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The purpose of The Dallal Music Studio is to have fun learning the piano while playing pieces we all love.  MYC is a wonderful music program that incorporates solfege, Kodally, Movement, Keyboard, ear training, composition, and note reading into wonderful Piano Classes.  It is all-encompassing music  class as well as keyboard class in that it teaches the children even from 3 and up theory, ear training, composition in a cleverly well-designed program that understands students ages and how they learn at those specific ages!  It doesn't burn them out like other music programs I've seen. This program helps prepare young children for the wonderful National Music Certificate Program (see nationalmusiccertificate.org).  I am the first teacher to be teaching MYC in Snohomish County, Washington, and my studio is located in the Silver Firs area of Washington near Mill Creek.

Past Experiences/Qualifications in No Particular Order:

• Nationally Certified Teacher of Music, and Washington State Certified as well.
  
• Comments from the 2010 Adjudicator who listened to 15 of my students:  "Lovely Students!  I was impressed with the tone quality you were able to get them to produce and with the attention to detail (articulation, timing) you brought to the scores.  Bravo!  I love it that you are so relaxed with your students  it makes music as natural as any other part of life.  Keep teaching jazz - our musicians need the training in this too!"  - Rhonda Ringering (http://www.mtna.org/PublicRelations/tabid/340/EntryID/153/Default.aspx).
• My Studio had three Trudy Woll composition winners in 2007, one 1st place, and two 2nd place, five composition winners in 2007, three 1st places, and two 2^nd places all for the Trudy Woll Composition Competition. In 2010, 4 first place winners out of 6, 1st grade, 4th Grade, 8th grade and 11th Grade! One of my students won the Concerto Competition First Alternate with the Port Gardner Bay Concerto Competition in 2008; Another student won Outstanding Performance at the Bach Festival in Seattle of 2008.
• Taught group piano at Prosser Piano for two years from 2004 - 2006.
  
• Studied with the Royal Conservatory of Toronto in Canada which is the music school which is affiliated with the University in Toronto, Ontario well thought of in both the U.S. and in Canada
• Am President of the Snohomish County Music Teachers Association, and active member of the Washington State, and Music Teachers National Association.
• National Music Certificate Program is available for all students which is the American version of the Royal Conservatory of Toronto and affiliated with the Conservatory of Toronto in Canada
• Performed with Mood Swings Jazz Band  in Lynnwood, Washington
• Currently perform with Cascadia Jazz Band in Lynnwood, Washington
• Experienced accompanist for choirs including Explorer Middle School in Everett, Olympic View Middle School in Mukilteo, Gateway Middle School in Silver Firs,  Silver Firs Elementary in Everett, and Mountain View High School in California.
• Performed with the rock, concert and jazz bands in the 504th Air Force band
• Performed with the Peninsula Pops Orchestra for 5 years in California
• Performed accordion in and Irish folk group, and sang (in German) with Heimat Echo at the Seattle Folk Life Festival
• Music Director and Performer for Curtain Call Summer Musical Theatre during the summers of 1999 thru 2001
• Rehearsal pianist for various musical theatre groups including Kings Players and Pine Nut Players one as rehearsal pianist, the other as pianist in the orchestra
• Piano Performance at the Legislators Breakfast at the United Methodist Church in
       Little Rock, Arkansas in 1984
• Performed Organ and piano for churches, and weddings
• Taught piano and organ to all ages from 1978 – 1980, and now piano from 1999 to the present
• Will teach individuals with professional keyboards, digital pianos, and, of course, acoustic pianos
• Certified as a teacher with the Scott Houston “The Piano Guy” program.
• Teach both popular and classical music, lead sheets, solo and ensemble playing
• Did some music proof-reading for Craig Linder (respected Jazz Pianist in Washington) using Finale, and experienced in arranging music for use in choir and ensemble