TCO will be on tour in Montreal on Friday, Mar. 26, 2010.

12 PM – 2:30 PM: La Grande-Place, Complexe Desjardins

7:00 – 8:30 PM: Montreal Chinese Community and Cultural Center

Free admission; first come first served

Chinese poster | French poster

Press release

Members of TCO will be introducing Chinese music to the Richmond Hill community.

When: Saturday, March 13, 2010, 6 PM
Where: Richmond Hill Christian Community Church, 9670 Bayview Avenue

To showcase the winning performance of our Piano Concerto Competition, we have chosen the following as the 2010 concert theme:

Ken Yang started studying piano with Meizhi Bi at the age of 8. After 2 years, he placed 3rd at the Canadian Music Competitions nationals held in Toronto. Aside from placing 1st at the CMC nationals in 2004, Ken has accumulated countless awards from local music competitions. He has played in masterclasses for Leon Fleisher, Jamie Parker, John Perry, Marc Durand, Lee Kum Sing, and Lang Lang, to name a few. He is an alumnus of the Morningside Music Bridge program in Calgary and Young Artists’ Performance Academy at the Glenn Gould School of Music, where he studied with James Anagnoson. Ken has enjoyed collaborations with the Cathedral Bluffs Symphony Orchestra and Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Recent choral engagements include performances of Mozart’s Magic Flute and Bach’s B minor Mass as part of collaborations between the TSO and the University of Toronto Macmillan Singers. In 2009, he was awarded the University of Toronto Excellence Award by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. Ken is in his fourth year of studies at the university, where he divides his time between the Music and Psychology departments.

林恩恩

多倫多中國舞蹈團、多倫多中國民族舞蹈學院創辦人。北京舞蹈學院中國舞考級中心資格教師、安省ＫＩＷＡＮＩＳ舞蹈節民族舞蹈顧問委員、安省舞蹈協會會員。多年來致力於推廣加拿大的中國舞蹈藝術、創作及教學工作。

Yan Lam

Toronto-based dancer, choreographer, and teacher of Chinese dance, who devoted many years promoting the art form in Canada. She is the founder and artistic director of the Toronto Chinese Dance Company and the Toronto Chinese Dance Academy, a certified Beijing Dance Academy CDE teacher, and former member of the Advisory Council for the Kiwanis Dance Festival.

For the first time in history the China Broadcasting Chinese Orchestra will travel to Canada. 90 talented musicians will take the stage at Roy Thomson Hall with the sound of over 30 types of traditional Chinese music instruments in the symphonic orchestra.

When: Friday, March 12, 2010, 8 pm
Where: Roy Thomson Hall

Click here for more information.

Congratulations to our erhu players, Wil and Amely, for placing second in the Kiwanis Music Festival non-Western string duet class.

Congratulations to Amely 周嘉丽 for placing first in the Kiwanis Music Festival. Her entry was for erhu in the non-Western, bowed string open class. She will be performing the award winning work Sanmen Gorge Rhapsody 三門峽暢想曲 at our May 15, 2010 concert.

自幼學習音樂，2001年考入深圳藝術學校，主修二胡，副修鋼琴。師從張雷，期間曾得到張尊連教授，以及劉虹教授的指導。並且參與多次閔惠芬的教學講座。曾多次隨學校民樂隊外出參加各類大型活動，其中有舉辦了深圳春節晚會音樂會。于2005年評爲在校優秀民樂學生，並且舉行了音樂會。

2006年來到加拿大，參加了多倫多民樂團。其間，參與了大部分樂團的演出. 並且同時開始教導二胡。2010年在Kiwanis的比賽中，獲得了一等獎。

Amely Zhou began her music studies at an early age. In 2001, she was accepted into the Shenzhen Arts School, where she majored in erhu, and minored in piano. Her teachers include Zhang Lei, Zhang Zunlian, and Liu Hong. She has attended numerous masterclasses by Min Huifen. With the school orchestra, she participated in many large scale events, including the Shenzhen Spring Festival Concert. In 2005, she was recognized as an outstanding music student and performed in recital.

Congratulations to Ike for placing first in the Kiwanis Music Festival. He played erhu in the non-Western, bowed string class for ages 15 & under.

Chinese New Year, or Lunar New Year, is an especially busy time for us. We will be performing at these celebrations:

Jan. 23, 2-3 pm: Square One
Feb. 6, 2-4 pm: Market Village
Feb. 6, 2-4 pm: Victoria Business Centre 龍堡中心 Victoria Park & McNicol
Feb. 7, 11 am: Royal Ontario Museum
Feb 7, 2:30 pm: First Markham Place with Yip’s Children Choir
Feb. 15, 1:45 pm: Chinese Culture Centre
Feb. 27, 3 pm: Matty Eckler Community Centre at Gerrard & Pape