BCCM’s first Alumni Concert and masterclass on Friday, November 16, 2012. Kevin Chavez graduated with his BM in oboe and English horn performance and then went on to complete his MM at the Manhattan School of Music. He will perform with Manhattan faculty pianist Carol Ann Aicher. They will give a masterclass on Collaboration for all BCCM students in the afternoon.

For their 8:00p performance in DRH, they will be joined by BCCM alumni Jeremy Swem, Fuchou Chiang, Stephen Hughes, Kevin Chavez, Amber Alarcοn, Travis Edward Kane, Christina Wilson, Brian Farrell, Arnel Ignacio, Tabatha Easley, and Angela Wells playing a wide variety of works. It will be an alumni festival!

Alumnus Ivan Shulman is on a surgical mission in Nepal. Ivan is a general surgeon and has been conductor of the LA Doctor’s Symphony for over twenty years. His thesis on the Second Symphony of Charles Ives won Outstanding Graduate Thesis award in 2008.

He is with a team of doctors largely from Honolulu but they have surgeons from all over the US with a wide range of specialties with them. In addition to performing surgeries for free for those in need, they have been training Nepalese doctors. He has previously participated in a number of surgical missions to Africa, Latin America, Oceania, the Philippines and Mongolia. BCCM is thankful that our alumni include such remarkable humanitarians as Dr. Shulman.

Flutist Carole Jacobs has won the Orange County Youth Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition.

PST (Pacific Standard Time) and Jazz N Tonic sang at the Cuesta College Vocal Festival this past weekend.

The University Woodwind Quintet performed in the lobby prior to this weekend’s Long Beach Symphony Orchestra concerts.

Dave Gerhart’s piece, Samba de los Changitos, has just been published by BoxFish Music Publishing and will be available at PASIC.

Alumnus Adam Gubman was Audio Lead (music and sound design) for Shatoetry, William Shatner’s new phone app. Tech News describes Shatoetry as, “Think refrigerator-magnet poetry, read by Shatner in all his dramatic glory, and you pretty much have the idea.”

Shatner’s promo video: here