Meet the CMC graduates and award winners for 2024
As the school year concludes, we celebrate the musicianship of all the CMC students, and highlight those who have made special achievements, including graduating from high school. The Community Music Center is proud of our students who have accomplished so much in music! Bravo!
CLASS OF 2024
Alvin Chan started at CMC in 2012 with group piano class taught by Zita Jefferson and later moved into individual lessons with Zita. Alvin is passionate about youth civics, working in that space since 2018. He was Co-Chair of Multnomah Youth Commission, the official youth policy body for Portland & Multnomah County, in 2021-23, and is graduating from Cleveland High School with an International Baccalaureate Diploma. Alvin will be going to Princeton University this fall to study Political Science.
Ouen Leip is a piano student of Zita Jefferson and learned digital music production from Rory Cowal. After graduating from Lincoln High School he plans to study Chemical Engineering at Oregon State, and is looking forward to internships and personal achievement through projects and creative spaces at school. Ouen enjoys volleyball and fencing, loves math, chemistry, biology, anthropology, making stuff and fixing things. “I loved my time at CMC - it allowed me to enjoy music as a hobby not a task, unlike previous experiences. Teacher Zita was the best, and Rory helped me get into audio engineering…a lot of inspiring people at CMC.”
Alvin Ton started violin in the David Douglas school system and studied for 2 years at CMC with Isabel Dammann. He’s been volunteering at the library and enjoying soccer and swimming, too. Alvin graduates from David Douglas High School and goes on to Oregon State University to study engineering.
Yocelin Rosales graduates from David Douglas High School as a violist in their award-winning symphonic string orchestra (two-time 3rd place champion in state competition two-time 1st place champion for Mount Hood conference string competition). She started viola lessons in 2018 at CMC’s Rosewood Initiative program with teacher Anastasiya Gavrilovich, and later came to CMC’s Francis Street location studying with Hong Chou. Yoci enjoys cooking for my family and friends and is one of the leaders in the culinary program at her school. She also loves playing Badminton and competing with friends and family. She will be attending Portland community college to major in child development while planning on expanding her sister’s daycare.
Merit Awards (scroll down to read all names)
| Student | Award |
|---|---|
| Seth Filner | Louis & Annette Kaufman Music Achievement Award |
| Jonathan Tang | Louis & Annette Kaufman Music Achievement Award |
| Blaire Wolfe-Rocca | Anthony Earl Dyer Award |
| Isabel Blodgett | Anthony Earl Dyer Award |
| Cooper Cresswell | Anthony Earl Dyer Award |
| Rusty MacKenzie | Anthony Earl Dyer Award |
| Ash Carr | Dorothea Lensch Merit Award |
| Kaleb Kidney | John L. Judge Merit Award |
| Alvin Zhang | Marian Swartz Merit Award |
| Lucy Burrill | Mildred Berthelsdorf Musicianship Award |
| Fiona Lippay | Mildred Berthelsdorf Musicianship Award |
| Gordon Bell | Mary Margaret Dundore Musicianship Award |
Director's List (scroll down to see all names)
| Valeria Almanza | Norah Filner | Astrid Perez |
|---|---|---|
| Oscar Baldivieso | Mykah Janika Hisle | Yoshi Rapp |
| Hana Bausmann | Soren Holbrook | Isa Rapp |
| Bristol Blaske | Leon Jean | Mandy Ruan |
| Eva Blodgett | Harper Kabza | Sofie Skovierova |
| Isabel Blodgett | Evelyn Kartini | Asa Smith |
| Anastasia Bock | Kaleb Kidney | Elowyn Sutton |
| Genevieve Bock | Ryan Le | Emma Tan |
| Kevan Browne | Kailen Le | Allen Ton |
| Ash Carr | Ouen Leip | Audrey Tran |
| Seyi Carven | Sophia Leung | Sam Van Clock |
| Alvin Chan | Naomi Liao | Brodie Van Clock |
| Kane Chen | Isla Lumbard | Halle Rose Walton |
| Annie Chen | Connie Ma | Lukas Ward |
| Raymond Colburn | Sarah Maran | Leihi Wilson |
| Maeve Gillian Curtin | Joshua Maran | Amelia Wong |
| Eva Feldman | Chaya Medina | Zifei Wu |
| Everett Feldman-Wang | Daphne Moore | Alvin Zhang |
| Jin Nakajima | Hanwei Zhang |
About the Awards
All awardees are nominated by their instructors. Director’s List students are youth who’ve done note-worthy work in lessons and/or classes. Dr. Louis & Dr. Annette Kaufman were long-time friends of CMC and influential musicians (violin and piano, respectively) internationally. This year we’ve added an annual award in memory of CMC instructor Anthony Dyer, funded by donations from his family and friends.
Other Merit Scholarship Awards will be decided and given before the end of June. There are several merit scholarship awards, named for people who have been in the CMC community. Marian Swartz was a long-time administrative director at CMC. John L. Judge was an important volunteer at CMC, and Dorothea Lensch was Portland Parks first Recreation Director under whom the Center’s program was established. Mildred Berthelsdorf was a community volunteer who worked to promote young voice students. Mary Margaret Dundore was the director of the Francis Street Singers at CMC for many years. These memorial awards above are made possible by permanent endowment funds at the Oregon Community Foundation.
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