The 2023 Kiki Thomaidis Piano Competition was held on March 4, and was a great success, as usual. The “Kiki Winners Recital” took place on March 5, and featured impressive performances by all fifteen of the winners. Many thanks, as always, go to Irene Roberts, the daughter of Tiki Thomaidis, for her continued generosity in funding this competition (Irene was unable to be present, due to a schedule conflict). Congratulations go to the fifteen winning contestants, along with our appreciation for all participants. The program of the Kiki Winners' Recital, photos of the student winners and their teachers are attached. As always, special thanks go to Rudene and her sister Tanya for all of the hard work they do for our student recitals. View the program (PDF)

Winter 2023 Recitals Update

Feb. 15, 2023

Students gathered on February 11 to demonstrate their talent during our Winter Student Recitals.

WMC Hosts Successful December Benefit Concert

Dec. 12, 2022

Natalia and Oksana’s benefit concert yesterday (Saturday, December 10) was both fun and exciting. Everything on the program (including the world-premiere my very difficult piece, "Journey into Destiny: Homage to Ukraine in Time of War”) was performed exceptionally well. It was an outstanding concert. (We are fortunate to have these two fine Ukrainian pianists in our club.)

The generosity of those in attendance was very impressive: a total of $1,831.00 (!!!) was donated. Our sincere thanks go out to all who gave so generously. One-hundred percent of these donations will be used to aid Ukrainians suffering as a result of Vladimir Putin's illegal and immoral invasion of Ukraine; food, shelter, medicine, water, heating, transportation, etc. will be provided to those in need because of the war. Parenthetically, our club has now sponsored three benefit recitals for Ukraine, in which a total of nearly $3,600.00 (!!!) have been donated. If the war continues (as we fear it will), God willing, our club will be sponsoring additional benefit concerts in the future.

June 2022 News Update

June 16, 2022

The Woodbridge Music Club's sponsored concert featuring Ukrainian pianist Liana Paniyeva on June 4, 2022, was an outstanding success. The audience was treated to a marvelous performance by this phenomenal pianist. Impressively, $1,153.00 were donated by our audience for the aid of war-torn Ukraine. Many thanks for the generosity of all who contributed! Additionally, the Woodbridge Music club arranged for Liana to repeat this same program on June 5 for Franconia United Methodist Church; an additional six hundred dollars were donated for the aid of Ukraine at that concert, bring the total for the two concerts to $1,753.00. One hundred percent of these donations are being utilized by the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) to assist Ukrainians with food, water, medicine, clothing, shelter, and transportation.

Our club is now on its traditional summer break. Our next meeting, which will kick off our 2022-2023 season, will be on Thursday, September 22, at 7:30 PM (per our recent vote). In the meantime, I would welcome your feedback, suggestions, etc.

Reminder: the postmark deadline for submitting applications is July 15 (see the membership application form for details).

The NFMC Conference in Indianapolis, Indiana is underway, and will continue through June 18. For those of you who might be interested in what goes on at a NFMC Conference, here is an invitation to and summery of this year's events. The NFMC Conference is a spectacular biennial event which is open to all, and which takes place in a different city every two years.

Our next WMC Zoom meeting will be on Thursday, September 21, at 7:30 PM.

Our October Zoom meeting will be at noon, on Thursday, October 20.

Our next WMC sponsored concert will be in November of 2022, and will feature fabulous concert pianist Marianna Prjevalskaya. Further details will soon be forthcoming.