Founder and Director of PURE Orchestral Centre and Hong Kong Flute Centre and Director for Asian Region of the UBC Summer Music English Institute, Mr. Chan received his music education from Queen’s University and the University of Western Ontario in Canada.

Studied under the tutelage of the world-renowned flutist Robert Aitken, Mr. Chan has been in great demand as a flute teacher and as director for a number of flute choirs and ensembles.  Since 2000, Mr. Chan has been instrumental in advocating flute choir and flute orchestra activities.  He established the first flute choir in Hong Kong with complete instrumentation from the entire flute family for Raimondi College (Secondary Section).  Moreover, Mr. Chan established  the Hong Kong Flute Centre in 2003 and subsequently the Hong Kong Flute Centre Flute Orchestra for broader promotion and further advancement of the arts of the flute.

Mr. Chan is the first flutist in Hong Kong to introduce the contra-bass flute and   subcontra-bass flute to the audiences of Hong Kong.  
In 2006, Mr. Chan founded the first Hong Kong Summer Flute Camp and is appointed by the National Flute Association of the United States to be an event reporter for Asian regions.

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Ringo Chan

– Music Director, Flutist, Band  & Orchestra Pedagogue & Conductor

Flutists whom Mr. Chan has collaborated with include such figures as Robert Aitken (Canada/Germany), William Bennett (United Kingdom), Mary Karen Clardy (United States), Dieter Flury (Austria), Wil Offerman (Holland), Emmanuel Pahud (Switerland), Trevor Wye (United Kingdom).  Other artists include  pianists Boris Berman (United States), Gary Graffman (United States), Peter Frankl (United Kingdom), Claude Frank (United States), Jacque Louisser (France), cellist Wang Jin (United States), conductors Sui Lum (Singapore) and Wojeich Michniewski (Poland).

As Director for Asian Region of UBC Summer Music English Institute, Ringo has led over 400 students from both Hong Kong and Canada to UBC in Vancouver each  summer, providing them with quality education in both Music and English at a world-class university environment.

China Oxford Scholarship Fund
20th Anniversary Gala Dinner
(2012)

Listen up :
“家家有教” 香港電台第五台
節目訪問

陳子愉 (Ringo) 受邀到節目上與主持羅曼穎及香港知名科技及教育專家黃寶財教授分享在港學習音樂的風氣和態度,並分析學習音樂帶來的好處。

 
 

Musicarama’94 - October 2 to November 16 1994

South China Moring Post - September 24, 1994