Club President Norman Leach with Serena Bulesic and Club Youth Services Representative, Carin Jansen van Vuuren This week we were pleased to welcome Serena Bulesic, a recipient of our Student Scholarship that was awarded at our 50th Anniversary Dinner this past June. Serena is a very promising musician who wished to continue her studies in Violin at the University of Alberta. She came to tell us about what she has been doing recently. She is currently a student of Music at the U.of A. and is also studying with the concert master of the Edmonton Symphony. Over the summer and fall she also took several master classes with various well known violinists in both North America and Europe. She told us that she has learned so much from each one, especially how to think, to focus, and the discipline and organisation necessary to succeed in this field, along with technical skills such as various bowing techniques. She feels that she has made tremendous progress in the last two years, especially because of all the different people she has worked with. This summer she has plans to go to Spain to study with a master there. She is currently part of the U. of A. Symphony and the Chamber Music Academy here in Edmonton, both of which have concerts planned for this spring. The U. of A. Symphony on Feb 12 at Convocation Hall and the Chamber Music Academy in May at the Winspear. She said that she hopes in future to finish her B.A. here at the U. of A. then move to Europe to study further. In closing she wonderfully played a favorite piece from her repertoire for us. We would like to thank Serena for coming to tell us all about her life and accomplishments the past few months and wish her all the best in the future.
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