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Jonathan Chan Joins Vam Faculty Vam Alumnus Returns to Vancouver After Making a Mark in the United Kingdom (P SPRING 2017 APPASSIONATO JONATHAN CHAN JOINS VAM FACULTY VAM ALUMNUS RETURNS TO VANCOUVER AFTER MAKING A MARK IN THE UNITED KINGDOM (P. 3) ArielKOERNER Barnes takes position Alumnus Jonathan Lisa Amini redefines at Nuremberg Symphony Braunstein reflects on Judith creativity and breaks barriers Orchestra (p. 5) Fraser’s ongoing teaching with Brain Boosters program RECITALlegacy (p. 8) HALL(p. 12) TRANSFORMED YOUR PARTICIPATION CAN MEAN $1 MILLION VANCOUVER ACADEMY OF MUSIC 1270 Chestnut Street Vancouver, BC, V6J 4R9, Canada t. 604. 734. 2301 f. 604. 731. 1920 [email protected] l www.vam.ca BOARD OF TRUSTEES The Hon. Yuen Pau Woo, Chair Raymond Dong , Vice Chair Ian MacIntosh, Immediate Past Chair Monique Wilberg, Treasurer Sandra Campbell Henry Lee Abdul Pirbhai Rona Radler Suzanne Scott Norman Tsang Eric Wilson Honorary Trustees: Alex Drennan S. K. Lee R. Michael Shields Gordon W. Young VAM CHAIR YUEN PAU WOO APPOINTED ADMINISTRATION Joseph Elworthy, Executive Director TO SENATE OF CANADA Cecilia Ng, Administrative Director Gloria Wong, Director of Development The Vancouver Academy of Music would like to congratulate Board Chair & International Relations Yuen Pau Woo on his appointment in November 2016 to the Senate of Canada. Elaine Lee, Controller Pau, whose four children are VAM alumni, has been associated with VAM Nicole Hurst, Registrar Daniel Marshall, Marketing & for the past 14 years, served on our Board for the last four, and has been its Communications Manager Chair since the Fall 2014. During his term, there have been so many exciting Marsha Bahador & Adam Junk, developments at VAM as he and the Board continue to work closely with Front Office Administrators James Oh, Building Manager Joseph Elworthy, the faculty, and staff to provide high-quality music education Jacqueline Leggatt, Librarian / to the community. All the best from the VAM community, Pau! Orchestra Manager Tony Previté, Shop Manager Ruth Enns, College Registrar Tanya Spagnol, Assistant to the We acknowledge the financial support of the Province of British Columbia and the College Program following partners: Delia Visscher, Community Outreach Ambassador APPASSIONATO Barbara Dominik, Writer/Editor 2 STRINGS, COVERS, AND INFINITE SOUL VAM alumnus Jonathan Chan crafts a musical career in the Social Media Age school garnered him recognition by the Worshipful Company of Musicians and “The music business has changed. he was awarded with their distinguished Silver Medal. The marketing was a learning curve for us. Social media is “I was playing strictly classical music huge. If you want to get yourself up until three years ago. London is very out there, you can’t be afraid to competitive; there are a lot of classical do anything.” -Jonathan Chan musicians, so I started expanding. I taught for quite a bit, and then I started doing work in areas like jazz, pop, and session work backing vocalists. Then I started a group with one of my best I’ve been teaching you wrong for three friends who I’ve known since I was 12, years. Now this is what we’re going to Jan Bislin. He was at VAM as well; do: you’re going to do a master’s degree he quit playing for a few years, but I and you are going to do whatever you pulled him back in. He is at Guildhall want to do, but you have to convince now, just finishing his last year. Jan is a me. If you can’t convince me, then you master improviser, really free with his are going to have to find another way.’ playing, whereas I came from a more “I WOULD SAY I GOT LUCKY. When I That really freed me up. I’ve only had strict classical background. There was went to Guildhall, I was 18. My teacher three teachers: David, Taras Gabora and an improvisation class at Guildhall, but there was David Takeno, and he was all Lawrie Hill, and I’ve learned so much it wasn’t until I started playing with about the music. My mom asked, ‘Will from those three. I’ve been very lucky.” Jan that I learned there is no such thing he do competitions?’ and he said ‘No, as ‘right’ and ‘wrong’, just how you you don’t learn music for the sake of Jonathan has just moved back to the transition, get out of things, enjoy and competing. That’s not music. If you West Coast after spending eight years embrace the clashes and dissonances. want to do that I’ll help you, but I don’t studying and working as a musician in We started doing covers [of pop songs] want to know about it.’ He got quite London. A graduate of the Guildhall just for fun, and then we went on discouraged during my second year, School of Music & Drama, he studied YouTube.” because I was still all ‘flash and dash’. violin with Professor Takeno and It wasn’t until he shone a light on the piano with Ms. Caroline Palmer. He The duo, under the name Momento, fact that this isn’t music that I realized obtained his Bachelor of Music Honours formed in 2013. They have performed that, while people can appreciate flash degree and Guildhall Artist Master of in the UK, North America, Switzerland, and dash, this will not get you very far; Performance degree, graduating with Germany and the Czech Republic. when people go to concerts, they want distinction in both disciplines while Branching out beyond classical music, to feel and imagine things. earning the Donald Weeks Memorial they explore the world of popular Prize for achieving the highest mark classics, rock, jazz, hip hop, pop and In the last year of my undergraduate in the Final Year Violin Recitals. In electronic music. studies, I applied for the Gold Medal addition to these honours, Jonathan Competition at Guildhall without was also chosen as one of three finalists “The music business has changed,” telling him. Even though I didn’t expect to perform in the Barbican Hall for says Jonathan. “The marketing was a to get far, I got to the final round. When the Guildhall School’s prestigious learning curve for us. Social media is he found out, he lectured me for about Gold Medal Competition, performing huge. If you want to get yourself out half an hour about why competitions Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto with there, you can’t be afraid to do anything. are not important. Then during the James Judd and the Guildhall Symphony following lesson he said to me, ‘I realize Orchestra. His achievements while in (Continued p. 4) 3 VAM Alumnus member of winning quartet at Banff International String Quartet Competition IN SEPTEMBER OF 2016, the all- Academy of Music Performance Prize not been this level of enthusiasm for a Canadian Rolston Quartet, made up (a fully funded, four-week residency in chamber group as there has been in the of Luri Lee (1st violin), Jeffrey Dyrda Lunenburg, Nova Scotia providing the past two months for the Rolston String (2nd violin), Hezekiah Leung (viola) opportunity to work and perform with Quartet.” and Jonathan Lo (cello and former the academy’s distinguished faculty, to VAM student of Audrey Nodwell) create and present broad community The Rolston String Quartet’s winner’s took first place honours over a field of outreach programming, and to perform tour will include over 50 concerts in ten quartets from around the world to in its 1895 concert hall) Europe and North America in 2017 and win the prestigious Banff International 2018. The quartet has just completed String Quartet Competition (BISQC). In the BISQC 2016 newsletter, BISQC a tour of Germany that included The Rolston Quartet prevailed over Executive Director Barry Shiffman performances in Hamburg, Bremen, nine other quartets to take top honours. says, “Word is out that this quartet is Nuremberg, and Berlin. In March they HOT! Presenters are approaching us are scheduled to perform south of the The quartet were also awarded the saying ‘we want them’.” In the same border in Virginia, California, Texas, Esterházy Foundation Prize (a recital in publication, the Rolston Quartet’s and Washington, DC. Haydn Hall and the Esterházy Palace in manager for Canada Andrew Kwan Eisenstadt, Austria, including artist fee says, “In my 25 years as an artist and travel expenses) and the Lunenburg manager in this country, there has (Continued from p. 3) In college you are still told, ‘audition in the last two months. I’m living at We’ve had to market ourselves, read for orchestras and enter competitions if my mom’s place – I’ve turned our old articles, talk to people, YouTube, you want to be a soloist’. There should playroom into a music studio,” says Instagram, Facebook, Twitter. If you be more classes to help people market Jonathan. “We are in the middle of a go online and look at some of the themselves. The performance part transition. We’re called Momento, but performers, you’re baffled; how do they is never a problem for most classical that name is too common. If you make have a million views, over a hundred musicians, but the marketing has it difficult for people to find you, they thousand subscribers, when there are become more than 50% of what I do. aren’t going to look for you – another 14-year-olds at VAM who can play as I would much rather go out for a walk, lesson that we learned.” So together well or better? They just really know but you have to do it.” with the music creation, the duo has how to work social media. They blog, some work to do rebranding. get people to blog about them, share on At the moment, Jonathan and Jan so many digital media.
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