Fremont eSTEAM studio for more info https://tinyurl.com/MSJPiano
Chamber Music sponsored Play-in Event through ACMP. Audition info see course calendar.
Spring Cheesecake Chamber Music First Performance
Advisory on May 1, 2025
C16, Mission San Jose High School
Katelyn Deng, Violin, Melody Gao, Cello
Ms. Kuei, Piano, Matthew Zhang, Violin
Introduction & Reception
Sergio Leone Suite, Deborah’s Theme Morricone
Summer Hisaishi
Nocturne Op.9, No.2 Chopin
Violin Concerto Tchaikovsky
Salut d’Amour Elgar
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Meditation from Thais Massenet
Cello Concerto in D Major Lalo
Havanaise Saint Saens
Hungarian Dance Brahms
Legend of Ashitaka Hisaishi
"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." - Berthold Auerbach
"The power of music to integrate and cure … is quite fundamental. It is the profoundest non-chemical medication." - Oliver Sacks
"Music acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed heart opens." - Maria Augusta von Trapp
Katy Kuei has a Master degree of Music in Piano Performance and is currently teaching at Mission San Jose High School in Fremont, CA. She has taught ongoing at UC Berkeley Academic Talent Development Program starting in 2019. She has been awarded grants and teaching fellowships from industries and universities in the SF Bay Area in recognition of her teaching excellence in STEAM. She has received three IISME innovation awards, and has taught at the internationally recognized Research Science Institute at Tsinghua University, Beijing.
Katy is a student of Earl Wild and André Laplante . Katy’s student won the Bartok-Kabalevsky International Piano Competition Second Place. She taught the advanced GATE Piano program in Haopu Elementary Music School in Taiwan. Katy also has extensive experience playing piano accompaniment for instrumental solo recitals such as flute, violin, trumpet and percussion, as well as for voice. She has played orchestral transcriptions for operas and for musical rehearsals. She performed regularly for the Black Hills Voices in Concert, Black Hills Chamber Music Trio, and the Dakota Choral Union (a 100 member group) for many years before moving to the SF Bay Area.
Katy has a passion and great talent for teaching science, technology, and music, making her a true STEAM educator and a modern-day polymath. She possesses wide-ranging skills and knowledge, and a strong desire to pass these down to her students. She is currently teaching at San Francisco Community Music Center for both Private and Group lessons. Accepting new students for both adults and high school students this summer. Coming soon...
Resources
Mayron Cole Piano Method Textbooks
First Annual Play-In Event, May 24, 2024
eSTEAM Chamber Music Audition, Aug 14, 1:30 pm. All instrumentalists and vocalists are welcome. Please prepare a solo for 3 minutes, piano accompaniment score if needed. A short bio for your interests in music and college. Music Together Audition Form for preferred time slots will be available in August.