PRESIDENT | Donna Kay Whited |
VICE PRESIDENT | Sunny Wu |
SECRETARY | Chia-Chi (Ola) Chang |
TREASURER | Beth Mailand |
HISTORIAN | TBA |
ABOUT OUR PRESIDENT, Giulia Gaglioti Askins
Education
- Diploma Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia - Rome, Italy.
- Piano Performance
- San Jose State University, B.A in Piano Performance
- George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
- Nuova Consonanza, Rome, Italy
- University of Maryland, College Park, MD
- Graduate work in Pedagogy and Piano Performance at SJSU, San Jose, CA
- Member of VMTA, NVMTA, FMC, American College of Musicians
- Adjudicator for NVMTA and Piano Guild Auditions.
- Chairperson for the Burke, VA Piano Guild Center since 2009
- Member of Springfield Music Club since 2017
- Maestro Giuseppe Scotese, Faculty, St. Cecilia Conservatory, Founder and director of Nuova Consonanza. First to record the piano sonatas of Giovanni Benedetto Platti.
- Prof. Aiko Onishi, author of “Pianism” - Faculty, San Jose State University, CA
- Dr. Larissa Dedova, University of Maryland, Adjudicator Kapell Piano competition
- She has performed and maintained piano studios in Tripoli, Libya; Monterey, California; Berlin, Germany, independently and officially for the United States Commander of Berlin (USCOB), to create a music program for the children of American personnel; and Rome, Italy, her country of origin.
- For the last 25 years she has made her home in Northern Virginia where she has a thriving full time teaching studio. Many of her former piano students have received awards and honors and continued their music studies at Julliard, James Madison University, Boston Conservatory and others.
- Besides teaching, Ms. Askins has enjoyed Opera Coaching (Italian opera in particular) in Monterey, California, for the students of noted baritone and former professor of voice at the Moscow State School of Theatre, maestro Simeon Tregubov, and more recently in Northern Virginia.
- Music, Martial Arts and Languages.
PAST PRESIDENTS OF SPRINGFIELD MUSIC CLUB -
*Alice Leestma, 1964-1966 | Linda D. Lind, 1987-1989 |
*Borgny Ostby, 1966-1968 | Linda Thomason,1989-1991 |
Joy Harvey, 1968-1969 | Anita Renfroe, 1991-1992 |
*Frances Barnes, 1969-1971 | Mary Kay Plath, 1992-1994 |
Pat Hardison Lotane, 1971-1973 | Catherine French, 1994-1996 |
*Norma Ramberg, 1973-1975 | Susan Curtis, 1996-1997 |
Marjorie Gloyd, 1975-1977 | Debra Gunnerson, 1997-1999 |
Mae Stefano Mather, 1977-1978 | Dottie Turner 1999-2001 |
*Patricia A. Huff, 1978-1980 | Mary Kay Plath, 2001-2003 |
JoAnne Conner, 1980-1981 | Marcia B. Chaplin, 2003-2007 |
Toby Rotman, 1981-1983 | Audrey Peterbark Ross, 2007-2009 |
*Hilde Greene, 1983-1985 | Cindy Abernathy, 2009-2013 |
Patricia P. Boots, 1985-1987 | Tonya Plinsky, 2013-2015 |
Susan Maher, 2015-2017 |
* deceased
Life Members of VFMC
Patricia P. Boots
Marcia Chaplin
Linda D. Lind
Mary Kay Plath
Linda Thomason