Samuel HE, Clarinet
Maggie Lu, Piano
Samuel He, clarinet
Samuel Shanbo He was born in 1994 in Victoria BC and began piano at age 6 and clarinet at age 11. He is the winner of the 2017 BC Provincial Festival for senior woodwinds, a prize winner with the Vancouver Westcoast Musical Society, and has been awarded a number of honors and scholarships, most notably the prestigious British Columbia Graduate Scholarship. A full-time professional musician, Samuel is a member of the Naden Band of the Royal Canadian Navy.
As a diverse musician, Samuel has attended festivals such as Domaine Forget, the Vancouver Symphony Orchestral Institute, and the Beijing International Music Festival Academy, and has performed in masterclasses for such musicians as Yehuda Gilad, Keith Adam Lipson, and Carlos Ferreira. Samuel holds a masters degree from the University of British Columbia, and his primary teachers include Patricia Kostek, Jose Franch-Ballester, Eric Abramovitz, and Sam Boutris.
In his free time Samuel enjoys playing video games, and between 2013-2015 was signed as a professional gamer (StarCraft2) for the premier American organization compLexity Gaming, a subsidiary of the Dallas Cowboys football team. In 2018, he was one of 12 North Americans to qualify to attend the Blade and Soul world championship qualifiers at ESL studios in Leicester, England, and in 2021 was awarded from hundreds of applicants a $10,000 USD esports scholarship+apprenticeship by the Association of Pacific Rim Universities and YESports Hong Kong esports company.
Maggie Lu, piano
Maggie’s journey in music began when she was 4 years old, with her first lessons in piano. Since then, she has completed her ARCT piano diploma at age 12 and a UBC degree in music at age 18. As a teenager, she became the youngest Canadian composer to be published in the Royal Conservatory of Music curriculum. Her original music has been heard by over half a million people and described by industry-leading musicians as “incredible” and “outstanding”. Maggie was also honored to be featured at the national Congress for the Humanities, the Sonic Boom music festival, and twice at the West Coast Composers Symposium.
This recital is generously sponsored by VWMS member Tony Roper.
| "Un'aura amorosa" from "Cosi fan tutte" | W. A. Mozart |
| (1756 - 1791)) | |
| Time Pieces, Op. 43 for Clarinet and Piano | Robert Muczynski | I. Allegro risoluto | (1929 - 2010) |
| II. Andante espressivo | |
| III. Allegro Moderato | |
| IV. Andante molto - Allegro | |
| Jiangnan in Misty Rain | Wu Na |
| Clarinet Sonata in F minor, Op. 120, No. 1 | Johannes Brahms | I. Allegro appassionato | (1833 - 1897) |
| II. Andante un poco adagio | |
| III. Allegro grazioso | |
| IV. Vivace |