Student of Mr. Gary performs Bruch Violin Concerto during SYMF award ceremony
News and Accolades
2023 Southwest Youth Music Festival
Congratulations to Nicholas Nguyen, Ivan Lu, and Celine Hong, as trophy winners of 2023 Southwest Youth Music Festival. Way to go students!!!
2023 Satori International Music Festival
Congratulations to Nicholas (Nick) Nguyen, Ivan Lu, Nicholas Nguyen, and Celine Hong on their winning performances at the 2023 Satori Competition. Way to go students!!! A special shout out goes to Nick for advancing into the Grand Prize Prodigy Round of Satori Competition!
2023 ASTACAP Audition
Congratulations to Emi Furuichi, Tyler Furuichi, Aiden Han, Ryan Lee, Audrey Lee, Celine Hong, Connor Yang, Oriana Stocco-Guia, Cheryl Xin, Ryan Xin, William Wu, and Emma Wang for passing your 2023 ASTACAP Audition! I am so proud of your achievement!
2023 Southern California Junior Bach Festival Regional
Congratulations to Ivan Lu for advancing to the Final-complete works audition of SCJBF! Way to go Ivan!
2019 Southwest Youth Music Festival
Congratulations to Hannah Velez, Sam Mikolajczyk, Sharon Chang, Michael Law as trophy winners of 2019 Southwest Youth Music Festival. Way to go students!!!
2019 Satori Internation Music Festival
Congratulations to Sharon Chang, Michael Law, Ray Wang, Andrew Wang, and Tim Wang on their winning performances at the 2019 Satori Competition. Way to go students!!!
2019 Southern California Junior Bach Festival
Congratulations to Christian Byun for advancing to this year's Complete Works Round.
2018 Southwest Youth Music Festival
Congratulations to Hannah Velez, Aaron To, Kathryn Heinemeier, Karl Heinemeier, Ruilin Zhu, Gerry Song, Brian Nguyen, Jonathan Chien, Sharon Chang in their fantastic performance of 2017 SYMF. A special recognition goes to Hannah Velez for placing 2nd in Open Solo; Karl Heinemeier for placing 4th in Qualified Solo and Ruilin Zhu for placing 4th in Qualified Solo. Way to go students!!!
2017 ASTA Competition
Congratulations to Hannah Velez for winning 3rd place and Aaron To for winning Honorable Mention in Orange County Area's ASTA recital competition. We are so proud of you Hannah and Aaron!
2017 Southern California Junior Bach Festival
Congratulations to Hannah Velez and Kathryn Heinemeier for advancing to this year's Complete Works Round.
2016 Southern California Junior Bach Festival Complete Works
Congratulations to Hannah Velez for winning the SCJBF's Complete Works Concerto Category! Your winning concerto performance was sublime! I am so proud of you!
2016 Southern California Junior Bach Festival Complete Works
Congratulations to Kathryn Heinemeier for winning the SCJBF's Complete Works Concerto Category! We look forward to you performing the concerto with the chamber orchestra!
2016 MTAC VOCE
Congratulations to Hannah Velez for winning 1st place and Kathryn Heinemeier for winning 2nd place in this year's MTAC OCN VOCE Competition. We look forward to Hannah Velez to do an awesome job in the MTAC VOCE Final Competition in May!
2015 ASTA Competition
Congratulations to Aaron To for winning First place and Hannah Velez for winning Honorable Mention in Area IV's ASTA recital competition. Aaron To went on the LA final and won the Honorable Mention award. Way to go Aaron!
2014 ASTA Competition
Congratulations to Aaron To for winning First place in Area IV's ASTA recital competition. Aaron To went on the LA final and won the Honorable Mention award. Way to go Aaron!
2014 Southern California Junior Bach Festival
Benjamin Kim, Kathryn Heinemeier and Aaron To will be competing in this year's SCJBF Regional audition. Congratulations to Aaron To and Kathryn Heinemeier for advancing to this year's Complete Works Round.
2014 Certificate of Merit
Congratulation to Benjamin Liu, Benjamin Kim, Jason Min, Hannah Velez, Ryan McLaughlin, Laura Chen and Isabella Tong on their passing results in this year's MTAC certificate of merit examination. Way to go students!
2013 SYMF Benjamin Kim, Hannah Velez, Isabella Tong, Laura Chen, Aaron To, and Langdan Zhu will be competing in this year's 2013 SYMF competition. Congratulations to Aaron To for placing 2nd in Open Baroque and 3rd in Open Solo. Congratulations to Isabella Tong for placing 1st in qualified Solo. Congratulations to Langdan Zhu and Kathryn Heinemeier for placing 2nd in qualified Solo.
2013 Bach Festival
Benjamin Kim, Laura Chen, Kathryn Heinemeier, and Emily Peng will represent the studio to compete in this year's Southern California Junior Bach Regional Festival. Congratulations to Kathryn Heinemeier for advancing to 2013's complete works audition.
2013 Certificate of Merit
Congratulation to Benjamin Liu, Benjamin Kim, Jason Min, Rubin Patel, Hannah Velez, Max Chiu, Tiffany Chen, and Ryan McLaughlin on their passing results in this year's MTAC certificate of merit examination. Way to go students!
2013 VOCE
Congratulations to Allison To for placing first in MTAC OCN branch's VOCE competition. She will be representing MTAC OCN Branch to compete in the MTAC State Final.
2012 J.S. Bach Complete Works Audition
Congratulations to Aaron To for placing First in Junior Concerto Division and Allison To for placing First in Junior Partita Division. Fantastic job students!
2012 Bach Festival
Congratulation to Aaron To and Allison To as Junior division winners in the Southern California Junior Bach Festival Regional audition. Aaron and Allison will be advancing to the complete works audition in September.
2012 SYMF Participant and Winners
Tiffany Chen, Laura Chen, Kathleen Seitz, Eric Chang, Aaron To, Hannah Velez and Isabella Tong will will represent Mr. Gary's Violin Studio in this year's SYMF Competition. Congratulations to Aaron To for winning Qualified Baroque 2nd place; Hannah Velez Qualified Solo 3rd place; Eric Chang Qualified Baroque 2nd place; Kathleen Seitz Qualified Baroque 3rd place!
AADGT International Young Musicians Festival
Congratulation to Ray Ushikubo in winning Gold Medal and his Bach Partita No. 2 Performance in AADGT 2010 International Young Musicians Festival (Click Here to Listen To Ray's Performance)
2011 Bach Festival
Congratulations to Kirby Su for placing first in 2011 complete works audition!
Musical Arts Club 2010
Congratulations to Ray Ushikubo, 1st place in division I; Kirby Su, 1st place in division IV and Cynthia Bor, 2nd place in division IV
VOCE 2010 Junior Division
Congratulation to Ray Ushikubo as first alternate in VOCE 2010. (Click here to listen to Ray perform Mozart)
2009 Bach Festival (Click here to hear Ray)
Congratulation to Ray Ushikubo as one of the Junior division winner in the Southern California Junior Bach Festival Regional audition. Ray will be advancing to the complete works audition in September. Congratulation to Kirby Su for his honorable mention performance in the Senior division.
2009 Certificate of Merit Results
Rima Sanyal-Level 3 Divya Patil-Level 6 Cynthia Bor-Level 7 (Convention Finalist) Lior Schenk-Level 7 Michelle Chen-Level 9 Congratulations Students! Bravo!!!
2009 Annual Student Recital
2009 Annual Student Recital took place at Brea Congregational Church. Congratulation to students who performed. Way to go guys and girls!!!
2009 SYMF participants and winners (Click here to listen to Ray's performance)
Cynthia Bor, Eric Chang, Lior Schenk, Danby Su, Kirby Su, Madison Torres and Ray Ushikubo will represent Mr. Gary's Violin Studio in this year's SYMF Competition. Congratulation to Ray Ushikubo for winning Open Violin Baroque 1st place and Open Solo Violin 3rd place!
Congratulations to Nicholas Nguyen, Ivan Lu, and Celine Hong, as trophy winners of 2023 Southwest Youth Music Festival. Way to go students!!!
2023 Satori International Music Festival
Congratulations to Nicholas (Nick) Nguyen, Ivan Lu, Nicholas Nguyen, and Celine Hong on their winning performances at the 2023 Satori Competition. Way to go students!!! A special shout out goes to Nick for advancing into the Grand Prize Prodigy Round of Satori Competition!
2023 ASTACAP Audition
Congratulations to Emi Furuichi, Tyler Furuichi, Aiden Han, Ryan Lee, Audrey Lee, Celine Hong, Connor Yang, Oriana Stocco-Guia, Cheryl Xin, Ryan Xin, William Wu, and Emma Wang for passing your 2023 ASTACAP Audition! I am so proud of your achievement!
2023 Southern California Junior Bach Festival Regional
Congratulations to Ivan Lu for advancing to the Final-complete works audition of SCJBF! Way to go Ivan!
2019 Southwest Youth Music Festival
Congratulations to Hannah Velez, Sam Mikolajczyk, Sharon Chang, Michael Law as trophy winners of 2019 Southwest Youth Music Festival. Way to go students!!!
2019 Satori Internation Music Festival
Congratulations to Sharon Chang, Michael Law, Ray Wang, Andrew Wang, and Tim Wang on their winning performances at the 2019 Satori Competition. Way to go students!!!
2019 Southern California Junior Bach Festival
Congratulations to Christian Byun for advancing to this year's Complete Works Round.
2018 Southwest Youth Music Festival
Congratulations to Hannah Velez, Aaron To, Kathryn Heinemeier, Karl Heinemeier, Ruilin Zhu, Gerry Song, Brian Nguyen, Jonathan Chien, Sharon Chang in their fantastic performance of 2017 SYMF. A special recognition goes to Hannah Velez for placing 2nd in Open Solo; Karl Heinemeier for placing 4th in Qualified Solo and Ruilin Zhu for placing 4th in Qualified Solo. Way to go students!!!
2017 ASTA Competition
Congratulations to Hannah Velez for winning 3rd place and Aaron To for winning Honorable Mention in Orange County Area's ASTA recital competition. We are so proud of you Hannah and Aaron!
2017 Southern California Junior Bach Festival
Congratulations to Hannah Velez and Kathryn Heinemeier for advancing to this year's Complete Works Round.
2016 Southern California Junior Bach Festival Complete Works
Congratulations to Hannah Velez for winning the SCJBF's Complete Works Concerto Category! Your winning concerto performance was sublime! I am so proud of you!
2016 Southern California Junior Bach Festival Complete Works
Congratulations to Kathryn Heinemeier for winning the SCJBF's Complete Works Concerto Category! We look forward to you performing the concerto with the chamber orchestra!
2016 MTAC VOCE
Congratulations to Hannah Velez for winning 1st place and Kathryn Heinemeier for winning 2nd place in this year's MTAC OCN VOCE Competition. We look forward to Hannah Velez to do an awesome job in the MTAC VOCE Final Competition in May!
2015 ASTA Competition
Congratulations to Aaron To for winning First place and Hannah Velez for winning Honorable Mention in Area IV's ASTA recital competition. Aaron To went on the LA final and won the Honorable Mention award. Way to go Aaron!
2014 ASTA Competition
Congratulations to Aaron To for winning First place in Area IV's ASTA recital competition. Aaron To went on the LA final and won the Honorable Mention award. Way to go Aaron!
2014 Southern California Junior Bach Festival
Benjamin Kim, Kathryn Heinemeier and Aaron To will be competing in this year's SCJBF Regional audition. Congratulations to Aaron To and Kathryn Heinemeier for advancing to this year's Complete Works Round.
2014 Certificate of Merit
Congratulation to Benjamin Liu, Benjamin Kim, Jason Min, Hannah Velez, Ryan McLaughlin, Laura Chen and Isabella Tong on their passing results in this year's MTAC certificate of merit examination. Way to go students!
2013 SYMF Benjamin Kim, Hannah Velez, Isabella Tong, Laura Chen, Aaron To, and Langdan Zhu will be competing in this year's 2013 SYMF competition. Congratulations to Aaron To for placing 2nd in Open Baroque and 3rd in Open Solo. Congratulations to Isabella Tong for placing 1st in qualified Solo. Congratulations to Langdan Zhu and Kathryn Heinemeier for placing 2nd in qualified Solo.
2013 Bach Festival
Benjamin Kim, Laura Chen, Kathryn Heinemeier, and Emily Peng will represent the studio to compete in this year's Southern California Junior Bach Regional Festival. Congratulations to Kathryn Heinemeier for advancing to 2013's complete works audition.
2013 Certificate of Merit
Congratulation to Benjamin Liu, Benjamin Kim, Jason Min, Rubin Patel, Hannah Velez, Max Chiu, Tiffany Chen, and Ryan McLaughlin on their passing results in this year's MTAC certificate of merit examination. Way to go students!
2013 VOCE
Congratulations to Allison To for placing first in MTAC OCN branch's VOCE competition. She will be representing MTAC OCN Branch to compete in the MTAC State Final.
2012 J.S. Bach Complete Works Audition
Congratulations to Aaron To for placing First in Junior Concerto Division and Allison To for placing First in Junior Partita Division. Fantastic job students!
2012 Bach Festival
Congratulation to Aaron To and Allison To as Junior division winners in the Southern California Junior Bach Festival Regional audition. Aaron and Allison will be advancing to the complete works audition in September.
2012 SYMF Participant and Winners
Tiffany Chen, Laura Chen, Kathleen Seitz, Eric Chang, Aaron To, Hannah Velez and Isabella Tong will will represent Mr. Gary's Violin Studio in this year's SYMF Competition. Congratulations to Aaron To for winning Qualified Baroque 2nd place; Hannah Velez Qualified Solo 3rd place; Eric Chang Qualified Baroque 2nd place; Kathleen Seitz Qualified Baroque 3rd place!
AADGT International Young Musicians Festival
Congratulation to Ray Ushikubo in winning Gold Medal and his Bach Partita No. 2 Performance in AADGT 2010 International Young Musicians Festival (Click Here to Listen To Ray's Performance)
2011 Bach Festival
Congratulations to Kirby Su for placing first in 2011 complete works audition!
Musical Arts Club 2010
Congratulations to Ray Ushikubo, 1st place in division I; Kirby Su, 1st place in division IV and Cynthia Bor, 2nd place in division IV
VOCE 2010 Junior Division
Congratulation to Ray Ushikubo as first alternate in VOCE 2010. (Click here to listen to Ray perform Mozart)
2009 Bach Festival (Click here to hear Ray)
Congratulation to Ray Ushikubo as one of the Junior division winner in the Southern California Junior Bach Festival Regional audition. Ray will be advancing to the complete works audition in September. Congratulation to Kirby Su for his honorable mention performance in the Senior division.
2009 Certificate of Merit Results
Rima Sanyal-Level 3 Divya Patil-Level 6 Cynthia Bor-Level 7 (Convention Finalist) Lior Schenk-Level 7 Michelle Chen-Level 9 Congratulations Students! Bravo!!!
2009 Annual Student Recital
2009 Annual Student Recital took place at Brea Congregational Church. Congratulation to students who performed. Way to go guys and girls!!!
2009 SYMF participants and winners (Click here to listen to Ray's performance)
Cynthia Bor, Eric Chang, Lior Schenk, Danby Su, Kirby Su, Madison Torres and Ray Ushikubo will represent Mr. Gary's Violin Studio in this year's SYMF Competition. Congratulation to Ray Ushikubo for winning Open Violin Baroque 1st place and Open Solo Violin 3rd place!
