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Luo Tianze is a passionate Saxophonist who graduated at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA) with Bachelors Degree. Aside from music, Bryan likes gardening and playing chess. Bryan has also ventured into other genres, as he was a member of a Heavy Metal/ Math Rock band, T-Rex. With this band, he played for various festivals such as the Getai Soul Festival in 2015 and the Singapore International Jazz Festival in 2016. Aside from that, Bryan was part of the band The Warriors, led by Tim De Cotta. He performed with JASSO at the London International Jazz Festival in 2017 and a the Bangkok International Jazz Festival in 2019. He then discovered Jazz when he joined the Singapore Polytechnic Jazz Band, where he studied under Joshua Wan, the composer of NDP Song 'My Island Home'.īryan has been fortunate to perform at many great venues with Jazz Association of Singapore Orchestra (JASSO). He first picked up the saxophone in secondary school when he joined the school band. His music education started when he was 9 years old and he was studying bass guitar under Din Safari. :-)īryan graduated in Jazz Performance in Lasalle College of the Arts. Having travelled extensively throughout her studies abroad, Michellina has a big passion for languages she speaks French, English, Mandarin and a little pieces of everything else including Spanish, Dutch, German, Italian, Slovenian, Croatian, Japanese, Korean, Thai, list goes on. In 2016, she was featured in the Singapore local newspaper, Lian He Zao Bao and was broadcasted on the influential Mediacorp Channel 8 Television program Star Awards 2016. She has received many accolades including the Welsford Smithers Memorial Travelling Scholarship, First Prize of the Hugo Stockigt Award at the CLASAX Performance Competition 2015 and the coveted First Prize of the MCM Chamber Music Competition 2014. She graduated with a Master of Music studying with Arno Bornkamp at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, a Bachelor of Music (Performance) with First Class Honours from the University of Melbourne, Melbourne Conservatorium of Music (MCM) and the Diplôme d’Etudes Musicales (DEM) at the Conservatoire de Bordeaux Jacques Thibaud, Bordeaux, France. Michellina Chan is a Singaporean saxophonist. Hughes’ teaching method consists of a consistent and adaptive growth mindset, the development of repeatable skill, and performing repertoire and studies relevant to both the classical and jazz genres, utilizing techniques required of musicians in modern performance and modern improvisation E J also enjoys finding good food and staying active with his wife Carol. Currently EJ is employed at both Singapore Raffles Music College and Flute and Music Academy (FAMA) teaching modules and private lessons.įor health and well being E J spends time working on overall fitness, playing chess, and reading. As an educator Hughes has taught privately throughout his career including both as a university jazz saxophone lecturer and public school band director.

COLLEGE JUNIO FLUTE REPERTOIRE PROFESSIONAL

Starting his professional career at the age of 18, Hughes performed with the Temptations, later having opportunities to play with Sam Rivers RivBea Orchestra, Speech/(Arrested Development), Jennifer Holiday (Dream Girls), and many award winning professional bands while residing in the cities of New York, Orlando, Atlanta, and Singapore. E J later earned a Master’s Degree from Georgia State University in jazz pedagogy in 2003 after living in New York City and Orlando where he also studied privately and many notable music artists gathering insights on jazz saxophone sound, technique, and harmony. Hughes was awarded a tuition scholarship to Valdosta State University where he attended from 1989-1993 earning a degree in saxophone and clarinet performance with primary focus in classical repertoire. He is also a Selmer Paris Artist. Watch his playing on youtubeĮ J Hughes is a professional saxophonist and woodwind instructor with over 35 years of performing and teaching experience. Leslie currently teaches the saxophone studio at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts and maintains a private saxophone studio in Singapore, where he teaches and promote classical saxophone in the Southeast Asia region. He has performed with various musical groups such as the Academies Festival Orchestra, SAF Music and Drama Company and Singapore Jazz Orchestra.He founded the Amigo Saxophone Quartet in 2008, a group which has represented Asia in the 15th and 16th World Saxophone Congress.

Leslie served as the principal saxophonist of the University of Wyoming Wind Ensemble and teaches major and non-major saxophone students. Leslie was the first international undergraduate student to graduate from the Mahidol University, College of Music (B.M, 2010). Leslie graduated from the University of Wyoming (M.M,2012), where he serve as the graduate teaching assistant of the University of Wyoming saxophone studio.

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