Dragon Ball - 2015

  Canada’s largest Chinese New Year Gala will feature performances by singer Jully Black, flutist Ron Korb with the Toronto Yuefang Ensemble, and dinner by Celebrated Michelin Chefs.
  The Dragon Ball is in its 26th year and is one of the… Read more
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Happy Holidays

Hello Everyone,

Welcome to our new website just launched in 2013. Since we launched the new site we lost a lot of our ranking but we are very happy to work with Bandzoogle where we can sell mp3s, sheet music…Read more

First show in Hsinchu

I felt like the jet lag was mostly shaken off when we arrived in Taiwan and I was looking forward to playing the eight shows we had scheduled. The first concert was just flute and piano which we were a…Read more
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Unlike Elton John, I love Taiwan.

Back in 2004 Elton John called a group of Taiwanese reporters waiting at Taipei airport "Rude vile pigs,...Do you know what that means? Rude vile pigs. That's what all of you are." Personally I find Taiwanese rather polite and unlike…Read more

Kuala Lumpur

We travelled by skytrain to downtown Kuala Lumpur which is Malaysia’s capital and often abbreviated as K.L. This is the biggest and most economically driven city in the country. It is hard to believe that the last time I was…Read more

Theremin in Petaling Jaya

After Malacca we pressed on to Petaling Jaya on the outskits of Kuala Lumpur. We played in a venue called Toccata Studio run by two Malaysian classical musicians who had studied in England. The space is multi- purpose and can…Read more

Exotic Malacca

After performing at the NUS Culture Centre in Singapore we took a bus North to Malacca in Malaysia which is now listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Malacca has a long and interesting history. It was the home of…Read more

Kicking off the Tour in Singapore

The tropical garden city of Singapore is the perfect place to start a tour. A beautiful, friendly, modern, multicultural place with a blend of Chinese, Malay, Indian and British colonial culture. It is quite warm since it is situated just… Read more

Travels Through China

In 2007, I had the privilege of playing a concert at the recently relocated and beautifully renovated historic Shanghai Concert Hall. Yes, I did say relocated, as the Shanghai local government spent six million dollars to jog the hall over… Read more
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To Blog or Not to Blog?

A month ago I went to a writers meeting at a local restaurant. It was very enriching to get feedback on my writing and learn a little about the way the writing world works. The discussion quickly moved to the…Read more

Gala Charity Event in Shanghai

Li Jia and Ron Korb, Shanghai      The Charity Carnival is a grand event held annually in Shanghai at the Millennium Hotel in Hongqiao. This charity raises money for operations for children from poor families with congenital heart disease… Read more

Iridium Club in New York

 Steve Lucas, Jann Klose, Larry Crowe, John Hawken, Jesse Gress, Jim McCarty, Ron Korb

    In May 2012 I went on the road with the Jim McCarty Band again. John Hawken from the Strawbs was joining us and since… Read more

Beethoven's Apartment

 Beethoven's Pasqualatihaus

  Beethoven moved 60 times while living in Vienna. Roughly once every six months. One such place is the Pasqualatihaus named after its landlord Josef Benedikt Baron Pasqualati. In this four room apartment Beethoven wrote some of his…

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flautist Ian Clarke

Ron Korb and Ian Clarke       Celebrated British flautist Ian Clarke gave a concert in Toronto at St. Andrews on Bloor Street on October 8th 2011. He is a professor of flute at the Guildhall School of Music and… Read more

90th Birthday for a Canadian Legend

     Monty Hall, Marilyn Hall, Ron Korb, and Canadian Embassador Gary Doer This photgraph was taken at Monty Hall's 90th birthday party at the residence of the Consulate General in Los Angeles. In the photo are Monty Hall… Read more

Yosemite Flute Festival

 Yosemite National Park In September 2011 Ron had a wonderful experience playing at the Yosemite Flute Festival. He got a ride from Los Angeles with Scott August who is a prominent flutist in the Native Flute genre.…Read more

Hiroshima Lantern Festival

Attendants release the paper lanterns at the end of Hiroshima ceremony. Every year the Hiroshima Day Coalition presents an event on August 6th. This year it was the Commemoration of the 66th anniversary of the 1945 Hiroshima…Read more

J.S. Bach's Church - Thomaskirche, Leipzig

J.S. Bach's Statue outside St. Thomas Church in Leipzig. On our way to Prague we stopped off in Leipzig. A few people in Hamburg discouraged us from visiting it saying there wasn't much to see but actually…Read more