Posted March 10, 2020 Meet Alana Hayes! Opera Studio’s Xerxes! Alana Hayes will perform the role of Xerxes in this years Opera Studio production! Handel’s great opera Xerxes (Serse) is a story of sibling and romantic rivalry in the court of Persia where King Xerxes and his brother vie for power and affection in […]
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Posted March 6, 2020 March is Music Therapy Awareness Month and we’re featuring our talented Faculty on our social channels. We’re excited to introduce Graylen Howard, our Music Therapist based in the satellite location in Nanaimo! We interviewed Graylen to learn more about what its like to be a Music Therapist. What is […]
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Posted February 26, 2020 Acclaimed tenor Benjamin Butterfield has enjoyed a near 30-year career in opera both in Canada and abroad, in a wide-ranging repertoire from Baroque to Contemporary, encompassing opera, concert and recital. Since 2006, while continuing his singing career, Benjamin has been teaching voice to the next generation at the University of […]
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Posted on February 21, 2020 Meet Nicole Teachman! One of the outstanding student performers at the February 29, 2020 Spark to Flame concert! Nicole is a grade 11 student at Oak Bay High school. She began playing the piano at age 6, then proceeded to switch to the cello at the age of […]
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Posted on February 19, 2020 Meet Deanna Sills and Gina Johnson! An incredible vocal duo who will perform at the February 29, 2020 Spark to Flame concert! Deanna has a degree in Voice Performance from the University of Victoria where she studied with Susan Young. Over the years, she has performed in the […]
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Posted February 13, 2020 Meet Lucy Zhang! One of the outstanding performers at the February 29, 2020 Spark to Flame concert! Lucy Zhang has been playing violin for 9 years. She currently studies with Simon MacDonald at the Victoria Conservatory of Music, and previously studied with Allyn Chard and Dougal McLean. She is […]
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Meet Samuel Li! One of the remarkable student performers at the February 29, 2020 Spark to Flame concert! Samuel Li is a grade 9 student at Mount Douglas Secondary School Challenge Program. He began taking piano lessons at the age of 5, and has been studying with Roger Buksa at VCM since 2017. He […]
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Meet Taya Haldane and McKenna Jennings! An extraordinary student duet performing at the February 29, 2020 Spark to Flame concert! Taya Haldane and McKenna Jennings will perform Mozart Concerto for Flute and Harp (second movement). Taya Haldane grew up in a small town in northern British Columbia. She plays concerts with her celtic […]
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Posted Feb 3, 2020 Meet Emily Dubois! Our very first (ever) Contemporary student performer at the February 29, 2020 Spark to Flame Concert! Emily Dubois is a young musician with no shortage of musical ambition. Born and raised in a musical household in Langbank, Saskatchewan, she fell in love with the fiddle and Canadian […]
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Meet Vanessa Tian! One of the extraordinary student performers at the February 29, 2020 Spark to Flame concert! Nine-year-old Vanessa Tian begun her piano studies with Ingrid Henderson at the Victoria Conservatory of Music at the age of five. She has been recognized as a promising young musician, winning the Junior Piano Trophy for outstanding […]
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