Dear Friends,
I have been MIA for way too long and wanted to update you on what's been going on in our musical and personal lives!
The biggest news is that we'll be leaving L.A. and re-locating to the Boston area so that George can take a gig as associate professor of film scoring at Berklee Music School. I am so proud of him. He's an amazing composer and orchestrator and a passionate educator so this will be a brilliant fit.
I have several online vocal students attending Berklee so hopefully I can meet with them in person now, and my busy online teaching schedule will continue as usual but from my new studio in Massachusetts.
Our new home is in the heart of Tanglewood so we are thrilled to be surrounded by music, fine art and dance and I'm excited about immersing myself in a new music community there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanglewood
And on that note, no pun intended, our beautiful K.Kawai concert grand piano has shipped and is scheduled to arrive at our new house mid December (if a blizzard doesn't close the roads) so we plan to continue the Casa Karen concert series that we began in Austin 16 years ago. We have several performing artists already in the queue! We'll need to rename it though...help me out with that one!
We've been psyching ourselves for a plunge into serious winter! Even though we're originally New Yorker's it's been many years for both of us and we realized we don't own any warm clothes!
Since I don't do FB too often I would be so beholdin' to you if you'll consider subscribing to this blog: http://suzistern.blogspot.com (click link then "subscribe" in right hand column next to blog text)
Or better still subscribe to my you tube channel (suzi stern jazz) to keep track of the music and the new events that we're planning: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCu7QOQqi0iGLZ-h4K8FNlKQ
Feel free to drop me a line and let me know if you plan to be up in the north east, and email me your concert series name ideas! suzistern@gmail.com
I wish you all a happy holiday season!
I am visualizing a new year filled with music, art, forward momentum, positive change, more kindness, of course good health...and sincerely, all the best to each and every one of you. I am forever the optimist!
Love from the road,
Suzi
If you haven't seen this yet, here's a little music and dance for you:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYJVWWfxWOU
