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Canadian

Toronto

6'1"

Dark Brown

Dark Brown

118 World Flutes

Sankyo Artist (Silver Concert Flute), Altus Bass Flute

Instore Performance in Singapore

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Chinese Di Zi, Bass Flute, Pie Pook

Hari Persaud Charasia, Tani Senzan, Yamamoto Hozan

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People often say that Ron resembles Sean, Julian & John Lennon

Toronto, Canada, Tokyo, Japan, London, England

Singapore, Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, Japan, USA, Bermuda, Mexico, England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Spain, Switzerland, The Netherlands, France, Monoco, Italy, Germany, Panama, Cuba, Egypt, Israel, Greece, Turkey

Performed For:

Canadian Prime Ministers (Pierre Elliot Trudeau, Kim Campbell), Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, Her Imperial Highness Princess Takamado of Japan (More Photos), Peter Gabriel, Olivia Newton-John, Tia Carrere, Liona Boyd, Buzz Aldrin, Satoshi Hara Consul General of Japan, Venerable Lama Doboom Tulku from Tibet, The honourable Arjarn Sulak Sivaraksa from Thailand, Princess Bopha Devi of Cambodia

Wrote Songs For:

Alan Tam, Stephanie Lai and Yvonne Lau (View CD Credits.)

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Words of the Mountain by Wally Badarou

John Coltrane Live at the Village Vanguard
Art Pepper Among Friends

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Education:

Beethoven Pastoral Symphony
Scherazade

Japanese, Thai, Indian, Italian

Blue

Akira Kurosawa

Roshomon, Ikiru, Dreams

University of Toronto, Faculty of Music
Royal Conservatory of Music

Summer Programmes:

Domaine Forget, Charlevoix, Quebec (Raymond Guiot)
Shawnigan Summer School of Arts (Robert Aitken)
Ottorino Respighi Festival (Michel Debost)

Most Memorable Performance:

An evening performance at Heian Shrine in Kyoto during the Cherry Blossom season on a wooden platform in front of a National Treasure byobu screen with the audience of 1500 people listening from the other side of a man made pond.