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YOUNG MINNEAPOLIS MUSICIAN TAKES THE STAGE AT YAMAHA JAMBOREE —Students and Teachers to Gather in Bloomington for Jamboree Concert— BLOOMINGTON, MN (June 17, 2001)--Students and teachers from Yamaha Music Education System (YMES) schools around the country enjoyed a celebration of music at the Yamaha Jamboree 2001, held on June 2 at Hotel Sofitel in Bloomington. Eight-year-old Aaron Wang, representing the Children's Yamaha Music School in Minneapolis, played his piano composition, "The Story of the Baby Birds."
The Jamboree Concert featured 16 YMES students from the United States performing their own original music compositions, solo repertoire and a keyboard ensemble. YMES is a global network of schools located in more than 40 countries. Students study under Yamaha's proven instructional methods, using the same textbooks and following the same curriculum, which stresses that children must not merely learn how to play instruments, but must also learn how to study music. More than one million YMES students worldwide are eligible to participate in the Yamaha Junior Original Concert (JOC) program, which gives young musicians a chance to perform their own original compositions in a concert setting. Many of the young artists performing at the Bloomington Jamboree have participated in JOC. For more information about the Yamaha Music Education System, please write Yamaha Corporation of America, Music Education Division, P.O. Box 6600, Buena Park, CA 90622-6600; call (800) 722-8856; or visit www.yamaha.com/musiced/newmusiced.
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