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NORTH Van teen
pianists. Christopher
Chok and Simon
Bodlack are amassing
concert dates like sea-
soned performers.
Both performed Friday

- With the Victoria Symphony
at Royal Theatre in the capital

This evening at 7 p.m.,

..iChok, who is a student at St.
~ Georges School in Vancouver,

“will join the Vancouver
Symphony Orchestra in con-
cert at North Van's
Centennial Theatre, where
he'll perform Mozart's Tivo
Piano Concerto in E Flat
Major with fellow teen Derek

Chew of Coquitlam. Chok,
16, and Bodlack, 14, will join
fellow members of the Donna
Fishwick Piano Ensemble in a
recital June 17 at the
Vancouver Playhouse. Then in
mid-July they're off to
Edmonton for performances

at Isme 2000, the world con- ”

ference of the International
Society for Music Education.

“They're really outstand-
ing — brilliant in school as
well as music, and they’re the
greatest kids,” says their piano
teacher Donna Fishwick,
coordinator of Burnaby’s
Music Man Festival, which is
presenting Sunday’s concert
at Centennial.

Chok is one of five win-

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re dates

ners of the festival's piano
concerto competition to per-
form with the symphony
Sunday. Bodlack performed
the previous year.

“Kids die to play with a
symphony and these boys
have two engagements with
two symphonies three days
apart,” enthuses Fishwick,
who has taken her students
on tour, to Europe last sum-
mer and Egypt the year
before last.

Tickets for this evening’s
concert are $10 for adults and
$5 for students and seniors,
available at the Centennial
Theatre box office, 984-
4484,

— Layne Christensen

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