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Victoria Kirsch - Accompanist
Collaborative pianist/vocal coach Victoria Kirsch has created and performed innovative programs throughout Southern California, including concerts based on museum exhibitions and staged art song/poetry programs. She serves as a vocal and opera coach at UCLA’s Herb Alpert School of Music. READ MORE..
Victoria has worked with national and regional opera companies, including LA Opera and Long Beach Opera, and served as an official pianist for the Operalia Competition and the Metropolitan Opera’s National Council Auditions. She played for soprano Julia Migenes (Carmen in the award-winning opera film directed by Francesco Rosi), touring the world for many years with the celebrated singing actress. Victoria is the music director of Opera Arts, a Coachella Valley-based performance organization. She has been a faculty member of the Los Angeles-based Angels Vocal Art summer program, a teaching artist for LA Opera’s Community Programs Department, and has served on the faculties of USC’s Thornton School of Music and SongFest. She was associated with the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara for many years, playing in the studio of renowned baritone and master teacher Martial Singher and serving as a member of the vocal faculty. |
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Clivia Ngan - Flute
Clivia Ngan earned her degree in music performance at the California State University of Fullerton, studying with internationally renowned flutist, Jean Ferrandis. She is a professional freelancing flutist and music instructor, and has performed as a soloist, chamber, and orchestral musician on stages of Southern California such as the Walt Disney Concert Hall and Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall. Her and partner, Nick Godoy, perform as a flute and guitar duo known as Duo Libera. READ MORE..
Along with performing and teaching, she is also fond of curating musical experiences herself within the community-a passion and knack she had developed while working for Clazzical Notes years ago. In 2019, she and her colleague co-founded a non-profit orchestra, Synesthesia Sinfonietta, with the intent of bringing local musicians, composers, artists, and audiences together through impressive and accessible orchestral programming. The orchestra successfully put on three, full-ensemble orchestral concerts before the pandemic with incredible feedback, and has started to put on concerts again recently. Her most recent endeavor is getting her friend's new music studio, the Semitone Institute of Music, up and running this year. With its own beautiful, built-in concert room, they intend to stand out and build a community for music appreciation by presenting and curating their own high quality concerts in addition to providing music instruction for all instruments within the studio. |
Black Lives Matter
We are devasted by the horrific deaths of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery. Breonna Taylor and countless others. We mourn the senseless loss of life and pervasive, systemic racism that plagues every corner of our society – criminal justice, policing, health care, education, housing, employment, and list goes on.
Racism of any type can no longer be tolerated in any sector of a civilized society. It takes all of us to stand firm against racism. Remaining silent is no longer an option. As a businesswoman in the Bay Area said, “racism, and the violence born out of it that disregards human life, torches every part of my life and that of my family. I cannot rest, our community cannot rest, our country cannot rest until we address the systemic roots of that problem and universally commit to fighting against it at all costs.”
Dismantling systemic racism in our nation will not be solved overnight. It will not be a sprint but rather a marathon. Clazzical Notes will be a part of the solution. Music, dance, the spoken word, film and many other art forms speak an international language. Clazzical Notes’ programs will continue to be a bridge that connects neighbors, creates dialogues, and sparks understanding. Only when we really see and hear each other can we understand, appreciate and value our differences.
We all can do better and we must.
We are devasted by the horrific deaths of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery. Breonna Taylor and countless others. We mourn the senseless loss of life and pervasive, systemic racism that plagues every corner of our society – criminal justice, policing, health care, education, housing, employment, and list goes on.
Racism of any type can no longer be tolerated in any sector of a civilized society. It takes all of us to stand firm against racism. Remaining silent is no longer an option. As a businesswoman in the Bay Area said, “racism, and the violence born out of it that disregards human life, torches every part of my life and that of my family. I cannot rest, our community cannot rest, our country cannot rest until we address the systemic roots of that problem and universally commit to fighting against it at all costs.”
Dismantling systemic racism in our nation will not be solved overnight. It will not be a sprint but rather a marathon. Clazzical Notes will be a part of the solution. Music, dance, the spoken word, film and many other art forms speak an international language. Clazzical Notes’ programs will continue to be a bridge that connects neighbors, creates dialogues, and sparks understanding. Only when we really see and hear each other can we understand, appreciate and value our differences.
We all can do better and we must.