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Talent at 14 years old

Los Altos Town Crier September 10, 2003

Sue and Bob Larsen recently held a Cd release party for their 14-year-old jazz pianist friend, Yuma Sung, a Community School of Music and Arts merit scholar. The event, held at the Palo Alto Hills Country Club, featured a performance by The Yuma Sung Jazz Trio, with Sung at the piano. They played superb classical jazz music for 70 guests and friends of CSMA. Sung's debut CD is titled, "Looking Up."

There was excitement and delight when David Benoit and his wife came to support Sung. Benoit, a world-renowned jazz musician and composer treated the guests to a surprise performance!

Benoit said, "I am very proud to have had a small role in developing Sung's emerging career in jazz and hope that you will enjoy this gifted young artist who I believe, is destined to become one of the new fresh voices in jazz today."

Those interested in Sung's activities can view his Web site, www.websiteink.com/yuma/.

Also at the event, CSMA launched it's "Take a Seat" campaign, an opportunity to permanently engrave a plaque on a chair at Silicon Valley's first new regional 204-seat, state-of-the-art concert hall of the Center for Music and Arts Education. For more information, call 961-0342.