本中心所有導師均經過嚴格考核並經由本中心駐校藝術家蔡崇力先生親自挑選。所有導師除需要持有本港或海外音樂學院的專業認可文憑資格外，更需具有豐富的教學經驗。 中心駐校藝術家會定期與導師們進行研討會，了解中心各學員的學習情況及進度，循加改進及編制適合每位學員不同特質的課程。而本著終身學習，鼓勵導師時刻增值，中心會安排專業藝術家為導師進行講座，進一步全面提高導師質素。
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Miss Bronwen Naish
DetailMiss Bronwen Naish
For over 20 years, Bronwen Naish was well known on stage, TV and radio for her innovative, elegant and entertaining performances on solo double bass, She toured extensively with her popular and humorous programmes in a wide range of musical styles, commissioning many new works for the bass, often dramatic and unconventional.
Her musical entertainments for primary schools were particularly popular and were welcomed throughout the UK and in Australia. Her autobiographical book ‘Another String To My Bow’, a lighthearted account of the life of a busy mother and musician, was published in 1981.
She taught extensively, individually, in master classes, in workshops, the techniques of the great American virtuoso, Gary Karr.
Her 20 years as an examiner for the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music has been the focus of her professional career, after injury brought retirement from the concert platform. A significant number of extended foreign tours for the Associated Board, covering Malaysia, Indonesia, South Africa, Botswana, Macau and many in Hong Kong, have given Bronwen a breadth of experience and knowledge. Her interest has always been in developing the skills necessary to put candidates at their ease, particularly the youngest, as they approach their important examinations. She strives throughout, to encourage these youngsters to gain confidence in themselves, with her easy and calm manner.
This cheerful approach will be prominent in developing the new exams coaching service in Hong Kong which is now her focus. She will impart vital knowledge, confidence and enjoyment to prospective candidates, bringing success at all levels. Candidates thus prepared, will find the exam experience is happy and enjoyable, leading to increased success at the following levels. -
Miss Jean Burrow
DetailMiss Jean Burrow
Jean Burrow has been a music examiner for over 30 years and has travelled extensively in that capacity, especially in the Far East and in New Zealand. She was also appointed to the panel of Theory Paper markers in 1978,
She studied the piano with York Bowen, and singing with Flora Nielsen at the Royal Academy of Music in London. In her final year, she was the only student without perfect pitch to be awarded the highest grade in Aural Training.
After a year at London University, she gained a Music Teachers’ Certificate with Distinction and began a career in Education, teaching music to Advanced and University entrance level. At the age of 24 she became Head of Music at Notting Hill and Ealing High School for Girls.
She lived in West Africa for 3 years, where her 2 daughters were born. She ran the University Choral Society, formed the Accra Madrigal Group, and performed extensively on television and on the concert platform in duo with a professional Recorder player.
Choral work has been an abiding interest, and on returning to UK, she formed Children’s Choirs, and an A Capella adult choir, all of which performed to high acclaim. She sang with The Bach Choir for many years and was appointed to train the Ripieno Choir by Sir David Willcocks.
She continues to train choirs, to adjudicate at music festivals, to act in an advisory capacity, and to coach instrumentalists.
Her breadth of experience both as an examiner and as a teacher have made her wish to use her expertise to help examination candidates feel poised and in control in the examination; her strength in aural work, and in viva discussions should be of tremendous benefit to the candidates, and put them into and advantageous position.
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Prof. Tomislav Nedelkovic-Baynov
DetailProf. Tomislav Nedelkovic-Baynov
Tomislav Nedelkovic-Baynov was born in 1958 in Sofia, Bulgaria, to a musical family. His first onstage performance was at the age of five; one year later he won first Prize in the national piano competition at Prowadia, Bulgaria.
Prof. Tomislav Baynov completed his piano and composing studies at the Academies of Music in Sofia (Bulgaria), and Trossingen (Germany), and is a holder of a Concert Diploma. He is the winner of several international piano awards (Bulgaria, Italy, Germany, Portugal, Czechoslovakia), and is the winner of the 1990 “Sergei Rachmaninov Competition in Morcone, Italy. Between 1981 (when he first moved to Germany), and 1986 he has performed as a soloist at the West Berlin Philharmonic Hall a total of twenty-nine times. Prof. Baynov has been on the jury of international competitions in Italy, Germany, Bulgaria, Romania, Canada, and the Czech Republic, and is the holder of honorary degrees from Quing Dao and Chu Fu Universities in China. In addition to his teaching engagement at the Academy of Music in Trossingen, and holding Master Classes in Germany, Italy, Bulgaria, Greece, and Slovakia. Prof. Baynov has performed solo, ensemble, chamber, and orchestral concerts spanning five continents, with an extensive discography and broadcast history worldwide.
His passion for multi-piano works is demonstrated by his founding, in 1989, of the Baynov Piano Ensemble; which is dedicated to rarely heard works for several pianos. This passion is also evidenced by the (until recently) only “International Piano Competition for Sic Hands”, of which he is president.
Tomislav Nedelkovic-Baynov生於1958年蘇菲亞‧保加利亞，生於音樂世家，五歲在台上表演，六歲贏得全國鋼琴比賽金獎。
Tomislav教授畢業於德國國立學院及蘇菲亞音樂學院，並獲取演奏文憑，他在多國國家贏取多個國際鋼琴獎項，包括保加利亞﹑意大利﹑德國﹑葡萄牙﹑原捷克，並於1990年度意大利舉行的拉赫曼尼諾夫鋼琴比賽獲得金獎，在1981至1986年期間，他在德國西柏林管弦樂團演奏廳，作了合共29次的鋼琴獨奏表演，他是多個國家音樂比賽評審，包括意大利﹑羅馬尼亞﹑保加利亞﹑加拿大﹑捷克，他在中國青島大學獲取榮譽院士，此外，他除了作音樂學院教授外，還於德國﹑意大利﹑保加利亞﹑希臘及羅馬尼亞﹑斯洛伐克多個國家舉行大師班，他亦於五大洲舉行獨奏會﹑聯彈音樂會﹑室樂以及管弦樂團演奏會，他亦錄有數張唱片以及常在電台廣播節目中演奏。
他醉心於鋼琴數重奏作品並於1989 年成立了 Baynov-Piano-Ensemble，為了推廣多重奏的鋼琴音樂作品，他現亦是德國國際六手聯彈比賽的會長。