Studio Muse Music

The Daf Group Course is starting again this Friday!! ✨ We are offering classes for both beginning and intermediate Daf students. If you have always wanted to learn a new instrument, this is your time to do so under the fabulous instruction of Jalal Kimia and his assistant teacher, Ruhi Afnan. ✨

Group course enrollment: https://www.studiomusemusic.com/programsandevents

We hope to see you there!! 🎶

Nusheen Farahani
Kimia Percussion Academy

Love when music shows its multigenerational side. 😍

Our Beginning Strings Camp is back this Summer!! We are super excited to see how the kiddos will progress theoughout the weem. 🎶🎻

There is still time to enroll for the camp next week on July 8th-12th from 9AM-12:30PM each day! Ages 4-11 are welcome and string instruments will be provided. ✨

Enrollment link: https://www.studiomusemusic.com/beginningstrings

Nusheen Farahani

Our first week of Art Camp was a success!!

The kids had a fantastic time learning how to work with various art mediums like Watercolor, Graphite/ Pencil, Acrylic Paint, Color-pencil and more. Seeing the kids unlock their creativity was such a joy to see throughout the week! ✨

We have three more weeks of Art Camp offerings that are open to enrollment! ✨✨

ENROLL HERE: https://www.studiomusemusic.com/artcamp2024

Our classes are designed to be personalized, with individual lesson plans and activities tailored to your level and preferences. You’ll have the freedom to choose from different options for each media session, ensuring a truly customized experience.

Love how music can feed the soul in so many ways. Congrats to Rumi Daf Ensemble for such a beautiful collaboration. 🫶

Check out our concert LIVE-STREAM! Featuring the Main Street chamber Players!

Main Street Chamber Players in Concert at Studio Muse | June 15th, 2024 Thank you for joining us for a wonderful evening of chamber music performed by the Main Street Chamber Players! Members include: Laura Kobayashi (violin), Ha...

🤩 Kick off your summer with some Chamber Music!! ☀️

STUDIO MUSE PRESENTS:
Main Street Chamber Players
Saturday June 15 | 7:30p | $30

The Main Street Chamber Players is a mixed instrumental chamber ensemble whose collective experience spans more than 30 years and is comprised of members of Main Street Music Studios and various guest artists. They will be playing a a wide variety of classical music selection from Ravel to Mozart. This is a concert you won’t want to miss!

👉👉👉TICKETS: www.studiomusemusic.com/concerts



Main Street Music Studios Laura Kobayashi Kenneth Law

✨Join us for an exciting 5-week art adventure where you’ll explore a variety of mediums and subjects to unleash your artistic potential. Our classes meet 5 days a week and are perfect for all levels and backgrounds.✨

Mediums:
• Graphite/ Pencil
• Color-pencil
• Watercolor
• Acrylic Paint
• Mixed Media

Subject Matter:
• Portrait/Cartoon Face
• Still Life
• Botanicals/Cottage Garden
• Landscape/Seascape

Our classes are designed to be personalized, with individual lesson plans and activities tailored to your level and preferences. You’ll have the freedom to choose from different options for each media session, ensuring a truly customized experience.

Whether you’re a beginner looking to learn the basics or an experienced artist seeking new challenges, our summer art camp offers something for everyone. Join us and let your creativity soar!

June 17th-21st
June 24th-28th
July 1st-5th
July 15th-19th
July 22nd-26th

Time: 1PM-4PM

Price: 1 week $250
5-week package: $1000

https://www.studiomusemusic.com/artcamp2024

🌼🌱Today is the day we're kicking off our VIRTUAL Music Theory class, taught by our illustrious Larisa Marian! 🥳✨ This is an amazing opportunity to learn music theory from an AP certified music teacher outside of her Tuscarora High School classroom!

Open to ALL instruments!

🧐7:00 PM | Wednesdays May 22 - June 26 | GoogleMeet | $200😎

✨ https://www.studiomusemusic.com/musictheory ✨

Rehearsing chamber music is its own team sport. Learning situational awareness, self-advocacy, compassion, and collaborative action requires ALL sorts of practice. 🔥

😎 BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND! 🥳

Daf Group Classes are OPEN for registration, of course taught by our illustrious Jalal Kimia 🫶

👉 SIGN-UP: www.studiomusemusic.com/dafgroupcourse 👈

Embark on a mesmerizing journey into the heart of Persian music and culture with our immersive Daf group class. Feel the Daf come to life as you learn the art of playing the mesmerizing rhythms of the this iconic Persian percussion instrument.

Kimia Percussion Academy

🤩🤩ANNOUNCING🤩🤩

💋SWIFTIE STRINGS CAMP 2024🐱

Is your child a violin, viola, cello or bass student who loves Taylor Swift? In this camp we explore music and movement through Taylor Swift for kids to find their own “sick beats”. Designed for students with at least one year of experience on their instrument.

😎 Sign up: www.studiomusemusic.com/summer ! 😻

MUSIC THEORY??
What the heck do I learn in a Music Theory class?! 🤨

Glad you asked!!! 💥

💥Note reading (Treble AND Bass clefs)
💥Chord voicing
💥Harmony structures
💥Intervals
..perfectly applicable for ANY instrument! 🎻🪕🎸🪗🎺🪈🎷🪇🪘🥁🎹🎼🎧🎤

🤩 To sign up: www.studiomusemusic.com/programsandevents

WEDNESDAYS | May 22 - June 26 | 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM | ONLINE | $200

Happy Birthday to Ken Avis and Dave Kline Band this weekend!!! 🥳🥳🥳

Ken Avis and Dave Kline ready to celebrate our birthday weekend - VERONNEAU @ Blues Alley. I’m May 3, Dave’s May 4….a pair of old rock and rollers, from the old country, init mate.

💥Meet your CONCERTium2024 Faculty! 💥

Although cellist Kenneth Law enjoys a diverse career as performer, teacher and author, he considers himself first and foremost a chamber musician. He is a member of the Main Street Chamber Players, and cellist with the Ritz Chamber Players, Colour of Music Festival and Gateways Music Festival. Abroad, Mr. Law has performed chamber music concerts at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Holland and the Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow, Russia, as well as concerts in England, France, Scotland, Panama and Puerto Rico. In the U.S., he has performed at the Arts Club of Washington, the Italian and German Embassies, the Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater and the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.; and Carnegie Hall, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Alice Tully Hall in New York City. He has collaborated with such artists as Earl Carlyss (Juilliard String Quartet), Michael Tree (Guarneri Quartet), Ying String Quartet, Norman Carroll (concertmaster emeritus, Philadelphia Orchestra) and violinist Diane Monroe and has recorded orchestral and chamber music for Albany Records, and the New Albion and Telarc labels. In March of 2006, Mr. Law was featured on the nationally televised NAACP Image Awards as a member of the Ritz Chamber Players. In his home state of South Carolina, Mr. Law has performed at the Piccolo Spoleto Music Festival in Charleston, SC, as a member of the Converse Trio, and subsequently as a member of Ensemble Argos and Polaris Piano Trio.

Along with co-author Dr. Christina Placilla, the publication, We Are The Music Makers: Volume I: A Graded Guide to Chamber Music- String Quartets was published in 2013, and is the first in a multi volume set that will cover the myriad combinations of chamber music. The guide serves as a resource for chamber music coaches when needing to assign repertoire to an ensemble whose individual members are of varying levels of proficiency.

Albany Records Piccolo Spoleto Festival Ritz Chamber Players
Main Street Music Studios

🎉🎉🎉 ANNOUNCING A NEW SPRING CLASS!! 🎉🎉🎉

💻 VIRTUAL Music Theory 🎼
Wednesdays | May 22 - June 26 | 7:30p - 9:00p | $200

In this music theory course, you will learn bass clef and treble clef note reading, intervals, chords, harmony structures, and how to apply them to your respective instrument. Larisa Mihaela, AP certified music teacher and Tuscarora High School Director, will be the teacher of the course!

✅✅ To sign up: www.studiomusemusic.com/summer ✅✅

Can't wait to see you there!

💥Meet your CONCERTium 2024 Faculty💥

As a performing violist and teaching artist, NAOMI GRAF’s greatest passion is creating community through music. She performs a wide variety of programs as a chamber musician, recital soloist and orchestral player. Naomi has served as the principal violist for the Connecticut Grand Opera Orchestra and currently performs in the Greenwich Symphony Orchestra and the Palm Beach Symphony. She can be heard in recordings including The Complete Haydn Masses with the Trinity Choir and Rebel Baroque Orchestra on the Hanssler Classic label.

In addition to performing, Ms. Graf is an avid creator of many educational programs including the “Casual Classics” Concert Series in Ithaca, NY and the “Sound of Strings” Lecture/Demonstration for the Queensborough Community College Residency Program. She is currently the Director of the Kol Arts Music and Arts Program in White Plains, NY.

Ms. Graf teaches viola to a multitude of students both privately and in groups. Many have participated in New York Conference All-State and All-Eastern Festivals and have been accepted into conservatory programs. Her “Viola Club” ensemble, which she created and directed for twenty years, premiered “Good Working Order” by Conrad Winslow (commissioned for Viola Club) at the American Viola Society Festival in Oberlin, Ohio.

Ms. Graf has served on the Board of Music’s Recreation in Ithaca, NY and the New York Viola Society. She received her Bachelor’s Degree in Viola Performance from The Juilliard School and her Master’s of Music Degree from the Yale University School of Music. Her principal viola teachers include Lillian Fuchs, Paul Kantor and Donald McInnes.

AVS Greenwich Symphony Orchestra Palm Beach Symphony Julliard School of Music Yale School of Music

All experiences start with the first step. We've put a LOT of thought and effort into that first entrance, and would love to share it with you! 🤩

We rent our space for classes, conferences, seminars, events, etc. Full kitchen and breakout rooms available. 👍

👉👉MORE INFO: www.studiomusemusic.com/roomandvenuerentals👈👈

😍 Musicians have such opportunity to positively affect lives in unforgettable ways, like Seán Heely did this week.

💥Meet your CONCERTium 2024 Faculty💥

Violinist Laura Kobayashi leads a varied career as a performer and pedagogue. A native of Seattle, Washington, she has been performing in chamber ensembles across the United States since the age of 13. She is currently a member of the Kobayashi/Gray Duo and the Main Street Chamber Players and continues to actively perform as a chamber musician throughout the United States. Significant U.S. performances have included appearances at the Piccolo Spoleto Festival in Charleston, South Carolina; the Embassy of Bulgaria and the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C.; Merkin Concert Hall and Alice Tully Hall in New York City; Gindi Auditorium in Los Angeles; Detroit Institute of Arts and the Chicago Cultural Center. Abroad as a chamber musician, she has performed in Wales, Norway, Thailand, South Africa, Argentina, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname and Brazil and the islands of Trinidad, St. Lucia, and Puerto Rico. In addition, she has recorded two compact discs of music by women composers for the Albany Records label and has edited for publication a violin sonata by 19th Century French woman composer, Marie Grandval, for Hildegard Publishing Company.

Dr. Kobayashi studied violin with Dorothy DeLay, Paul Kantor, Andrew Jennings and Denes Zsigmondy and has performed in the master classes of Nathan Milstein, Arthur Grumiaux, Ruggiero Ricci and Gyorgy Pauk. Chamber music studies have been with members of the Juilliard, Tokyo and American String Quartets as well as with collaborative pianists, Robert McDonald and Samuel Sanders. Dr. Kobayashi earned degrees from The Juilliard School and Yale University and the Doctor of Musical Arts from The University of Michigan.

www.studiomusemusic.com/concertium

Main Street Music Studios Kobayashi/Gray Duo

Maybe...
your student age 5-11 hasn't found their instrument yet. 🕵️
they've never experienced a music class before. 🎼
they know they like music but are intimidated by the idea of intensive training. 😎you're just looking for a new summer camp idea! 🌞

If ANY of these ring a bell 🛎, check out our FEEL THE GROOVE summer camp! In this camp we explore music and movement for kids to find their groove. By the end of the course, the students will be more rhythmically aware and have a better understanding of music that they can carry over to the instrument of their choice.

www.studiomusemusic.com/summer

I know we try to stick to music related posts here, but...what was your eclipse day like?!

Attention all Beginning String Families!!!

Immerse your child in the world of music making! Students ages 5 - 11 will have the opportunity to learn the beginning techniques of the string instrument of their choosing; violin, viola, or cello. By the end of the week, students will be able to perform for the parents what they have learned.

Beginning Strings: M - F | July 8 - 12 | 9:00 AM - 12:30 PM

Cost: $350

🥰 Sometimes you find music makers in the most unexpected forms.

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