Category: Vocal Studio Student News

Preston Kerwin-Battaglia has been accepted into the San Francisco ACT Young Conservatory Musical Ensemble for the 2012-13 season. Check out ACT Young Conservatory for more information about this wonderful program.

Taylor Brindley will graduate from Marin School of the Arts this semester and will attend Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts. Congratulations, Taylor!

This year’s Mountain Play will be The Music Man, with performances from May 20 – June 17. Sugarman Vocal Studio students Josh Schussler, Emma Palace, and Danielle Scullon-Baer will be performing in the teen chorus for these productions. For more information and tickets check out http://new.mountainplay.org/tickets.html

Fresh from their recent successes at the Ohlone Theatre Festival, Marin School of the Arts Theatre Department presents Mary Zimmerman’s Tony-winning play “Metamorphoses” directed by Rodney Franz. Based on Ovid’s transformation myths, the play subtly mixes ancient Greek stories of pathos and tragedy with contemporary language, humor, and thought, all enacted in and around a… Continue reading “Metamorphoses” Marin Theatre of the Arts Performance

German Lieder performances at Salle Piano, 1632C Market Street (between Franklin and Gough): Saturday, April 14, 7:00 p.m. Selected songs of Franz Schubert and Brahms’s Vier ernste Gesaenge (Four Serious Songs) Kirk Eichelberger, bass, and John Boyajy, piano. Saturday, May 19, 7:00 p.m. Schumann, Brahms, Strauss Kindra Scharich, mezzo-soprano, and John Boyajy, piano. Tickets: $30… Continue reading John Boyajy – Lieder Alive! Spring Concert Series

Twenty-five students, coached by theatre director Rodney Franz, from Marin School of the Arts at Novato High School competed in Ohlone College’s 18th Annual High School Theatre Festival in Fremont on March 16th and 17th. Over 60 schools, from as far away as Nevada City, participated. Only high school Sophomores, Juniors & Seniors were allowed… Continue reading MSA Theatre Department Dominates Ohlone Drama Festival March 16-17, 2012

Gabe Mikel is performing in the role of “Luke” (the original Ching) in Branson High School’s production of “Anything Goes”, March 22,23 and 24 at 7:00 p.m.. Click for Tickets

Napa Valley Music Associates Bach Birthday Celebration will occur on Sunday, March 25th starting at 2:00 pm. John and several of his piano students will perform Bach, including preludes and fugues from the first book of the Well-Tempered Clavier, selections from the little preludes, and the spectacular E Minor Partita. Many others will participate in… Continue reading John Boyajy to perform in Napa at the Bach Birthday Celebration

Gabe Mickel’s a capella group, Unaccompanied Minors, was chosen to be one of only seven groups selected from Northern California to perform in the Regional Harmony Sweepstakes, held early March at the Palace of Fine Arts. They did a wonderful job competing with groups that had been together longer than the Unaccompanied Minors have been… Continue reading Gabe Mikel shines with his a cappella group, Unaccompanied Minors!

John Boyajy will be performing on Sunday, March 11th at 4:00 p.m. at Old First Church in San Francisco. From John: I will offer you Robert Schumann’s Humoreske, a wild, impassioned, intimate and, as the name suggests, playful monument of the Romantic piano literature. It’s an incredible roller-coaster ride that I invite you to experience… Continue reading Piano Concert by John Boyajy at Old First Church