Sound of Dragon Music Festival – Concert 3:

Encounter: Taiwan/Toronto/Vancouver

Little Giant Chinese Chamber Orchestra, PhoeNX and Vancouver Music Community
special guest Wayne Lavallee
【喜相逢: 台灣/多倫多/溫哥華】–  小巨人絲竹樂團、多倫多PhoeNX樂團、溫哥華多位音樂家
8pm Saturday April 4, 2026年4月4日星期六晚上8點
The Annex, 823 Seymour Street, Vancouver  

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This concert brings together visiting musicians from Taiwan’s Little Giant Chinese Chamber Orchestra and Toronto’s PhoeNX Ensemble to collaborate with Vancouver musicians. In addition, the JUNO nominated Métis singer songwriter/composer Wayne Lavallee will collaborate with erhu player Lan Tung to close the festival’s three concerts.

Little Giant Chinese Chamber Orchestra (Taiwan) 台灣小巨人絲竹樂團:
Chih Sheng Chen 陳志昇 – conductor 指揮
Fu-Yun Teng 鄧馥芸 – dizi 笛子
Chung-Chi Tsai 蔡忠祈 – erhu 二胡
Fu-Hsuan Teng 鄧馥萱 – pipa 琵琶

PhoeNX Ensemble (Toronto) 鳳鳴九皋樂集:
Patty Chan 陳慧敏 – erhu 二胡
Sanya Eng – harp 豎琴
Ryan Scott – percussion 打擊

Vancouver musicians 溫哥華音樂家:
Paolo Bortolussi – flutes 長笛
Itamar Erez – guitar 吉他
Zhimin Yu 于志敏 – ruan 阮
Dailin Hsieh 謝岱霖 – zheng 箏
Sungyong Lim – cello 大提琴
Jonathan Bernard – percussion 打擊
Lan Tung 董籃 – erhu 二胡 & vocal 歌唱

special guest
Wayne Lavallee – vocal 歌手

Wayne Lavallee, Red River Métis multi-disciplinary artist based in Vancouver, released his first solo album in 2000. He has since won multiple Indian Summer Music Awards, Canadian Aboriginal Music Awards, Canadian Folk Music Awards, and nominated by Juno and Western Canadian Music Awards. Wayne was a member of the Spirit Song Native Theatre Company and Full Circle First Nations Performance. Since 2014, Wayne has composed for numerous films and TV series, such as “The Road Forward”, “Red Snow”, “Dr. Savannah: Wild Rose Vet”, and “Bones of Crows”. He has received 3 Leo Award nominations, 2 Leo Awards wins, and numerous Canadian Screen Music Awards nominations.