This past week four of VAM’s senior students, Albert Seo, Olivia Cho, Grace Sohn and Jack Li advanced to the national finals of the Canadian Music Competition. This year the national finals will be held in Sherbrooke, Quebec from June 18 to July 2nd. Albert, Olivia and Grace are cello students of Joseph Elworthy, and Jack is a clarinet student of Cris Inguanti.
Congratulations to these four and to all of our students who participated in the CMC preliminaries!
Bottom row (L to R): Albert Seo, Olivia Cho, Grace Sohn; top row: Joseph Elworthy
VAM also held the 30th annual Elsje de Ridder Armstrong Chamber Music Festival this past Friday, April 5th. Over 8 groups from VAM’s CMI program participated for an absolutely stunning evening of chamber music to a packed Koerner Recital Hall audience. They also competed for 8 tuition scholarships from a number of supporting groups and generous donors. This year’s festival was adjudicated by David Gillham, professor of Violin at the UBC School of Music. Here are the winning groups and their scholarship prizes:
Alina Khvatova, violin; Madeline Hocking, violin; On-You Lee, viola; Nicholas Denton-Protsack, cello – Wallerstein & Van de Velde Scholarship
Hee Soon Yoon, violin; Angela Kim, cello; Sharon Yang, piano – Elsje de Ridder Armstrong Memorial Scholarship
Brian Kang, clarinet; Nicole Chung, cello; Claire Lee, piano – Iby Koerner Memorial Scholarship
Sophia Cho, violin; Olivia Cho, cello; Catherine Wang, piano – Eugenia & Evelyn Lawrence Memorial Scholarship
Vivian Liu, violin; Ray Han, horn; Aydan Con, piano – Provincial Chapter, I.O.D.E. Scholarship
Vivian Liu, violin; Emily Ahn, cello; Aydan Con, piano – Josephine Walton Scholarship
Jenny An, violin; Marko Miletic, viola; Grace Sohn, cello; Victoria Lui, piano – VAM Scholarship
Kathy Chen, violin; Brendan Ling, violin; Zachary Levin, viola; Albert Seo, cello; Candice Chiu, piano – VAM Scholarship
All 26 participants of the CMI Festival with adjudicator David Gillham, CMI Director Andrew Dawes and VAM ED Joseph Elworthy!
Congratulations to all who participated and to those awesome coaches and teachers who made all of this happen!
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