New faces will be on faculty at Coquitlam’s Place des Arts in the next academic year following the retirements and departures of several staff.
Meredith Bates (violin), Maria Hwa Yeong Jung (piano), Genevieve MacKay (violin), Sarab Shamoun (violin), Tina Nguyen (piano) and Aouda Yen (piano and flute) are now accepting new students for next season.
And the teachers will be offer trial lessons starting in September.
Bates has taught violin, viola and fiddle — and led ensembles — for the past two decades and has certificates in Orff-Schulwerk and The Suzuki Method.
Jung, a recent graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music, was previously on the University of Toronto faculty of music as a vocal coach and staff accompanist.
MacKay has played with the Lions Gate Sinfonia, Plastic Acid Orchestra, Vancouver Chamber Choir and Vancouver Film Orchestra, to name a few, while Shamoun has her teaching diploma in music and a bachelor of music education from Al Baath University, in Syria.
German native Nguyen has her master’s degree in concert piano and chamber music from the Robert Schumann University in Dusseldorf and Yen has her master’s of education degree in arts education from SFU and bachelor of performing arts from Capilano University.
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