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Marie

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About Me



I am a student at Cal State Fullerton majoring in music education. I am a senior, 4th year, and I am in Wind Ensemble, Jazz Ensemble, Orchestra and Percussion Ensemble. I also teach high school drumline, and help out percussion section at middle school. I am also doing Santa Clara Vanguard this summer! Music is my life... That is who I am. I was born in Japan then I moved to So Cal when I was about 10 yrs old. People usually tell me that I am always smiling and happy.... am I??

My Interests

Music, Music, Music! Drum and Bugle Corps, teaching, conducting, playing basketball, tennis, going to movie, hanging out at the beach, disneyland, talking with my friends, coffee

Music:

ooooo too many. Classical-Debussy, Ravel, Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin Wind Ensemble- Grainger, Reed, Shostakovich, Perschetti Percussion- lots of marimba solos, safri duos, africana circle Broadway- RENT, Phantom of the Opera, Les Miserable, Lion King, 42nd Street Drum Corps Jazz- Terry Gibbs, Big Phat Band, Quincy Jones Orchestra, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis J-Pop- Chemistry, Dreams Come True, Orange Range, Hirai Ken, Naotaro Moriyama, Kiroro Alt.- Maroon 5, Life House, Incubus I listen to some hip hop, R&B, pop.

Movies:

Rent!!, Sleepless in Seattle, You've Got Mail, Catch Me If You Can, Back To The Future, Doraemon movies, the Incredibles, Finding Neemo, Totoro, Kiki's Delivery, Laputa, Naushika

Heroes:

Parents, my older siblings, great friends, all my professors and instructors that impacted me(from my private classical piano teacher, all my college professors, all my drum corps teachers, co-workers, co-players at college and drum corps and more ). Also, Leigh Howard Stevens, Nancy Zeltsman, Mitchell Peters, Safri Duo, Nanae Mimura, Keiko Abe, Christopher Norton, Terry Gibbs and many more professional players that are amazing!

My Blog

Best of 2006

can't believe 2006 is almost over.  ... so many amazing things happend.  i hope everybody had a great year too. Best of 2006: 1.  Vanguard!!!!  all the camps, tour, PASIC just...
Posted by Marie on Mon, 01 Jan 2007 07:04:00 PST

Happy Holidays everybody!

Happy Thanksgiving everybody!! Hopefully everybody is chillaxin at home.  I've been practicin a lot and it has been pretty productive!! Yay!! I have been seeing Xico and Murphy like everybod...
Posted by Marie on Fri, 24 Nov 2006 07:26:00 PST

my last SCV moment

Came back from an amazing weekend that honestly I didn't want to come back...  Thursday night we all met up and rehearsed our show and everybody was laughing the whole entire time.  I can't ...
Posted by Marie on Sun, 12 Nov 2006 08:22:00 PST

PASIC

6 more days till PASIC!!!  can't wait...   I finally get to see my friends from the summer!!  I missed my SCV waaaaaaaay too much.  I can't even wait to perform that amazing s...
Posted by Marie on Sat, 04 Nov 2006 10:29:00 PST

back

Well, I'm finally back from 2 tours and i'm home.  This summer was one of my best experience of my life.  I will always treasure all my memories I spent with SCV and wind ensemble....
Posted by Marie on Sun, 20 Aug 2006 07:59:00 PST

7 more days!

7 more days and I am on tour!!! wow!! sooooooo exciting. 1 more concert, 1 more jury, 3 more finals, and 4 more papers! ahhhhh!  and I am going to Korea soooo that means I will not be home till ...
Posted by Marie on Fri, 19 May 2006 09:24:00 PST

Evelyn Glennie

I had one of the amazing weekend.  All the stress we went through, everything was worth it.  She was so awesome.  And the fact that she is a true musician and she is a wonderful person ...
Posted by Marie on Tue, 11 Apr 2006 06:58:00 PST

Sprink Break

So I can definitely say that I had one of my best spring break ever.  Nor Cal was sooooo much fun. No traffic, hardly ever see a tow truck, or accident on the freeway.  Best of all I got to ...
Posted by Marie on Tue, 04 Apr 2006 10:37:00 PST

Concert

da da da dummm!!! (Fate!)  Wind Ensemble CONCERT DAY! today: Redline, Blue Shades, Give Us This Day, Vintage Rennaisance, Journey to this Day, March of the Parachuttes... Redline, Maslanka, and K...
Posted by Marie on Sat, 18 Mar 2006 07:05:00 PST

Big Phat Band

ooooooo my gosh!  eric m. can definitely play the funky music white boy.  they were amazing (it's my second time watching them and they are so cool!!!) i also met someone from high school th...
Posted by Marie on Sun, 12 Mar 2006 10:31:00 PST