Join us for a captivating violin/piano concert featuring Boson Mo, a Canadian award-winning violinist currently studying in Texas accompanied by celebrated & popular pianist Scott Meek
Date/Time: Jun 1 2017, 10:30 am to 11:30 am
West Vancouver, Silk Purse Arts Centre | Event calendarCost: $15.00
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Our popular Classical Concert Series continues year-round, and features fine performances by renowned performers every Thursday morning at 10:30.
BOSON MO, violin
Boson Mo discovered the violin at the age of seven and has since received numerous national and international distinctions.
Winner of Third Prize at the 2013 Michael Hill International Violin Competition, Boson was named as one of Canada’s “30 under 30 Top Classical Musicians of 2015” by CBC Radio-Canada. As the only Canadian candidate at the 2015 International Tchaikovsky Competition, he was awarded the “Prix Joseph-Rouleau” at the 2010 Montreal International Violin Competition and is a recipient of Canada’s prestigious Sylva Gelber Foundation Award. Additionally, he is a two-time winner of Canada Council for the Arts’ Musical Instrument Bank loan.
Hailed by the Houston Chronicle as having “stole(n) the show…with his rousing assertion of Fauré’s Violin Sonata…” at his Da Camera of Houston début, Boson’s recent performances include those at the Montreal Chamber Music Festival, the Toronto Summer Music Festival, the Swannanoa Chamber Music Festival and Music Mountain Chamber Music Festival. His 2016-17 season includes performances at the Center for Jewish History and Christ & St. Stephen’s Church in New York City, a re-engagement with Da Camera of Houston, while his 2017 summer will see performances at Müzewest of Vancouver, the Montreal Chamber Music Festival, Festival Pontiac Enchanté, etc.
Boson has been featured as Young Artist in Residence of American Public Media’s “Performance Today,” and has been broadcast both nationally in the U.S. as well as internationally on Radio New Zealand and CBC Radio-Canada. He has performed as soloist with the Auckland Philharmonia (New Zealand), Orchestre symphonique de Longueuil (Canada), the CIM Orchestra, and the F.A.C.E. Symphony Orchestra; he has also been featured at the Banff Centre for the Arts, the Montreal Chamber Music Festival, the Aspen Music Festival and School, Début Atlantic, Jeunesses Musicales du Canada, as well as Music@Menlo’s Winter Residency.
As a teenager, Boson received the Canadian Music Educators’ Association’s W. Harvey Award for the Best Small Ensemble Performance, Third Prize at the Concours OSM Standard Life, and First Prize at the Canadian Music Competition. A recipient of the “Prix Joseph-Rouleau” at the 2010 Montreal International Violin Competition, Boson has competed at other major International Violin Competitions such as the Queen Elisabeth (Brussels), Menuhin (Beijing), Indianapolis, and Singapore.
An avid chamber musician, Boson performed as First Violin with the Ensō Quartet as part of their 2016 summer season, and has enjoyed regular trio collaborations with cellist Desmond Hoebig and pianist Andrew Staupe. Additionally, has also performed in recital alongside Vivian Hornik Weilerstein, Paul Katz, Roger Tapping, James Dunham, etc. Boson is an alum of Music@Menlo’s International Program (Bay Area, CA), the Aspen Music Festival and School, the Perlman Music Program (New York), the Masterclasses and Chamber Music Residency at Banff Centre, the International Holland Music Sessions (Netherlands), Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival (Maine), Morningside Music Bridge (Calgary), and the Toronto Summer Music Festival.
A graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Music, Boson is completing a Doctoral degree at the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University under Paul Kantor. Boson currently performs on a violin by Carlo Antonio Tononi (1757), graciously on loan from the Canada Council for the Arts.
Scott Meek
Canadian pianist Scott Meek, first-prize winner of three national competitions (Knigge, Shean, and National Music Festival), has been featured as soloist with the Toronto, Edmonton, Winnipeg Symphonies, as well as the Oberlin Conservatory, and Indiana University Orchestras. Scott has performed under conductors Robert Bernhardt, Glen Cortese, Eric Dudley, William Eddins, Rei Hotoda, David Hoyt, and Charles Olivieri-Munroe, among others. Scott has also won prizes in the Corpus Christi International Competition, World Piano Competition (Cincinnati), and Eckhardt-Gramatté National Music Competition, and has received grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Manitoba Arts Council.
Described by the Winnipeg Free Press as a "consummate musician" who plays with "near-impossible fluidity" and "total physical involvement and passion," Scott has also performed in recital series throughout North America, including University of British Columbia's Noon Hour Recital Series, Capilano University Cap Classics, West Vancouver Community Arts Council, Qualicum Beach Music on Sunday, Valley CrossWay, Women's Musical Club of Winnipeg, and the Millennium Stage at Kennedy Center (Washington, DC). He has collaborated with violin virtuoso Dr. Oleg Pokhanovski in many programs of transcriptions for violin and piano by Pokhanovski himself.
Currently, he is in high demand as a collaborative pianist in the Greater Vancouver area and is the studio accompanist of violin professor emeritus Taras Gabora. In addition, Scott regularly performs piano four-hands recitals with his wife, pianist Clare Yuan, and teaches at various music academies around the city.
Scott began piano studies at the age of six, taking lessons with Carole Pollard in Winnipeg, Manitoba, before enrolling at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, to earn his Bachelor of Music and Bachelor of Arts (East Asian Studies) degrees, studying under Alvin Chow. At the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, Scott received his Master of Music and Doctor of Music degrees, studying under world-renowned pianist and Distinguished Professor, Menahem Pressler.
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