TXCN.com | News For Texas | Music But Sam wong, a Hong Kong native who came to Dallas in 1971 to study piano Every Jewish kid played an instrument, SMU piano professor david Karp says http://www.txcn.com/sharedcontent/features/classical2/051505cccamusiccliburn.27f
Extractions: TXCN.com Texas Customize Make This Your Home Page E-mail Newsletters MySpecialsDirect ... Job Opportunities Chinese pianists strong players in '05 Cliburn May 16, 2005 By SCOTT CANTRELL / The Dallas Morning News All of a sudden, China is everywhere. Anointing this "China's Century," a Newsweek cover story names this vast nation of 1.3 billion people the world's largest producer of coal, steel and cement and the second largest consumer of energy. DallasNews.com/extra Interactive: Preview Cliburn competitors and playlists Rounding out the Far Eastern contingent are two South Koreans and another Korean native now a citizen of the United States. By contrast, Russia, long dominant in piano competitions worldwide, is supplying six competitors, and another has joint Russian and German citizenship. Counting the naturalized Chinese and Korean natives, the U.S. has five entrants. The explosion of Asian pianists is a newer phenomenon, but it's huge. Nelita True, professor of piano at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N.Y., says between 70 percent and 80 percent of the school's piano students are Asians. At New York's Juilliard School, it's more than 50 percent, says Yoheved Kaplinsky, who chairs the piano department. At the University of Texas, professor Anton Nel figures the Asian contingent is nearly 40 percent. Joseph Banowetz, professor of piano at the University of North Texas, says two-thirds of his students are Asians.
Amy Ling: Yellow Light Flo Oy wong, Artist Made in USA Angel Island Shhh, My Mother s Baggage, Jon Jang, Composer and pianist From Island The Immigrant Suite http://www.temple.edu/tempress/titles/1381_reg.html
Extractions: 384 pp 7x10 Yellow Light is an impressive undertaking that deserves recognition as an introduction to contemporary Asian American arts, and more importantly, as an exploration of the diversity of that community.... [It] is a testament to the Asian American creative spirit and another step toward a new understanding of contemporary art." MultiCultural Review Amy Ling brings together in one comprehensive volume poets, novelists, dramatists, musicians, songwriters, composers, filmmakers, choreographers, and performance artists who span three generations and represent the broad spectrum of ethnicities that make up Asian America. They share thoughts on their work, their audiences, and their relationship to the Asian American rubric and American life and culture. They provide a rare glimpse of the inspirations and aspirations out of which their energy and ideas grow and place their work, each differently, in the complex fabric of American life. An indispensible anthology of work and an inspiring and provocative cultural record, Yellow Light casts a revealing glow on the contradictions, influences, imagination, and humanity expressed through the vastly varied creative projects of Americans with Asian roots.
- San Francisco Conservatory Of Music - BM, San Francisco Conservatory of Music; studies with david Conte, Helen wong,piano MM, University of Michigan; graduate of Royal Academy of Music; http://www.sfcm.edu/prep_adultdivisions/prep_extensionfaculty.aspx
Asian Diversity :: Article Jang, a pianist, composer, and artistic director of ensembles, Jang collaboratedwith jazz musician david Murray in his most recent album, http://www.adiversity.com/magazine/article_detail.htm?AID=51640553&rd=ar
CD Baby: EVANS & COPPOLA: Flamingo With long time collaborator; triple threat pianist Tom Coppola, this debut CD He has also worked with Chet Baker, Marcus Miller, david Fathead Newman, http://www.cdbaby.com/evanscoppola
Extractions: IN STOCK. ORDER NOW. Will ship within 24 hours! This CD was voted "Top Vocals of 2002" in the Jazz Education Journal, (Spring Issue 2003) by Dr. Herb Wong. It features rewarding satisfactions and unusual ease, a Brazilian rhythm section, and a straight-ahead rhythm section. A "must have" original. TRACKS lo-fi: dial-up hi-fi: broadband Lucianne got her start in Montreal, and was featured in the Montreal International Jazz Festival on multiple occasions. While headlining on the club circuit, she made several appearances on Canadian TV and radio. She worked with such artists as Skip Bey, James Gelfand, J.P. Zanella, and others before moving to Asheville, NC.
Publications And Research Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra; Samuel wong, conductor; Norman Krieger, Book review Blind Tom, The Black pianistComposer Continually Enslaved, http://ihome.cuhk.edu.hk/~b105596/Publications.html
Extractions: MA thesis (University of Victoria, 1991): 'Nixon in China': Grand Opera and the Avant-Garde . Advisor: Dr. William Kinderman La Cantate en honneur de Marquis de Lorne : Negotiating National Identity in 1870s Canada." (to be presented at the Conference on Romanticism and Nationalism in Music, Ionian University, Corfu, Greece, 17-20 October 2003)
Honolulu Star-Bulletin -- Dave Donnelly Stopping off at the Lobby Bar after a sumptuous feed at Alan wong s, After aset with her and the Alan Arianeta Trio, pianist Les Peetz sat in at the http://starbulletin.com/1999/11/08/features/donnelly.html
Extractions: camera in Hilo IT sounds like a tale set in the old West: "Clint Meets the Duke." In fact, this encounter did take place in one of the Westernmost towns in the U.S. - Hilo. The rumors were flying all over Hilo that Clint Eastwood , actor, director and sometime mayor (of Carmel, Calif.) was in town. He was reportedly spotted at Longs and Taco Bell - a likely story. But then up strode a man who affirmed that not only was Eastwood in Hilo, but that he'd bought gas at Duke's Shell Hilo with his credit card. Duke McBeath , owner of that and three other stations in the Hilo and Puna area, also has videotape from his security camera that clearly shows Clint at his station. And the actor thought he could escape the papparazzi in Hilo - fat chance ... BLUE Hawaii? Yeah, right. It's come to light that at the recent ADA Convention, when the folks at Mentadent wanted to create a giveaway to dentists visiting their booth, the Convention Center's Debra Benton came up with an idea that brought a smile to their faces. "Sip a Smoothie" was created using cups with two separate chambers, Blue Macadamia Nut Kona Coffee granita on one side and white vanilla on the other. Over 1,000 gallons were consumed, and at one point two big bottles of food coloring had to be flown in to keep up with the demand ...
BU Bridge Arts Still, wong says, she sometimes feels as though she s cutting herself too muchslack. david Hoose, SFA professor and director of orchestral activities, http://www.bu.edu/bridge/archive/2000/02-11/arts.html
Extractions: Spring concerts by Artist Diploma candidates Free faculty concert: SFA faculty members (from left) Bayla Keyes, violin, Robert Merfeld, piano, and Michael Reynolds, cello, will present a free concert on Friday, February 18, at 8 p.m. at the Tsai Performance Center. The program will include Martinu's Duo for Violin and Cello, Brahms' Sonata in E minor for Cello and Piano, Op. 38, and Dvorák's Piano Trio, Dumky, Op. 90. Artist Diploma candidates enjoy spotlight this spring By Eric McHenry When asked how many hours she spends practicing the violin each day, Catherine Wong replies, rather reticently, "Not that many." "Not that many" turns out to be about four, and those four turn out not to include time she spends rehearsing duets with pianist Ayako Yoda, chamber pieces with a quartet, and solo repertoire with her mentor, SFA Associate Professor Peter Zazofsky all things she does at least once a week. Still, Wong says, she sometimes feels as though she's cutting herself too much slack. "But the cellist in my quartet told me, It's not good to spend too many hours a day being self-critical.' And that's true. When you practice you're extremely critical of yourself. You're pointing out all your mistakes and trying to fix them. And if you're doing that six hours a day, you'll go crazy.
Susie Ibarra pianist/Composer Angelica Sanchez was born in Phoenix, Arizona in 1972. She beganplaying piano at age david Schumacher From Another Life Amosaya 1997 http://www.susieibarra.com/projects.htm
TODAY News - April 29, 2004 - LLUMC News An accomplished pianist, the 18 year old placed first in the Inland Empire Piano In addition, Ms. wong spreads cheer to the patients at Loma Linda http://www.llu.edu/news/today/apr2904/mc.html
Extractions: J. Thomas Heywood, MD, director of the heart failure at Loma Linda University Medical Center, demonstrates size of the implantable cardioverter defibrillator. A study recently completed shows that people with heart failure live longer when they receive an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD), a device offered by the Loma Linda International Heart Institute. The results from the Sudden Cardiac Death in Heart Failure Trial (SCD-HeFT) were released on March 8. It included data from 2,521 patients enrolled in the largest ICD trial ever. The study showed that ICDs reduced death by 23 percent in people with moderate heart failure compared to those who did not receive defibrillators. "This is a very important study because we now know that implanted defibrillators can save patients who have heart failure without coronary artery disease," says J. Thomas Heywood, MD, director of the heart failure program at Loma Linda University Medical Center. Implantable cardioverter defibrillators administer electrical shocks to stop ventricular fibrillation (VF)a lethal condition in which the heart quivers chaotically and pumps little or no blood. They also stop ventricular tachycardia (VT), and less problematic arrhythmias. The shock from an ICD briefly shocks the heart and allows it to quickly resume a normal rhythm.
Faculty His latest project is a series of duets with pianist Chris Gestrin calles Wabi, david Branter, currently saxophone instructor and director of the jazz http://music.vcc.ca/music/html/faculty.html
Extractions: Bernie Arai Drums bernie@vcn.bc.ca Natasha Boyko Cello David Branter B. Mus., M. Mus. (Indiana) Saxophone/Jazz Orchestra/ Improvisation/Jazz Ensemble/ Commercial Ear Training/Wind Masterclass dbranter@vcc.ca Elizabeth Brodovitch B.A. (McGill), A.R.C.T. (Vocal Performance), M.A. (SFU) Lyric Diction, Voice Technique ebrodovi@sfu.ca Jack Duncan Percussion shango@shaw.ca David Duke B. Mus. (BC), M.A. (North Carolina), Ph. D. (Victoria) Theory/History/Composition dduke@vcc.ca Brenda Fedoruk B. Mus. (BC) Flute/Piccolo brenda_fedoruk@telus.net Salvador Ferreras B. Mus. (Windsor) World Music/Percussion/Latin Jazz Ensemble/Latin Percussion Ensemble/Rhythm Studies/Career Opportunities salferreras@hotmail.com Marisa Gaetanne B. A., M. Mus. (UBC) Voice/Vocal Repertoire/Vocal Pedagogy Ted Greene B. Mus. (W. Ontario) Music Foundations Program/DATS tgreene@vcc.ca Helen Hall B. Mus. (Acadia), M.A. (Victoria) Class Piano/Minor Instrument Studies/Keyboard Studies vccpiano@yahoo.com
UCD Department Of Music Senior Recitals Kalista wong, piano. Free. 115 Music Building An integratedmultimedia piece performed by pianist Lara Downes in collaboration with http://music.ucdavis.edu/events/may.htm
Staff James Wolfensohn (head of World Bank) Robert Wooding (historian) RichardWong (engineer) david Miller (pianist, Sydney Conservatorium) http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/music/staff.htm
Chris Wong: In Sync chris wong in sync. April 15 , 2002. Dave McMurdo Victor Kolstee Bruce NielsenCubanismo. By Chris wong. Dave McMurdo When Dave McMurdo was 11 yearsold, http://vancouverjazz.com/chriswong/insync041502.shtml
Extractions: Cubanismo By Chris Wong When Dave McMurdo was 11 years-old, his mother bought him a Charlie Parker record at Kelly's on Granville in downtown Vancouver. That was McMurdo's first-ever jazz record, and hearing it, along with other like-minded records and jazz on CBC Radio, helped determine his direction in life. Fast forward 47 years. McMurdo is now an accomplished jazz musician - a superb trombonist, to be exact - who has played extensively with big bands. In fact, he leads and composes for his own jazz orchestra. McMurdo is also a respected educator. All of those pursuits come together April 19 at the Capilano College Performing Arts Theatre. McMurdo will conduct and play with the college's A Band and 4:30 Band, which will perform his arrangements and compositions. Now back to the history. McMurdo was born in England but grew up in Burnaby, where one of his music teachers was Brad Turner's grandfather. At UBC, McMurdo studied trombone with Dave Robbins. McMurdo recalls that jazz was "frowned upon" in the UBC music department at the time, but not by Robbins, who got his student's gigs, including CBC broadcasts. At UBC McMurdo actually worked every night in places like Isy's and the Cave with groups such as Bobby Hales' big band. After hours he played in clubs like the Flat Five and the original Cellar. "I remember hanging around the Cellar when Mingus, Ornette and Lee Konitz were there," says McMurdo, on the phone from his home in the village of Eden Mills (near Guelph).
Chris Wong: In Sync chris wong in sync. June 15, 2002. Jazz Festival recommendations Dave HollandQuintet (June 24, Vogue) The veteran bass player s group is one of the http://vancouverjazz.com/chriswong/insync061502.shtml
Extractions: Ustad Shahid Parvez It's time to offer my best bets for the Vancouver International Jazz Festival, running June 21 to July 1. Given the exceptional line-up for this year's festival, it's not hard to come up with recommendations. But I still have my usual dilemmas about artists to include on the list. Do I try to incorporate musicians that reflect a diversity of styles? Do I attempt to balance selections of international players with local ones? Instead of trying to shoehorn artists that way, what follows is a best bets list that's based on pure excitement about the music itself, as performed on recent CDs and in previous Vancouver concerts. Dianne Reeves/Denzal Sinclaire (June 21, Orpheum Theatre): Regardless of whether they're doing jazz standards or pop-oriented material, these vocalists project a singular voice. Kenny Werner (June 21, Vogue Theatre and June 22, Capilano College Performing Arts Theatre): The pianist's performance at last year's festival was nothing less than spellbinding.
LA Weekly: Calendar Fri., 8 pmViolinist Cyrus Forough and pianist Valeria Morgovsky perform works Sat., 8 pmSoprano Erica Tannen, pianist Valeria Morgovsky and members of http://www.laweekly.com/calendar/content/classical_all.php
Extractions: A NEW ORLEANS JOURNAL: Our eye of the storm, BEN EHRENREICH , covers the water and refugee-flooded streets from New Orleans to Houston. BAGHDAD ON THE BAYOU: THERES ALLIGATORS IN THE WATER: E-mails from the apocalypse by JERVEY TERVALON THE SINKING OF THE PRESIDENT: MARC COOPER on how disasters can bring down dynasties. INHERIT THE WIND: LOU DUBOSE on how Bush the Younger ruined a FEMA that Bill Clinton rescued from Bush the Elder. GOVERNMENTS AND FLOODS: HAROLD MEYERSON asks, What is government for, if not to prevent catastrophe? WEB EXCLUSIVE: FILTERED: Let's play The Blame Game!
ACOF, Adeline Wong : Australian Music Centre Adeline wong was born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Adeline is also an accomplishedpianist where she participated in a piano master class by Krystian http://www.amcoz.com.au/acof/wong.htm
Extractions: ACOF Home Adeline Wong was born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Her music education started at the age of five with piano. She obtained her Diploma of Music from La Salle College of the Arts, Singapore from 1992-95. She then pursued her Bachelor of Music at the Eastman School of Music, USA. At Eastman, Adeline was the recipient of the George Eastman Award from 1995-98. In 2001, Adeline was awarded a scholarship from the Royal College of Music to pursue Masters of Music (Composition). At the Royal College, she studied composition with Edwin Roxburgh and piano with Neil Immelman. Her other composition teachers include Joseph Schwantner, Christopher Rouse, David Liptak, Augusta Read Thomas and John Sharpley. Adeline's compositions have been performed in London, Los Angeles, New York, Italy, Singapore and Malaysia. The premiere of her chamber work, CAHAYA represented RCM in the Conservatoire Composers' Forum at the Royal Academy of Music in April 2002, performed by the Welsh College of Music and Drama. Her composition SOJOURN for octet was awarded the Cobbett and Hurlstone Prize from RCM in 2002. Her composition, TRIO was commissioned and premiered by the Albatros Ensemble in Vicenza, Italy. Most recent events include a commission by Goethe Institut Kuala Lumpur to compose a film score to a German silent film, Five Mysterious Stories. This film score won her an invitation to the Berlinale-Talent Campus of the prestigious Berlin Film Festival in February 2004; premiere of her orchestral work Steel Sky by the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra (MPO) in March 2004; a commission to compose a music theatre work, Five Letters from an Eastern Empire by Sumunda Productions to be staged in October 2004; a commission from the Associated Board of Royal Schools of Music (ABRSM) for the Spectrum 5 series in March 2005
Vijay Iyer Berkeleybased pianist, composer, and bandleader Vijay Iyer, Lewis and Wongindulge in some high wire theatrics, playing ferocious solos. http://www.furious.com/perfect/vijay.html
Extractions: Vijay Iyer: Musical Architext Extraordinaire by Dave Kaufman The San Francisco Bay Area is home to a remarkably vibrant cultural and artistic community. The musical scene is incredibly rich and diverse and affords artists considerable opportunities to experiment with sounds and forms. This creative climate has given rise to the Asian Improv movement, which has produced some of the most exciting and original sounds in the world of modern jazz and improvised music. Berkeley-based pianist, composer, and bandleader Vijay Iyer, is one of the most promising new voices to emerge from the Asian Improv scene. Iyer works in rather diverse musical settings from straight-ahead and avant-garde jazz to hip hop to alto-saxophonist Steve Coleman's experiments in collective improvisation. Soon after this experience, Iyer came into contact with the burgeoning Asian Improv scene. In this movement, there are many like-minded socially conscious artists who explore the music of their ancestral heritage in the context of an expansive jazz vernacular. Meeting M-Base leader and alto-saxophonist par excellence Steve Coleman proved to be another momentous event in Iyer's formation. He would go on to participate in three of Coleman's recording as well as tour the US, Europe and Africa with his ensemble. Iyer credits Coleman with expanding his understanding and sense of rhythm, which in turn has helped shape his approach to improvisation and compositions. Iyer has recorded two stellar albums as a leader that provide a vehicle for his compositions. Both releases are on the Asian Improv label. The first recording
Vilnius Jazz Festival Myra Melford is the genuine article, the most gifted pianist/composer to He coled frame, a highly respected quartet with Eric Crystal, Dave Macnab and http://www.vilniusjazz.lt/2003/melford_quartet.htm
Extractions: Be Bread is a natural outgrowth of Myra Melford's recent studies and organically incorporates the music she absorbed in India Melford, an extraordinarily generous pianist, composer and bandleader, continues in BE BREAD to express her music for everyone in fresh, spirited and newly succinct and simple compositions that integrate Indo/pakistani, middle eastern, jazz, blues, jungle and improv influences. As with her acclaimed bands The Same River, Twice and Crush, Myra makes large-sounding music with a small ensemble, creating movements of melody, rhythm, harmony and timbre that have both microtonal nuances and sweeping effects.
