L.E. (Ted) Jones Award of Distinction
Allan Kuan (EngSci 1T4 + PEY, CivE PhD Candidate)
An important part of Allan Kuan’s experience at Skule™ has been continuing to play the piano while completing his studies. His primary outlet has been through the Appassionata Music Group, a student-run group that organizes classical music concerts on campus and to the community abroad. In his six years as a member, he has performed dozens of concerts and established himself as an important member of the music community at Skule™. He has also performed in collaboration with other musical groups at U of T, including Open Score, Hart House Orchestra, the Innis College Choir, and Skule™ Orchestra, with whom he performed Sergei Rachmaninoff’s “Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18” in 2016. Outside of music, Kuan has devoted most of his efforts to teaching first-year engineering students, who have given him glowing reviews and led to his receipt of several awards including the Spirit of EngSci Award in 2015, and the 2015–2016 Engineering Science Teaching Assistant Award.