September 17, 2022 - A New Era - Creating Family
Fall 2022 started with team mentors Eiko and Austin. Jonathan Allentoff would soon join our Board and became a mainstay of Saturdays.
Summer 2022 - Young Choreographers & Composers Project
It was once again my day job at Fox Family that launched a great opportunity. We were in the middle of funding the UCLA Mobile Eye...
June 11, 2022 - Parents
What I've learned from becoming an educator: the most complicated group of people to deal with are not the students, not the musicians,...
April 30, 2022 - Winds Recording
There is a pattern when we teach winds. Ashley Jarmack mentors twice: once for flutes and once for double reeds (oboe, English horn). So...
March 18, 2022 - June 11, 2022 - Music Royalty - Adrienne Albert, Gayle Levant, Maria Newman, Wayne Bergeron and Ross deRoche
I needed to be out on March 18th for my uncle's memorial service. In come music legends Adrienne Albert and Gayle Levant, moderated by...
December 11, 2021 - Strings Recording
East West Studios. We were in a legit recording studio. A studio-studio recording studio. Karen took contracting the strings session...
Fall 2021 - New Cohort, New Students
Word got out. We were still in lock down, and we were getting a reputation and meeting new students, mostly by referral. Agata (Aggie)...
September 18, 2021 - A Whole New Team
September of 2021 saw a new look Leadership team. Michael Sushel had stepped down as the Board Chair, and I asked Javier Oviedo if he...
August 7, 2021 - Recording - La Lune & Awaken
July 2021. We needed to break out of Zoom. None of us were into it any more. We were all tired of listening to Note Performer mock-ups....
May 15, 2021 - July 31, 2021 - World Music - George Abud (Oud), Ashley Jarmack (Ethnic Winds), June Kuramoto (Koto)
We knew we wanted to wrap up the COVID cohort. One of the original programming plans was to get to world music when June Kuramoto had...
