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V6B1G8 Vancouver, BC, Canada

Wonderful news! Thanks to a new partnership with Vancouver Community College, the 2019 Blueridge Chamber Music Workshop will take place at VCCs great music fac...ility, August 12-23! The intensive workshop is open to intermediate to advanced teen and college-age musicians. More details to come on our website, but registration is now open until June 15th. See you this summer! www.blueridgechamber.org/workshop See more

Blueridge is coming! Don't miss out the best summer music festival in Vancouver. TMT members enjoy a 2-for-1 special. Reserve your tickets now: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/producer/1126156

Blueridge is coming! Dont miss out the best summer music festival in Vancouver. TMT members enjoy a 2-for-1 special. Reserve your tickets now: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/producer/1126156

"While the jury is out on giftedness being innate and other factors potentially making the difference, what is certain is that the behaviours associated with high levels of performance are replicable and most can be taught even traits such as curiosity."

Attention Vancouver Teachers and Students: Our friends at the Blueridge Chamber Music Festival are still looking for students for the 2017 Chamber Music Workshop starting august 7th. Scholarships are available! Blueridge offers a one-of-a-kind intensive program where teen musicians hone performance techniques, build collaborative and communication skills, forge lasting friendships, and cement their love of music. This years inspiring faculty features some of Canadas most lu...minous concert artists and musical pedagogues: violinists Jasper Wood and Rebecca Whitling, cellist Rebecca Wenham, flutist Paolo Bortolussi, pianists Jeremy Chaulk, Manuel Laufer, and Alejandro Ochoa, and soprano Dorothea Hayley. Blueridge Workshop also offer classes with our 2017 Composer in Residence, famed Canadian composer Chris Paul Harman. Blueridge is open to intermediate and advanced musicians aged 13 and up. More info and the application form can be found at http://blueridgechamber.org/workshop/ http://blueridgechamber.org/artists/

Do you know an enthusiastic young musician who's looking for an inspiring summer camp? Let them know about the Blueridge Chamber Music Workshop! At Blueridge, ...students aged 13 and up are immersed in a fun but intensive 2 weeks of lessons, coachings, and masterclasses, honing performance techniques, building collaborative and communication skills, and forging life-long musical friendships. Check out our utterly fabulous faculty, and apply online at http://blueridgechamber.org/workshop/

Do you know an enthusiastic young musician whos looking for an inspiring summer camp? Let them know about the Blueridge Chamber Music Workshop! At Blueridge, ...students aged 13 and up are immersed in a fun but intensive 2 weeks of lessons, coachings, and masterclasses, honing performance techniques, building collaborative and communication skills, and forging life-long musical friendships. Check out our utterly fabulous faculty, and apply online at http://blueridgechamber.org/workshop/

Start your week with a dose of happiness.

Food for thought. From the article: "The artist, if true to his or her vocation, recovers the past and explains the present. The artist is the true chronicler of who we were and where we came from. Culture, in times of distress, is not a luxury but a life raft."

Vancouver music friends. A few of our incredible teachers will be performing in this fantastic concert today. Bound to be a great performance! Dont miss out!

"Young peoples brains arent experiencing a backward evolution. Their ability to articulate points of rhythm, melody and the flow of words in musical genres they have made or developed themselves prove that, as human beings, our urge for musical expression and facility lies deep. Young people are not afraid of things that need to be worked through. Complexity, curiosity and adventure is the new counter-culture. For decades, the debate about the arts has boiled down to a drea...ry see-saw between is it elitist? and is it dumbed down? But this new audience of people who love the discovery of the new and the complex simply refuse to see their passions in such binary terms. I believe were heading towards a boundary-less age of music, where newer generations happily skate between classical and electronic, rock and pop, jazz and world music. With one bound, they have broken free from the constraints my generation placed upon itself. All they ask in return is authenticity of intention and execution." See more

This is incredibly sweet. Take a minute of your day to watch the video. Music teachers in particular tend to have great impact on students lives. We truly believe we have some of the best musicians, teachers and human beings in Canada. You can meet them at www.topmusicteachers.com

Attention aspiring Classical singers! Our beloved Top Music Teacher and friend, Dory Hayley, is giving a free public masterclass next Saturday at VCC. If youre a high school or adult singer, this is a perfect chance to practice performing, try out your repertoire, and get some great feedback! http://www.vcc.ca//article/classical-voice-masterclass.html

Attention BC artists! How can we better support the artists in our community? What challenges do professional artists face? How can we ensure that artists are fairly compensated for the contributions they make to our province? Have your say: fill out this short survey by the SFU School of Public Policy https://sfufas.ca1.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_42uFtwB4iK1PaWp

Early Holiday Gift!

Nice Ted-Ed video on the secrets of Mozarts Magic Flute. Inspired to see and listen the real thing?

Sharing our favourite American melody from Abbey Road Studios.

Lee Duckles is one of our beloved teachers. Don't miss this out. " Plese join us for an upcoming concert by Yamaha Artist Alexandria Le and Cellist Lee Duckles. These virtuoso musicians will perform classic works by Chopin, Rachmaninoff and Mussorgsky. Date: Saturday, November 19... Time: 7:30 pm Venue: Tom Lee Music Hall, 929 Granville St, 3/F Free admission, limited seating RSVP: [email protected] http://tomleemusic.ca/ev/alexandria-le-lee-duckles-concert/ " See more

On track for a hair-raising finale. :/

Lee Duckles is one of our beloved teachers. Dont miss this out. " Plese join us for an upcoming concert by Yamaha Artist Alexandria Le and Cellist Lee Duckles. These virtuoso musicians will perform classic works by Chopin, Rachmaninoff and Mussorgsky. Date: Saturday, November 19... Time: 7:30 pm Venue: Tom Lee Music Hall, 929 Granville St, 3/F Free admission, limited seating RSVP: [email protected] http://tomleemusic.ca/ev/alexandria-le-lee-duckles-concert/ " See more

Remembering Aaron Copland through his sublime take on President Lincoln (from our archives). The composer was born on this date in 1900.

Stunning piece on Leonard Cohen and a good reminder for all of us at this time --- to look at what we can be grateful for even when enveloped in darkness- Di...d anything inspire you to create Hallelujah? Later that same winter day the reply arrived: I wanted to stand with those who clearly see G-ds holy broken world for what it is, and still find the courage or the heart to praise it. You dont always get what you want. Youre not always up for the challenge. But in this case it was given to me. For which I am deeply grateful. "Leonard was, above all, in his music and in his poems and in his tone of life, the lyrical advocate of the finite and the flawed. As he wrote to my son, who was mercifully too young to understand, he was possessed by a lasting sensation of brokenness. He was broken, love was broken, the world was broken."

"Leonard Cohen, the hugely influential singer and songwriter whose work spanned five decades, died at the age of 82." Just when his voice is most needed. :(

So, now what? Painters-Paint This Singers-Sing This Songwriters-Song This... Poets-Poem This Authors-Write this Filmmakers-Movie this Musicians-Play this We go to work, we go to work. This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before. L. Bernstein

Far too young! Rip Zoltan. A fantastic pianist and musician leaves us...

"Unlike commercial brain training products, which only improve performance on the skills involved, musical training has what psychologists refer to as transfer effects in other words, learning to play a musical instrument seems to have a far broader effect on the brain and mental function, and improves other abilities that are seemingly unrelated. Music reaches parts of the brain that other things cant, says Loveday. Its a strong cognitive stimulus that grows the brai...n in a way that nothing else does, and the evidence that musical training enhances things like working memory and language is very robust. Learning to play a musical instrument, then, seems to be one of the most effective forms of brain training there is. Musical training can induce various structural and functional changes in the brain, depending on which instrument is being learned, and the intensity of the training regime."

Our Masterclass with the brilliant Czech pianist and Martin Karlíek is Tomorrow at 6pm! FREE ADMISSION! Tom Lee Music Hall - 3rd Floor 929 Granville St, Vancouver, BC V6Z 1L3... More info: https://www.facebook.com/events/1806259702951712/ Tom Lee Music Canada

What a terrific Masterclass last night with our talented guest teacher Martin Karlicek! Our students played wonderfully and responded very well to Martins instruction, so we couldnt be more proud! Dont miss Martins recital TONIGHT at 7:30pm at St. Helens Anglican Church (4405 West 8th Avenue, Vancouver). Program includes works of Liszt, Beethoven, Janek, Chopin and Schtt. There will be poetry, fireworks and spades of impressive playing sure to please everyone.

Tonight in Kitsilano! One of the finest pianists in the world. Don't miss this out.

Our Masterclass with the brilliant Czech pianist and Martin Karlek is Tomorrow at 6pm! FREE ADMISSION! Tom Lee Music Hall - 3rd Floor 929 Granville St, Vancouver, BC V6Z 1L3... More info: https://www.facebook.com/events/1806259702951712/ Tom Lee Music Canada

Mark your calendars Vancouver! Don't miss this out!

Tonight in Kitsilano! One of the finest pianists in the world. Dont miss this out.

Mark your calendars Vancouver! Dont miss this out!

Proud to announce our second masterclass in Vancouver with talented Czech pianist and piano faculty at the Schulich School of Music of McGill University, Martin Karlek! Four advanced students will have the opportunity to play for Martin in what is sure to be an inspiring evening. When? Thursday Oct 20th. 6pm FREE ADMISSION!... Tom Lee Music Hall - 3rd Floor 929 Granville St, Vancouver, BC V6Z 1L3 https://www.facebook.com/events/1806259702951712/ Martin Karleks piano playing has been described as inspiring, rich, sensitive, stylistically taut and arresting, precise, crisp, brilliantly controlled, wonderfully colorful and always imaginative. He performs and lectures regularly in the Czech Republic, Germany, Canada, U.S.A. and Japan. Aside from promoting Czech music, Mr. Karlek performs solo and chamber music works from all periods. Contemporary music is also an important part of the repertoire; one of his last projects was a CD of complete piano works by a young Canadian composer Andrew Yin Svoboda (1977-2004). He also introduced several world premieres such as Flix Frdric Barils piano concerto Dviations, Martin Matalons Las siete Vidas de un Gato as a North-American premiere and a world premiere of Tekeni-Ahsen by Denys Bouliane. In 2008 he and a Japanese violinist Mana Shiraishi established Duo Ventapane and in 2011, Creo Trio. Mr. Karlek gathered prizes from several international music competitions winning the Bedich Smetana International Piano Competition, the South Bohemian International Piano Competition, and the Prague-Vienna-Budapest International Summer Academy Competition. He also received awards for performances of contemporary works, chamber music collaborations and for solo performances of compositions by Bedich Smetana, Bla Bartk, Ferenc Liszt, Leo Janek and Bohuslav Martin. Martin Karlek studied at the Academy of Music in Prague (B.Mus., M.Mus.), Utrecht Academy of the Arts in Holland and at McGill University in Montreal in Canada (M.Mus., D.Mus.). Presently, he is a piano professor at the Schulich School of Music of McGill University. Martin Karlicek. Tom Lee Music Canada Blueridge Chamber Music Festival Schulich School of Music of McGill University Mzewest Concerts

Private music lessons have an important role to play, and we at Top Music Teachers are proud to be contributing to the advancement of quality music education by making private lessons more convenient and affordable. This said, if we are to construct a better society, public music education needs to be seriously supported, funded and respected as an essential skill. There is no substitute for public music education and to the benefits it can bring. "British soul singer Laura ...Mvula has warned that a generation of young people will see TV programmes such as The X Factor and The Voice as the only way into a career in music because of cuts to creative subjects in schools. Mvula, 30, who worked as a music supply teacher before becoming an award-winning singer-songwriter, said music had been cast off to the bottom of the curriculum and risked becoming the preserve of the wealthy who could afford private lessons. She said many of the opportunities she had as a student, such as free music lessons, were no longer available. I was surrounded by teachers and resources that made me feel there were no limits, she said. There wasnt anything that was off-limits to me because of money or because of who I am or where I come from. You want to play violin, then play violin, you want to study composition at a conservatoire, take up a scholarship there. We lived in a culture of freedom and availability. She added: Without that they dont have anything to stimulate their own musical growth its only available to the privileged few who can afford private lessons. Read more at: http://bit.ly/2d6Vw5r

Vancouver piano teachers. You might be interested in attending this very promising workshop on learning and teaching basic improvising skills with Chuck Cave. Dont miss this out and dont forget to RSVP! Tom Lee Music Canada

Now that's what we call progress!

Time to start treasuring teachers as a society.

From one of the finest. Vengerov's top practicing tip.

Lol. Friday fun. Try it yourself. This is what the internet apparently wants to know about orchestral musicians. Our favourite: "Trombonists are endangered"

Now thats what we call progress!

From one of the finest. Vengerovs top practicing tip.

And a new year begins! Happy first day of school! Here is a humorous musical refresher in case you forgot all the important stuff over the summer. ;)