Taking its lead from the Spain football team, whose teenaged star gets sent to bed before full-time, the Vancouver Symphony has chosen Julin Cheung as its Assistant Principal Flute/Piccolo after an international audition.
Julin is 17. He won’t take up the position until April next year, when he finishes school.
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