Japanese pianist, Toshiko Tampo has performed as a soloist and chamber musician across Asia, Europe, and North America. Toshiko studied piano performance, chamber music, accompanying and music education at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in Hungary where she received her Masters degree. Awarded a full scholarship to Canada’s Banff Centre, Toshiko came in 1984 to study, give performances and attend masterclasses with Menhahim Pressler, Georgy Sebok, and later moving to Victoria to study with Robin Wood.
Notable performances include those with members of the Symphony orchestras: of the National Ballet of Canada, Montreal, Edmonton, NHK, and Victoria. Toshiko is still active in performing chamber music with members of the University of Victoria’s Music Faculty and with members of the Victoria Symphony Orchestra.
Canadian-Japanese musician, Yuki Tampo-Hinton has charmed audiences world-wide as a piano soloist, chamber musician, and conductor. Born in Victoria, B.C, she began piano lessons with her mother, Toshiko Tampo, at the tender age of three. Her musical pursuit has afforded her the privilege of studying with many notable artists, including Menahem Pressler, André Laplante, Lee Kum Sing, Angela Chang, Arthur Rowe ,and Edmund Battersby. Chamber coaching includes those of Grammy award winner, Marietta Simpson; cellist, Eric Kim; flutist, Thomas Robertello; members of the Lafayette String Quartet; clarinetist, Patricia Kostek; and tenor, Benjamin Butterfield. Yuki has been recognized for her solo and chamber work both nationally and internationally. Her studies and performance tours have taken her across Canada and around the globe, most notably with performances in New York City, Salzburg, Tokyo, and London.
By the time Yuki had received her Bachelor of Music in Performance from the University of Victoria, she had co-released a CD A Celebration of Canadian Music, become the official student representative for Canada's Premier "All Steinway School", received the Johann Strauss Scholarship, made her debut performance in New York City and won the University's Concerto Competition, culminating in an inspired performance of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1, Op. 23 with the University Concert Orchestra, conducted by Hungarian maestro, János Sándor.
Yuki's conducting debut was made in Ottawa, Canada at the age of sixteen where she also performed as a piano soloist with the Victoria Consort. After several consecutive years of placing first in chamber music for both local, provincial, and national levels of Performing Arts competitions, several solo concerto opportunities arose, including performing with the Civic Orchestra of Victoria (Chopin Piano Concerto in E Minor & Beethoven's Triple Concerto), conducted by Dr. George Corwin. She was a National finalist for the Canadian Music Competition in Sherbrooke, Quebec and won 2nd place at the National Music Festival of Canada. Most recently, Yuki's conducting placed her as assistant répétiteur and assistant conductor for Goldsmiths, University of London's productions of Dido and Aeneas and Suor Angelica.
During her undergraduate degree, she continued to promote the release of her CD featuring all Canadian Music and performances with members of the Victoria Symphony. Yuki's undergraduate degree was generously funded by the President's Choice Scholarship, Cathcart Bursary, Dogwood Scholarship, and B.C. Arts Council Scholarship. She won 2nd place for her solo performance in New York at the Bradshaw & Buono International Piano Competition, received full scholarships to attend masterclasses at the Toronto International Music Academy and Festival and was awarded the Johann Strauss Scholarship to attend the Universität Mozarteum, where she studied with Rolf Plagge & Olivier Gardon.
Her Master's Degree took her to Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, where she studied with Edmund Battersby and was awarded the Artistic Excellence Award for two consecutive years. While there, she was certified through the Piano Pedagogy for Young Pianists Program and went on to teach for the University in that capacity. Her graduating solo recital at Indiana was unanimously attended by all piano faculty.
Her passion has brought her to the Royal College of Music in London where she is currently working on her Music Ph.D. Research Degree, under the supervision of Natasha Loges, Mai Kawabata, and Danny Driver. Yuki considers her current research as an extension of the Canadian Composers project from 2008, that is, she sees its’ potential for global impact in decentering the focus and acting “as a vehicle to disseminate composer from the Romantic Era that are often overshadowed by the titans of the century.”
www.yukitampohinton.com
Joyce Ellwood studied at the Victoria Conservatory of Music under James Hunter,at the Peabody Institute in Baltimore, MD, and with Harvey Shapiro at the Johannesson Summer Festival in Victoria. A member of the Victoria Symphony Orchestra since 1974, Joyce has also played with the Pacific Baroque Orchestra for 8 years and continues to perform regularly on baroque cello.She has made frequent appearances with the Island Chamber Players.
Praised for her " meltingly beautiful solos" The Detroit News and for performances of " depth and insight" Times Colonist, Cellist Pamela Highbaugh Aloni has enjoyed performing as a chamber musician in North America and Europe. For over 22 years, Pamela has performed as a co-founding member of the Lafayette String Quartet, Artists-in-Residence at the University of Victoria where she teaches both cello and chamber music courses. In addition she performs in various chamber music series and as principal cellist with the Galiano Ensmble. With the quartet he has recorded compact discs for the Dorian,, CBC and AdLar labels, has been heard on NPR's St. Paul Sunday Morning and can be regularly heard on the CBC radio two. In this performance she is performing on a Hieronymus Amati II cello made in 1690 which is in the collection of the University of Saskatchewan.
Lanny Pollet teaches flute and orchestration at the School of Music, University of Victoria and performs regularly in chamber music, in orchestra and as soloist. He is featured, with pianist, Bruce Vogt, on the CD Poetic License. Mr. Pollet has published transcriptions for woodwind ensembles ( Berlioz's Roman Carnival Overture for woodwind quintet) and composes ( Poems of Reminiscence by Thomas Hardy for SATB choir and piano). Other interests include early music performance. He is also quite active as a singer, assisting his wife, Frances Pollet, at First Metropolitan United Church.
Jennifer Whittle began her violin studies in Portland, Oregon at the age of 10. After high school, she traveled to Los Angeles to study under Lyndon Taylor at the University of Southern California. While in Los Angeles, Jennifer performed under conductors such as Sergui Commisiona, John Williams, and Carl St. Clair and participated in master classes with the Ysaye, Takacs and Emerson String Quartets.
Jennifer lays regularly with the Portland Opera, Oregon Ballet, and Victoria Symphony. As a chamber musician, she has performed many concerts in the United States and Canada. She has recently finished a Master's degree in Violin Performance at the University of Victoria.
Notable performances include those with members of the Symphony orchestras: of the National Ballet of Canada, Montreal, Edmonton, NHK, and Victoria. Toshiko is still active in performing chamber music with members of the University of Victoria’s Music Faculty and with members of the Victoria Symphony Orchestra.
Canadian-Japanese musician, Yuki Tampo-Hinton has charmed audiences world-wide as a piano soloist, chamber musician, and conductor. Born in Victoria, B.C, she began piano lessons with her mother, Toshiko Tampo, at the tender age of three. Her musical pursuit has afforded her the privilege of studying with many notable artists, including Menahem Pressler, André Laplante, Lee Kum Sing, Angela Chang, Arthur Rowe ,and Edmund Battersby. Chamber coaching includes those of Grammy award winner, Marietta Simpson; cellist, Eric Kim; flutist, Thomas Robertello; members of the Lafayette String Quartet; clarinetist, Patricia Kostek; and tenor, Benjamin Butterfield. Yuki has been recognized for her solo and chamber work both nationally and internationally. Her studies and performance tours have taken her across Canada and around the globe, most notably with performances in New York City, Salzburg, Tokyo, and London.
By the time Yuki had received her Bachelor of Music in Performance from the University of Victoria, she had co-released a CD A Celebration of Canadian Music, become the official student representative for Canada's Premier "All Steinway School", received the Johann Strauss Scholarship, made her debut performance in New York City and won the University's Concerto Competition, culminating in an inspired performance of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1, Op. 23 with the University Concert Orchestra, conducted by Hungarian maestro, János Sándor.
Yuki's conducting debut was made in Ottawa, Canada at the age of sixteen where she also performed as a piano soloist with the Victoria Consort. After several consecutive years of placing first in chamber music for both local, provincial, and national levels of Performing Arts competitions, several solo concerto opportunities arose, including performing with the Civic Orchestra of Victoria (Chopin Piano Concerto in E Minor & Beethoven's Triple Concerto), conducted by Dr. George Corwin. She was a National finalist for the Canadian Music Competition in Sherbrooke, Quebec and won 2nd place at the National Music Festival of Canada. Most recently, Yuki's conducting placed her as assistant répétiteur and assistant conductor for Goldsmiths, University of London's productions of Dido and Aeneas and Suor Angelica.
During her undergraduate degree, she continued to promote the release of her CD featuring all Canadian Music and performances with members of the Victoria Symphony. Yuki's undergraduate degree was generously funded by the President's Choice Scholarship, Cathcart Bursary, Dogwood Scholarship, and B.C. Arts Council Scholarship. She won 2nd place for her solo performance in New York at the Bradshaw & Buono International Piano Competition, received full scholarships to attend masterclasses at the Toronto International Music Academy and Festival and was awarded the Johann Strauss Scholarship to attend the Universität Mozarteum, where she studied with Rolf Plagge & Olivier Gardon.
Her Master's Degree took her to Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, where she studied with Edmund Battersby and was awarded the Artistic Excellence Award for two consecutive years. While there, she was certified through the Piano Pedagogy for Young Pianists Program and went on to teach for the University in that capacity. Her graduating solo recital at Indiana was unanimously attended by all piano faculty.
Her passion has brought her to the Royal College of Music in London where she is currently working on her Music Ph.D. Research Degree, under the supervision of Natasha Loges, Mai Kawabata, and Danny Driver. Yuki considers her current research as an extension of the Canadian Composers project from 2008, that is, she sees its’ potential for global impact in decentering the focus and acting “as a vehicle to disseminate composer from the Romantic Era that are often overshadowed by the titans of the century.”
www.yukitampohinton.com
Joyce Ellwood studied at the Victoria Conservatory of Music under James Hunter,at the Peabody Institute in Baltimore, MD, and with Harvey Shapiro at the Johannesson Summer Festival in Victoria. A member of the Victoria Symphony Orchestra since 1974, Joyce has also played with the Pacific Baroque Orchestra for 8 years and continues to perform regularly on baroque cello.She has made frequent appearances with the Island Chamber Players.
Praised for her " meltingly beautiful solos" The Detroit News and for performances of " depth and insight" Times Colonist, Cellist Pamela Highbaugh Aloni has enjoyed performing as a chamber musician in North America and Europe. For over 22 years, Pamela has performed as a co-founding member of the Lafayette String Quartet, Artists-in-Residence at the University of Victoria where she teaches both cello and chamber music courses. In addition she performs in various chamber music series and as principal cellist with the Galiano Ensmble. With the quartet he has recorded compact discs for the Dorian,, CBC and AdLar labels, has been heard on NPR's St. Paul Sunday Morning and can be regularly heard on the CBC radio two. In this performance she is performing on a Hieronymus Amati II cello made in 1690 which is in the collection of the University of Saskatchewan.
Lanny Pollet teaches flute and orchestration at the School of Music, University of Victoria and performs regularly in chamber music, in orchestra and as soloist. He is featured, with pianist, Bruce Vogt, on the CD Poetic License. Mr. Pollet has published transcriptions for woodwind ensembles ( Berlioz's Roman Carnival Overture for woodwind quintet) and composes ( Poems of Reminiscence by Thomas Hardy for SATB choir and piano). Other interests include early music performance. He is also quite active as a singer, assisting his wife, Frances Pollet, at First Metropolitan United Church.
Jennifer Whittle began her violin studies in Portland, Oregon at the age of 10. After high school, she traveled to Los Angeles to study under Lyndon Taylor at the University of Southern California. While in Los Angeles, Jennifer performed under conductors such as Sergui Commisiona, John Williams, and Carl St. Clair and participated in master classes with the Ysaye, Takacs and Emerson String Quartets.
Jennifer lays regularly with the Portland Opera, Oregon Ballet, and Victoria Symphony. As a chamber musician, she has performed many concerts in the United States and Canada. She has recently finished a Master's degree in Violin Performance at the University of Victoria.