Dominic Woo (Ph.D in Violin Performance, Masters in music education. Concertmaster of the Vancouver Metropolitan Orchestra)

Violin Performance Studio (Advanced teaching)

This class is for the students who are aiming towards professional music career. Some of his students have already enrolled to Germany's finest Musikhochschule (University of Music) including Wuerzburg, Mainz, and Dresden. His current students are winners of Fraser Kiwanis Festival and B.C Provincial festival (2011).

The class will be focusing on effective stage performances and competition preparations. Scales, Unaccompanied Bach Sonatas and Violin Concertos will mostly be challenged. Certain technical demanding caprices such as Paganini or Ernst will be used instead of method books.

For those students who are already enrolling in post graduate musical institutes will be expected to learn Violin Concertos and/or Orchestra excerpts for professional orchestra auditions.

Violin Education Studio (Beginner – Intermediate)

For the students who have less experience or new in violin playing will be learning with certain method books such as Suzuki or RCM books. Students will learn to play violin with right rhythms, intonations and most importantly correct hand positions and shapes. RCM and Festival preparations are also to be taught with the request of students.

Biography

A native of Korea, Concertmaster Dominic Woo is an active solo violin player both in Canada and Europe. Winning the 2nd Prize in 2007 Padova International competition, Dominic was a member of Jenaer philharmonie orchestra in Jena, Germany and currently the concertmaster of the Vancouver Metropolitan Orchestra.

Dominic began his musical training with violin at age of six with Prof. J.K. Song in Korea. After his immigration to Canada, he furthered his studies on the violin with Mr. Arthur Ludwig Polson. In Canada, Dominic was a top prize winner in many musical competitions such as the '96 North American Star Quest.

Dominic has earned his bachelor's degree in music from the Musik Hochschule Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy in Leipzig where he studied violin with Prof. Ulrich Klupsch. Throughout his years in Musik Hochschule, he was appointed as a concertmaster under the baton of legendary conductors such as Kurt Masur and Fabio Luisi.

With his Mendelssohn haus debut in Leipzig, Germany in 2004, Dominic was appointed as concertmaster of the music school and associate concertmaster of ARS chamber orchestra of Leipzig. During his Leipzig period, he has also been working with worldly renowned orchestras such as "Gewandhaus Orchester zur Leipzig".

With the graduation, he has auditioned and accepted for both Orchestra Academy position in Musikhochschule "Franz Liszt" Weimar and also for Konzertexamen degree(Ph.D) in Musikhochschule "Carl-Maria Webber" Dresden. In the last season, he was selected in the Konzertexamen ensemble in Dresden Musikhochschule and appointed for a concertmaster. In Dresden Musikhochschule, Dominic has studied with a Gramophone award winner Professor John Holloway and graduated with top honours.

Dominic has also shown his interest in teaching as well and received his educational degree in Musik Hochschule Leipzig in 2006. Later he was assigned as an assistant Professor from his teacher Prof. Ulrich Klupsch.

In the year 2010, Dominic was appointed as one of the violin faculty member in Robert Schumann Music Camp in Schumann-haus, Leipzig. Germany.

Currently, Dominic gives frequent concerts and Master classes in Europe, Asia and North America.