音符园夏夜|2023音符园地夏季室内音乐会

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Mr. Zhang Jie graduated from Xinjiang Arts Institute majoring in cello. As a successful entrepreneur in China, he has loved cello, art, and charity all his life. After immigrating to Vancouver and founding Notes International, he has held many concerts with professional performers including pianist, violinist, and cellist, and has contributed to enriching the artistic life of the community. He is passionate about and advocates chamber music. 

作为钢琴表演艺术家，张老师经常出现于社区中的重大演出活动中，担任独奏或伴奏。除了演奏欧洲古典音乐外，还大量介绍20世纪中国经典钢琴文献。他不仅是一位音乐家，更是一位才华出众、多才多艺的艺术家，不但出任合唱指挥、舞台监督，还兼任舞美设计、灯光师等。 

As a piano performing artist, Art Zhang often appears in major performance events, acting as a soloist or accompanist. In addition to playing European classical music, Art had introduced many Chinese classical piano works to various audience. He is not only a musician, but also a beloved a music educator in the local community. Art is a talented and versatile artist, and he often appears as a chorus conductor, stage manager, lighting designer whenever there is a major production during Chinese year celebrations or musical festivals. 

Richard Epp is a very wel-known Vancouver-based pianist, accompanist, vocal coach, conductor and consummatechamber musician,He is currently Music Director of the Opera Workshop at UBC for whom he has conductedHansel & Gretel, The Merry Widow, The Magic Flute and Weisse Rose by Udo Zimmerman among many othersHe was pianist for the Resident artists programme at the Vancouver Opera and is the conductor of the White RockCommunity Orchestra. Mr. Epp has toured Canada, the United States, China and Europe as a piano accompanist forsingers, as a conductor and as a chamber musician. He has appeared frequently in CBC recitals. Mr, Epp has studiedconducting with Tsung Yeh, Kirk Trevor and Johannes Schlaefle and holds a Master’s Degree in PianoAccompanying from the University of Southern California. He has also participated in master classes piven by suchinternationally known musicians as Dalton Baldwin, Graham Johnson, Martin Katz, Siegfried Jerusalem, NicoCastel, Rudolph Jansen and Elly Ameling. Mr, Epp has premiered numerous works by Canadian composers and isalso active as a piano teacher and adjudicator. A frequent perfortmer in the Czech Republic he adjudicates aninternational yoice festival in Beifing.

# Gene 

Ramsbottom

Gene Ramsbottom was appointed by Richard Bonynge as the founding principal clarinetist ofthe Vancouver Opera Orchestra, a post he held for twenty seasons until 1996.Mr. Ramsbottomhas also held the principal clarinet chair since 1984 with the C.B.C. Radio Orchestra, Canada’snternationally renowned recording national broadcast orchestra. Prior to 1984 he was the CBCVancouver Orchestra’s second clarinetist for nine years. He has been the principal clarinetist anda soloist with the Carmel Bach Festival Orchestra, California, during various summer festivalseasons. He has concertized in Canada and England and the United States and is consideredamongst critics to be among Canada’s leading and most recorded classical clarinetists (55 c.ds)He taught clarinet and chamber music at the UBC School of Music for 34 years and 39 years atouglas College, He founded the Out For Lunch Friday noon hour concert series at theVancouver Art Gallery in 1986 until the Co-vid-19 pandemic brought the series to a close afterits 943rd concert in March of 2020.

Bo Peng holds a Bachelor of Music in Cello Performance from the University of North Texas, aMaster of Music from the Eastman School of Music as well as a Performer’s Diploma from theUniversity of Indiana where he studied with Janos Starker. His teachers also included renownedcellists Steven Doane, Carter Enyeart and Marc Johnson.Mr. Peng was a two-time winner of the Music Teacher Nationa] Association Competitions(Strings Division), he also won 3rd prize in the International Music Competition held by theCzech Radio “Spring in Prague”. As a soloist and chamber musician, he attended several summerestivals and master classes including International Summer Academy at University MozarteumSalzburg, Austria) on the Johann Strauss Foundation (2002, 2003), the Banff Summer Festiva.the Spoleto Summer Festival, the Taos Chamber Music Festival and the National Arts CenterYoung Artists Programme where he worked with world-class musicians such as Lynn HarrellGary Hoffimann,Aldo Parisot, Pinchas Zukerman and the Tokyo String Ouartet. He has anextensive solo and teaching career and was cellist with the Borealis String Ouartet until 2015.

毕业于西安音乐学院管弦系，小提琴专业。就职于中国武警总部文工团，担任乐队二提琴首席。退役后就职于中国东方交响乐团，担任二提琴首席。

Ping Bai, graduated from the Orchestra department of Xi’an Conservatory of Music, majoring in violin. She worked in the Chinese Army Police Headquarters as second violin leader of the orchestra. After retiring from the army, she joined the China Oriental Symphony Orchestra as second violin principal .

杜慕冉

Gloria Du

自幼就显现出对音乐的浓厚兴趣和卓而不凡的天赋。6岁伊始师从著名钢琴教育家Art Zhang老师，得到了悉心指教；秉承着对钢琴演奏的炽热情怀和孜孜以求的勤奋努力，2年后以92分的优异成绩通过了RCM 八级钢琴考试，并得到了评委的高度评价。同时在2021年荣膺 “加拿大青少年艺术家模范奖” 。她2023年开始参加钢琴比赛，多次在各类比赛中获奖，包括：2023 年 BCCM 音乐节协奏曲类金奖、十年级练习曲组曲金奖、九年级古典曲目组金奖；2023 年小莫扎特国际比赛第一名，受邀在卡内基音乐厅演出并获得奖金；2023 年温哥华Kiwanis音乐节钢琴协奏曲、古典曲目9岁组第二名； 以及2023年施坦威钢琴比赛金奖。受邀在2023年意大利佩鲁贾音乐节与乐团合作演奏协奏曲。

鸣悦曾担任四川省电台音乐原创节目主持人、中央人民广播电台客座主持；四川电视台特约评论员；四川锦城艺术学院、四川传媒大学播音主持专业客座副教授；主持过加拿大中文电台新闻主播；曾在中国及加拿大主持维也纳爱乐乐团5+1大提琴音乐会、高校巡回高保真视听欣赏音乐会、加拿大杰出华人妇女颁奖晚会、加拿大纪念汶川地震10周年（三级政要莅临）活动等高规格、高水准音乐会、重大活动。