Arts & Culture
Local concert pianist and teacher, Wei Tu offers a piano concert with her students Thursday, Nov 3.
Photo courtesy Wei Tu
A welcoming concert
Published 2:25 PDT, Thu November 1, 2018
Last Updated: 2:12 PDT, Wed May 12, 2021
Music transcends cultures. For anyone who
loves piano music, both classical and contemporary, here is a concert for you.
While the teacher grew up in China, she is reaching out to the whole Richmond
community to offer a chance to hear quality live piano music for free this
coming Friday, Nov. 3.
If the last civic election showed us
anything, we all need to make an effort to get to know each other. Music can
build bridges, if we accept the hand that is offered.
The piano concert at the Loewen Concert
Centre in Richmond. It’s more than just a student recital because Wei Tu, a
treasure in China, who now calls our community home, teaches pupils ranging all
the way to concert pianists.
A skilled concert pianist herself, Tu first
fell in love with Canada when she did her masters in music under Philip Cohen
at McGill University in Montreal.
“Mostly I played classical music and my
favourite period is the romantic style such as Chopin. I also like Schumann
very much. I played concerts before I was 35 and after that, most of the time,
I just do the teaching.”
Now, arranging her life so she and her two
daughters can live in Canada full time, Tu has immersed herself in her teaching
career and family life. Living close to Jessie Wowk Elementary, where her
daughter goes to school, Tu is also busy with her baby daughter who gurgled
happily in the background during our interview.
Friday’s concert will feature both classical
and modern music from the western and the eastern repertoire.
One of the musicians is Tu’s 12-year-old
daughter. The second half of the extensive program features adult musicians, some
of the highly skilled pianists who study under Tu.
While most of the evening features her
student, the finale will be Tu’s chance to shine in a duet of Chinese piano
music.
It’s more than just a student recital. It is
a proper concert, Tu says, “Before I have had recitals in my studio. Now, this
one is in a concert hall, the Loewen Piano House.”
Friday, Nov. 3 from 6:30 until 10
p.m. at the Loewen Piano House Music and Art Academy, 1-4 12351 Bridgeport Rd,
Richmond. Admission is free.
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