newsletter

BRAVO TO OUR STUDENTS

Congratulations to all of the students who participated in the various activities over the past couple of months. Students who received Superior Plus and Superior Ratings in the Sonatina Festival are listed below.

Superior Plus Rating
Aguilar, Rodrigo Bagaria, Gaurav Balcerzak, Lea Benjadol, Benjamin Bird, Evan Fitzgerald, Katie Frederich, Olivia Gumbo, Ruramai Ho, Angie Jackson, Serena Kiatsuranon, Sasha Kim, Rebecca LeBlanc Erin Mayfield, Ripley	McCracken, Alex Moore VD, Alex Nguyen, Delrina Nguyen, Erica Nguyen, Giang Nguyen, Michelle Nguyen, Phuong Nicholson, Julia Roman, Antonio Shi, Bobby Stanisha, Brianna Suh, Timmy Vanover, Alexander Villemin, Diane

Superior Rating

Acker, Austin
Aguilar, Guillermo
Alcantara, Arianne
Brown, Claire
Chiu, Alex
Chong, Haemin
Engler, Austin
English, Brooke
Freeman, Trent
Galvan, Adrian
Garza, Allysa
Hasan, Sanah
Herklotz, Natalie
Huet, Anthony
Hunter, Jacob

Johnston, Matthew
Kiatsuranon, Tanya
Naik, Sarina
Nelson, Sean
Osborne, Colin
Paroski, Anton
Pathan, Ashna
Shetty, Eesh
Soto, Cristina
Vo, Leslie
Winkler, Paul
Xie, Annie
You, Jaehyung
Yuan, Kevin

COPPELL CONSERVATORY'S
FUTURE NEW HOME

Coppell Conservatory has long outgrown its present facilities and we have been seeking ways to secure a stand-alone structure that would enable us to meet the expanding needs of the students and faculty and to better serve the community.

We seek the input and advice of all our parents to ensure the success of this endeavor. To that end, we ask to be a volunteer on a panel to address issues related to:

Potential site location/selection
City Issues and Regulations
Concept/Design/Architecture
Contractors/Builders
Financing
Fund Raising/Philanthropists
Any other ideas that would enhance

the project

Please consider volunteering for this very worthwhile cause; your input and participation are valued and will be greatly appreciated. Call us at 972-304-8600 or send us an e-mail to info@coppellconservatory.com
with your decision.

April Boukadoum, Director

SCHEDULED SCHOOL CLOSINGS

Coppell Conservatory will be closed:

May 20 through June 10, 2007 for the Summer Break.

SPECIAL CONGRATULATIONS TO
OLIVIA FREDERICH

On March 3, 2007, Olivia Frederich auditioned and was accepted into the Piano Performance program at Tarleton State University in Stephenville, Texas . She performed for Dr. Leslie Spotz, Assistant Professor of Piano and Gregory Ball, Assistant Professor and Assistant Directory of Bands at TSU. Olivia performed Dernier Nocturne by Chopin, Capriccio by Domenico Scarlatti, and Sonata Op. 2, No.1 by Beethoven.

Olivia was awarded a piano scholarship of no less than $2,000 per year.

Olivia is a graduating senior at the Coppell High School and has studied Piano with Mrs. Boukadoum since 2002. One of TSU's successful alumni is Coppell Conservatory's Mrs. Liana Bramlett.

Gillock Piano Competion Winners

Coppell Conservatory had winners in 7 out of 8 categories in the 2007 Gillock contest. The contest, sponsored each spring by Carrollton Music Teachers Association, took place April 14^th. First place winners were Erica Nguyen, grade 4, and Lea Balcerzak, grade 3. Giang Nguyen (not pictured) won 2^nd place in the 10-12 grade division. Timmy Suh, grade 5, and Puong Nguyen (not pictured) grade 7, won 3^rd place. Alex Chui won 4^th place for the 8^th & 9^th grade division and Kevin Yuan won 4^th place in grade 4. Clayton Mulvihill won honorable mention in the 10-12 grade division, Rebecca Kim won honorable mention in the 6^th grade division, and Annie Xie (not pictured) won honorable mention in the 4^th grade division.

Several other Coppell Conservatory students were finalists. Erica Nguyen, Lea Balcerzak, Giang and Puong Nguyen, Timmy Suh, Alex Chui, Rebecca Kim and Annie Xie are students of April Boukadoum. Kevin gillock_winners

Yuan and Clayton Mulvihill are students of Lay King Chew.

Front, left to right: Lea Balcerzak, Erica Nguyen, Kevin Yuan.
Back, left to right: Mrs. Boukadoum, Timmy Suh, Clayton Mulvihill, Alex Chiu.

Congratulations Lauren

On Thursday, April 26, 2007, Lauren Crandall Hinds was inducted into the National Junior Hon lauren

or Society at Coppell Middle School North. Lauren is a seventh grader who participates in athletics and who studies piano at Coppell Conservatory with Mrs. Bramlett. She has been studying Piano at the Conservatory since the second grade.

Bravo, Lauren, for your accomplishments; we are very proud of you.

CALENDAR NOTE

The Coppell Conservatory Spring Private Piano Recitals will be on May 12, 2007 at 2:00, 3:15, and 4:30 pm.

More information regarding time and location can be found on the Calendar of Events page.

Olivia Frederich

WHY WE TEACH MUSIC

MUSIC IS A SCIENCE. It is exact, specific, highly organized and must be 100% correct. It embodies many levels of physics from acoustics to architecture.

MUSIC IS MATHEMATICS. It is rhythmically based on the subdivision of time in space into fractions, which must be done instantaneously, and not worked out on paper, in a highly specific form with regard to exact placement and symmetry. It is disciplined and logical.

MUSIC IS LANGUAGE. It is composed of phrases, thoughts and ideas. Its goal is to communicate and to reach a part of us where words no longer suffice. Most of the terms are in a foreign language, mostly Italian, German or French. The line notation is certainly NOT English, but a highly developed and organized symbolic system.

MUSIC IS HISTORY. It is the only art form we can hear as people hundreds of years ago heard. Unlike paint, whose image is always there once created, music is perpetually "repainted" each time it is performed. The feelings and thoughts of countless generations are forever cast into sound.

MUSIC IS PHYSICAL EDUCATION. It required fantastic coordination of fingers, eyes, hands, lips, cheek and facial muscles, in addition to extraordinary control of the diaphragmatic, back, stomach and chest muscles. There are as many calories burned by a symphony trumpet player in one performance as there are by a quarterback in a professional football game.

MUSIC IS ALL OF THESE THINGS AND MORE, BUT ABOVE ALL, MUSIC IS AN ART. It allows a human being to take science and technique and create EMOTION. This is the one thing that science cannot duplicate - human feelings and emotions.

THIS IS WHY WE TEACH MUSIC. Not because we expect to produce music majors. Not because we expect people to play all their lives. Not so you can relax. Not so you can trot around a field in a uniform.....

BUT SO YOU WILL BE MORE HUMAN. So you will recognize beauty. So you will be more sensitive, especially to all the thoughts and feelings put into sound throughout the ages. So you will be closer to the infinity of your own heart and soul. So you will have something to cling to. So you will feel the beauty of being alive. And so you will come to know the value of your own self.

(source unknown).

Click here to return to the Events page Click here to return to the Welcome page