Anthony Tam

Anthony Tam, pianist, examiner, competition juror, pedagogue, clinician holds the
Fellowship Diploma in Piano Performance from the National College of Music,
London and the Fellowship Diploma in Piano Teaching from the Victoria College of
Music, London. At the same time, he is also the holder of the piano performance
diplomas from the Australian Music Examinations Board and the University of West
London. He is appointed as a member of the Academical Board of the National
College of Music and becomes the first non-British to be chosen to join as a
member in the College’s history of more than 120 years. He is also the first
Chinese to be appointed as a music examiner for both the National College of
Music and the Victoria College of Music. In 2012, he was further appointed as a
senior examiner for the National College of Music, London and will be responsible
for further administration of the College. He was the past examiner of the British
Columbia Conservatory of Music, Canada. In 2017, he joins as a music
examiner for the Con Brio Examination Board. He is the first and only one
worldwide to hold the position as a music examiner for four different examination
boards at the same time. He has wide experience in assessing piano examination
candidates. On top of being as a music examiner, he is appointed by National
College of Music to be the piano duet examination syllabus coordinator and from
2014, he was also responsible for coordinating and rewriting the piano syllabus. He
is a member of the American Liszt Society and through some contribution, he has
earned the title as a ‘Lisztian”. He is also a member in good standing of the
Australian Guild of Music and Speech. He is an associate member of the European
Piano Teachers Association. In 2018, he is named as the Hong Kong President of
the World Piano Teachers Association. He is also invited to join as the juror in
piano competition and composition competition organised by the World Piano
Teachers Association.. In 2020, he is named as the Chief Examiner of the Italian
Music Assessment Board System which is an examination board based in Italy.
Born, raised and totally trained in Hong Kong, he started to take up piano lessons
when he was at the age of 5. He appeared on television one year later performing
a whole programme of Beethoven. He is a pianist, teacher, juror and clinician and has been on the jury of some local
and international competitions. He was the Jury Chairman of the Steinway PIano
Competition in 2014 and was the President of Jury of the Mozart International
Piano Competition. He has also judged the World Piano Pedagogy Conference
Competition in USA and last year, he was the President of Jury of the Euterpe
Competition in Italy and in 2018, he has judged an international piano competition
in Venice organised by the Debussy Society. This year, he will judge the Merci
Maestro Competition in Belgium. He is also the Artistic Director of the Neapolitan
Masters Competition in Asia. He has concertised in many countries including UK,
Canada, USA and some countries in Europe.
Since obtaining the Doctorate degree in Music Education, he has taught in many
countries. He is a sought-after teacher in many Asian countries and is a teacher
with many award-winning students. He has given lectures, masterclasses, workshops for different organisers on different occasions. He is keen on presenting
teacher training programmes for music teachers worldwide. Years ago, he was
appointed as a representative of the Victoria Piano Summer School in Canada. In
2015, he was appointed as the Director of International Studies (Pedagogy and
Masterclasses) of the Ultimate Music Theory of Canada. UMT will issue a series
called “Masterclasses by Anthony Tam’ in the near future. He is also the Hong Kong Director of the Cambodia Support Group (Canada)
which promotes music education in Cambodia. He travels to Cambodia on a
regular basis to give intensive courses to teachers and students.

He is also a column writer in music education and music learning for
some child-related publications and is interviewed widely on different occasions
by the press. He is also a writer writing on subjects about piano education in
different magazines. His book about music study has been published by Dynamic
Publications in 2020.

 

 

Dimitra Mantzouratou, Pianist

Dimitra Mantzouratou (Athens, Greece), started her piano studies at the Hellenic Conservatory of Athens at the age of 6 with Anastasia Kounalaki. She obtained her piano diploma in the class of Betty Barzouka– Gaitanou with the highest distinctions. During that time she followed theoretical studies obtaining harmony, counterpoint and fugue degrees with distinction. She studied Musicology in the Department of Music of the School of Philosophy at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens where she also obtained her PhD in Historical Musicology. Her thesis is entitled “The historical evolution of piano school in Athens, the first half of the 20th century.” After obtaining a scholarship from the State Scholarship Foundation of Greece, she studied piano for three years at the Royal Flemish Conservatory of Brussels in the class of Daniel Blumenthal and received the Master’s degree. She has followed masterclasses by P. Badura– Skoda, B. Ringeissen, M. Tirimo, F. Wibaut, N. Petrov and D. Pollack, and participated twice in the Mozarteum Summer Courses in Salzburg studying with S. Dorensky and J. Lateiner. She gives solo and chamber music concerts in Greece and other European countries, has premiered solo and chamber music works by Greek composers, recorded for the Greek National Radio, and played concerts invited by the Greek Composers Union. She has been a member of the jury of Greek piano competitions and teaches piano at the Ilion Music School of Athens and the Orfeio Conservatory of Athens. For the last ten years, with the violinist Dimitri Semsis, she has worked on the violin and piano repertoire, from baroque to contemporary, giving concerts in Greece and abroad.