Nearly eight hundred distinguished guests were present on March 11 at the Westin Bayshore Hotel Grand Ballroom for the Bridge to S.U.C.C.E.S.S Gala. Celebrity actor Linda Chung and world renowned young pianist Avan Yu were honoured guests who quickly became the highlight of the night. Zhong Jiaxin sang with astonishing beauty and Avan Yu performed heart-wrenching classical music on an appropriately elegant...
LIVING THE DREAM IN NEW YORK CITY The Crescendo International Music Competition is an established international music festival for youth all around the world. Every year from November through February, the qualifying rounds are held in Canada, USA, Germany, South Korea, Austria and Russia. The youngest competitor is only five years old and the most senior competitors are in their...
Written by Robert Hillinck Originally published in Listen: Life with Music & Culture Portraiture, a subgenre of still life, seeks to capture the world, depicting its subjects as they are. What’s more, these paintings — and the men and women who paint them — try to represent, in a finite number of brushstrokes, something meaningful about a living and breathing...
Kevin Madill, music librarian and head of The Music, Art and Architecture Library at UBC, never imagined that a piano could be placed in a library that required absolute silence. How would it not become a decoration? How would it work? As an experiment, the UBC Music Library received a Yamaha hybrid piano donated by Tom Lee Music last August. Such a thing would be...
Written by Ben Finane Originally published in Listen: Life with Music & Culture Born in the small Chinese town of Shenyang, Lang Lang began piano at age three, gave his first public recital at five, entered Beijing’s Central Music Conservatory at nine, and went on to study at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. His inevitable big break came in...
Tom Lee Music Company was honoured to host the Tom Lee Music Angels Concert on December 6 in support of the Vancouver General Hospital & University of British Columbia Hospital Foundation! The concert took place in the beautiful Diamond Family Courtyard within the Jim Pattison Pavilion of Vancouver General Hospital. The complementary event featured heartwarming performances by members of the Young Artist Program from the...
We recently had a wonderful experience of classical music, elegance and high tea with guests and friends in our Steinway piano show room. The tasteful decorations included a major showcase of the Crown Jewel Limited Edition Piano Series by Steinway & Sons. The series is defined by highly characteristic natural wood, unique luster, beautiful elegance and irresistible charm. For an...
"To travel in time allowing music of the great composers to flow through me and connect with my audience is one of the most joyous and transcending of life's experiences." - Steinway Artist James Brawn Our company loves supporting music education in the community. On We were pleased to welcome a group of talented students from the Young Artist Program...
On the afternoon of November 5th, our company was honoured to host an exclusive Master Class with Charles Richard-Hamelin, acclaimed musician and silver medalist in the 17th International Chopin Piano Competition. Our piano showroom hosted many enthusiast students and parents from the Young Artist Program of the Steinway Society of BC. The children showed much curiosity and admiration for Charles, listening intently as he...
or many children, Halloween is an exciting holiday where they can express themselves through playful, extravagant or ghoulish costumes. In honour of this fun holiday, we were delighted to invite a group of talented young students from the Steinway Society of BC’s Young Artist Program to perform in our Tom Lee Music Hall for a Halloween themed concert on Friday...