CSUN NAfME Collegiate Chapter

Meet our board members for the 2024-2025 school year! And one final thank you to this year’s board!

We have a new position this year on our board! Make sure to vote for Happy for chapter mascot!

Our presidential candidates!

Meet our candidates for vice president, secretary, and treasurer!

Meet our candidate for strings representative! Stay tuned for our other candidate announcements tomorrow!

Meet our candidates for choral representative!

It’s election time for CSUN NAfME! Read about our candidates for our instrumental based representative positions!

This Monday, our Woodwind student panel is back! Come by Monday night for a short overview and lots of question time 📝🪈🎷 Same time same place, Cypress Hall 113 at 8pm!
Presenters:
Kayli Velazquez, flute, Masters Flute Performance
Wylan Burton, flute + oboe, Sophomore Music Education
Lilly Diaz, clarinet, Senior Clarinet Performance + Music Ed
Felix Mindlin, saxophone + flute, Sophomore Music Education
Avery Stafford, bassoon, Junior Music Therapy

Join us next Monday, April 8th at 8pm in CY113 to continue looking at programming for school bands— but this time with Mrs. Stoffel focusing on Middle School! Mrs. Stoffel teaches middle school in the nearby Hart District, and her bio can be found on the second slide. Hope to see you there! 👩‍🏫

Clinic with our very own Dr. Stoffel this Monday, March 25th at 8pm! Join us and our CSUN Director of Bands as we delve into effective programming for high school level band. Hope to see you there! 🎷🪈🎺

🎵Happy start of the spring semester, and day 1 of CASMEC! If you're here with us, make sure to stop at the ♦️ Booth 113♦️ to learn more about our entire department- or just catch up, we'd love to see you! If you're ALUMNI especially, stop by and we'd love to catch a photo together!
🎵Our '23-'24 board (pictured here now complete with our board of reps!) is excited to get back into meetings and clinics for the spring, so check back soon for news about the next one 🧑‍🏫📲

Join us tomorrow ONLINE 💻 for a clinic on Effective Rehearsal Planning by Dr. Nguyen, Director of Bands at the University of the Pacific. We're so glad to have him, especially from all the way up in Stockton, so keep an eye out for the zoom link tomorrow! 🧑‍🏫🎶

Our favorite interactive workshop is back!! Join us with Pedersen's Band and Orchestra expert John Pedersen this Monday, November 6th at 8pm. Please check your email to RSVP! They are bringing interactive materials for each of us, so they need numbers 📝 If you can't find the email from us, you can DM us here or find a board member and ask them 🧑‍🏫 We hope to see you there! 🎷🎻🎺
And get there a couple minutes early for a good seat— this was our most popular clinic last year!

Join us with our very own CSUN Music Education majors for a session on teaching and playing brass instruments!
Featuring:
Jordyn Brown, Trumpet
Daniel Gallardo, Horn
Fernando Cortez Osuna, Trombone
Esai Meador, Euphonium
Collin Landry, Tuba
We'll see you there at 8pm in our usual classroom, CY113! 🎺🧑‍🏫

Tonight is also 🗳️Election Night🗳️ for our fall Board of Representatives candidates! Swipe through these slides to see some headshots and learn a little more about them 🧑‍🏫 Make sure to be present at tonight's meeting (and registered on MataSync!) to get your votes in. We'll get started with elections right after our jazz clinic, approximately 8:45. See you there! 🗳️

Join us on Monday for an intro to jazz standards! 🎷 We're so excited to welcome our competitive program's INAUGURAL class of MM Jazz Performance students to walk us through this essential knowledge. Even if you just want to listen to them play, come on in!
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This is ALSO Election Day! If you want to vote for your board of representatives, you must be present, registered on MataSync, and join CSUN NAfME on your account to vote! Post coming soon highlighting our candidates 😊🧑‍🏫

Join us this Monday to talk to some of our current credential students! These CSUN Music Ed alumni are in graduate level teaching practicum courses, and some are already student teaching in our LA County school music programs. If you don't know what the credential program is, why you need it to teach, if it's for you, or have any other questions— come pick their brains! 🧑‍🏫
Pictured L to R: Kelli O'Hora, Class of '22; Daniel Badillo, Class of '22; Kayli Velazquez, Class of '21; Caitlin Cooper, Class of '23

🎵 If you want to stick around to ask any more questions about the nomination process for the Board of Representatives, please stick around! Elections date will be announced shortly.

CSUN NAfME Collegiate Chapter '23-'24, what a great first meet + greet we had on Monday— and we were glad to see so much interest from new freshmen, transfers and returning friendly faces for our open board of representative positions!
Check out these slides for the info on how to get started. If you have any other questions, you can comment, DM us here, or ask a board member if you bump into one of us :) There's really only one type of "preference" for these roles, and that is that you are in an ensemble related to the area you represent; but it's not required. All classes (freshman-senior, credential, first year transfers, etc.) are encouraged to run, and we hope you do! Looking forward to meeting you all and hearing your fresh ideas on how to keep your area represented in our chapter's events 😊🎵

Happy Monday! Reminder to join us TONIGHT in CY113 for our first meeting of the year 😊
This photo is from our first NAfME event of the year where some of our members got to help Arroyo Seco Junior High students choose their instruments alongside members of the Saugus HS . We had so much fun getting to show these new musicians how the instruments work!
Pictured here is Jordyn Brown (senior, President), Lilly Diaz (senior, Treasurer), Kayli Velazquez (credential, Historian), and Leola Gravley (senior, Vice President).

First meeting of the year!! Join us for our welcome meeting on Monday at 8! Notice the meeting times shifted a little later this year to allow for more people in later classes to attend 😊 We'll be in CY113 right near the Music Dept office, and bring a friend if you want! (yes there will be Free Snacks)

Happy first day of school future music educators! Today we're introducing Caitlin Cooper as Jazz Representative, rounding out our current board.

Caitlin is beginning her Teaching Credential for music this year as well as student tecahing, and earned her Bachelor of Music from CSUN this past spring in Trombone Performance and Music Education. Caitlin has been a member of our chapter for 5 years now, and has been on our board for the past 3 years as Historian and President! Caitlin was involved with school marching bands all throughout high school and college, and fun fact she actually played a marching band member on a TV show once that only aired a pilot episode💂🏻‍♀️Caitlin also currently holds the position of Collegiate President with the California Alliance for Jazz, and we are lucky to have her back! 👩🏻‍🏫

P.S. Keep an eye out for announcements on elections for other area representatives! 🙋

Meet our new board! Returning as Historian this year is Kayli Velazquez. Kayli is currently working on her Teaching Credential for Music, and earned her Bachelor of Music degree from CSUN '21 in Flute Performance and Music Education. Kayli has been a member of our chapter for 5 years, and this is her second year on our board. You may have seen Kayli playing flute in our Wind Ensemble, or singing in our University Chorus. In her free time, Kayli loves to go see live musical theatre and travel abroad, especially when music takes her there! Her favorite places she's performed include northern Italy, Bratislava, and Honolulu 👩‍🏫🎶🌍

Meet our new board! Next we're introducing our new Secretary, Fernando Cortez Osuna. Fernando will be a junior Trombone Performance and Music Education major this fall, joining our chapter for the 3rd year. He's previously worked with our board as the Winds Representative, and on time off he loves to play tennis and video games with friends 🎾🎮 We're glad to have Fernando back on our board this year! 👨‍🏫🎶

Meet our new board! Today we're introducing our new Treasurer, Lilly Diaz. Lilly is a senior Clarinet Performance and Music Education major, and you can find her playing clarinet and bass clarinet in our Wind Ensemble. Lilly has been a member with us for 4 years, and is joining our board for the first time this year! Fun fact… Lilly is in ITALY right now with her clarinet! The perfect place to learn new music, and new recipes too since she loves to cook at home 👩‍🍳 We're excited to have her join our board this year! 👩‍🏫🎶

Meet our new board! Next up we have Leola Gravley as our Vice President. Leola is a senior Music Education major, and part of our percussion studio. Leola has been a member of our chapter for 4 years, and is returning to our board after being our Percussion Representative last year. You can find Leola in our Wind Ensemble + Percussion ensemble, and giving her friends manicures with fun nail art in free time 💅🏻🎨 We're glad to have her back on our board this year! 🥁👩🏻‍🏫

Introducing this year's CSUN NAfME Collegiate President, Jordyn Brown! 🥳 Jordyn is a senior this fall, and majors in both Trumpet Performance and Music Education. Jordyn has been a member of our NAfME chapter for 4 years, and she was also on our board last year as Jazz Representative. You can find Jordyn playing trumpet in our Wind Ensemble and Jazz A Band, or baking and making (delicious) fudge on days off! We're excited to have her as our fearless leader this year 🧑🏻‍🏫🎺🎶

Welcome back, we have a shiny new board for the 2023-2024 school year! Stay tuned every week to meet a new member, and tell a friend as we get back into our active social media announcements 😊🎻🎷

Join us this Monday night to learn about an essential part of teaching choirs! Our very own CSUN Director of Choirs and Professor of Music Education, Dr. Katherine Ramos Baker, will be giving a clinic on how to follow the right steps to taking your choir classes to an SCVA festival. Dr. Baker currently directs our Northridge Singers and University Chorus, and she has taught the Women's Chorale, Teaching Music in Higher Ed, Choral Literature, Vocal Technique, and a fan-favorite: Choral Methods + Practicum. We are so lucky to have such an experienced choral educator join us this Monday, and we hope to see you there! 🎼🗣️🎶

Join us TOMORROW Feb. 27th with CSUN's very own percussion studio teacher, Aaron Smith! We're so lucky to have him guiding us towards proper percussion pedagogy tomorrow. Please do take note: we'll be in ❗️CY145❗️tomorrow, which houses all the percussion equipment we'll need. We hope to see you there with us! 🥁🪘

Welcome back for Spring 2023! ‼️Location change to the rehearsal hall, CY159‼️We are so excited for this semester, and we're starting it off with Barb Catlin 🎹 Barb is one of the Southwest's leading jazz educators and pianists; and currently teaches jazz at Pomona College, CalTech, and Pasadena City College. We are so lucky to have her on Monday at 8pm (note the later than usual start-time!) to share some of her expertise with us. We hope to see you there! 🧑‍🏫