Last Friday, students performed at Chamber Music OC in Lake Forest on their beautiful 9’ Steinway grand piano for our first Themed Recital, “Sets of Music.” (See representative photos at bottom.) 

Wow! Some students played two songs or pieces, some students played many more (one student played 12 short songs, from memory, including knowing the set list from memory). Many were short songs and pieces, some were longer, including a few masterworks.

Our hearts long for a calming of the firestorms that continue to devastate Los Angeles and other nearby California counties. We hope and pray that everyone here is safe and healthy. I know many of us have family and friends who are experiencing this closeup. Some have had to go up there to help their families. Please let us know if there is anything we can do to help in some way.

We hope everyone has had a wonderful holiday season
and a Happy New Year! Here’s to a prosperous, joyous, and musical 2025!

Happy Friday!

We hope everyone who celebrates has had a Merry Christmas, a Happy Hanukkah, a wonderful holiday season, and is looking forward to a Happy New Year!

Congratulations to our CPT performers! We were a small but mighty group this past Sunday in San Juan Capistrano!

A special thank you to Maryam,who sang three beautiful arias! It is a joy to accompany her at the piano and while she sings.

A warm and spirited Congratulations and Thank You to all our wonderful winter performers and their marvelous teachers!
We successfully completed four recitals over two days and two venues (November 27 in Laguna Hills, and December 8 in Mission Viejo). Almost 80 students and teachers performed for us!

We look forward to seeing many of you at our second session of “Christmas & The Holiday Season” Recitals, this Sunday, December 8th!

In January, we are hosting our first Theme Recital (“Sets of Music”). Please see below for more information. To request to sign up for this recital, which includes an audition (but not a scary one!), please complete this form online here.

Happy (Black) Friday!

We hope you all had a Happy Thanksgiving, and a restful weekend after Thanksgiving so far! And maybe you secured a good Black Friday deal or two? 🙂🎵

CPT Represents!

Our third Concert Performance Team recital is on 11/17/2024, 2:00pm, at Palm Terrace Healthcare & Rehab Center in Laguna Hills. CPT proudly represents our music studio!

Signups for our Christmas & The Holiday Season Recitals are underway!

Remember, recitals are one of the best ways to enjoy the music students are learning. Making music with other musicians and for a friendly audience offers many personal rewards and satisfactions, and encourages students to prepare, plan, and practice!

Christmas & The Holiday Season Recitals
Now accepting sign-up requests!

Studio recitals at the Dennis Frayne Music Studios strive to be joyful, fun, collaborative, tension-free, rewarding, social, music-making events, and not anxiety-laden, pass-fail-succeed-bomb, once-a-year, high-stakes assessments!