2003

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Jazz trumpeter Cindy Bradley ’03 M.M. recently won the award for Best New Jazz Artist for the American Smooth Jazz Awards.  Cindy was also awarded with two Oasis Contemporary Jazz Awards for Brass Player of the Year 2011 and Best New Jazz Artist 2011.  Her second album, Unscripted, is set to be released June 2011. 2011-06-21

Jayne Marie Flores '03 M.M. has recently been named Executive Director and Co-Founder of Passion Institute of Worship in Ocala, Florida. This International Institute of Music was founded on the premise of bilingual training for young church musicians in contemporary church music, with musical skill and a foundation of bible knowledge. This venture is a life-long dream realized for Ms. Flores. Along with other notable recording artists, pastors and contemporary worshippers Passion has already created quite a stir. You can learn more about Passion Institute of Worship on Facebook. Jayne studed Vocal Performance at NEC. 2011-05-12

Guitarist Steven Lin ’03 moved back to his native San Jose, California in 2008. He continues to perform regularly, and has traveled to Seattle, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, and D.C. In 2010 he was a featured artist at the first Manila International Guitar Festival. He will also be traveling to Mexico for the third year in a row for concerts and master classes. He teaches at De Anza College and San Jose State University, and maintains a private studio. He works closely with the South Bay Guitar Society in getting grants, in outreach presentations, and in supporting guitar activities in the San Jose area. In 2009 he co-founded Sonart Group, a non-profit organization dedicated to the advancement of music and educational performances. Sonart Group is the west coast incarnation of Boston Guitar Project, which Steve founded and directed from 2005 - 2008. Steve's love of food and cooking continues in San Jose; he tends a small garden and keeps red worms for composting. To top it all off, he has found dedicated partners for his badminton and table tennis addictions. 2010-12-20

Randy Wong ’03, founder of the group WAITIKI 7, recently released a new recording, New Sounds of Exotica. The album is a new spin on exotica, the musical genre that leaped from Hawaii’s Tiki cultural phenomenon to the mainstream in post-WWII America. Recieving excellent reviews and ratings, the ambum peaked at #2 on the CMJ Jazz Charts and ranked #1 on JazzWeek World in September. The band features violinist Helen Liu ’03 M.M. ’04 G.D., pianist Zaccai Curtis ’03, ’05 M.M., and special guest, trombonist Mike Dease ’11 D.M.A. Composer Greg Paré ’02 M.M. plays vibes and lends his voice as narrator.  Randy and the WAITIKI 7 are currently featured on a TV spot about entrepreneurs from each of the 50 states. 2010-09-03

Jazz vocalist Sara Leib ’03 founded Singing Television, a free online video weblog for singers of all types to help them learn how to sing, perform, read, write, or communicate how to sing better. Sara currently lives in Los Angeles, CA. 2010-08-19

Help find your lost classmates

Unfortunately, NEC has lost touch with some of your classmates. If you have e-mail or other contact information for any of the people listed below, please let us know so that we can keep them informed of reunions and other NEC activities.

Kobi Arad, Neal Evans Boyd, Kevin Mark Buno Jr., I-Chen Chang, Hea-Jung Cho, Jeong-Won Choi, Eugene Choi, Chih-Chien Bruce Chou, Ya-Ping Chou, Brian Church, Kara Joanne Ciezki, Casey D. Cole, Andreas Degenkolb, Santiago Diaz, Jayne Marie Flores, Stacy deVere Frierson, Chelsea Post Gibson, Maeve O. Hoglund, Pei-Chi Hong, Lucas Alexis Hure-MacLaurin, Jeanne La Roque Jolly, Jae-Won Noella Jung, Hyun-Seung Kang, Anna Keiserman, Jung-Eun Kim, Ji Yong Kim, Nelly J. Kim, Na-Young Kwak, Yi-Chun Lai, Hsiao-Li Lai, Allison Laura Leaheey, Okkyung Lee, Jin Woo Lee, Young-Lim Lee, Seon-Young Lee, Pei-Chih Lien, Joseph Michael McCanta, Bennett Huxley Miller, Kyung-Won Min, Naoko Moriwaki, Paula Marie Murrihy, Ayako Nojima, Bianca Oglice, Ignacio Orejana Salinas, Sun Woo Paik, Mee-Joo Park, Elaine Julia Rombola, Soma Sarkar, Charlotte Elizabeth Scott, Young Mi Seo, Yu-Lee Seok, Jaleen M. Seshadri, Ryo Shimizu, Hilda Shiu, Hyo-Jung Son, Hye Won Souh, Tinna Thorsteinsdottir, Wan-Yu Tsai, Rosanne A. Wieringa, Mandy Suzanne Wong, Naery Euphrasia Yang, Tae-Gap Yang, Xi Zhang

2011-07-21