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Keeping it Cool at Oclef Evergreen! ☀️

Oclef teamJun 13, 2022 Parent, Student, The Kai Report No Comments

Keeping it Cool at Oclef Evergreen! ☀️

Happy Summer Everyone, I’m Kailani, and we’re back again with another Kai Report! 🙂 For the first time since the pandemic, Oclef Evergreen is opening its doors to students for our Piano Summer Day Camp! From now until August 5th, Oclef students...

Changing the System with Aaron Jackson

Oclef teamApr 19, 2022 Music Education Advocacy, The Kai Report No Comments

Changing the System with Aaron Jackson

Music Education Advocacy, The Kai Report

Hello again everyone! I’m Kailani, and this is the Kai Report 🙂 This past month, I got to interview Aaron Jackson, another one of our wonderful S1 Professors here at Oclef. During middle school, his family moved from Pennsylvania to North Carolina,...

The Tale of Dr. Glenda the Great!

Oclef teamMar 15, 2022 The Kai Report No Comments

The Tale of Dr. Glenda the Great!

The Kai Report

Hey everyone! I’m Kailani, and this is The Kai Report 🙂 For today’s feature, I got to hang out with Dr. Glenda Bates, one of Oclef’s amazing Stage 1 piano professors. She arrived at Oclef as an Oboe performer and multi-instrumentalist, but has...

Annndd We’re Live with The Kai Report!

Oclef teamFeb 22, 2022 The Kai Report No Comments

Annndd We’re Live with The Kai Report!

The Kai Report

Hey everyone! I’m Kailani, and this is the Kai Report 🙂 Who are you and what have you done with the Oclef Blog?! Little bit about me, I’m a second year Psychology student at UCLA, and I’ve worked with Oclef for almost a year and a half! For...

Happy Father’s Day Pt. 2

Oclef teamJun 21, 2021 Parent, Student, What is Oclef? No Comments

There’s a quote that states “To the world, you are a dad. To our family, you are our world.” To Oclef, you are our support – we can’t thank all of our parents (including the fathers) enough! Over the weekend, numerous families celebrated...

Meet a Winning Composer and Student: Naman

Oclef teamJun 01, 2021 Student No Comments

When people think of piano composers, the big names come to mind: Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin, etc. The works of these famous composers tend to intimidate pianists from composing themselves – what can I possibly compose that would compare? After all,...