February-March Newsletter
Student Spotlight
Erin Schwartz
Erin is 10 and she is currently a fourth grader in Chatham Day School. She enjoys her piano and Russian lessons she has been taking with Do-Re-Mi for over 6 years. Erin also does ballroom dancing, horse back riding, and is on a swim team. During her free time, Erin likes reading mystery books and spending time with friends and her rescue cat, Cupcake. Erin wants to be a virologist when she grows up.
Welcome New Students!
Mark T. - English for the Young
Eva T. - Piano
Isabella V. - Piano
Yuvaan N. - Piano
Asha H. - Piano
Julia G. - Piano
Daniel S. - Math
Skyler W. - RSL
Audrey T. - Piano
Jeremy T. - Piano
Andrew F. - Art
Daniel Y. - Russian, Chess
Ellie K. - Piano
Ethan T. - RSL for the Young
Julia T. - RSL for the Young
Jacob T. - Piano
Mia Z. - Art
Jacob D.- Violin
Thank you for helping us help others!
We donated $20 for each new student to the Community Food Bank of NJ: https://cfbnj.org/
This amount will help fund more than 1000 meals.
Thank you for your help!
Meet Our New Faculty!
BENJAMIN KOVACS, Saxophone, Clarinet, Flute
Benjamin graduated from William Paterson University with B.M. in Jazz Studies and Minor in Classical Flute (2013) and later with M.M. in Composition and Arranging and Minor in Classical Piano (2015). Ben was teaching in various settings from 2012 (Andy's Family Music Center; William Paterson University Summer Jazz Workshop, Jazz House Summer Workshop, Music and Art). His performance experience includes various ensembles (Hank Lane, Jarrell Entertainment, Louis Pettinelli Entertainment).
A. DAVID KINCAID,
Guitar, Bass, Mandolin, Banjo
David Kincaid is a professional recording artist and concert musician, a multi-instrumentalist and singer with more than 40 years of professional experience under his belt. His music career has encompassed two different genres, with most of it playing in rock bands and his current and long-standing band, The Brandos, has enjoyed success both in North America and Europe, having released 11 critically acclaimed commercial albums, along with many international tours.
https://www.facebook.com/The-Brandos-138179002484
The other part of his career has been in historical Irish music, and he has released 3 albums, also to critical acclaim, under his own name in that style of music.
Mr. Kincaid has been teaching in various settings; currently in Accel Learning in Secaucus, NJ. "Seeing young people come into their own as a musician is gratifying beyond description."
Teach Music Week 2021
We are proud to participate in the 7th "Teach Music Week" 2021! For the fourth consecutive year, the Do-Re-Mi School is joining other reputable music organizations to introduce children to playing music instruments.
This year, after a year of Covid-19 (read: disease, deaths, interrupted friendships, social life, schooling, work - all aspects of normalcy) as never before we value a healing, uplifting power of music.
If your child is taking Art, Russian, Math or Chess at the Do-Re-Mi, but is NOT taking any music lessons, and you missed the “official” national “Teach Music” week, we extend this opportunity for the week of 3/22-26.
For more info or to reserve your time slot, please email info@doremi-nj.com.
Pre-registration is required.
Stay safe and healthy, and let's make music!
Performances
On March 3, the final work of the Advanced group of our Russian Theater “Dragon” was broadcasted by Israeli radio “Israel Forever” https://volnorez.com/izrail-forever and received great references from the audience and the organizers.
Prior to this radioshow, the same performance was demostrated at the virtual festival of the Association of Russian Theaters and Theater-Lovers of America
(СОЮЗА ТЕАТРОВ И ТЕАТРАЛОВ АМЕРИКИ.) Congratulations to all the participants and the director, Natalia Smirnova!
Кто сказал “Мяу”?
Our young theater class (teacher Ms. Daria Minhall; on the photo behind the curtain operating sound system) presented a show “Who is that who said “Meow”? The photo was taken by one of the spectators from behind the open window - current conditions made us inventive :)
Online Recitals
Students of different teachers participated in Zoom recitals:
Ms. Marina Genina, Ms. Marina Konovalova (Piano), Ms. Pei, Ms. Phoebe, Mr. Jeremy (Violin).
Below: Mr. Jeremy is performing Meditation from Opera “Thais” by Jules Massenet
At the piano: Ms. Kate Au
Summer Camps
We are planning, tentatively, to offer the following specialty week-long camps (1, 2 or 3 weeks), 9:00-3:00
Music and Art: 6/28-7/16
Chess: 7/19-23, 8/16-20
RSL: 8/23-27, 8/30-9/3
Russian for the Young: weekly, Tue-Thu, 9:00-12:00
If you might be interested, but did not submit our Summer Survey yet, please do so now!
Mark your calendar:
March 29-April 4: Spring break
May 29-31: Memorial Day weekend break
June 26: last day of the spring semester
for non-music classes
June 28: last day of the spring semester
for music lessons