IT IS HERE!

HEY GUYS

all the best for our concert tmr! its great to see the entire ensemble being so dedicated even though everyone's busy with mid-years and CTs. im (who is limin) very touched to see the effort you guys are putting in and i think that everyone's ready already.

THIS IS IT! LETS PUT IN OUR EVERYTHING, AND NO REGRETS!

To download stuff

Hello all,
We have attached a drop io link to the blog, please go there to download the 10 July schedule (version 1). It might be subject to change, so you might want to keep checking it for updates, if needed. It's best if you at least have a look so that you know what's going to happen then. We'll give you the password during Monday's rehearsal :) I think most of you would be able to guess it though...

Jiayou!

audition results

Dear VJCPE,

The results of the pieces which have undergone the auditions in May/June are released.

In the mean time, please try to sell your tickets!
we have 42 members. that means, even if every single member finish selling 1 booklet, we CANNOT EVEN FILL THE LOWER DECK! we are not like other performing arts cca that has 70+ ppl. so go sell!! sell more than one booklet (: everyone jiayou!

Please continue to practice. I cannot over emphasize this point anymore.
1. There are many pairs who know their notes but don't shape.
2. Know their notes but do not play together
3. The above, and/or do not start/end together
4. Know their notes with inconsistent rhythm
5. Do not know their notes???!!!
6. Pieces that have not been auditioned, or have been scheduled a re-audition : Read below for elaboration

You know which category you belong in. To date, many of us still cannot say that our piece has reached the stellar performance standard that we desire and hence cannot afford slackening. Please note that if the selected players fail to prove themselves satisfactory to the MDs and Mr. Ku after this, they will be removed with little mercy from the performance list.

Pieces Accepted through Auditions:





















Prepare your programme notes by 20 June and send to thevjcpianopeople@gmail.com . Refer to past programme notes available in piano room if u duno how to write.

Pieces to be scheduled for further auditions:

Ruo Chen and Chen Xi will be contacting you for your auditions.

1. Microjazz: Strength of Feeling - Una, Nikki ,Lixuan
2. Grainger - Jiaen and Ruochen
3. Gottschalk - Rio (and Pengrui)
4. Milhaud - Ranon, Ting Ting
5. Microjazz - Liu Jie, Liang Ou

Special Pieces

Ruo Chen and Chen Xi will be contacting you for your auditions this thursday and next thursday.

- Music Comm.

Before the holiday begins, my music committee consisting Chen Xi and Ruo Chen have numerous things to settle.

1. Timing of pieces.
For scholars returning to China, deadline for submitting the duration is Saturday, 30th May.
For those not going overseas, deadline is Sunday, 31st May.

2. Release of Audition Results
Regardless of whether you were auditioned in May/June, all the results for classical pieces will be released on the 2nd week of the June Hol.

3. Special Pieces
There are only 2 audition dates- 11th June or 18th June.
Chen Xi and Ruo Chen will be arranging with you and by the end of the 3rd week you will know if your special pieces has been confirmed.

4. Programme NotesAll pieces who have passed the audition will be contacted by Una and her committee for programme notes.
This includes special pieces and competition pieces.Competition pieces may begin writing their programme notes NOW. Una's comm will give you the relevant deadlines.

5. Music and Lyrics people
Please send the mp3 and storyline to all of us (concerned in this project) by Saturday.
Ruo Chen has also contacted the singer and narrator for you people.
I trust you should already know by now, so please begin arranging for practice with them.

6. The timetable for usage of the piano room will be up on Monday, 1st June 2009. You can continue to book the piano room for individual practice.

Reply at thevjcpianopeople@gmail.com or sms us if you have any doubts.

- Alicea

about 88! very important updates

1. Give the MDs your holiday schedules (overseas, busy, etc) including date and times, so that they can allocate coaching and auditions. Send sms to Ruochen 85335633 or Chenxi 92264658 or send email to ruochen415@yahoo.com.cn

2. Audition date:

May 25th, 26th – by all MDs

May 28th, 29th – by Mr. Ku ( Those people who are going overseas in June holiday, or if your partner is going overseas)

June 4th, 5th – by Mr. Ku 

3. Rehearsal dates:

July 3rd, Friday—9am~9pm (JC performers)

 3pm~9pm (IP performers) Simultaneous coaching & dry rehearsal & costume check & Full rehearsal without formal dress

July 6th, Monday – 2pm~9pm (to be confirmed) Second dry rehearsal & Simultaneous coaching & First full dress rehearsal

July 8th, Wednesday – 3pm~9pm Final full dress rehearsal

4. U! 

we have 5 sections for members to join:

props, video, poster, external booth, internal booth.. 

the booths are compulsory, everyone will participate in manning the booth in the canteen, but come down to the booth starting on monday as often as possible yeah? 

and everyone must go down to external schools/organisations at least once to promote our concert. external sales week 10 (3-5.30pm) sms wan mei 91502848 for the day that you want to go down.

between props, video, poster, everyone must join one committe! let's plan this concert as a cca yeah? contact jiaen 92283581 for props, rio 82883637 for video or poster. 

5. emcees

We also need members to nominate suitable emcees (anything but lame), and they should have chemistry(on talking terms), one guy and one girl preferably.

LASTLY, SELL CONCERT TICKETS!! EVERYONE HAS TO FINISH THEIR BOOKLET! ask your family, relatives, secondary school friends, music teachers, and everyone you can find! if you havent gotten your tickets yet, get it ASAP from una 83996333. 

PRACTICE YOUR PIECES WELL! Do us proud and lets jiayou together to make a fantastic concert! rmb to use the metronome and practice what mr ku said during coaching and come to coaching PREPARED! 

PIANO ENSEMBLE, WE CAN DO IT!!

hi!

Samuel designed this for us! we've sent it for approval from Mr Yong and Mr sim has alr approved it. what do you think? tag!

we have chosen the 6 people who we hope to be in the next EXCO. they are:

Jiaen

Wan Mei

Rio

Una

Ruochen (MD)

Chenxi (MD)

They will be organising 88 with us and they will not know their positions (except the MD) till after the concert. They are still on probation, which means that there could be possible changes to the 6 people, depending on what happens from now till 88. 

88 is on 10July, 2008, 7.30 in the VJC Performance Theatre. Una will be giving out tickets for you guy to sell for 88, quota for members is 10 and quota for exco (senior and junior) is 20. We need manpower to help out in preparation for 88 concert! please please please help out if anyone approaches u ok!

Reminder: We're going to Joanna MacGregor's concert on Wednesday June 10, 2009, 7.30pm. Its at Esplanade!

ANNOUNCEMENTS

SAMUEL is helping us with our collar pin! thank you!

1) all Pianists are to attend the T'ang concert on the coming wednesday, 6 May. anyone who has any cca, connect2 or school activities (other than tests, SYF and exams) are excused.

2) coming thursday, 7 May, there will be no session because Mr ku wants to do MA with the competition pairs only.

competition pairs are as follows:
Limin and Nie Jiao
Chen Xi and Yumeng
Alicea and Wensiu
Jonathan and Yixin
Karen and Tian Jiao

3) We're going to watch Joanna MacGregor, a really good pianist, perform on June 10 Wednesday. we've voted and decided on the cheapest ticket, which is $17 after subsidy. SO PAY UP unless you are going overseas during that time and sms limin if you are!

4) exco nominees gave their speech today, so vote asap! You can vote them for positions that they are not running for. (:

Running for
President - Rio, Zheng Chu
Vice-President - Wan mei
Secretary - Xiao Hui
Treasurer - Jiaen, Leon, Una
Music Director - Ruochen, Tian Jiao, Chenxi, Michelle

Hello pianists,

This is the list of people who will be receiving NEW! scores for 88 concert. I will not publish our repertoire here but do take note if your name is here and remind your friends to pay too :) In case you don't remember, your scores reach you when the $ reaches us. Each person pays $2 for a bound score.

Payment must reach us on Thursday. Una will be hosting a collection booth outside the piano room on 9th April, 2-4pm. Please bring your $ then. If you cannot make it then, kindly inform Una/Alicea before thursday. We are collecting earlier so you can receive your scores earlier too hor.

Even if your name does not appear here, do not fret. It just means that you will continue practising the score that had been allocated earlier for 88 concert in July.

In no order/sequence,

You.

Jasmine

Ying Hua

Jiali

GuoWei

Pengrui

Nikki

Evan

Wan Mei

Jonathan

Leon

Corliss

Dishen

Kunlun

Chen Ee

Una

Lixuan

Zhang Jie

Michelle

Zheng Chu

Ruo Chen

Jia En

Dishen

Lilin

Sean

Daniel

Xiao Hui

Sherilynn

Samuel

Yun Jiao

Rio

Tian Yi

Thank you.

- Alicea

Announcements

1) 9 April - there will be NO session due to feeling fab

                 - but coaching WILL GO ON as usual

so please reply Alicea asap when she contacts you, tell her if you will need to leave school during coaching time

2) There will be one or two extra day(s) of coaching during the week, other than thursday. so be prepared to receive messages to sign up for coaching slots on mondays and or fridays. this is to prepare us for CONCERT! 

3) exco forms for exco'09 must be submitted by 6 april 2009, 12noon.

4) music and lyrics: submit draft with LYRICS and MELODY and CHORDS by 17 april,  friday. put it in the piano room. those who did not submit the first draft! you must submit this one!! ok?

 

2 april thursday

coming thursday we are

1) giving out exco forms, so all J1s, ip2s, ip1s interested please think about whether you want to join

2) watching my fair lady after MA and having dinner in school, so EVERYONE please inform your mother/father/grandmother/grandfather so that you can stay back. we are continuing from intermission, where we stopped during the camp.

3) having a showcase of some pieces by our ensemble members. 

Hello ppl,

More photos regarding the camp has just been uploaded. Sry for thaking such a long time, but take ur time to view them. Enjoy:) Opps... some ppl haven't paid ur funds... haha small reminder: remb to pay $10 this thursday during our meeting sessions:)

Cheerios,
Una

MUSIC & LYRICS

MOSAIC MUSIC FEST

hey guys you can check out this website- http://www.mosaicmusicfestival.com/2009/microsite/

and go and enjoy the music! and learn stuff! (: since you guys did on monday. 

FACEBOOK!

go join vjc piano ensemble facebook group (: yay. 

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=78616460224&ref=ts 

NUSPE concert

People going to NUSPE concert 26 mar

Leong Ying Hua 
Tan Wei Wei Alicea 
Yeo Chuo Wei Jonathan 
Chen Xi 
Liu Yumeng 
Bo Ruochen 
Huang Zhengchu 
Hsu Xin Ying Una 
Karen Tay Ting Yi 
Woon Chen Ee 

please pay una $18. i've asked mr sim for reimbursement. 

we only have 10 tickets, if anyone else wants to go, its too late. sorry. 

PIANO CAMP!

Date: 16/3 and 17/3, no overnight

Time: starts on 9am on both days

Venue: T11 on Monday and T18 on Tuesday

What to wear: any school T-shirt, shorts, and SHOES (no slippers)

What to bring: $10 for food, $12 for scores and piano fund, testtubes on 1st day

Aims of the camp

1. Bonding! (especially because new members have only been with us for 3 sessions. the seniors don't know the juniors!)

2. To educate the members in music and techniques of piano that will aid the ensemble in all future activities (eg. Concerts and competitions).

3. To prepare the ensemble for 88 concert.

Special events:

1) monday 4.30 onwards : We’re going to esplanade for mosaic music festival! Go to http://www.mosaicmusicfestival.com/2009/microsite/d4.html to find out more!

2) tuesday 4 onwards: MUSIC and LYRICS!

It will be a collaboration by Piano Ensemble and Writers’ Circle, in an effort to prepare a special item for 88 concert! (: (:

OLD FOLKS CIP

we're going to Min Chong Comfort Home, which is at 39 Sims Ave Singapore 387412.

If any of your other friends in piano ensemble are interested to join as a volunteer or performer for our CIP, please remind them to tell karen ASAP!
We'll be going down on Wed of the March holidays (18 March) from 2-4.30pm. 
Person-in-charge on the old folks home side is Mr. Steven.
Performers please practise! :D
Attire is VJC based shirt and PE shorts, shoes (no slippers!)

We will be divided into four groups (2 groups for befriending, 1 group for performing, 1 group to help out), as there are 4 storeys in the home. We will rotate among the 4 groups such that all for storeys get to listen to the performers.

The befriending groups and the group to help out will be made up of the volunteers. 
Befriending group 1: Michelle, Jia En, Jasmine (tentative) (3)
Befriending group 2: Jonathan, Sherilynn, Liu Jie (3)
Helping out (to help the home): Kerryn, Liang Ou (2)
If you want to, you can do a mutual swap to change your role (eg. from befriending to helping out). But please give me a message if you do so :)
The befriending groups and helping out group will probably be briefed by the administrator there.

Since there are 2.5 hours there, we estimate about 40 minutes per unit (of performing, helping, befriending). That's including buffer time within each unit
We will be meeting at 1.15pm in VJC and will make our way down together. Please have lunch before 1.15 :D
FYI, these are the other old folks going down with you :D :
Michelle- Volunteer
Xiaohui- Performer  
Ruochen- Performer  
Rio- Performer (月亮代表我的心)
Corliss- Performer (影像）
Samuel- Performer (Unintended)
Kerryn- Volunteer
Sherilynn- Volunteer
Jonathan- Volunteer
Liang Ou- Volunteer
Liu Jie- Volunteer
Zhengchu- Performer  
Jia En- Volunteer
Jasmine- Volunteer (tentative)
Evan- Adhoc
Chen Ee- Adhoc
Ian- Adhoc
Tianjiao- Adhoc 
Guo Wei- Adhoc
Yixin- Adhoc
Karen- Adhoc 

See you on Wednesday at 1.15pm in VJC with smiles on each face! We're going to cheer up the old folks at the home, so we must be happy too!
 Thank you for your enthusiasm! Let's put a smile on that face!