Biographies
Reneé Pérez Rodríguez
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Reneé Pérez is a classical guitarist, graduating from the University of Alberta in Guitar Performance and holding a Performer's Certificate from The King's University in Edmonton. He is interested in early music, baroque solo music, and baroque and renaissance chamber music. His musical interests also include basso continuo with theorbo and archlute. Reneé has toured Houston in the USA and northern Portugal—specifically the city of Porto and vicinity—as a soloist and chamber musician, and toured, playing the Fasch D minor concerto for lute (guitar) and strings with several string quartets and Venezuelan orchestras belonging to “El Sistema”. In 2014, he was featured as an emerging solo artist by the Calgary Classical Guitar Society. Reneé is currently the President of the Edmonton Classical Guitar Society and Past-President of the Alberta String Association. He also holds a doctorate degree in geochemistry. | |
Stephanie Wong
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Stephanie Wong is an active oboist and keyboardist in Edmonton. She is Principal Oboe and English Horn in the Concordia Symphony Orchestra. As an early music specialist, she also plays the baroque oboe, harpsichord, recorder, baroque flute as well as other Renaissance winds. She started her musical studies on the piano at the age of 7, later learning the flute. In her 20s, she started playing the oboe and baroque oboe, eventually graduating with a degree in music from Concordia University of Edmonton with both of these instruments as foci (along with formal studies in voice, recorder, piano and conducting). Stephanie can be frequently seen as soloist and chamber musician in local concerts. She made her international solo debut in Brazil and has performed as soloist in Europe. Stephanie is Vice-President of the Opus@12 Chamber Concert Society, a musical organization dedicated to providing chamber performance opportunities to community musicians. Outside the the music realm, Stephanie has degrees in math and education, and a doctorate in theoretical and computational chemistry. | |
