LAMTA News:

It has been more than two years since the talented, young pianists of Los Alamos have been able to present a collective, in-person public recital.

The COVID-19 pandemic has restricted the Los Alamos Music Teachers Association (LAMTA) from featuring students in the Sunday Musicale Series.

An ongoing event for more than 25 years, LAMTA’s Sunday Musicales have always been regular public presentations in both fall and spring terms for the public’s enjoyment and to highlight appreciation of the city’s musically talented youth. The performers, their families and teachers, are all eager to be able to resume these public performances at historic Fuller Lodge.  

This Sunday’s Musicale (at 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 27) will feature 19 young pianists between the ages of 7 to 17, each selected by their respective teacher as being well-prepared for public performance.

The recital is FREE and open to the public. Parking is easily available in the lot adjacent to Fuller Lodge. 

Students will present a widely diverse program that is a mixture of musical styles from the musical periods of Baroque, Classic, Romantic, and Contemporary eras. 

The recital will feature the following performers in order by age:  

• Serenity Tao, age 7, Reinagle’s Minuet in C;
• Alice Chen, age 8, March in D by C.P.E. Bach and Fable No. 3, Op.21 by Robert Muczynski;
• Annabel Tucker, age 8, Minuet in G by Petzold;
• Justin Lei, age 9, Robert Schumann’s Wild Horseman, Op. 68, No.8;
• Eric Xu, age 9, with The Sparrow by Rubbakh and Study in G by Gnyesina;
• Takara Mertes, age 9, Jeremiah Clarke’s Minuet in D and The Jolly Fiddler of Grigori Frid;
• Hannah Li, age 10, J.S. Bach’s Little Prelude in C minor and Pachulski’s Dreamy;
• Santiago Tucker, age 10, performing the Minuetto from Op. 84, No.2  by Erkki Melartine;
• Esmae Vincent, age 11, with Burgmüller’s Innocent, Op. 100, No. 5;
• Bryan Lee, age 12, performing the third movement Minuet from Kuhlau’s  Op. 20, No.1;
• Anna Simakov age 12, with the first movement of Denes Agay’s Sonatina in D;
• Angel Meng, age 13, with Clara Schumann’s Scherzo from her Sonata in G minor;
• Hiro Mertes, age 13, performing the first movement of Kuhlau’s Sonatina, Op. 88, No.1;
• Evan Strohmeyer, age 14, performing Scott Joplin’s always popular Maple Leaf Rag;
• Matthea Fung, age 14, performing the final movement of Haydn’s Sonata 53 in E minor;
• Ellie Vincent, age 15, performing Two Part Invention in A minor by J.S. Bach;
• Fayrouz Mourad, age 16, with Debussy’s Reverie;
• Daniel Kim, age 16, performing the first movement from Mozart’s A minor Sonata, K. 310;
• Aaron Philip, age 17, performing the first movement of Beethoven’s first Sonata, Op. 2, No.1.

About LAMTA

LAMTA is the local affiliate of the State (PMTNM) and National (MTNA) professional music organizations for independent music teachers and college music faculty. All performers in Musicales are students of teachers who are professional members of all three organizations. Students for this recital represent teachers Aejin Chang, Janna Warren, Madeline Williamson, and Patricia Wood. LAMTA has the mission of furthering the art of music teaching and programs that encourage and support music study and appreciation for students and their community.