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FALL 2011 PRE-REGISTRATION BEGINS MAY 9th!
Now is your chance to hold your lesson time for the fall! Forte will open at Noon.
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Fill out Pre-Registration Form. On this form you will indicate lesson preferences (days, times, teachers, etc...)
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A $50 non-refundable deposit (cash, check, debit, Visa/MC) per student is required to get your name on a "first-come-first-serve" list. ALL lesson times/days/teachers are up for grabs, the higher you are on the list, the more likely it will be that your first choices will be available. So pre-register as early as possible. This deposit will be applied to the balance due for the fall term.
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Beginning July 21st we will be contacting those on the list and officially begin scheduling.
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To finalize and confirm your time, Forte must have at least a half tuition payment by August 18th. If no payment is received by this date, lesson spots will become available for other students.
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CLICK HERE
to download the pre-reigistration form.
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SUMMER CAMPS & LESSONS 2011
SUMMER REGISTRATION BEGINS:
Monday May 9th, 2011 for all current students
Monday May 23th, 2011 for non-students (Date Changed)
ADD MUSIC EDUCATION TO YOUR SUMMER GOALS!
Private lessons are scheduled "à la carte". This means you can schedule any day, any time – each week can be different if you need it to be.
They are half hour lessons with the Instructor of your choice.
Note that we are only open 3 days a week during the summer.
SUMMER HOURS:
Tuesdays - 1:00pm to 7:00pm
Wednesdays - 10:00am to 6:00pm
Thursdays - 10:00am - 5:00pm
SUMMER LESSON PACKAGES:
Basic Summer Package: Purchase 1 - 4 Lessons - $28.00 ea. (30 mins)
Super Summer Package: Purchase 5+ Lessons - $26.00 ea. (30 mins)
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HONOR'S RECITAL
Each year at the end of Spring Semester we have our annual Forte Music School Faculty and Student Honors Recital. Unlike our standard recitals, this one is auditioned and we select the top 15 students in 3 age categories. If you have a fun and exciting piece that you want to show off, there's no harm in giving the audition a try! However, NOW is the best time to discuss this with your teacher. That way you have plenty of time to perfect your piece.
Auditions will be held on Saturday May 21, 2011 at 2:00pm, here at Forte
(please sign up ahead of time)
The Honors Recital will be Saturday June 4, 2011 at 7:00pm, Oak Hills Church.
Even if you aren't interested in auditioning, definitely put the concert on your calendar. It is a fun evening filled with great music, not only from the students, but also from the Forte Music School teachers!
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MOTHER'S DAY RECITAL
Give your Mom the perfect gift at our Mother's Day Recital.
Friday, May 6th at 7:15pm
Sign up now while there are still spots left!
FINAL SPRING RECITAL
Friday, May 20th at 7:15pm
Cost for Recitals: $15
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How to Help Your Child Prepare for a Recital
So your child has been playing an instrument for sometime now and one day the teacher announces that there will be a recital to showcase all the students' progress. After all the excitement, it dawns on you that you only have a short amount of time to prepare your child. Suddenly excitement can turn into agony. Your child’s first recital can be nerve-wracking, not only for the child, sometimes for you too. Some parents get overly excited undermining that this performance has more impact to their child more than them. Here are some of the things to remember when...(CLICK HERE TO VIEW MORE)
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Our piano student, Harish,
won the state geography bee!
Here is the article written by Betsy Hammond for OregonLive.com.
Harish P., one of the youngest competitors in the Oregon Geographic Bee this year, won first place Friday and will represent Oregon in the national competition next month.
Harish, who is 11 years old and in fifth grade at Findley Elementary in Beaverton, won the championship by correctly naming the country that was dethroned by China last year as having the largest economy in Asia.
He likes to read and play basketball. And since he was little, he's also shown a huge interest in geography -- learning the names, locations and characteristics of all kinds of places, says his mom, Rekha Rasiah.
Asia is his favorite region of the world, Harish says, and his knowledge of Asia helped him not only with the winning question but also with another about Kaziranga National Park in India. He's been to India several times with his parents, who were both born and raised there, he said.
State geography bees, organized by the National Geographic Society, are open to students in grades four through eight. State competitors must win the bee at their school, then score in the top 100 for their state among all school winners who take a written geography test.
Not surprisingly, seventh- and eighth-graders dominate most bees. Harish was one of just nine fourth- and fifth-graders among the 100 competitors who made it to the Oregon state bee this year.
Sixth-grader Danny Little from Robert Frost Elementary in Silverton won second place.
To win, Harish had to know everything from the home base of the European Food Safety Authority to the location of the volcano whose eruption disrupted European air traffic last year to the impact of the subduction of the Nazca tectonic plate off South America.
But even he wasn't perfect. He goofed on one question about Marrakesh and another about mining in Ukraine, he said.
Questions about the volcano, the Andes and the Asian economy were a breeze, however, he said. He has three or four books about geography and read through each of them at least twice, pretty much memorizing every fact, he said.
"It’s interesting to know all the place names and where they are," he said. "It gives you a good view of the world".
- Betsy Hammond
- OregonLive.com
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