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Merry Music Makers |
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Merry Music Makers offers Music Together® and I Can Sing! classes for children birth to age 6 in several northside Chicago neighborhoods {Park Ridge , Edgebrook, Andersonville & Lakeview}. We believe that all children are musical and can learn to sing in tune, keep a beat and participate in the music of our culture, provided that their early environment supports such learning.
A Music Together class is a relaxed, playful, participatory, exploratory musical experience. We do not expect musical perfection or “performances” from children or parents. We strive to see families DOING music instead of passively receiving it from CD’s or TV. We seek to create a community of families making Music Together! We look forward to seeing you in class very soon.
Tim & Mary Thilleman, Co-Directors Check out Mary’s Blog! merrymusicmakers. net/blog/mary |
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Mikhail Yanovitsky |
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Born in Leningrad (St. Petersburg), Mikhail Yanovitsky began his piano studies with his mother, Larisa, and with Marina Wolf at the Leningrad Special Music School for gifted children, and at the age of eighteen entered the Moscow Conservatory, where he studied with Mikhail Voskressensky. Shortly after arriving in the US, he won the Young Concert Artists International Auditions (1991), a significant recognition.
The winner of many awards, including the First Prize in the Piano Concerto Competition in Cantù, Italy, he also won the Miriam Klausner Competition at the Hampton Summerfest in Long Island, Pro Piano in New York, and two coveted Gina Bachauer Piano Scholarships for graduate studies at the Juilliard School, where he studied with Seymour Lipkin.
After joining the roster of Steinway Artists in 2001, Dr. Yanovitsky completed his Doctoral degree at Temple University in the following year, where he defended his thesis on the piano music of Alexander Scriabin under the tutelage of his piano professor Harvey Wedeen. Later that year he assumed his post as an Assistant Professor of Piano at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago. Recently, the Shanghai Music Company published the thesis of Dr. Yanovitsky, which has been translated into Chinese, under the Scriabin’s Early Piano Miniatures title.
In addition to performing recitals in numerous European countries, as well as Mexico, Israel, Japan, and South Africa, Dr. Yanovitsky has concertized in 34 of the 50 US states and conducted master classes throughout the U.S., Europe, Russia, Israel, China, and Japan. Critics around the world have praised Mikhail Yanovitsky as one of today’s leading artists:
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