Concert Date: June 3rd, 2018, 3pm
Location: Grace Church on-the-Hill
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Proceeds go towards a scholarship which young musicians can apply for

Tickets
Online reservation (available shortly): $18 for students/seniors and $23 for adults. Tickets can be reserved online until June 2nd.
At the door: $20 for students/seniors and $25 for adults 

Performers

Artur Chakhmakhchyan, violin

Artur Chakhmakhchyan was born in Yerevan, Armenia and started his violin education at the Tchaikovsky Specialized School of Music. In Canada, he has mainly studied with the prominent violinist and pedagogue, Jacob Lakirovich. Artur has been the recipient of scholarships and numerous awards at the New Conservatory of Music festival, the Richmond Hill Arts festival, the North York Music Festival, and the Unionville Music Academy Competition. In 2012, he received the Royal Conservatory of Music Gold Medal award for having achieved the highest mark in Ontario and Quebec for his Grade 7 Violin exam. Artur is a high school graduate of Cardinal Carter Academy for the Arts, where he has had the opportunity to serve several positions including concertmaster, chamber musician, soloist, and conductor. He was a member of the Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra from 2015-2017, having served principle positions, including concertmaster. Since 2015, Artur has been performing as a soloist with orchestras around the city. This includes the Scarborough Philharmonic under the direction of Ronald Royer and the Greater Toronto Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of David Fallis. From September 2017, Artur attended the University of Toronto Faculty of Music as a full tuition scholarship student under the tutelage of Jonathan Crow, and will continue his Bachelor of Music studies at the Glenn Gould School in the studio of Paul Kantor and Barry Shiffman this coming September.

Feiran Bi, flute

Feiran Bi is now 17 years old and she comes from Suzhou, China. She is a student of Senior Woodwinds in the Phil and Eli Taylor Performance Academy for Young Artists. Feiran started to study flute at the age of eight, and was accepted by the Music Middle School Affiliated to Shanghai Conservatory of Music in 2013. Meanwhile she was a member of the school’s symphony orchestra. During this period, she got the first prize (Children) and the second prize (Middle School) at the China Flute Association’s competitions. She was accepted by the Royal Conservatory’s Taylor Academy in fall 2015 and is now studying with Professor Susan Hoeppner. In May 2016, Feiran Bi won the second prize (Junior Category) in the Oakville Chamber Orchestra Concerto Competition . 

Anson Hui, piano

Nineteen-year-old Anson Hui from Canada has given concerts in Europe, Asia and North American. Anson recently won the gold medal from the AADGT International Young Gifted Musicians Festival 2017 and performed in New York's Carnegie Hall. At age 15, he won the grand prize at 2014 Indiana University Piano Concerto Competition, where he was the youngest contestant. He also won the grand prize at the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition and the top prize of the 2013 Thousand Islands Chopin International Piano Competition and 2014 MostArts International Mozart Piano Competition. Anson has performed as a soloist with major orchestras such as Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Kindred Spirits Orchestra, York Symphony Orchestra, MostArts Festival Orchestra, Indiana University Orchestra, Canadian Sinfonietta and New York Sinfonietta. He performed the Mozart Piano Concerto No.20 with New York Sinfonietta when he was only 11 years old and received a raving review:

“This was soul-satisfying Mozart. Anson is a major talent whose gifts deserve careful nurturing. One could readily imagine that one was hearing Mozart himself—as a child prodigy—at the keyboard, so preternaturally profound was young Anson’s interpretation. It is unlikely that Mozart could have played this concerto any more convincingly than Anson did.” ~ The Epoch Times, New York.

Anson began his music studies with Dr. Sofia Moshevich at the age of six and studied with pianist Edward Auer. He also taken masterclasses/private lessons with Yoheved Kaplinsky, Emanuel Krasovsky, Jerome Lowenthal, Eugene Pridonoff, Peter Bithell and Hee Sung Joo .

Thomas Torok, piano 

Born in Hungary in 1998 to Thomas and Annamaria Torok, young Thomas Torok comes from  a long line of talented musicians on his mother's side of the family. Having been brought up in an environment where the love for art and music was predominant, he naturally was drawn towards music.

At the age of five he began playing piano by ear, getting enjoyment through his own improvisation. At the age of six he and his parents immigrated to Canada, and Thomas began his music studies. Thomas finished his grade ten piano exam at age 15, and he obtained the highest exam mark in Ontario; and he was the recipient of the 2013 Gold Medal from the RCM in the grade ten piano category. Since 2013, Thomas has been studying at the Phil and Eli Taylor Performance Academy for Young Artists at the Royal Conservatory of Music. In his first year there, Thomas won the Academy Chamber Competition and made his orchestral debut in Koerner Hall playing Mozart’s Piano Concerto No.20, KV466. He was also the runner-up for the MostArts Piano Competition in 2014, and the New York International Piano Competition 2016 . Recent engagements have included chamber music performances and recitals at the Royal Conservatory’s Mazzoleni Hall and at the Canadian Opera Company. In 2016 he  collaborated with the Toronto Concert Orchestra and Kerry Stratton in performing Camille Saint-Saëns Piano Concerto No. 3, Op.29 and “Africa” Op.89.

During the summer of 2017 he was also featured and performed at the Miami Summer Music Festival as well as the Philadelphia Young Pianists Academy held at the Curtis Institue of Music. Starting in the fall, Thomas will continue his studies at the Glenn Gould School at the Royal Conservatory.