All About The Bass For This Master of Music
Staff Reporter (08 February, 2021)
Only us two got through to the final round and she got the job
Olive Chan came from Hong Kong to Rotherhithe to teach and play double bass in Britain. Alas, Olive came in March 2020 and has more or less been in lockdown ever since, writes Michael Holland.
Ms Chan first picked up double bass when she was 10 and recalls having ‘very good teachers’. In 2000, aged 16, she then decided to study music at what she describes as ‘the best Music Academy in Hong Kong – the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts’.