Staff & groups
Yadong Guan
M.Mus. (Musical composition), Laval University. Quebec , Canada.
B.Mus. (Music), Central University for Nationalities, Beijing, China.
Music Instructor, Carleton University
Hailing from Beijing, Yadong Guan is a true musical ambassador who brilliantly masters the pipa, one of the Silk Road hidden treasures with impressive virtuosity, offering audiences a truly exotic experience. Since her arrival in Canada in 1997, the pipa virtuoso, who completed her Master degree studies in music composition at l'Université Laval, has adapted a wide variety of Western music to her instrument. The elegant virtuoso has toured Canada, China etc. on several occasions. She is teaching pipa and conducting Chinese ensemble in Carleton University.
Her exceptional contribution to the development of Chinese culture has won her several prestigious accolades, including a ministerial prize, awarded at the UN World Women’s Conference in 1995. At the Moncton Film Festival 2010 she received the award of “The best original scores” for the music of the movie <They killed my cat>, and also received the award “Outstanding artist 2010” given by the Toronto Fairchild TV and Talentvision TV. Her compositing <Grandma> recently received Gold Award for the Children’s song creation contest given by the Capital Normal Conservatory in China.
Yadong Guan site: https://www.yadongguan.com/
Carleton University site: https://carleton.ca/music/people/yadong-guan/
Zhuomin Liu
Zhuomin Liu Zhuomin Liu graduated from Xinghai Conservatory of Music in China and majored in music composition. She is a Chinese Canadian musician, RCM registered advanced specialist piano teacher. Being a music composer, apart from dedicating to piano teaching, she created a lot of music products in different style over the past decade . She also worked as a artistic directior for many successful local city and/or community music shows .
Zhuomin Liu has been cooperating with Guan Yadong studio since 2016. Being the arranger of the original song "grandmother's hug", she mixed vocal with different instruments such as piano, cello, violin and Chinese pipa. She explored the amalgamation of Chinese and Western music elements. This art work won the gold medal in the "Beauty Of The Heart" children's song creation contest in 2017 Year.
We hope she can create more classic works for the public in the future.
Patricia Kaiser
Patricia Kaiser is a trained vocal music teacher with 19 years of elementary teaching experience, primarily with the Ottawa Catholic School Board. She has extensive experience performing in a variety of choirs, including Ensemble Calixa Lavalée under the direction of Laurence Ewashko. She has also performed in and served as music director for several amateur musical theatre productions. Patricia currently sings with the Canterbury Trebles women’s choir, who have achieved 2nd place in Canada at the national level of competition.
Patricia's passion is children's choral music, and she has been directing children's choirs, both in Canada and in Germany, over the past 18 years. Patricia has worked with OCSB choirs since 2006, and is in her 10th year as director of the Young Voices Choir. The Young Voices Choir is the training choir for the OCSB Children's Choir, and is comprised of approximately 50 singers from 9-13 years old. Under Patricia’s direction, the Young Voices have often achieved first place in their class in the Kiwanis Music Festival, and have been recipients of the Centennial Choir Award.
OCSB Young Voices Choir Website: http://choirs.ocsb.ca/young-voices-choir
Shawne Elizabeth
Shawne Elizabeth teaches Classical Voice and Musical Theatre for the SSAC for several years. For Fusion Opera Company Ooh Lah Lah Opera, Shawne created characters for four topical shows and three children’s operas. She soloed with Opera Lyra Ottawa, Ottawa Pocket Opera, Opera in Piazza, Ottawa Savoy Society, Opera Breva, Theatre Lyrique de Hull, Brahms Choir, Choeur Classique de l’Outaouais, Carleton University Choir and Blackburn Chorus.
Shawne specializes in light French and Viennese coloratura repertoire, and interprets French and German Art Song with sensitivity. She starred in over a dozen operettas by Offenbach, Sullivan, Lehar, J. Strauss, and Le Coq. Sacred performances include standard works like Schubert Mass in G, Vivaldi Gloria, Haydn’s Harmony Mass and The Creation, Handel’s Messiah, Mozart Requiem and Mass in C, and the Rutter and Fauré Requiems.
Shawne appeared with the National Art Centre Orchestra, The Gatineau Symphony, The Virtuosi Orchestra, The Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonic, The Karlovy Vary Orchestra, Thirteen Strings and the Ottawa Chamber Orchestra. She conducts vocal workshops and has a private studio in her home.
Shawne Elizabeth site: http://www.shawneelizabeth.com.
Carleton University site: https://carleton.ca/music/people/shawne-elizabeth/
表演级班
Performance level group
**Due to the pandemic, our performance level group is made up of members from Dragons and A Cappella groups.
Performance level group(9 years and up, equivalent of made up of members from Dragons and A Cappella) will meet virtually on Tuesdays from 4:30-5:30 pm.
Group rehearsals will include a variety of activities, including vocal technique through warm-ups, learning repertoire, improving ear training and sight singing skills, team-building activities, and developing overall musicianship.
In addition to weekly online group rehearsals, each chorister will also have the option to receive 3 individual one-on-one training with Patricia over the term. These individual sessions will last 15 minutes each and will focus on specific performance skills, tailored to the needs of each child.
**受疫情影响，Dragons和A Cappella两班合为表演级班.
学员构成： 适合9岁以上，有一定音乐基础，相当于C5的Dragons和A Cappella学员级别.
授课老师： Patricia K.
时间： 每周二下午.
课程安排：
包括声乐热身技巧，多语种演唱，听觉训练和视唱训练，团队互动，整体提高音乐水平和团队建设。除了每周进行的在线小组彩排外，学生还可以选择与Patricia老师3次一对一课程。这些单独的课程每节将持续15分钟，并且将针对每个孩子的需求着重于特定的表演技能。 详细内容请参阅报名表内PDF链接。
准备级班网课
Prep level class
**Due to the pandemic, our Prep level group is made up of members from previous Prep and Lions groups .
Prep level group (5 years and up, equivalent of made up of members from Prep and Lion ) will be using Zoom until it is safe and permitted to return to group learning. Emphasis will shift from focusing on Concert Performance to Online Learning through fun and interactive activities.
Occasional one on one learning may be available. Zoom activities will be more interactive with some individual sing back, call and response songs, fingerplays, action songs and rhymes, body rhythms, sticks, and teacher and student modeling as well as occasional worksheets to do at home during the week.
The following elements of music will be the main focus: Beat, Rhythm, Pitch, Melody, Dynamics. This year we will add more sight-reading, interval recognition, and ear training to the group.
**受疫情影响，Prep和Lions两班合为准备级班.
学员构成：适合6岁以上，相当于C5的prep和Lion学员级别.
授课老师： Shawne E.
时间: 每周日下午2：00-3：00 Zoom meeting。
课程安排：
教学内容着重于声乐和乐理基础的训练，通过有趣的对唱， 一问一答式乐句回复，手指和身体语言，律动性强的儿歌等，发挥Shawne老师声乐方面的强项，提高演唱技巧，音准，节奏感和乐理知识，同时不失趣味性和娱乐性。孩子们将通过学习各种形式的歌曲，了解音乐语言，提高记忆力。增进互动和团队合作能力。 详细内容请参阅报名表内PDF链接。
乐理视唱练耳小班
Sight Reading Ear Training
学员构成： 6岁以上，或成人
授课老师： 管亚东
学期及课时: 一对一，30分钟/次. 具体时间与老师商议。
根据加拿大皇家音乐学院考级的教材，在学生听力，音准和乐理知识上全方面的教学。年龄不限。学生们可以在有趣的学习过程中专注的解决自己的问题，也可以与音乐考级同步。
成年人班
Adult Group
C5在疫情期间举办了成年人合唱班，通过合唱学习音乐知识，体验声乐艺术，放松调节心情。课程深受大家喜爱。我们将继续举办成年人合唱班，让我们互相陪伴一起度过这段時光！
适合人群:
喜爱合唱，渴望音乐入门的成年人朋友。零基础或有合唱经验均可报名。
内容:
发声技巧， 音准，识谱和节奏训练。讲解合唱作品的内容和风格，排练大家喜欢的歌曲。
特色:
使用音轨方法协助练习声部，音准和节奏; 并会安排声乐专家课。