The Gleaner
The annual spring concert season of the Philharmonic Orchestra of Jamaica (POJ), which takes place next weekend at the University Chapel at The University of The West Indies (UWI) Mona campus, promises to be a high-quality instrumental and orchestral affair.
Some of Jamaica’s most talented musicians will be on the programme, including pannist Gay Magnus and Clarinettist Rafael Salazar with compositions by acclaimed Jamaican composer Peter Ashbourne.
A leading steel pan scholar and practitioner, Gay Magnus is a Fulbright scholar with a master’s degree in steel pan performance. She has published two books on steel pan pedagogy. She previously held the position of head of percussion at the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts, and is currently the music tutor at the Philip Sherlock Centre for the Creative Arts at The UWI, Mona. She has toured and performed extensively in Trinidad, France, South Korea, USA and England.
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