We are very excited to congratulate and present the participants in our bi-annual Music Technique Skills-Building Scales & Studies Competition, judged by NBS faculty members Dr. Marianna Prjevalskaya (piano), Dr. Igor Resnianski (piano), Irina Rostomashvili (strings), and Dr. Meghan Woodward (winds).

The Nelly Berman School is proud to be one of the few community music schools in the United States to have a unique program like this in our curriculum and program offerings. We hope that this new program will become a vital educational experience for the NBS students. All of our Russian-trained teachers have themselves gone through the rigorous training of having biannual juries with studies, scales, arpeggios, and more, and our students will now carry on the traditions of this special training!

The Music Technique Skills-Building Program is open and encouraged for all NBS students, with guidelines currently posted for piano, violin, cello, clarinet, and oboe. Our next evaluative competition will be in May 2020. If you are interested in taking part, please visit our program page to learn more.

PLATINUM Scores – Piano (25/25)

  • Michelle Dou
  • Kelly Lao
  • Chris Qu
  • Bambi Tang
  • Caleb Uy
  • Ryan Zhang

PLATINUM Scores – Strings (30/30)

  • Suri Ahn
  • Chloe Chen
  • Claire DeDonder
  • Julia Wang
  • Priscilla Wang

GOLD Scores – Piano (21+/25)

  • Dishan Bhattacharya
  • Sophia Cui
  • Isabella Hsue
  • Gregory Johnson
  • Daniel Lao
  • Kelly Lao
  • Andrew Li
  • Sasha Murray
  • Ben Qu
  • Chris Qu
  • Bambi Tang
  • Brooke Woo
  • Phoebe Woo
  • Caleb Uy
  • Carissa Uy
  • George Zhang
  • Felix Zhang

GOLD Scores – Strings (25+/30)

  • Suri Ahn
  • Shalika Bhattacharyya
  • Ozan Borowiak
  • Chloe Chen
  • Syreeta Das
  • Claire DeDonder
  • Lila Donovan
  • Apollo Murray
  • Julia Wang
  • Priscilla Wang

GOLD Scores – Winds (25+/30)

  • Ian Hsu
MTSB Platinum & Gold Winners’ Recital – Fall 2020
MTSB Full List of Winners – Fall 2020

Congratulations to our students and their teachers: Dr. Anna Kislitsyna, Dr. Ariane Alexander, Dima Borisovsky, Elena Berman, Elliot Mallard, Dr. Igor Resnianski, Irina Rostomashvili, Irina Schuck, Joe Dvorak, Lorenzo Mazzamuto, Dr. Marianna Prjevalskaya, Dr. Meghan Woodward, Olga Mogilevsky, Rodolfo Leuenberger, Ronaldo Rolim, & Sylvia Ahramjian