Please take part in our Winter Playathon
On Zoom!
Presented by South Shore Music Teachers Association
Fundraiser for Father Bill’s & MainSpring
For Zoom Link, please see your email or email me at abarr54@verizon.net
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Jacqui O’Leary is 17 years old and a senior at Thayer Academy in Braintree. She has been studying piano for eleven years. Jacqui is an avid animal lover and has shown and placed her dogs in 4H Competitions. She is ultra-creative, making wood paintings and maintaining native gardens. She loves the out-of-doors, spending time in Maine and practicing piano. Jacqui recently prepared a video of three polished pieces to add to her college application portfolio! The Satie is one of those videos.
Winter is eight years old and in the third grade. He lives in Scituate with his parents and his brother, Linux and sister, Thisbe. He started piano lessons in January 2020, and only had a handful of in-person lessons before we went completely virtual!
Winter loves playing Magic the Gathering card game, especially with his cousin Micah Mulder! He enjoys: math, playing with friends outdoors, and reading. His favorite color is green and his favorite food is fried rice. One of his favorite activities currently is learning about weird, but true facts— he knows over 700 facts and is proud of it! Thanks for sharing your music, Winter!
The top video is Winter playing “Dance of the Spider and the Fly” by Donald Waxman and the bottom one is “Peter’s Song,” also by Donald Waxman!
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Micah Mulder – Student of the Week!
Micah Mulder is eleven years old and in the sixth grade. Besides being a wonderful pianist, composer and saxophonist, he loves biking, playing legos, drawing, telling jokes, exploring in the woods and shooting his bow and arrow. In this video, you are watching a spirited performance of Dmitri Kabalevsky’s Cavalry Gallop!
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Eliza Mulder- Student of the Week!
Eliza is nine years old and attends Cushing Elementary School in Scituate. She loves her animals, riding her bike, and playing with her siblings – Micah, Clayton and Naomi. She is an amazing pianist, as you can see, and is especially interested in the fact that Mr. Bernstein happened to write a whole collection of pieces about the raccoons he “befriended” at his summer home.