Academy

On December 14, our Coquitlam Academy was invited to perform at the Coquitlam Centre Mall RBC gift centre. Students from Ms. Elaine Lee, Amy Teo-Poh and Christina Chow joined the events. They are have a great time performing Christmas Music. Bystanders were amazed with what the students have performed.

Students from Ms. Rebecca Cheng, Pauline Ng and Debbie Cave from our Academy attended this Performance event on December 14 at the Burnaby Brentwood Town Shopping Mall. About 15 students performed, local shoppers cheered and sang with our performers together.

Selected groups of students from our Richmond Academy attended this Performance event on December 7 at the Aberdeen Centre Shopping Mall. About 40 students presented in Solos, duets and trios.

Anka Stefanovic has studied at Tom Lee music with teacher Rebecca Chan since she was three years old. She started with the Yamaha Music wonderland course and is currently enrolled in the Junior Advance course. Besides playing classical music, she is also really interested in composition. She has been awarded 2nd place twice in BCRMTA student composer competition. Congratulation, Anka...

Thirteen-year-old Felix Chan, student of Teacher Rebecca Chan, was awarded with the Highest Honour in Grade 9 Romantic Class. He started with the Yamaha Junior Music Course (JMC) in Richmond and, apart from learning privately; he is also a student of the Piano Ensemble Club. Felix was also selected to perform at the Honour Concert for the BC Registered Music...

Ethan Wang – 1st Place winner for the BCRMTA Student Composer Competitions 2014 Division A – 11 & under Composition: Mission to Mars Ethan Wang is 9 years old and will enter Grade 4 this fall. He lives in Richmond, B.C with his Mom, Dad, and sister Elaine. He started studying music at 4 years and just completed the Yamaha Junior...

Music is a powerful way to expand your child’s mental development because it triggers nearly every region of the brain. Through new studies and technology, it has been proven that musical education speeds up the advancement of speech, reading, focus, empathy as well as emotional intelligence. In the last few decades, neuroscience has made some major breakthroughs in understanding how...

Caption: (from left to right) Stephen Couldridge, Education Manager of Yamaha Music Canada presenting the Tom Duffin Memorial Scholarship to Silvy Lin at the Whistler JOC Camp. Silvy Lin, graduate from the Yamaha Education Course, was awarded with the Tom Duffin Memorial Scholarship at the Yamaha Junior Original Composition (JOC) Music Camp at Whistler last Saturday for her achievements over...