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Hitting the Right NotesMarch 15, 2004BY JULIE NAKASHIMACREJ Staff Writer Excerpted from the California Real Estate Journal As executive director of the Urban Land Institute's Los Angeles District Council, Susan L. Kamei brings a touch of class - as in Bach, Chopin, Brahms, Mendelssohn and Mozart - to the real estate industry in Southern California. Kamei is a classically trained pianist whose playing highlights include accompanying members of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Rio Hondo Symphony, the Los Angeles Master Chorale and the Los Angeles Opera. Kamei played competitively throughout high school in Orange County, and she is a three-time winner of the Orange County Musical Arts Club competition, an honors graduate of the Music Teachers Association of California Certificate of Merit program and five-time award winner in the association's Bach Festivals. ... Kamei said she majored in linguistics and Russian in college, not music. "I did consider being a music major, but I had many other interests as well," she said. "My father said to me, 'You know that you know how to play piano. Going to college is about discovering other things that you'd like to do and would be good at,' and encouraged me to go to law school." After completing her undergraduate studies at the University of California, Irvine, Kamei received her juris doctorate from the Georgetown University Law Center. She practiced corporate law with Paul Hastings Janofky & Walker and served as regional counsel for the now-defunct Mobil Land Development Corp. Kamei then went on to run the USC Lusk Center for Real Estate as executive officer. At various times, she also served as associate director of the USC Master of Real Estate Development Program and adjunct associate professor in the USC School of Policy, Planning and Development. Kamei, who was the Los Angeles District Council's founding executive director in 1999, still performs both as a soloist and as an accompanist when her Urban Land Institute and daughter's schedules permit. Whether one is developing a real estate project or playing the piano, she observed, the keys to success often are the same. ... | |
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