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Ben Chan has earned national and international recognition as the top violinist of the 2006 MTNA Young Artist Competition and a 1st violinist in the 2009 YouTube Symphony Orchestra. In 2007, he created a personal YouTube channel BenChanViolin featuring many different genres of music on the violin and had 10,000 subscribers and over 1.8 million video views by mid-May 2009. He was featured in the September 2008 and January 2009 issues of the Strad and Strings magazines, respectively, and co-founded ChamberHymns.com along with his brother Jonathan and long-time friend Rick Medeiros.
On the technical side, Benjamin is well-versed in the following programming languages: Flash Actionscript 2.0 and 3.0, PHP, MySQL, and Java. He currently works for Woogi World, a virtual kids website dedicated to Internet Safety and Education, and Builder Helper, a web-based bidding, estimating, and scheduling tool for general and trade contractors.
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| Jonathan Chan is an entrepreneur with an enduring love of music. He is an accomplished pianist who studied for the majority of his life with Marilyn Taggert.
He has won two piano concerto competitions, and has soloed with four orchestras, once performing his own composition.
He is an avid composer, having done movie soundtracks for several short films, including the 5-time award-winning Of Genies And Goldfish and the upcoming film noir musical "A Song Before You Die".
He also has performed a funk composition with a jazz band.
He has written screenplays for published short films and enjoys writing short stories and novels.
He is one of the founders and owners of BomToons.com, a website providing contemporary religious-themed video games to a growing internet community, as well as technical director to Woogi World, a non-profit organization dedicated to teaching children how to properly use the internet. He thoroughly enjoys the opportunity to perform and record with his brother Benjamin, and hopes to make a positive impact on the music world with him. |
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