📍 2121 N California Blvd Ste 290 C/o Gsa Ste 290 C/o Gsa, Walnut Creek, CA, 94596
📞 510-859-3149
CAL Diving Club (yes, U.C. Berkeley) was launched in July of 2013 as an athletic club devoted to springboard diving and platform diving (5m, 7.5m, 10m), as in "swimming and diving" (not scuba). Springboard diving is a safe and fun sport offering both physical and mental skill-building elements. Our coaching staff has thousands of hours as competitive divers and diving coaches at every level – from Elite, Junior Olympic, and Olympic levels too youth age-group and adult/Masters first-time divers. We are very proud of the talent, experience, and teaching methodologies offered by all of our coaches and staff ~ www.CALdiving.org/coaches.html CAL Diving Club is sanctioned by both national governing bodies of our sport; the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) and USA Diving. Legendary names like Greg Louganis and more recently Troy Dumais are icons in society; based in-part on their skills as divers ~ you’ve watched it during the Olympics, you’ve seen the hit TV show “Splash” – now you, your child/ren, or both, can fly through the air with the greatest of ease. The art and grace of springboard diving dates back to the 17th century and was added to the Olympics in 1904. The CAL Diving Club can coach you to new heights of confidence and self-reliance, along with the physical and mental strengths garnered by diving. All are welcome - from 8-98; the CAL Diving Club has a progressive program that will be tailored to match your starting skills and goals be you a beginner or an elite diver. CDC offers classes, private lessons, and are building competitive teams at every level - from age-group novice and Future Champions (both first-time/beginner programs); to Elite, Junior Olympic, High School, College, and Masters Diving opportunities. We utilize several pools and facilities in the area (the Acalanes High School Pool in Lafayette, Pleasant Hill Community Pool in Pleasant Hill, Soda Aquatic Center at Campolindo High School in Moraga - more on the way for Summer), so please check-out our website (www.CALdiving.org) for more information, including: days, times, fees, and facilities. Or, contact us via phone (510-859-3149), or email: BgrndInquiry@CALdiving.org. See you in the Air!!! Search Engine Notes: We serve the entire San Francisco, Bay Area and are located in several communities of the East Bay in Contra Costa County. Some of the nearby cities are: Alameda, Alamo, Antioch, Bay Point, Benicia, Berkeley, Blackhawk, Brentwood, Clayton, Concord, Danville, Discovery Bay, El Cerrito, Emeryville, Greenbrae, Hercules, Kensington, Lafayette, Martinez, Mill Valley, Moraga, Novato, Oakland, Oakley, Orinda, Pacheco, Piedmont, Pinole, Pittsburg, Pleasant Hill, Richmond, Rodeo, San Francisco, San Pablo, San Rafael, San Ramon, Sausalito, Vallejo, and Walnut Creek. Search Engine Keywords: aau, activities, activity, advanced, aerobic, aerobics, amateur, aquatic, aquatics, association, athlete, athletic, back, ballet, beginner, beginning, belt, board, boat, bounce, bungee, cal, camp, catamaran, certified, class, classes, cliff, clinic, club, coach, college, competition, condition, conditioning, cool-down, crash, dive, diving, diving board, double, education, elite, entry, epic, exercise, exercising, experience, extreme, fall, federation, fina, finish, fitness, flip, flop, flip-flop, front, fun, grammar, gainer, gymnastic, hand-spot, handspring, high school, intermediate, international, inward, ioc, jet ski, jetski, jo, jump, jumping, junior, kayak, landing, lesson, lessons, master, masters, mat, meet, meter, metre, middle, mini, nutrition, olympic, pad, paddle, pilates, pit, platform, polo, pool, pool diving, power, practice, rebound, recreation, redbull, red-bull, reverse, rig, rip, safety, sail, school, scuba, session, single, skate, skateboard, ski, smack, snow, somersault, splat, sport, spot, spotting, spring, springboard, stretch, summer, surf, swim, swimming, syncro, synchro, synchronize, tower, train, tramp, trampoline, triple, tumbling, tw
📍 4027 Lyman Rd, Oakland, CA, 94602
📞 510-697-3657
Amy’s Teaching Philosophy for Website 2015 My goals for students who take cello, piano or viola da gamba lessons at my Oakland, California studio include becoming independent musical thinkers and creative problem solvers who develop profound, meaningful, connected, expressive, committed execution of music, either written by a composer, or created by the performer. I grew up in Pennsylvania, in both Pittsburgh and Philadelphia at a time when all classrooms in public elementary schools had pianos, and teachers of all grades used them. My father, who was an amateur violinist/violist in the best sense of the word, was my first piano teacher. The legend has it that I played whatever he would play at the age of two. I do remember my first concert at the age of four for the Pittsburgh Piano Teachers Convention, where I played two of the Anna Magdalena Bach pieces. My grandfather was a member of the Philadelphia Orchestra violin section and was a founding member of the American Society of Ancient Instruments, and my great uncle who I never met as he died when I was three years old, was on the first faculty at the Curtis Institute of Music, premiered works with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra as a violin soloist by Ernst Bloch, and was one of the first Music Directors of the Carmel Bach Festival, with which I played in 1997. I began to play cello in the third grade in public school because they had too many violin students. I was enthralled to play cello, however, when I started private lessons in the fifth grade, I had many habits that needed to be changed because, however well meaning, I had learned cello from a violinist, and both my hands had acquired violin habits which are not suited to secure and efficient cello playing. Later on when I was studying thumb position, I encountered the frustration of trying to develop strength in my double-jointed thumb. Eventually I succeeded and it still serves me well. In Philadelphia, I studied cello with Orlando Cole and his assistant Metta Watts from the age of 10 until graduation from the Curtis Institute of Music in 1980. I transitioned to lessons exclusively with Mr. Cole by the time I was a sophomore in high school. Mr. Cole was so celebrated that when he died in 2010 at the age of 101, although he had lived his entire life in Philadelphia, there was a memorial concert for him in Oakland, for which I was invited along with 15 other cellists to perform. He taught me respect and reverence for music, not only cello music, but chamber, orchestral, and vocal music. He encouraged me to listen to Lieder or Art Songs. With my junior and high school friends, we also delved into Elizabethan Madrigal music and the great vocal works of Johann Sebastian Bach. I will never forget the day when Mrs. Watts took me to the Bethlehem Bach Festival where she and Mr. Cole were playing in the orchestra and reminded me to bring a score of the B minor Mass. She sat me down under the choir risers, hidden from the audience, and told me I could sing along if I chose to do so. What a day!