Merit Honors Flute Quartet Advances in Competition!

Congratulations to my chamber group at Merit School of Music!!! They are one of four ensembles selected to be finalists in the 2009 Jules M. Laser Chamber Music Competition co-sponsored by Music in the Loft and Society of American Musicians. Their competition repertoire will be the first movement of Dubois's Quatuor and The Easter Islander by Mike Mower. The final round of the competition will be held at the Music Institute of Chicago in Evanston on Sunday, January 18th. This is a really nice acknowledgement of how hard the students have been working since September. Besides their weekly coaching with me, they also rehearse independently a second time during the week and take turns writing up rehearsal notes to reflect on what they accomplished. Good luck Leen, Katie, Julia and Jingyi; I couldn't be more pleased for you!!!!!