Darby Music

Any and all are welcome to attend my final project doctoral recital!

The concert will feature five quartets for two pianos and two percussion that I commissioned from University of Illinois graduate composers.

Date and time:
Tuesday, December 7, 7:30pm

Location:
University of Illinois, Smith Memorial Hall, Recital Hall

Admission is free.

The program:
"Dogma", by Jake Rundall
"Antiphony", by Tsai-Yun Huang
"Versus", by Brad Decker
"Gestural Trajectory", by Kyong Mee Choi
"Unseen Origin", by Ed Martin

Ester Kang, who takes guitar lessons with me, will be featured on the 90.1 radio station this Monday, August 9, 10:00-11:00pm. She will be playing originals and covers (singing and playing acoustic guitar).

Check it out!

The 90.1 radio station features a local artist every Monday night.

The "10 4" and "5 for 5" lesson bonuses have received an update so that it is now easier for students to receive free lessons and a reduced lesson rate.

Refer to the "Lessons" section of this site within "Lesson Bonuses" of the "Rates & Duration" section. The details can be found on the "10 4" and "5 for 5" pages within Lesson Bonuses.

Family discounts are now available for families with more than one family member interested in music lessons.

Refer to the "Lessons" section of this site within "Lesson Bonuses" of the "Rates & Duration" section. The details can be found on the "Family Discounts" page within Lesson Bonuses.

Up to 4 members of 1 family can take lessons with a lower lesson rate per student with each additional family member taking lessons. Lesson discounts range from a 16% to 30% monthly reduction from the normal lesson rate.

A long list of usernames/accounts were recently removed, many of them were spam. Most of the immediately familiar usernames were kept, though if yours was removed please feel free to recreate it.

At present this site is being used mostly in a read-only format for providing information on music lessons, though in the future at some point there might be a major site-wide revision, adding multiple new site features, including user interactive features, some of which may require logging in.

Some potential upcoming features might include:

The lesson scheduling process recently received a minor update to give anyone scheduling or rescheduling lessons an equal opportunity at the available times in the calendar.

You will find the update on the "Available Times" page.

Here's the update:

A few new pages have been added to this website.

You will find them within this section under the primary links:
Lessons > Rates & Durations > Lesson Bonus

The "Lesson Bonus" section includes three additional pages, each covering the following three bonuses available to individuals taking music lessons:

"Mention the Freebie" - mention the freebie and you get a freebie.
"10 4" - receive 10 free lessons for 4 new student referrals.
"5 for 5" - receive a permanent $5 reduction in lesson rate for your 5th referral.

Check out the pages for details on how to receive the free lessons and reduced lesson rate!

The Krannert website advertises 5 separate recurring series of events. The "Interval", "Afterglow", "Wall to Wall Guitar Festival", "Fixed Series", and "Flex Series".

The Interval includes afternoon performances.

The Afterglow is the evening version of Interval, free side-music to enjoy while grabbing a bite or drink from a cafe at Krannert.

The Wall to Wall Guitar Festival is a guitar extravaganza that lasts about a week, occuring every couple years in the Fall, returning this coming Fall 2009.

The Fixed Series consists mostly of University and local events.

The Flex Series is more of a "custom package" tailored to the interest of the individual attending the performances.

Read more below...

Hundreds of concerts and recitals occur at U of I's campus every year. Several of those performances are in Smith Memorial Hall and several in Krannert Center for the Performing Arts.

Here are some links to calendars of events at University of Illinois...

I recently had my doctoral exams, which University of Illinois' School of Music calls "preliminary" exams (although they're technically taken toward the end of the doctoral studies). Prelims consisted of a written exam, spending 2 to 3 days answering a handful of questions. It turned out as about 18-24 hours total answering 8 questions. A week later I went back to U of I's campus for an oral defense, which was 2 hours in a room with the 4 professors on my doctoral committee. Orals basically consisted of me defended my answers from the written exam and discussing my project proposal (for my upcoming final project) with the committee...