor, Mvt III
	2nd place	Andrew Zhang
	3rd place	Bradley Carpiuc
	HM	Leo Zhang
Division III	1st place	Aidan Wahlmann - Mozart: Concerto in D Minor, K. 466, Mvt I
	2nd place	Zixuan Chen
	3rd place	Zachary Liu
	HMs	Ethan Chuang, Gabrielle Sanchez
Division IV	1st place	Dillon Halpin - Ibert: Concerto for Flute, Mvt. I
	2nd place	Katherine Liao
	3rd place TIE	Helen Zhu, Nathan Haghgoo
	HM	Emma Ward
Division V	1st place	Ethan Zhou - Nardini: Violin Concerto in E Minor, Mvt I
	2nd place	Caitlin Wang
	3rd place	Caden Jiang
	HM	Benjamin Luo
Division VI	1st place	Justin Wu - Saint-Saens: Cello Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, Mvt I
	2nd place	Susan Lee
	3rd place TIE	Alina Hernandez, Adam Kulju
	HMs	Ivan Li, Stacy Widyono, Eric Zhou

2020 Piano Duo Registration Now Open!

Posted on January 8, 2020January 8, 2020 by Yuko Maruyama

Student registration for the 2020 Piano Duo Festival is now open. Please visit the event page https://mtacsd.org/piano-duo-festival/ for the registration form and for more information.

2020 Concerto Registration Now Open!

Posted on December 12, 2019December 12, 2019 by Yuko Maruyama

Student registration for the 2020 Concerto Competition is now open. Please visit the Concerto Competition page for the registration form and for more information.

2019 Sonata Results & Acknowledgement

Posted on November 19, 2019November 20, 2019 by Lori Bastien Vickers

There were 280 participants in the 2019 Sonata Contest, and I really appreciate the help of the following people who contributed their time and made this a successful day! First, a very big thank you to MTAC members: Victor Labenske, Mitzi Kolar, Yuko Maruyama, Miriam Cole, Magdi Bornemisza, Dan Yu, Sarah Victor, Angelina Hardy, Emi Clements, Abby Vickers and Karlin Labenske for their help on the day of the contest and in the preparations for the event. A special thank you to Brian Goral and Chutaphin Yeager for serving a fabulous breakfast and lunch!

Thank you to the following non-MTAC-member volunteers: Chelsea Clements, Patty Rudolph, Aurora Gryzbek, Renee Chang, Paul Otterson, Leslie Lucas, Lindsey Heinrich, Francisco Mamon, Joseph Mamon, Sabrina Jiang, Jordan Klein, Amiee Duncan, John-William Gambrell, Isabella Ettore, Soren Pederson, Meliza San Jose, and Risa Schapiro.
Another big thank you to my husband, Eric Vickers, for his computer expertise, and for his encouragement and support with running this event!

Finally, I am incredibly grateful to Dr. Victor Labenske who helped make it possible for us to utilize the Cooper Music Center for the first time. It is a beautiful venue for the Sonata Contest and I sincerely thank Victor and Point Loma Nazarene University for their generous hospitality allowing us to use their facility.

The judges this year were: Jaeryoung Lee (San Diego), Rob and Teri Watson (Fullerton), Randi Rudolph (Phoenix), Sanaz Rezai (Los Angeles), Joanne Stohs (Northern San Diego), Laurie Meinhold (Aliso Viejo), Lea Schmidt-Rogers (San Diego), and Sonya Schumann (San Diego).

Happy Holidays to all of you and I look forward to seeing you next year!

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Sonata Winners List 2019

Group and Composer	1st place	2nd Place	3rd Place
1A--Bastien Sonatina in C	Olivia Liang	Leia Park	Tie: Sophia Liang/Avery Yang
1B--Bastien Silver Sonatina	Tie: Chloe Kim/Abigail Guo	Olivia Tsai	Tie: Eli Krongold/Charlotte Zheng
2A--Bastien Chromatic	Kadmus Ma	Elena Chen	Aiden Seungchan Lee
2B--Gillock	Ruiya Xia	Tie: Rain Yang/Katelyn Li	Aria Chan
3A--Vandall Sunrise	An Tran	Diya Nair	Alicia Liu
3B--Vandall Festiva	Ivy Vo	Seojin Lee	Alyssa Ju
4A--Vandall Sonatina in A Minor	Tie: Maya Hanoch/Willem Huang	Tie: Andrew Lee/Lydia Tsai	Claire Otterson
4B--Beethoven	Tie: Isabella Yang/Healin Lee	Tie: Ellie Tsvetov/Joy Xu	Eric Liu
5A--Clementi G Major	Veronica Yu	Miyana Luedke	David Liu
5B--Clementi C Major	Grace Xu	Rien Chen	Anthony Liu/Anna Cao
6A--Lynes	Tie: Tyler Chang/Claire Lim	Joshua Yu	Youchae Bae
6B--Kuhlau	Sarah Deng	Seungbeom Baek	Bryce Liu
7--Mozart C Major	Minhtu Nguyen	Vicky Chen	Amber Zhang
8--Kabalevsky	Andrew Zhang	Edward J. Kim	Annalise Chang
9--Mozart B Flat Major	Ethan Song	Margaret Fan	Tie: Selena Xiang/Adora Xiao
10--Beethoven	Aidan Wahlman	Zixuan Chen	Cindy Cao
11--Haydn	Tie: Bradley Carpiuc/Sabrina Li/Caleb Smedra

2019 Popular Music Festival Report

Posted on October 18, 2019October 18, 2019 by Leslie Olson

The Popular Music Festival, chaired by Kathy Kim, was held Saturday, October 12, 2019 at Grossmont College Recital Hall. 43 students were heard in three recitals playing pop, rock, blues, boogie, movie themes, folk, rags, and jazz. This event is a celebration of popular music as well as student creativity. Students played their favorites from many available books. Some played their arrangements from a chord chart, some learned their songs by ear, and we also heard a cello duo team perform a cover of a song originally recorded by the popular rock band AC/DC.

The three recitals were “emceed” by MTACSD teachers Tracy Lovley, Claudia Smetona and Jim Guerin, who introduced each performer and entertained us by their clever commentary between the performances. At the end of each recital, medals were presented to each student.

The event was enriched with a presentation at 3 PM by Yuko Maruyama, “Learn to Play from Chord Charts.” This lecture-presentation covered the basic rules of chord chart notation and how to apply them in songs. Examples were explained and demonstrated using many theory concepts from CM and were relevant to teachers and students familiar with CM theory.

The Popular Music Festival was a joyful day of music filling me with memories. As I have watched it expand and grow in the 25+ years of the event, teachers and students have added freedom of creativity, escalating their personal growth and accomplishments, so important to music education. I invite more teachers and students to join in the fun next year.

2019 POPULAR MUSIC FESTIVAL

Studios Represented: Eunji Bae, Irina Bessonova, Paul Burd, Melissa Creider, James Guerin, Sarah Harris, Kathy Kim, Amy Lee, Tracy Lovley, Yuko Maruyama, Leslie Olson, Carol Ong-Chen, Anna Savvas, Claudia Smetona, Anna Stal, Sophie Webber, Irina Williams and Mei Yin
Judges: Yuko Maruyama and Taylor Smith

Thank you to the 2019 Popular Music Festival Volunteers:
Eunji Bae, Irina Bessonova, James Guerin, Sarah Harris, Kathy Kim, Tracy Lovley, Yuko Maruyama, Leslie Olson, Carol Ong-Chen, Anna Savvas, Risa Schapiro, Claudia Smetona, and Irina Williams

2019 Sonata Registration Now Open!

Posted on September 15, 2019September 15, 2019 by Yuko Maruyama

Student registration for the 2019 Sonata Contest is now open. Please visit the Sonata Contest page for the registration form and for more information.