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Director's Quote of the Day:"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. " Aristotle |
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About the Director
Ringo Chan
Founder and Director of the Hong Kong Flute Centre
and PURE Orchestral Centre and Music Director of the
Hong Kong Flute Centre Flute Orchestra and the
Hong Kong Youth Flute Orchestra, Mr. Chan has been
considered highly active and a major flute figure in Hong
Kong.
Over years, Mr. Chan has been instrumental in bringing
world-renowed flutists and influential flute-related figures
to Hong Kong for a wide variety of flute activities, from
concerts, workshops, masterclasses, summer flute camp to
flute repairing workshops, all contributed to the promotion
of the quality and level of flute playing for the
youngsters, amateur as well as professionals in Hong Kong.
Studied under the tutelage of the world-renowned flutist
Robert Aitken, Mr. Chan received his music education
from Queen's University and the University of
Western Ontario in Canada. Since returning to Hong Kong
in 1991, Mr. Chan has been in great demand as a flute
teacher and as director for a number of flute choirs and
ensembles. In the year 2000, Mr. Chan established the first
flute choir in Hong Kong with complete instrumentation from
the entire flute family for Raimondi College (Secondary
Section). Moreover, Mr. Chan further established the
Hong Kong Flute Centre in 2003 and subsequently the Hong
Kong Flute Centre Flute Orchestra for broader promotion
and further advancement of the arts of the flute.
In 2003, Mr. Chan became the first flutist in Hong Kong to
introduce the contra-bass flute and subcontra-bass
flutes. Moreover, Mr. Chan founded the first Hong
Kong Summer Flute Camp in the summer of 2006 in which he
collaborated with the world-renowned flute pedagogue
Professor Mary Karen Clardy from the University of
North Texas for a week of intensive flute training
programmes. Mr. Chan has been recently appointed by the
National Flute Association of the United States to
become its representative for Asian regions.
Flutists whom Mr. Chan has collaborated with include such
figures as Robert Aitken (Canada/Germany), William
Bennett (United Kingdom), Mary Karen Clardy
(United States), Dieter Flury (Austria), Wil
Offerman (Holland), Emmanuel Pahud (Switerland),
Trevor Wye (United Kingdom). Other artists include
pianists Boris Berman (United States), Gary
Graffman (United States), Peter Frankl (United
Kingdom), Claude Frank (United States), Jacque
Louisser (France), cellist Wang Jin (United
States), conductors Sui Lum (Singapore) and
Wojeich Michniewski (Poland).
As a professional arts administrator and concert manager,
Mr. Chan has been active in the arts scene in Hong Kong
since 1991. He has been instrumental in the organizations of
a number of large-scale musical events such as "MUSICARAMA"
contemporary music festival, International Summer Piano
Institute, International Piano Festival, "Pianorama" concert
series and " Flute Fantastic" concert series, to name a few.
Artists who have worked and collaborated with Mr. Chan, in
additioni to the above, include such figures as flutists
Pierre-Yves Artaud, Dieter Flury, Shigenori Kudo, Wolfgang
Schulz, flute-maker Jim Phelan, clarinettists Peter Schmidl
& Gene Ramsbottom, pianists Boris Berman, Nikolai Demidenko,
Claude Frank, Peter Frankl, Andrei Gavrilov, Gary Graffman,
, Vladimir Ovchinnikov, Mikhaul Rudy, viola Augustin Dumay,
trumpet Marty Berinbaum and I Tromboni, to name a few. From
1998-2000, Mr. Chan was the Secretary of the Hong Kong Arts
Administrators' Association.
As Director for Asian Region of UBC Summer Music English
Institute, Ringo has led over 400 students from both
Hong Kong and Canada to UBC in Vancouver each summer,
providing them with quality education in both Music and
English at a world-class university environment.
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