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...
Congratulations to David Rothnie, the winner of our 2016 boxing week draw for a $500 gift card to Tom Lee Music. Thank you to everyone who entered our contest, please keep your eyes and ears open for our next gift card opportunity. How would you like to spend $500 at Tom Lee Music? Perhaps a new guitar or a lifetime...
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...
Most guitar players are familiar with the Fender American Standard Series of guitars and basses. For almost thirty years, they have been the flagship models in Fender's lineup of American-made guitars. But this year, Fender will be replacing the historic line with the new American Professional Series, officially launched in January 2017. Tom Lee Music is proud to announce the...
On Sunday, December 4, Steinway Artist Yuja Wang was a featured soloist at the annual Kennedy Center Honors Gala, giving a performance of Piazzola’s “Grand Tango” on a 9' Steinway Model D Concert Piano in honor of 2016 Kennedy Center Honors recipient, pianist Martha Argerich. Ms. Wang was introduced by the legendary Plácido Domingo, who referred to her as a...
Yuja Wang has been awarded the title of 2017 Musical America Artist of the Year. The 56th Annual Awards ceremony takes place at New York City’s Carnegie Hall on December 8, to recognize Ms. Wang and her fellow honorees – the list includes composer Andrew Norman, conductor Susanna Mälkki, bass-baritone Eric Owens, and the ensemble Eighth Blackbird. Written by Stuart Isacoff Originally...
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...
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...
Winner: Mike Lyons Winner: Henry Tan Winner: Steve Rebiffe
Congratulations to David Rothnie, the winner of our 2016 boxing week draw for a $500 gift card to Tom Lee Music. Thank you to everyone who entered our contest, please keep your eyes and ears open for our next gift card opportunity. How would you like to spend $500 at Tom Lee Music? Perhaps a new guitar or a lifetime...
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...
Most guitar players are familiar with the Fender American Standard Series of guitars and basses. For almost thirty years, they have been the flagship models in Fender's lineup of American-made guitars. But this year, Fender will be replacing the historic line with the new American Professional Series, officially launched in January 2017. Tom Lee Music is proud to announce the...
On Sunday, December 4, Steinway Artist Yuja Wang was a featured soloist at the annual Kennedy Center Honors Gala, giving a performance of Piazzola’s “Grand Tango” on a 9' Steinway Model D Concert Piano in honor of 2016 Kennedy Center Honors recipient, pianist Martha Argerich. Ms. Wang was introduced by the legendary Plácido Domingo, who referred to her as a...
Yuja Wang has been awarded the title of 2017 Musical America Artist of the Year. The 56th Annual Awards ceremony takes place at New York City’s Carnegie Hall on December 8, to recognize Ms. Wang and her fellow honorees – the list includes composer Andrew Norman, conductor Susanna Mälkki, bass-baritone Eric Owens, and the ensemble Eighth Blackbird. Written by Stuart Isacoff Originally...
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...