陶曉清 Cora Tao
About the Teacher
Why study with them?
Cora joined The Broadcasting Corporation of China in 1965 when she was 19. She started hosting American top 40’s program. Ten years later she launched another program named Chinese Western Folk Songs, in that it encouraged original compositions by college students and the best ones were broadcasted island wide. This program received overwhelming response thus gave birth to the Campus Folk Song Movement which led to Chinese music commercial development in the 80s. And she was named the Mother of Folk Music in Taiwan. In 1995 along with other musicians she founded The Chun Wah Music Workers Association (Chinese Musicians Exchange Association?). She served as its first and second chairwomen not only to organize folk song events and concerts but also held Top 10 music critics choice album and singles annually. In 2000 she received a Golden Melody special contribution award in recognition of her many achievements. She retired from broadcasting career in July 2008 and dedicated her self to professional training of helping people and get her Diploma in Counseling from Haven Institute of Canada in 2010. After breast cancer treatment in 2013 she started with friends to develop an online radio to serve cancer patients. And she led reading groups and different workshops with Debbie Yao.