Performance learning starts with ... learning! Three upcoming events at Maestro Music are open to students and the community and will each include tips on how to perform (for students) and how to be an appreciative consumer of music (for audience members).

Congrats to the seven performers and all the carolers at our two Winter Bells performances! Thank you to Canfield Place Senior Living for hosting us and to all the residents who sang along with our carolers, and appreciated our solo performers at the recital. Thank you to our virtual performers who submitted recordings to share with all!

What do Bobby McFerrin, the Odyssey, and Winter Bells have in common? They're all in this month's newsletter! Download a pdf here or read all about ways to be involved in music this season by viewing the pics and clicking the links at the bottom.

Michael Lucero is a guitar and oud player based in Portland, Oregon.  Born and raised in Scottsdale, Arizona, he began playing guitar and bass in 2007.  He played electric bass in local indie rock bands and upright in his high school’s jazz band.  In 2013, he moved to San Diego to attend and play baseball at Point Loma Nazarene University where he earned a degree in philosophy.  His musical education draws from a multitude of sources, studying with Brooklyn-based guitar and oud player Harvey Valdes and San Diego-based classical guitarist Peter Pupping, as well as studying at both Mira Costa and Grossmont College.  He has been gigging actively for a decade, but most recently as an oud player with the Grossmont Middle East Ensemble and a guitar player both in the Encinitas Guitar Orchestra and in San Diego-based soul/rock band Cath.
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Michael joined Maestro Music Academy in 2022.  He adapts the curriculum according to the taste and enjoyment of each student, balancing music literacy with favorite requested tunes. He helps students uncover the logic of the fretboard enabling them to find freedom on the instrument, through which students can discover their own voice and sense of musicality. He teaches various plucked string instruments including guitar, oud, bass, banjo, and ukulele as well as piano and percussion.  

Students at Maestro Music Academy will begin an Odyssey through the Land of Music in mid-September! We are planning a year-round excursion into the elements of music. ​ Prepare to visit:
Island of Rhythm
Dynamic Digs
​Tempo Territory
Harmony Hollow
Memorization Metropolis
and more!

Beginning September 11, students will create their music passports and each new month will emphasize a different element of music! We invite you to join us on this odyssey as you continue your lifelong learning and growing through music education and performance. Children will learn different musical concepts through a new music theory game each week, and adults will explore different ways to read music notation through new songs each week. Teens will experience both with a composition emphasis. Enrollment is now open for new students to join! Visit www.maestromusiclessons.org/register to see openings or text Bonnie at 541-231-6040.

Note: summer subjects are encouraged choices for new and returning students alike.
Summer flash sale discount limited to new students only, as existing members receive many other membership benefits.