Master of Music (Boston University)
Bachelor of Arts (Brandeis University)
Zoe Fong is a M.M. graduate of Boston University School of Music and B.A. graduate of Brandeis University, where she studied music education and music composition respectively. She is a viola, violin, and ukulele player and has performed (primarily as a violist) in Canada, the United States, Austria, Germany, Singapore, Hong Kong, Indonesia, and the Philippines. As a composition student at Brandeis, she focused on film scoring and minored in film studies, and additionally went abroad to Vienna, Austria for one semester to focus on viola performance. She loves musical theatre as well and has experience as a music director, conductor, performer, pit orchestra musician, and producer in various community and university productions.
While Zoe has found joy in many musical areas, she has found her true calling in music education. She has taught a range of ages and musical subjects including preschool music, elementary chorus, band, strings, and general music, middle school jazz band and strings, high school strings, chorus, and music theory, and private viola, violin, and composition lessons. There is nothing she loves more than sharing her passion for music and helping her students find their own passion and artistic voice.
Get to know Zoe…Beyond the Bio!
Hobbies: Teaching myself new instruments, dancing, reading
Musical influences: Kim Kashkashian, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Danny Elfman
Favourite food: Dumplings
Least favourite food: Broccoli
Favorite music: A little of everything!
Favourite song: Bohemian Rhapsody – Queen
Favourite movie: Ladybird
Favourite movie music: Edward Scissorhands – Danny Elfman
Favourite musical theatre/opera: Les Miserables, Hadestown, and Hamilton
Best quote from your teacher: “Don’t leave your baggage at the door. Bring it in and let’s make music with it.”
Favourite quote: “This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.” – Leonard Bernstein
Favourite book: The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon…and also Harry Potter by JK Rowling
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Weekly Homework Post – August 19th, 2020
Just a reminder for everyone that today was our second to last week of summer lessons! Next week will be our last week of summer lessons, and then I will see you for lessons in the fall, on the fall schedule.
Jaron – Thanks for taking the initiative to learn part of Lightly Row by yourself, I was impressed!
– Reminder: Have a parent or someone call or check the tracking of your Suzuki book.
– Recommended practice time: 15 min/day, 5 days/week
– Practice: A, D, and G Major scales (one note at a time with long bows, check posture and bow hand while playing), Twinkle (Theme and variations A and C – for variation C (long-shortshort) make sure you are playing two of each), and Lightly Row (first two lines, look ahead at the rest if you’d like but this is optional).
Olivia
– Reminder: I know you’ve been busy, but when you get the time, try to make it to Long and McQuade to check out the buzzing in your violin.
– Recommended practice time: 30 min/day, 5 days/week
– Practice: Bb Major scale and review other scales on scale sheet, prepare for final run-through of Mamma Mia, Avatar State (get comfortable with notes and rhythms of first few lines, look ahead if you wish), and Mirror Duet (first half, with focus on slurs and bowings – break it down into tiny chunks and then put together).
Thank you, everyone! See you next week!
