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Ilana Vered, Jury Member of the VIMC 2020. Watch the full interview on our YouTube channel. . . . #VIMC2020 #classicalmusic #classicalmusicvancouver #livemusicvancouver #ciams #concertoconcert #youngmusicians #performance #music #vancouvermusic #vancitybuzz @TheVancouverSun @georgiastraight @DistrictLocal @vimcmusic @CIAMSociety @vam.school

Joseph Elworthy, Jury Member of the VIMC 2020. Watch the full interview on our YouTube channel. . . . #VIMC2020 #classicalmusic #classicalmusicvancouver #livemusicvancouver #ciams #concertoconcert #youngmusicians #performance #music #vancouvermusic #vancitybuzz @TheVancouverSun @georgiastraight @DistrictLocal @vimcmusic @CIAMSociety @vam.school

Elizabeth Volpé Bligh - VIMC 2020 Artistic Advisor. Watch the full interview on our YouTube channel. . . . #VIMC2020 #classicalmusic#classicalmusicvancouver#livemusicvancouver #ciams#concertoconcert #youngmusicians#performance #music#vancouvermusic #vancitybuzz @TheVancouverSun @georgiastraight @DistrictLocal @vimcmusic @CIAMSociety @vam.school

Sasha Starcevich - Artistic Advisor. Pianist Sasha Starcevich is currently enjoying a rewarding career as an international performer and teacher with his engaging performances and passionate teaching, both at home and around the globe. As a recitalist, he has appeared in many renowned venues such as New York’s Carnegie Recital Hall, Moscow’s Tchaikovsky Hall, and in London’s Wigmore Hall. His debut recital there was met with critical acclaim, and a review in the Musical Opinion stated: “The repertoire was brilliantly conceived; a thoroughly enjoyable recital at every level”. He has continued to thrill audiences with Concerto appearances, chamber, and solo recitals throughout North America, Europe and Asia. His principal teachers have included Ilana Vered, Peter Frankl, Claude Frank, Boris Berman, Jane Allen and Donna Fishwick. His Doctoral and post-graduate degrees are from Yale University, and his undergraduate degree is from the Saint Louis Conservatory. In addition, Starcevich has worked with Dimitri Bashkirov at the Gnessin School in Moscow, and also with many other world-renowned artists. He has been affiliate professor of piano at the State University of New York-Purchase, and Department Chair of Music and professor of piano at the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts. In August of 2011, he joined the faculty of Musicfest Perugia in Italy. Recently, he has given several highly successful lectures, master classes and public teaching sessions in Asia and the United States, and is in great demand for further engagements. His students have established themselves as grand prize winners in national and international piano competitions, and his past students have gone on to pursue serious study at the world’s most renowned musical institutions, such as The Juilliard School, the Curtis Institute, the Peabody Conservatory, the Yale School of Music, and the Royal Academy of Music in England, to name a few. . . . #VIMC2020 #classicalmusic #classicalmusicvancouver #livemusicvancouver #ciams #concertoconcert #youngmusicians #performance #music #vancouvermusic #vancitybuzz @TheVancouverSun @georgiastraight @DistrictLocal @vimcmusic @CIAMSociety @vam.school

Sean Bickerton - Artistic Advisor. Sean Bickerton has spent his entire life dedicated to music, studying violin, french horn, piano, singing and acting in his youth, later playing violin professionally in the Victoria Symphony Orchestra while studying violin performance at the University of Victoria. Currently BC Director of the Canadian Music Centre, he was previously Executive Director of the Vancouver Recital Society, and Vice President of Columbia Artists Management Inc. in New York, where he produced North American tours for celebrated European orchestras, managed Grammy Award-winning artists including Yehudi Menuhin and Aaron Rosand and produced concerts and events in Europe, the US, and Asia. Sean is a co-founder of KultureShock.Net, a website service for more than 160 performing artists including the Emerson String Quartet and Maestro Bramwell Tovey, and has presented web and social media seminars for the Manhattan School of Music, Opera Magazine, the Van Cliburn Competition and Chamber Music America. He has served on the City of Vancouver’s Arts & Culture Policy Council, and the Board of Directors for both the Vancouver Recital Society and Langley Community Music School. . . . #VIMC2020 #classicalmusic #classicalmusicvancouver #livemusicvancouver #ciams #concertoconcert #youngmusicians #performance #music #vancouvermusic #vancitybuzz @TheVancouverSun @georgiastraight @DistrictLocal @vimcmusic @CIAMSociety @vam.school

Tomislav Baynov - Artistic Advisor. Prof. Tomislav Nedelkovic-Baynov was born in Sofia, Bulgaria, to a musical family. His first onstage performance was at the age of five; one year later, he won First Prize at the national piano competition in Prowadia, Bulgaria. Tomislav Baynov studied piano and composition at the Academy of Music in Sofia (Bulgaria) and completed his studies at the State University of Music in Trossingen (Germany), with the highest soloist Concert Diploma. He is a winner of several international piano competitions in Bulgaria, Italy, Germany, Portugal, Czechoslovakia, and among them the 1990 Sergei Rachmaninov competition in Morcone, Italy. Between 1981 (when he moved to Germany) and 1986, he has performed twenty-nine times with the Berliner Symphony Orchestra at the West Berlin Philharmonic Hall. Prof. Baynov is a jury member of international competitions in Italy, Germany, Bulgaria, Romania, Canada, Turkey, Hong-‐Kong, Korea and the Czech Republic. Since 2001 he is Honorary Professor of the Qingdao University of Music and other Universities in China. He holds Master Classes in Germany, Italy, Bulgaria, Greece, Slovakia, Korea, Turkey, Canada and Hong-Kong. Prof. Baynov has performed solo, ensemble, chamber and orchestral concerts spanning five continents, with an extensive discography and broadcast history worldwide. His passion for multi-piano works is demonstrated by the Baynov-Piano-Ensemble, established by him in 1989, which is dedicated to rarely performed works for several pianos. He is also a founder and artistic director of the worldwide unique "International Piano Competition for Six and eight Hands", which takes place at the Bavarian Music Academy in Marktoberdorf, Germany. . . . #VIMC2020 #classicalmusic #classicalmusicvancouver #livemusicvancouver #ciams #concertoconcert #youngmusicians #performance #music #vancouvermusic #vancitybuzz @TheVancouverSun @georgiastraight @DistrictLocal @vimcmusic @CIAMSociety @vam.school

Elizabeth Volpé Bligh - Artistic Advisor. Elizabeth Volpé Bligh was the Vancouver Symphony's Principal Harpist from 1982 to 2018, after six years as the Principal Harpist of the National Ballet of Canada Orchestra. A graduate of the University of Toronto's Music program in 1975, she studied with Judy Loman (Toronto Symphony), Alice Chalifoux (Cleveland Orchestra) and Edna Phillips (Philadelphia Orchestra). Her career includes concerto performances with the Grammy-winning VSO and other orchestras, chamber music concerts, movie soundtracks and recordings. She commissioned and premiered two Canadian harp concerti with the VSO: Michael Conway Baker's Harp Concerto and Sonata for Harp and Strings by Scott Good. She has also premiered pieces by other Canadian composers, such as John Armstrong and Frederick Schipizky. She has appeared regularly on the roster of the VSO Chamber Players' concerts and VSOI faculty concerts. . . . #VIMC2020 #classicalmusic #classicalmusicvancouver #livemusicvancouver #ciams #concertoconcert #youngmusicians #performance #music #vancouvermusic #vancitybuzz @TheVancouverSun @georgiastraight @DistrictLocal @vimcmusic @CIAMSociety @vam.school

Keiko Alexander - Artistic Advisor Pianist Keiko Alexander is a graduate of the Aichi University of Fine Arts in Nagoya, Japan, and the Juilliard School in New York, where she studied with Sascha Gorodnitzki and Janina Fialkowska. Her other teachers have included Bela Siki in Cincinnati and Vlado Perlemuter in Paris. Ms. Alexander lived in Cincinnati, Ohio for sixteen years, where she performed extensively as a member of Alexis Piano Trio which consisted of members of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. She also taught at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music Preparatory Department and served as Head of the piano department. In 2000, Ms. Alexander moved to Vancouver, Canada, where she taught at the VSO School of Music, performed throughout the region as a chamber musician, held master classes, judging domestic and international competitions, and performed 8 piano ensemble concerts in Vancouver and Germany. In spring, 2015, Ms. Alexander moved to Chicago, and now she teaches at the Music Institute of Chicago in Evanston and Winnetka. . . . #VIMC2020 #classicalmusic #classicalmusicvancouver #livemusicvancouver #ciams #concertoconcert #youngmusicians #performance #music #vancouvermusic #vancitybuzz @TheVancouverSun @georgiastraight @DistrictLocal @vimcmusic @CIAMSociety @vam.school

Daniel Bolshoy - Artistic Advisor Daniel Bolshoy is committed to bringing the guitar to the attention of audiences everywhere. He is regularly praised for his friendly and informative spoken introductions and progressive programming of solo and chamber music. His concert tours take him from prestigious international concert stages to remote villages and house-concerts. Daniel Bolshoy has performed as a soloist with many orchestras internationally and across Canada, including the Mexico City Philharmonic, Israel Chamber Orchestra, Beer Sheva Symphony (Israel), Volgograd Symphony Orchestra (Russia), New Mexico Symphony (United States), Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Toronto Philharmonia, Edmonton Symphony, Calgary Philharmonic, New Brunswick Symphony Orchestra, Kamloops Symphony, Vancouver Philharmonic, Vancouver Island Symphony, Peterborough Symphony, Huntsville Festival Orchestra, Red Deer Symphony, Symphony of the Kootenays, Oakville Symphony, Etobicoke Philharmonic, Manitoba Chamber Orchestra, the Ottawa Chamber Orchestra, the Kingston Symphony, the Canada West Chamber Orchestra, the Israel Chamber Orchestra, the Victoria Symphony, the Okanagan Symphony, the International Symphony Orchestra, The Saskatoon Symphony, Symphony Nova Scotia, The Mississauga Symphony and many others. Daniel Bolshoy has been invited to participate as a jury member in several international music competitions, including the Guitar-Gems festival in Israel, the Tabula Rasa festival in Russia, and the National Finals of the Canadian Federation of Music Festivals. Daniel Bolshoy is a D’Addario Strings Gold Performing Artist For more information please visit: www.danielbolshoy.com . . #VIMC2020 #classicalmusic #classicalmusicvancouver #livemusicvancouver #ciams #concertoconcert #youngmusicians #performance #music #vancouvermusic #vancitybuzz @TheVancouverSun @georgiastraight @DistrictLocal @vimcmusic @CIAMSociety @vam.school

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