FCC's Collegiate Chapter of the Music Teacher National Association named 2024 Chapter of the Year

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Music students astatine Fresno City College are getting a caput commencement connected their teaching careers.

Their hard enactment and dedication person present earned them nationalist recognition.

Kevin Soto is successful his last semester astatine Fresno City College.

A euphony for transportation student, he's presently auditioning astatine four-year universities to proceed his education.

He's been capable to support himself afloat acknowledgment to what helium has learned astatine FCC.

"I met Dr. Brandon Bascom and helium said 'Come articulation my soft teaching people truthful you tin marque immoderate money.' and I was like, there's nary way," Soto said.

He took a people connected however to thatch euphony and landed his archetypal authoritative teaching position.

"I started teaching astatine Steinway and realized I truly similar teaching," Soto said.

Soto credits FCC Piano Instructor Brandon Bascom for encouraging him to instrumentality the people and helping him onshore a occupation astatine the Steinway Piano Gallery of Fresno.

Bascom says teaching was important successful his ain life, and helium knew it could person an interaction connected his students.

"It's truly neat to spot kids that didn't cognize that they could bash this and spot that they person thing that they tin stock and that they tin enactment themselves doing," Bascom said.

Bascom launched the Collegiate Chapter of Music Teachers National Association, oregon MTNA connected FCC's field to guarantee students had the champion resources and entree to the latest trends.

Soto is present the section president.

The radical has been capable to survey overseas and execute successful places similar Italy.

A full of 12 students person landed teaching jobs astatine Steinway to enactment themselves and motorboat their teaching careers.

They're giving backmost to their assemblage by hosting play soft lessons to classified unit astatine FCC.

Bascom says that benignant of enactment stands retired to the MTNA.

"They look for an progressive section that's doing things and reaches retired to their community," Bascom said.

The hard enactment and dedication paid disconnected erstwhile FCC was named co-recipient with Indiana University arsenic the 2024 MTNA Collegiate Chapter of the Year.

"Indiana University, those Big 10 schools, Michigan, Iowa, Indiana, we're doing the aforesaid happening astatine Fresno City College," Bascom said.

Soto says helium was amazed by the designation and the value of the grant hasn't rather sunk in.

"It is specified a large award, and I don't deliberation you recognize however large of an grant it is until you're determination receiving it and seeing each the radical there," Soto said.

They won't person to hold overmuch longer to person the award.

They volition beryllium formally recognized during a peculiar ceremonial Tuesday successful Atlanta, Georgia astatine the yearly MTNA Conference.

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