2026-27 Programs
When: 2nd Friday of the month September through May. Programs will be starting at 10:30 – 11:30 AM.
Where: At Calliope Music Studios, 2600 S Parker Rd., Bldg 7 #170, Aurora, CO 80016
AMTA is happy to welcome interested guests. If you would like to attend one of our programs, please join us.
September 11,2026 – June Haun “Magic of Melody…Schenker Analysis – What is Melody?
What is melody? And how can we play this according to composer’s intention? There are many aspects and conditions that affect the shape of a melody. We can look at a piece of music from the view of melodic interplay throughout the piece. Heinrich Schenker reduced an entire piece of music to an ürsatz through deducing melodic lines to a few core notes. He analyzed levels of middle ground to a final 3, 5 or 7 notes as an Ürsatz. These structural melodic notes are buried within neighboring tones. Looking at an x-ray of the melodic line, one can gain more confidence in understanding music.
October 9, 2026 – Joni Anderson “Copyright”
November 13, 2026 – AMTA members Ach. Day Prep.
At LDS Dorado Church, 21750 E. Dorado Ave, Aurora, CO 80015
December 11, 2025 – AMTA members HolidAMTA
Self-induced holiday fun with potluck and performances!
January 8 , 2027– TBD
February 12, 2027– AMTA Homegrown: Password or Bingo
March 12, 2027 – TBD
April 9, 2027 – Tristan Hudson “Life and Works of Nikolai Kapustin”
May 14,2027 – May Luncheon
June Haun
June Haun began her studies in music and piano from an early age, studying hard and overcoming impoverished conditions in South Korea before relocating to the United States.
After obtaining her undergraduate degree from University of Colorado, Boulder in Piano Performance, then later her Master of Music from University of Northern Colorado, she opened her first piano studio over 35 years ago in Greeley, Colorado. The success of this first studio led to her expanding to the Denver area, where she has been teaching for nearly 15 years.
June continues to refine and strengthen her teaching skills through studies, and has presented multiple workshops about her holistic approach to piano. She also focuses on her own growth as a pianist, often playing with the local orchestra and in concerts. Her students have won many state competitions and performed with local orchestras, and over the years she has produced many music lovers who have either gone on to study in college or have found other ways to incorporate music into their lives.
June Haun has been teaching piano for over 40 years in Colorado. In the early years of her career, she shared her time between piano performance and pedagogy, before focusing exclusively on teaching for the last 20 years.
She has a unique methodology which has allowed her to develop strong bonds with her students and their families both as a teacher and personally. Her students are recognized as award winners of state and national competitions.
Given the modern distractions of 21st century, young students don’t have the same exposure to the world that past generations had. As such, June’s primary interest is for her students to promote and develop a deep connection with life through music. With this view, she is venturing into giving workshops and presentations to share her ideas and experiences.
Tristan Hudson
My name is Tristan Hudson and I’ve been a resident of Denver since 2020. I’m 43 and originally from Chula Vista, CA, a suburb of San Diego near the Mexican border. My grandmother and father were musicians, and as a kid, they encouraged me to play in marching, jazz and pop bands as I went through school. Through those experiences, I learned to play a number of different instruments, but I’ve always primarily been a pianist, having been taught the basics by my grandmother as soon as I was tall enough to reach the keys.
Over the years, I’ve studied performance, theory and music production under various teachers and mentors in both the US and Japan, and am currently studying composition under the guidance of Grace Christus, writing mostly short-form pieces in a variety of styles and instrumentations. I perform a couple of times a year with a small jazz group called “The Swingin’ Tails” based out of San Jose, CA, and still enjoy practicing and playing solo piano music in my free time. I focus mostly on pieces ranging from Baroque to mid 20th-century, and am primarily drawn to the works of Domenico Scarlatti, JS Bach, Franz Liszt, Moritz Moszkowski, Maurice Ravel, Alexander Scriabin, Sergei Rachmaninoff and Nikolai Kapustin. I’m also equally familiar with a broad swath of the traditional piano repertoire, and enjoy exploring the works of lesser-known or niche composers whose music often remains underperformed and underappreciated.