Golden Key Paino School’s November 2024 Newsletter

Dear Golden Key Piano School Community,

Here are your major highlights form the past month and what you can look forward this month.

1. Annual Duet Rehearsal

Kindly register for the upcoming annual duet recital. The annual duet recital is set up for 22nd December 2024.

The rehearsal will happen on 8th December 2024 in the morning and 16th December in the evening. You can register for the rehearsal here.

Please note that to attend the recital, you only need to pay once for the rehearsal.

As we are all preparing for the duet recital, by now you should have a duet partner and a piece assigned for you by your teacher.

It is a good idea for the parents to have the duet partner’s contact info and stay in touch for practicing and later for rehearsal.

Practicing duet is motivating for those students who need some motivation. It is much more fun to have a piano peer and practice with than to do it alone.

Thank you in advance for your time coordinating the practices and making it work.

2. Calendar Reminder

Please note that the school will be closed from November 28th to December 1st for thanksgiving break. For those classes fall on these dates, your lessons balance out as there were 5 weeks in October/November hence you don’t need makeup classes.

Here is the school calendar for reference in case you need it for future reference.

3. Student News

One More Opening with Max

One of our esteemed students, Max who is under Teacher Katrin is taking on one more student for free tutoring. If you would like to be a recipient and learn more as well as practice with an advance student as max, please reply to this email.

Congratulations to Jaslene

Jaslene, one of Teacher Katrin’s students has just bagged a Youth Arts Fellowship Program with the San Mateo County Arts Commission and we are so proud to be associated with her. We celebrate her journey and would love to congratulate her and wish her great things as she continues to advance within the music space.

4. Master class with Temirzhan Yerzhanov

We are excited to have Teacher Temirzhan Yerzhanov back this year for another master class for our advanced students. Space is limited. If you are in advanced level and interested to join the class this February please discuss with your teacher and get started on preparing one piece.

Here are some information:

Date: Sunday February 23rd 2025 at 9am

Duration: 2 hours Location: Kassman Piano

Fee for participants: $90

Fee for observers: $15

Duration of the class: 2-3 hours. Each participant takes a 30-min lesson.

Sign up and pay here

About Teacher Temirzhan: Named ‘Best Performer of Year’ by San Francisco Classical Voice, pianist and conductor Temirzhan Yerzhanov launched his career by winning the First Prize and Gold Medal at the International Robert Schumann Piano Competition in Zwickau, Germany, and went on performing in 14 countries including at New York Carnegie Hall Auditorium Stern, Berlin Konzerthaus, Leipzig Gewandhaus, London Wigmore Hall, Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, Dresden Sempergalerie, Paris Salle Pleyel, St. Petersburg Grand Philharmonic Hall, just to name a few notable venues.

As a conductor he performed with Kazakh Philharmonic Orchestra, Google Orchestra, Capital Philharmonia Brasilia, Kazakh National Opera, Astana Opera, Orchestra Gradus ad Parnassum, and Ópera Cultura where currently he is a Music Director. A graduate from the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory he’s been a faculty member of his alma mater before immigrating to the USA.

His students won top prizes at such competitions as The Queen Elisabeth in Brussels, The Tchaikovsky in Moscow, The Vianna da Motta in Macau, The Alessandro Casagrande in Terni, The AXA in Dublin, The Lev Vlasenko in Brisbane, competitions in Porto and Epinal, the US Open Music Competition in Oakland; American Protégé Competition in New York. He has given master classes at the Western Washington University, Bellingham; Universidade de Brasilia, Brazil; Yantai University, China; California State University, Sacramento; Kazakh National Conservatory, Almaty.

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The Benefits of Practicing Duet Piano