PJ Music Studios

Danae shared one of her original songs on Sunday. I know some of you wanted to hear it - and here it is! I hope it blesses you.

Sunday Morning Service June 9 2024

Very excited to announce that PJ Music Studios student Danae Kong was awarded a $10,000 grant from the Canada Council for the Arts to attend the European American Musical Alliance (EAMA) in Paris. She will be studying music composition this summer at EAMA, in the methodology of Nadia Boulanger.

You can follow Danae’s musical journeys on…
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/danaekong/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61556407125611
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0g6y5_3o8l7LBLD4spzERw

So grateful to the .council for supporting Danae in this summer of studying music composition.

So excited to study at the European American Musical Alliance in a very special city this summer! I’m incredibly grateful to the Lotfi Family for supporting my studies through a tuition scholarship, and the Canada Council for the Arts for making this summer of education possible through an Explore and Create Professional Development grant. #bringingtheartstolife @canada.council

Danae shares some of her artistic process:

How I Write Music

We are just over a week away from sharing this music with you! Come be inspired!
Meet Danae Kong - Soprano
Danae began her musical journey at the age of four and wrote her first piece of music at age six. From that time until now, she has been growing in piano, voice, and theory skills, as well as enjoying composing. A special thank you to Pamela Smirl for her devoted teaching and guidance.

New Discovery! Project Gutenberg has loads of music and music history!

Letters of Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy from 1833 to 1847 by Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by Project Gutenberg.

PJ Music Studio student Danae Kong is featured as a composer with the Victoria Symphony. Hear her story and her music:

Medieval Sea - Danae Kong: vsNEW Danae Kong describes her artistic process, her experience working with the symphony musicians in the Victoria Symphony New Explorations Workshop (vsNEW), and...

‘Music has a way of finding the big, invisible moving pieces inside our hearts and souls and helping us figure out the position of things inside us.’ Karl Paulnack

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Victoria Symphony's Young Composers! Fantastic display of our young talent. https://victoriasymphony.ca/watch-listen/ -young-composers
Click on the link below and you can hear Danae Kong, one of PJ Music's students, composition for: basson, trombone, tuba, violin and vibraphone played on the piano.

Watch & Listen – Victoria Symphony Canada In the meantime, please join us in thanking all those who are supporting us during this time. Our donors are our lifeline, and our sponsors are businesses that deserve everyone’s extra support right now. We appreciate them very much, and know you do, too: https://victoriasymphony.ca/our-sponsors/.

We would like to keep your children's minds and musical enjoyment active.

We have online teaching available for the students. We would be happy to teach them on line until this virus pandemic is over. Would this work for you?

We also are being very vigilant with hand washing, cleaning of instruments, keeping distances, using different instruments for demonstration purposes. Eg teacher on one piano, student on the other and of course washing the keys inbetween the students. You may choose this method or online...whatever your preference.

We also have our home visit teaching .... with vigilant hand washing and distance kept.

Students could keep their times or arrange more convenient times if needed.

Please email or phone Pamela Smirl at 2502139343 or [email protected].
or
Rina Elnahas at 2502138283 or [email protected]
or
Michael Smirl at 2502139635 or [email protected]
Musically,

Pamela Smirl
Director

Give the Gift of Music - We have Gift Certificates available ...contact Pam Smirl...at 2502139343....or [email protected] to arrange for a personalized gift certificate.