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Rowan Prep students and faculty take a “group bow” for their stunning performance at Rowan Prep’s Inaugural Recital, Sat., Dec. 4, 2010

Rowan Prep student, Zachary Miles, with Rowan Prep Piano Institute Faculty, Larisa Soboleva

BRAVI to our wonderful students in Rowan Prep's "Musical Journey" Class that occurred during the week of July 11 - 15, 2011. With our magical coordinators, Wendy Hill and Amanda Hill, accompanied by our creative and caring teen counselors, Taylor Roman, Mia Marrazza, Christine Devine, and Erin Bownes, the students were able to take a Musical Journey through the arts - dance, painting/artwork, movement, and special "instrument sampler" classes - all through the works of Peter and the Wolf & Carnival of the Animals. Special thanks also goes out to our Instrument Sampler teachers: Tom Meany, flute/Suzuki flute, Lizzie Devereux, Suzuki/traditional violin, and Gina Marrazza, piano.

Please click here for the video of the students performing "tinco layo" at our closing "share-in" on Friday, July 15.

Bravo to Douglas Mapp, Rowan Prep faculty member, and co-chair, Rowan University Jazz Department, for the success of his Jazz Camp, 2011! 45 young jazz musicians from PA, NJ, DE, NY, and MD joined Maestro Mapp and his stupendous jazz faculty for a jammin' week of jazz!

Enjoy this selection featuring the 2011 Rowan Jazz Camp Faculty Big Band!

For more information about Rowan Prep's jazz ensemble (chamber) opportunities, please call either the Rowan Prep office, 856-256-4554/6, or Professor Douglas Mapp, 856-256-4500, x 3591; mapp@rowan.edu

Brava! Bravo! Bravi! to all of our wonderful performers at Rowan Prep's second annual Student Recital that occured on Saturday, May 14, 2011 at 4:00 p.m. We applauded 26 performers as they shared their music selections with a crowd of proud parents, family, and friends. Our Rowan Prep family has grown so very much -- we got to hear Suzuki and traditional violinists, percussionists - including snare drum performers, marimbists and a tympanist!; our first String Ensemble (Young Artists Chamber Music Ensemble), vocalists, and pianists. It was a eclectic and exciting presentation of our students...and we are all so proud of our Rowan Prep family! We're growing -- together -- musically!

Please click here for a copy of the program.

BRAVO! to Evan Sparano, Rowan Prep student of Alexander Timofeev, for his stellar Carnegie Hall debut performance of the Mendelsson Concerto for Piano in G Minor Op. 25 with the Washington Township Orchestra on April 22, 2011

Pianists Casey Wang, 14, student of Veda Zuponcic, and Kasey Shao, 7, a student of Ana Cristea, took High Honor awards in the NJMTA Honors Recital Auditions held at Rowan last week. They will perform on the award recitals on May 21st and 22nd at Rowan.

Kasey Shao also took 3rd place in the SJ Steinway Competition two weeks ago, and will perform on the Award Recital on Sunday, May 15 at 3:00 at the Markheim Arts Center in Haddonfield, NJ.

Alexander Lo, 15, student of Veda Zuponcic, won the Young Pianists of NJ Competition this past weekend, and as a result, will perform Beethoven's Sonata #3 in Weill Recital Hall of Carnegie Hall on May 22.

In addition, Mr. Lo won first place in the Princeton Steinway Society Competition in April, with a cash prize of $400; and first place in the SJ. Steinway Competition. He also took High Honors in the NJMTA Honors recital auditions last week

Bravo to Tom Meany, Rowan Prep flute faculty, for his interview on Creatively Speaking-Saturday that aired April 23rd at 11 am, WRTI Radio Temple University 90.1 FM. Tom discussed his career, his work with the Flute Society of Greater Philadelphia and upcoming Jamie Baum Septet concert http://www.wrti.org

Bravi to our Rowan Prep students for their participation in: Rowan Prep’s Inaugural Student Recital, Saturday, Dec. 4, 2010

Stupendous String Share-In!
Loud Applause and Bravi! to our students in our String/Suzuki program here at Rowan Prep for their fabulous performance on Sunday, March 13, 2011. The students of Ms. Lizzie Devereux and Ms. Elizabeth Cary gave both a thoughtful and exciting performance to each of their selections. We applaud our parents and supportive friends/family for attending the concert as well! Our performers were the following:

BRAVO to Douglas Mapp, valued Rowan Prep faculty member, & Professor of Jazz Studies and String Bass at Rowan University's College of Fine and Performing Arts. Mr. Mapp is also a member of Relache, the renown American contemporary classical music ensemble from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Please enjoy the stunning review of their recent concert this past February at the Ewell Concert Series in Williamsburg, VA.
The Virginia Gazette

Vocal Power!
Rowan's vocal division hosted the National Association of Teachers of Singing NJNATS Festival on February 26 where 125 college level singers from across the state competed. Rowan Prep faculty member Marian Stieber's students were recognized for First and Second Place in the Senior Men's Division and Second Place in the Senior Women's Division.

Rowan Prep flute teacher, Flutist Tom Meany, will appear in recital on Wednesday March 30th, 12:30 at the Church of the Holy Trinity on Rittenhouse Square in center city Philadelphia. The program will part of the church's Brown Bag Concert Series. Tom along with pianist Elizabeth Manus will perform works by Hoover, Caplet, Griffes, Hanson Bozza and Burton. This concert is FREE.

Brava to Elizabeth Cary, Rowan Prep’s Suzuki/Traditional Violin/Fiddle Faculty member for her new Blackmore’s Night CD, “Autumn Sky”, which entered the US Billboard charts at #1 in January, 2011 for the New Age CD category! You can hear Ms. Cary’s playing on several of the tracks. Anyone interested in buying this cd, it is available at Barnes and Noble and FYE, and Amazon.

http://www.billboard.com/#/charts/new-age-albums

Bravi to Rowan Prep faculty, Douglas Mapp, Associate Principal of the Delaware Symphony Orchestra, led by Music Director David Amado, which was nominated this past September, 2010, for an award from THE LATIN ACADEMY OF RECORDING ARTS & SCIENCES, INC. for its recent recording with the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet on the Telarc Record Label. The recording project was made possible by Bouchaine Vineyards. The nomination is in the Best Classical Contemporary Composition Category for the world-premiere recording of “Interchange for Guitar Quartet and Orchestra” by Sergio Assad.
The release marks the first concerto recording by the GRAMMY®-winning LAGQ, and traces an arc from their instrument's first concerto to its newest one: Joaquín Rodrigo's Concierto Andaluz and Sergio Assad's Interchange. Recorded in May 2009 at the historic Grand Opera House in Wilmington, DE, Interchange marks the Delaware Symphony's debut recording.