I'ts been a while since i blogged but i'm kinda busy these few weeks so i'll try to make this post short but fun..hehe(^^,)My Event? well, we are still lack of a speaker though but i have to stay calm at this and i dont want to rush into things too much but since the event starts next week i might have to move faster.
She is old enough to choose her own path but me, as her sister will keep on supporting her in everything she does. Her playing is not bad either. Gambatte ne! sofia chan(^^,)
This was taken by my mom during a concert that my sister's school held
Nathan Chan
Seventeen-year-old cellist Nathan Chan demonstrated his talent for music at an early age. Before he was two, he could mimic the styles of conductors he saw on music videos. As a toddler, his imitations were so intuitively musical that he caught the attention of San Francisco Opera Assistant Conductor Sara Jobin. Under her eye, he made his debut as a conductor at age three, leading the San Jose Chamber Orchestra in a set of Mozart variations. This was followed by a guest appearance with the Palo Alto Philharmonic a year later, conducting Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. At five, he began formal music lessons with cellist Irene Sharp.
Nathan Chan has performed as a soloist with the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra, the UK Northern Sinfonia, and the Peninsula Symphony Orchestra; this year he made his London debut with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at the Barbican. He has performed for the Vancouver Recital Society, the Great Eastern International Kids Festival “Prodigies of the World” concert in Singapore, and the Emmy-award winning national radio program From The Top. Mr. Chan has performed benefit concerts for causes such as global warming, the American Alzheimer Association, Friends of Children with Special Needs (autism), and the Foundation for the Fine & Performing Arts. With members of the San Francisco Symphony, he has collaborated in string quartets to help raise money for a local high school. For his contributions to the community, he won the Peninsula Arts Council’s Ray Lorenzato Diamond Arts Award in 2007.
In 2006, Nathan Chan appeared in The Music in Me, a documentary that aired on the HBO network and won the Peabody Award. This program led to a performance in Carnegie Hall and caught the attention of singer Roberta Flack, who invited Mr. Chan to collaborate on her project of Beatles songs for Sony Records. In 2008, he performed at the Museum of Music Making in San Diego at a gala honoring sitar legend Ravi Shankar. Mr. Chan was recently featured in The World’s Greatest Musical Prodigies, a three-part British series documenting a global search for talented musicians under the age of fifteen. In April 2009, Mr. Chan and three other performers gave the world premiere of the Velesslavista Quadruple Concerto, composed for the series by Alexander Prior. Also in 2009, he played a Fourth of July fireworks concert with the San Francisco Symphony at the Shoreline Amphitheatre and was a soloist with the Orchestra, performing excerpts from Dvorák’s Cello Concerto in B minor.
Besides the cello, Nathan Chan plays saxophone, piano, and electric cello. He enjoys ping-pong, badminton, and filmmaking. He is a student at Lick-Wilmerding High School, and is Co-Principal Cellist of the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra. He is a student of Sieun Lin at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.
Pictures and Information are all courtesy from this website : http://nathanchancello.com/
Pretty cool huh? I do admit that i like his style of music. It gives that sort of energy inside of you just wanting to move forward. If you are interested in his music or him, you can log on to the link that i just post up there. (^^,)
Well that's all for now, i'll post some other things later..till then..(^_^)wslm...
