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Saturday, June 28th 2008
Starfish Studios Summer Recital!
The summer recital was a huge success this year. Students of Yascha Noonberg, Marilee Hord, and Noah Beck performed for a full house at Imbibe on SE Hawthorne.
The recital lasted two hours and featured students from the ages of 6 up to 60. Some highlights included a 6 year old pianist performing "Victor's Piano Solo" from Tim Burton's "The Corpse Bride" composed by Danny Elfman, the Starfish Studios Youth Rock Band performing songs by Nirvana and Angels and Airwaves, and a group of Yascha's students performing Led Zeppelin's "Good Times Bad Times" note for note! The Tuesday night Jazz Workshop also performed several tunes including a Bossa arrangement of "All of Me."
The next recital is currently scheduled for November 15th, 2008.
11/13/07
Members of Portland Band The Decemberists have been hanging out at Starfish Studios lately. They recently hired Yascha to mix a live album from their recent performance at the Vic Theater in Chicago. Yascha has been working with their sound engineer Rich Hipp on the mixes which should be finished by the end of the year.
11/7/07
Starfish Studios is proud to announce a new series of workshops
designed to give kids the experience of playing music with other musicians and eventually recording and performing their songs. The workshops will be held once a week in the evening.
All participants need to have previous experience on their instrument or be currently enrolled in private lessons. Singers, Guitar Players, Bass Players, Keyboard Players and Drummers are encouraged to participate as well as students who play other instruments and would like to learn to play in a rock band setting.
Students will learn to play their favorite songs and eventually have the opportunity to write original songs with their bandmates.
The Middle School Rock Band will be meeting on Thursdays at 7pm. The High School Band will be meeting on Mondays at 7:30pm Cost for the class is $75/month. For more info, contact the school at 503-231-4930
10/26/07
Multi Instrumentalist Rick Nelson stopped by the studio today while
passing through Portland with his band the Polyphonic Spree. Rick and
Yascha went to music school together and have performed in various
bands in the past. Rick
now lives in New Orleans when not on tour with the Spree or other
artists who hire him to play violin, viola, upright bass, or several
other stringed instruments.
June 1 2007
The new studio is now up and running!
May 28th 2007
The Studio Is Moving!
As of Tuesday the 29th, all lessons will be taught at the new location which is 1416 SE 8th ave in Portland Click Here For Directions The new studio is brightly colored on the outside and is on the corner of SE 8th and Madison Ave. See you there!
5/20/07
The recital was a huge success. There were 120 people in attendance and
20 students did an amazing job as they bravely performed for the first
time. Everyone has been asking when the next one will be and as of now,
it looks like there will be one in early fall of this year. Here is a link to some photos of the event. Thanks to everyone who came out and participated in such a fun event. Congratulations to the following students who won prizes in the raffle: Ana Marshall - $50 gift at Portland Music Co. Brent Koekkoek - $25 gift at Sheet Music Service Ting-Chien Huang - Free One-Hour Lesson Forrest McCammon - Free One-Hour Lesson Connor Acott - Copy of "The Natural Way to Music"
Saturday May 19th 4-6pm
Spring Recital!!
This seasons' recital will be held at the Sellwood
Public House - an all ages music venue. 30 students will be performing
one of their favorite songs for the very first time in public.
Co-Sponsored by Portland Music Company, this fun performance will
feature many different styles of music and will include a drawing for
various musical prizes.
