Past Programs​

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May 24, 2023 (Wed)  |  10:00-11:30 AM

Topic: CAPMT SCV Annual Business Meeting + Piano Master Class with Hans Boepple

Featured Presenter: Hans Boepple

Hybrid: In-Person (encouraged!) and Zoom 

In-Person Location: Opus 11 School of Music (click for map/directions)

 

 

 

 

CAPMT celebrates the illustrious career of pianist Hans Boepple. Drawing a close to his tenure at Santa Clara University, come out

to hear his lifetime of music inspiration, insights, and wisdom. Student performers will present intermediate through advanced-level repertoire. Join us to learn and celebrate … a Master Class with Professor Hans Boepple! 

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American pianist Hans Boepple debuted with the Los Angeles, Philharmonic Orchestra at age 10 and continues to be the featured soloist with orchestras of distinction. Concerto performances include critically acclaimed collaborations with the LA Philharmonic, Denver Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, Long Beach Symphony, Metropolitan Opera House Orchestra, Santa Rosa Symphony, Oakland, Napa, and Santa Cruz Symphonies. He has collaborated with eminent conductors that include Zubin Mehta, Johnny Green, Minas Christian, Dennis de Coteau, and Corrick Brown.
 

This highly regarded performance career earned him a place on the Steinway International Artist Roster. A popular and frequent guest artist, his live performances have been broadcast by National Public Radio, Voice of America and Südwestfunk. Recitals include respected series such as Carmel Music Society, The Maestro Foundation & IU Jacobs School of Music.

 

A student of renowned American pianist Sidney Foster, Boepple holds both a Bachelor & Master of Music in Piano Performance

from Indiana University as well as an honorary Performer’s Certificate. A former full-time member of the piano faculty at IU, he has been Professor of Music at Santa Clara University since 1978. Boepple balances his demanding performance activities with those

of a dedicated and successful teacher. His students have earned over 200 state, national, and international awards.

 

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April 19, 2023 (Wed)  |  10:00-11:30 AM

Topic: Setting the Tone for Success:

Build a Music Studio Culture That Exceeds Expectations and Achieves Excellence

Featured Presenter: Dr. Pasha Sabouri

Hybrid: In-Person (encouraged!) and Zoom 

In-Person Location: Opus 11 School of Music (click for map/directions)

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Join Dr. Pasha Sabouri, author of “Upbeat,” to learn how you can build and evolve your music studio. From setting expectations to growing your vision, advance your teaching and studio! Dr. Sabouri will cover topics from creating more value to thoughtful engagement of students and parents. Dr. Sabouri is the founder and leader of “Teachers' Lounge” —  an online teachers collective designed to support and empower colleagues with innovative ways of teaching and studio development.  

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One of the most sought after and respected American violin pedagogues of the new generation, Dr. Pasha Sabouri has performed in recitals and concerts in Holland, Sweden, Austria, Germany, UK, throughout the United States and Canada. A passionate educator and a published author whose acclaimed book "Upbeat" guides middle and high school students and their families on the road to professional musical education and career. His students are competing in Menuhin Competition, Sphinx Competition, Dallas Symphony’s Lynn Harrell Competition, NPR's From The Top, winning the coveted "Jack Kent Cooke" Award, and are accepted in top conservatories – Juilliard, Colburn, New England Conservatory, Oberlin, Cleveland Institute of Music, Cincinnati Conservatory of Music and many others.

 

Dr. Sabouri is the founder and Artistic Director of the Texas Strings Festival, and it’s affiliate Master Series. He is also the founder

and leader of Teachers’ Lounge – an online teachers collective designed to support and empower his colleagues with innovative ways of teaching and studio development.

 

Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, his primary focus is his highly successful private studio. Pasha Sabouri is on the faculty of the

San Francisco Conservatory of Music Pre-College. In addition, Dr. Sabouri has been faculty at Encore Chamber Music Institute, Omaha Conservatory of Music Institute, the Brian Lewis Young Artist Program, and has adjudicated at Carnegie Hall NYO/2

program, Jack McGehee and UT Concerto Competitions.

 

Dr. Sabouri has appeared as a soloist at the Edinburgh Festival, performed with the Texas Chamber Orchestra, Las Vegas Philharmonic, Henderson Symphony and the Ottawa Sinfonette. He was awarded the first prize at the National Federation of Music Clubs Young Artist Competition, was named National Finalist for Music Teachers National Association, The Texas Young Artist and the Coeur D’Alene Competitions.

 

A member of the extraordinary River Oaks Chamber Orchestra in Houston, Sabouri has also performed in such orchestras as the Minnesota Orchestra, Pittsburgh Opera Orchestra, Austin Symphony, Las Vegas Philharmonic, and Aspen Chamber Symphony.

 

Dr. Sabouri is a graduate of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music and the University of Texas Butler School of Music, studying with Won-Bin Yim, Naoko Tanaka and Brian Lewis. His concert instrument is Johannes Cuypers made in 1793.

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​​February 22, 2023 (Wed)  |  10:00-11:30 AM

Topic: Develop the Artist Within: Creative Practice to Compelling Performance

Featured Presenter: Amy Likar

Hybrid: In-Person (encouraged!) and Zoom 

In-Person Location: Opus 11 School of Music (click for map/directions)

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Amy Likar shares her unique Creative Practice approach, which helps students (and teachers!) improve in the practice room and, ultimately, in performance. Add to your teaching Toolbox and learn new techniques to guide students of all levels. Creative Practice combines the best aspects from Amy’s 30 years of study of the Alexander Technique and Body Mapping to the “musical solutions” learned from her decade plus of work with Burton Kaplan. Amy seamlessly weaves together the most effective elements and presents a practical, know-how approach for students and teachers. With years of experience on the concert stage and in the teaching studio, learn how Amy integrates these unique combinations for fresh and fulfilling music making.
 

Noted for her “...dazzling...and winning tonal beauty and eloquence,”(Joshua Kosman, SF Chronicle), Amy Likar is an active freelancer and chamber player based in the San Francisco Bay Area and San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. Expanding on her work as flutist, Amy became fascinated with performance health and wellness through her own recovery from stress-related injuries. In all of her work, Amy is dedicated to helping musicians find the freedom to be fully themselves.
 

Highlights of her performance career include a critically acclaimed premiere of Martin Rokeach’s Concerto for Piccolo and
Orchestra, in addition to the premieres of solo and chamber works by Valerie Coleman, Michael Stephens, Donald Sloan and
Daniel Felsenfeld.
 

Dedicated to helping other musicians reach their full potential, Amy has mentored and credentialed over 50 professionals as the Director of Training for the Association for Body Mapping Education. These educators are now teaching in their own private studios and in institutions such as the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Amsterdam Conservatoire, Columbus State University, and Oberlin Conservatory.
 

Likar serves on the faculty at Saint Mary’s College of California as instructor of flute and is a member of the Oakland Symphony.
 

She regularly offers performance residencies and workshops that focus on getting to the essence of music making. She is a VQPowell Performing Artist and the author of the Breathing Book for Flute and the editor and narrator of Move Well, Avoid Injury.

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November 16, 2022 (Wed) |  10:00-11:30 AM

Topic: Awareness Through Movement: Applications for the Teaching Studio & Stage

Featured Presenter: Meeranai Shim

Hybrid: In-Person (encouraged!) and Zoom 

In-Person Location: Opus 11 School of Music (click for map/directions)

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Flutist and Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner Meerenai Shim will share how to cultivate awareness for optimal movement and learning; especially as applied to music teaching and performance. Meerenai will lead participants through some movement explorations that can be done sitting in a chair.

 

Translated in Korean as “Milky Way” or “Galaxy”, the artistic career of Meerenai Shim (pronounced “ME-ren-ey”, like they) is appropriately expansive and all-encompassing. A flutist with a new music focus, she promotes contemporary work through myriad channels, including as a solo performer, her chamber ensembles, her record label, and her own discography of three albums, all of which have been warmly reviewed.

 

Meerenai has performance credits across the United States, including within the Soundwave Biennial in San Francisco, the Bang on a Can Summer Festival, the National Flute Association’s annual Conventions, and numerous universities. Her impact across new music manifests in part from her two chamber ensembles: she is involved as a founding member of the innovative flute and percussion duo, A/B Duo (2013), and joined the contemporary flute trio Areon Flutes in 2016. 

 

Meerenai is also a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner(CM) and has been a movement coach for musicians since 2012. Between 2012 and 2016 she taught the Alexander Technique-based course, “What Every Musician Needs to Know About the Body” in private workshops, universities, and summer festivals. She makes her home in Campbell, California with her husband Dave, and their Great Dane mix, Lady.​

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