Enriching the Community Through Music Appreciation
Each season, the VWMS proudly presents Vancouver's finest young musicians in our ten Main Series concerts. All concerts are open to the public, as well as to our membership. Informal receptions following each concert provide an opportunity to meet the artists, as well as a chance to network with fellow music lovers. For details about our 2008-2009 season click on
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The VWMS provides all of this at an exceptional value! However, members and single ticket purchasers do more than support a performance each month. Proceeds from the concerts, as well as individual donations, go towards the Society's
Scholarship and Bursary Funds, awarded annually.
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Featured Artist December 10, 2008 - TOMMY HUANG
VWMS 2008 First Place Senior Piano Scholarship Winner, Tommy Huang recently completed his Master’s Degree in piano performance at the University of British Columbia, where he studied with Sara Davis Buechner, Alexander Korsantia and Rena Sharon.
Tommy began his formal training in classical piano at the age of 12, with Sergio Da Silva. At the same time, he was performing as a violinist, a chamber musician and a jazz pianist at school. Tommy was appointed as concert master during his time with the Richmond Youth Orchestra and Delta Youth Orchestra, winning the DYO concerto competition with Mendelssohn's Piano Concerto in G minor. Since then, he has received several awards and scholarships, most notably, a full scholarship from the Johann Strauss Foundation, which allowed him to study at the Mozarteum in Salzburg last summer.
Tommy has participated in numerous master classes held by world renowned pianists such as Pavel Gillilov, Sergei Dorensky, Vladmir Feltsman, Oleg Poliansky, Phillip Cassard, and Steven Drury. While attending the first annual Vancouver International Song Institute (VISI) in 2007 as a teaching assistant, he took part in master classes offered by leading song interpreters, Margo Garret and Graham Johnson.
His performances have taken him from Canada to Taiwan, the United States and Austria. In 2006, Tommy was invited as a guest artist at the 10th Anniversary of ExplorASIAN in Taiwan, where his performance of the Grieg Piano Concerto was broadcast on national television.
On December 10th, Tommy will perform Five Preludes Op. 15 by Scriabin, In a Flash by Alexina Louie, Chopin's Nocturne Op. 9 No. 3, and Rachmaninoff's Sonata No. 2 Op. 36 and Prelude Op. 23 No. 4.
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