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Nov 28, 2007 Nathaniel LaNasa, Junior, Manhattan School of Music.
Tonight is the Berg Kammerkonzert. The New York Times is coming, and we might be reviewed! Also, my duo just won the MSM chamber music competition, so the winners' concert is Friday, November 30. Nathaniel is applying to Yale for graduate studies.

Frank Huang, piano - Academy student of Piano Chair, Willard Schultz
Spring 2008: Frank Huangwill graduate from the Masters Program at The Juilliard School. He performed in Spain recently. More from Frank, soon.
2007 Successfully auditioned for the Masters Program at Juilliard.
2004 Frank auditioned at Juilliard and was accepted as the only sophomore and one of only 10 students accepted at Juilliard in Sept. 2003. Teacher: Julian Martin. Frank easily tested out of reguired basic theory and ear training classes.
2003 first year as a scholarship student at the Peabody Conservatory, studying with Julian Frank, performed an invitational concert in NY, and was invited to perform and give a master class at the Westminster Choir School.
2002 At the Academy, Frank was a winner of the SYAMF Concerto Competition, and many others. Her performed in Academy benefits at the Four Seasons Olympic Hotel, with regional orchestras and in Brazil. He spent the summer in piano
festivals/competitions in NY, Milan, Italy, and at the Chopin Festival in
Poland.

Leah Ilem, Viola
2006 Became a member of Portland Symphony Orchestra
2004-05 Graduate school and Summer residency with Portland Symphony.
Fall 2003 graduate school and competitions.
August 2002 Senior this year at Cleveland
Institute of Music, studying with Mr. Irvine.
Summer at Taos School of Music in New Mexico.
2001 Encore School for Strings.Principal viola of the CIM orchestra, participated in their intensive Quartet Seminar. Awarded the Horace and Marie Arnold Viola Award at CIM, and from 1999-2001 was awarded an instrument from the Virtu Foundation.

2002 Erin Conor (violin) - Junior at Oberlin in Sept 2002, attending on a scholarship and also received a substantial grant. She is also pursuing a degree as a Music Archivist.

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Dec 2004 Iyoko Okano with pianist daughters: Ayako Okano (Northwestern Univ.) and Yoko Okano, Stanford Univ., in Paris for the holidays. (Dad was taking the picture.)