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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.
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March 24, 2010 - ASHTON LIM, cello
Bursary Recipient 2008
Accompanied by Monica Pfau on piano, Ashton will perform the Sonata in E Major by Valentini (arr. A. Piatti), Sonata in F Major, Op.99 by Brahms, and Davidoff's At the Fountain, Op.20, No.2.
Born and raised in Vancouver, Ashton Lim studied with Audrey Nodwell at the Vancouver Academy of Music and obtained his ARCT diploma in Cello Performance. He then earned his BMus under the tutelage of John Kadz at Mount Royal College Conservatory and University of Calgary, and is currently pursuing his master’s degree at Northwestern University in Illinois, where he studies with Hans Jorgen Jensen.
As a chamber musician, Ashton has worked with members of the Emerson, Guarneri, Shanghai, St. Lawrence, and Vermeer String Quartets. His piano trio won first place in the 2004 Canadian Music Competition and the 2006 Canadian National Music Festival. In 2007, as part of the University of Calgary String Quartet, Ashton premiered Difficult Things: 124 by Canadian composer Kelly-Marie Murphy. Coached by Judith Fraser, Ashton has also enjoyed playing in a cello quartet, Cello Jello, receiving top honours in the Friends of Chamber Music Competition, Elsje De Ridder Armstrong Chamber Music Competition, Vancouver Kiwanis Festival, and BC Festival of the Arts. The quartet performed for the Vancouver Women’s Musical Society in 2002.
Ashton has had the privilege of playing for such artists as Richard Aaron, Andreas Diaz, Anthony Elliot, Norman Fischer, Amanda Forsyth, Bonnie Hampton, Lynn Harrell, Desmond Hoebig, Ronald Leonard, Laurence Lesser, Shauna Rolston, Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi, Raphael Wallfisch, and Pinchas Zukerman. During the summers, he has participated in the Banff Summer Arts Festival, Meadowmount School of Music, Morningside Music Bridge, and National Arts Centre Young Artists Programme.
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