Tuesday, November 12, 2013
Monday, November 11, 2013
Jessica Livianu wins prestigious Ojay Tennis Tournament April 2013
Sunday,
April 28, 20013,
Press Release for Jessica Livianu
For Immediate Release
Contact:
David Livianu
david@livianu.com
718.627.4049.
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I
am delighted to provide you with a little background on our daughter (Jessica Livianu) and her family;
Jessica won the prestigious Ojai Valley Junior Tournament (2B) 113th, Girls 16s, Singles. Jessica was not a seeded player and beat
the #1 seed, Seira Shimichi, in the semi-finals, 6-4, 7-6 (3), and Ryan Peus,
the #7 seed in the final, 6-3, 6-3.
Jessica started
playing tennis at 3 years old, chasing balls on the public tennis courts of
Brooklyn, NY, while her mother, Bulgarian-born Bogdana (Bogie) Romanska), was teaching high performance tennis to junior
players, including Gail Brodsky (twice
winner of the Ojai tournament) .
Her mother, Bogie, is also Jessica’s full time tennis coach, since she
was 5 years old.
Jessica Livianu, just turned
15 in February, and comes from tennis and music royalty; her mother Bogie is
a former WTA player, ranked as high as 189 in the world in the late 1980s. Her
grandparents, Vladimir and Elena Romansky were both Bulgarian National Tennis
champions.
Her father, David Livianu,
is a Romanian-born Juilliard Graduate, the son of a famous Romanian-Jewish
crooner in the 1930s, Dorel Livianu.
Jessica Livianu finished #1
in both the 12s and 14s USTA Eastern, NY State, and as high as #7 in National
12s and #13 in National 14s in the USA.
Jessica has worked for the
past 4 months with elite Bulgarian coach Ognian Katzarov, at the
Jessica Livianu wants to
turn pro but also get a solid education at Harvard; she understands that the
road to success is paved with serious challenges, but is determined to work
hard and smart with her number 1 supporter, her mother-coach Bogie. Jessica has a lot of support from her #1
fan, her brother Jacob 12, who plays junior tennis and is an avid skateboarder.
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Monday, May 9, 2011
Every Child Has The Right To A Free Music Education!
Press Release
For Immediate Release.
Contact
David Livianu
Every Child Has The Right To A Free Music Education!
May 2011 – Juilliard Graduate Offers For FREE On YouTube His 18 Hour Ear-Training Course For Young Musicians Around The World Who Want To Develop Perfect Pitch.
Romanian-born New Yorker David Livianu has just completed a monumental ear-training manual for young musicians; it contains 32 lessons with over 1,700 pages of sheet music and more than 18 hours of pre-recorded audio & video sing along exercises. 300 pages of theoretical analysis is included in the enhanced version, which includes the printable sheet music.
Livianu challenges the myth that “Perfect Pitch” is a genetic gift and sets out to prove that anyone who practices these exercises diligently can succeed. His belief is that “Learning Music Starts with Singing” and “Dedicated Practice Makes Perfect” no matter what type of music you learn. David Livianu draws on over 45 years of music experience and has set out to make this material available to children around the world with the help of YouTube.
Mr. Livianu is a native of Romania , born in 1955, and holds a Masters in Music from the Juilliard School
David Livianu was featured on 20/20 with Barbara Walters for his humanitarian work with older orphans in Eastern Europe; in 1994 Livianu published the 1st international adoption guide to the countries of Eastern Europe , 3 volumes, 2,800 pages.
Livianu’s ambitious project is called “i-Learn Music, 4 Free”, and contains 2 parts; volume 1 “i-Learn Perfect Pitch, 4 Free” (released) and volume 2 “i-Learn 2 Sight-Sing, 4 Free” (soon).
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Thursday, March 10, 2011
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” - Aristotle
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” - Aristotle
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