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Message from the President
Welcome to the online home of the California Association of Professional Music Teachers (CAPMT), your MTNA affiliate here in California! This site is your primary resource for important updates on membership, student programs, and other events. Please be sure to renew your membership in both MTNA and CAPMT to stay connected! We warmly encourage new and returning members to participate in local and state events, and are especially excited to continue expanding our community of educators in orchestral instruments, voice, and composition. Your involvement helps shape the vibrant future of our organization. I am deeply honored to serve as your CAPMT President for the 2025–2027 term. Thank you for placing your trust in me—I look forward to meeting and working together with many of you in the coming months! A heartfelt thank-you goes to all those serving on the 2025–2027 Executive Board, District Directors, and Event Chairs—your dedication and service make everything we do possible, and I am so grateful for your time and effort. I would like express my sincerest gratitude to Mitzi Kolar, whose exceptional leadership as CAPMT President from 2023 to 2025 has inspired and uplifted us all. Her mentorship and guidance have strengthened our organization and the community at large, and we are fortunate to have her continued presence on the Board as Immediate Past-President. To all Board Members, District Directors, Event Chairs, and Chapter Presidents concluding their service—thank you for your outstanding contributions and commitment. Please mark your calendars for our upcoming 2025 State Conference at California State University, Fresno on October 24–25! You can register by clicking the button on the right side of this page. In addition to the Conference, many wonderful events are planned throughout the year at both the state and local levels. Please check this website regularly for updates, and we encourage you to also check your own CAPMT chapter website for details about local events in your area. Wishing you all a wonderful year ahead with CAPMT! Warmly,Michael Krikorian CAPMT President Join CAPMT TodayJoin us and boost your career!Enjoy the benefits of a professional support system, including programs for your students, teaching resources, and much moreJoin Now
| 2026 CAPMT State ConferenceOctober 10-11, 2026 (Saturday and Sunday) Pasadena Conservatory of Music
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Dear CAPMT Members,
Dr. Dmitry Rachmanov2026 Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient
Dr. Dmitry Rachmanov is Director of Keyboard Studies at California State University, Northridge. A sought-after performer, master class clinician, adjudicator and lecturer, Dr. Rachmanov has served on the faculties of Manhattan School of Music and Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University and has been a guest artist/lecturer at The Juilliard School, New England Conservatory, Eastman School of Music, Royal Northern College of Music (UK), Shanghai and Beijing Central Conservatories. Rachmanov has appeared at Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center, London's Barbican and South Bank Centres, at venues across Europe and Asia, and performed as soloist with Ukraine National Symphony, and National Orchestra of Porto, among others. He has recorded for Naxos, Parma, Vista Vera and Cambria labels. An active member of the American Liszt Society, Dmitry Rachmanov is the president of the society’s Southern California chapter. He was the Artistic Director of the ALS 2016 Festival “Liszt and Russia,” hosted by CSUN. His summer festivals include Piano Sicily and InterHarmony in Italy, Adamant in Vermont. He is a Co-Founder of the OpusOne Festival in Los Angeles. A proponent of Russian repertoire, Rachmanov gave the US premiere of Boris Pasternak Piano Sonata, broadcast by the NPR, and he is a founding member and President of the Scriabin Society of America. His April 2014 commemorative all-Scriabin program at Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall was described as “a ‘poem of ecstasy’ in every sense: giant in conception, quantity, quality, execution, thoughtfulness, and sensitivity” by the New York Concert Review. He is in the process of recording a video anthology of Alexander Scriabin’s piano works. Dr. Rachmanov is a recipient of numerous awards: “Jerome Richfield Memorial Scholar” and Phi Beta Delta’s Outstanding Faculty Award at CSUN, “Outstanding CAPMT Member State Recognition Award” by California Association of Professional Music Teachers, Art Consultant Award by Shanghai International Cultural Exchange Association, and the Steinway & Sons Teacher Hall of Fame Award. Louise Frye2026 CAPMT Teacher of the Year
Louise Yvonne Dufau Frye, born in Dallas Texas, moved with her family to San Francisco as an infant when her Father completed his service in the army. Her parents were Ted and Margaret Dufau. She spent her entire childhood in San Francisco where she experienced an inspiring array of cultural activities: musical concerts of all kinds, museums, the ballet, circus and ice follies. Formal piano lessons at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music began at the age of thirteen. Following ten years of study, she received an Advanced Piano Certificate. Teachers at the Conservatory included Winifred Jones and Sylvia Jenkins, who had been a child prodigy. Louise received a Standard Elementary Teaching Credential from California State University, San Franciso in 1968. She taught two years of kindergarten before raising a family. Louise relocated to Southern California following her marriage to Jud Frye in July 1969. Louise loved being a mother and made the most of the time she had with her son Ken and daughter, Judy. She began teaching private studio piano when her son reached preschool age and continued for over fifty years, always loving the contact with her students, both children and adults. Recitals, particularly were always special to Louise. She considered them to be a “special occasion”, and always encouraged her students to enjoy playing in recitals. In 1980-1984, she attended California State University, Fullerton and obtained her Master of Music in Piano Performance. Other teachers included Erika Zador, David Berfield, and Charles Asche. When Louise and her family relocated to the Central Coast in 1985, they spent the first year building a log home in the country where she still resides and her son enjoys his woodworking shop and business on the property. She joined the local chapter, Central Coast Music Teachers. The chapter is affiliated with California Association of Professional Music Teachers (CAPMT) and Music Teachers National Association (MTNA). She served in many different leadership capacities at both the local and state levels covering a span of more than 40 years. Louise loves to both teach and perform. In addition to many piano solo recitals throughout the years, Louise served as an accompanist for both adult and childrens choirs in the churches she has attended. She participated in a master class for the International Piano Workshop in Graz, Austria in 1996 and traveled to various European countries to study the lives of a few classical composers with other fellow musicians. |
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