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MUSICAL TRAINING:
- Diploma in Piano, Centro Escolar Conservatory of Music,
Manila, Philippines
- Principal teacher: Prof. Leoncia Conchu, to whom Bragin feels indebted for whatever technical facilty she continues to have despite her ventures into the field of chemical education.
- Degree obtained at age of 16. Bragin was allowed to take college level music courses while a high school student. By the time she graduated from high school at age 15, she had only one year's worth of college level music courses to complete in order to earn her degree.
- Graduation recital: an all-Chopin recital
consisting of the 24 Preludes; Nocturne in B-flat minor,
Op. 9, No.1; Etude in F minor, Op. 10, No. 9; Waltz in A
flat, Op. 34, No. 1; Mazurka in G sharp minor, Op. 33,
No. 1; Polonaise in A flat, Op. 53; and the Concerto No.
1 in E minor with full orchestra accompaniment.
- M.Mus.Ed., University of South Carolina, Columbia
- Principal teachers: John Kenneth Adams and John Williams
- Graduation recital: Bach's Partita No. 5
in G; Schumann's Sonata in G minor, Op. 22; three Préludes
by Debussy (Brouillards, Bruyères, Les Tierces
Alternées), Prokofiev's Sonata No. 3, Op. 28 in A
minor. (Note: Although Bragin's main interest was in piano
performance, the university did not have a graduate level
performance program at the time she was at the university;
hence, her graduate degree in music education.)
- Completed courses and performance requirements leading to
the degree of Doctor of Musical Arts, major in Piano Performance,
University of Southern California, Los Angeles
- Principal teachers: Professors John Crown,
Lillian Steuber, James Bonn. (Interruptions in her studies
due to temporary relocation to Northern California,
the arrival of two children and her subsequent involvement
in volunteer work at the San Marino public schools. It was her
decision not to complete the degree.)
- Principal teachers: Professors John Crown,
Lillian Steuber, James Bonn. (Interruptions in her studies
due to temporary relocation to Northern California,
the arrival of two children and her subsequent involvement
in volunteer work at the San Marino public schools. It was her
decision not to complete the degree.)
- Other coaches who
contributed to her musical growth.
- Prof. Tait Sanford-Barrows, University of Wisconsin
- Prof. Aiko Onishi, Emeritus Professor at San Jose State University
- The late Frank Mannheimer