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THE SWEET magic of
young composer and pianist
Jane Trojan’s new music
splashes forth from her
debut album with the
freshness of a North Shore
mountain stream.

Trojan, who moved to West
Vancouver from Australia at the
age of five, has expressed her love
of Canada and new-found talents
in her first album, The Canada
Magic Suite, a collection of in-
strumental works she both com-
posed and performed.

Despite being schooled in the
traditions of classical piano and
having a childhood desire to be a
concert pianist, Trojan has pro-
duced an album of solo and or-
chestrated piano pieces com-
municating her love of Canada
with listeners of all ages. Fred
Stride was responsible for the
album’s orchestration.

Her classical background and
years of practice have given her the
technique and talent to produce a
high quality product, but it is Tro-
jan’s youth and innocence that
shine through in her compositions.

Canada Magic, the title track,
sparkles with a young woman’s
innocent love of the natural beauty
of her country.

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And at age 20 her composition
First Waltz still holds the warmth
and charm of vouth’s first en-
counter with romance, not just
fond memories of a long Jost mo-
ment.

In fact if there could be any
complaint about the album, Tro-
jan’s work might be considered too
warm, too sweet.

While enticing, her compositions
Tempest and Canada Magic
Reflections don't quite command
the thunder or raw reality of the
raging storm and barren ‘undsa of
Canada’s North. This is owing
perhaps to her relatively sheltered
life, so far restricted to the slopes
of the Coast Mountains.

With typical humility, Trojan
credits much of her success, and
the success of her new album to

teachers Dr. Daniel Bristow, a per-.

former and teacher known con-
tinent-wide, and Lee Kum Sing,
who teaches at the Vancouver
Academy of Music.

Bristow, who describes his rela-
tionship with Trojan as ‘‘an in-
formal friendship about music,”
says Trojan’s music is ‘ta poetic
blend of past and present in the
vibrant enthusiastic sounds of
youth that simultaneously reflect
an excellent classic background in-
geniously set in today’s style.”

Trojan says, while Bristow
helped her make the decision to
make the album, beginning her
association with Lee was the turn-
ing point in her career.

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NEWS photo Stuert Davis

HOLDING UP a copy of her recently released album is West Vancouver's Jane Trojan. She 20-year-old com-
poser wrote the music for The Canada Mapic Suite last year. The album, a celebration of Canada’s natural
beauty, is available at local record shops.

Trojan will spend the next few
months promoting her album, with
help from her father, West Van-
couver realtor Nicholas Trojan,
who is presently acting as Trojan’s
manager.

The Canada Magic Suite,
available in both album and
cassette, is available at the fellow-
ing North Shore outlets: Kelly’s
Park Royal, Ambleside Drugs,
Clader Music, Sweet Video, Video
Stop, Sam the Record Man,
Baron’s Book, Video Etc.

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