More invitations to perform this Fall

Just as their video with Mayor Kang and the City Council meeting was being made other organizations in Orange County were making plans to invite Suzuki Violin Students from TEC and SASS to play for their events.

They are planning to have a booth in the Irvine Global Village Festival  on Saturday, Oct. 3 from 10:00 to 4:00 in the Kids Village.    But now Both SASS and TEC  have been invited to play for the  Cultural Demonstration Pavilion at 4:00that day for 20 minutes.   This will be located near the Cultural Exhibits in the front of the Park.   Now we can play all of the other Twinkles  and Book One pieces that we didn’t have enough time to play for Mayor Kang.   There will be a sound system so we can play our accompaniments and talk about the Suzuki Method with the audience.   

This Festival will be lots of Fun for the Whole Family, with Exhibits, Entertainment, International Marketplace, children’s Activities and International Cuisine.    Admission is Free.    Food tasting tickets will be available for purchase at the event.     See the link above for parking and shuttle information or bike parking.

 We will also be signing up Violin Students  in Sept. for Suzuki Festival which will occur on November 7th.

Stay tuned.   This is going to be a busy year.

TEC and/or  SASS can be engaged to do community service activities for occasional non profit events.    Please contact Ms. Cynthia at TEC or OCCTAC.

A Growing Suzuki Program

Recital Spring 2008

This summer we have a recital on Friday, Aug 28th at 6:30.   Even more of our students are up and playing on their violins.     Even though the economy in OC is quite slow we had 15 students enrolled for the summer classes.   Everyone is busy listening to their CDs.

Our oldest student is reaching the last pieces in Book I.   Next in line are four more students who are up and using their left hand skills and getting ready to chase him through Suzuki Violin book I.    We also have 4 new Twinklers who will be getting their first tones on the open strings of their violins.    All of this momentum and inspiration is making it easier for PreTwinklers to master their 4 Twinkle Rhythms.   We are all so proud of their progress.

The good news is that we have enough children to get up an play a bigger tone.    The bad news is that we are coming close to using all of our available violins.    Oh what a wonderful problem to have.   We might have to practice even more so we can go out an raise some spare change for more violins.

Holding Box Violin and Bow

This Fall we are starting to receive invitations to make our first really public debut.    We will be joining our friends at TEC to play for the Irvine City Council Meeting in early Sept. on Tuesday the 8th .   There is an announcement about it in the OCCTAC Blog.   

In October 3rd we will share a booth at the Irvine International Festival with our friends from TEC and take turns playing in the Children’s Village and doing PreTwinkle demonstrations.    Goodness at the rate things are going we need to recruit some more PreTwinklers.

This Fall we will be registering the most students yet to participate in the Orange County Suzuki Strings Festival.   Everyone has till Saturday November 7th to practice.

Rumor has it that we have even more PreTwinkle students enroling in Fall classes.

Ms Cynthia has a few more surprises up her bow arm for Winter so keep your eye on our posts.