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CURRENTLY
PERFORMANCES | Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival | MarkusMusikWochen | Alfred Krupp Saal-Philharmonie Essen | achtelton in Hitzacker (Elbe) | Schloss Nymphenburg, München | Schloss Isny im Allgäu | Lätzsch Trombone Festival | Siegfried Matthus Symposium | NDR & Staatsoper Hannover | Max-Reger-Tage, Weiden in der Oberpfalz | Esplanade Recital Studio & Concert Hall, Singapore | The Arts House, Singapore | Tempe Center for the Arts, Arizona
GIVING WORKSHOPS | since 2014 at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts on the German Art Song for Lied Duos
REPETITEUR | at the Hannover Conservatory of Music, Theater and Media - for the tuba studio (Jens Björn-Larsen) | trombone studio (Jonas Bylund) | voice studio (Marina Sandel) | clarinet studio (Johannes Peitz)
at masterclasses including Forum Artium, Rostock Summer Campus and Lätzsch Trombone Festival
at competitions including Aeolus Düsseldorf, Deutscher Musik Wettbewerb, Porcia International Competition, ARD Internationaler Musikwettbewerb, Jugend Musiziert
COLLABORATIONS
PIANISTS | Ruschana Murabakschoeva | Beatrice Berthold | Volker Link | Cristian Peix
SINGERS | Neele Kramer | Sophia Körber | Michael Chacewicz | Sonja Stephan
Polina Pasztircsák | | Anna-Doris Capitelli | Mareike Morr |
COMPOSERS | Walter Zimmermann | Benjamin Yusupov | Vytautas Miskinis | Ko Matsushita | Michael Maria Ziffels
ENSEMBLES | SYC Ensemble Singers | Magnetic Band | chamber.sounds
OTHERS | Rubén Dura de Lamo (Tuba) | Reynard Rott (Cellist) | Alvin Pang (Writer) | Yanyun Chen (Artist)
Stefan Wiefel, Christiane Ostermayer (Narrators) | Bas Böttcher (Poetry Slammer)
José Milton Vieira (Trombone) | Tobias Ribitzki (Director) |
WORLD PREMIERES
Snezana Nesic | Rita Ueda | Americ Goh | Felix Leuschner | Zechariah Goh | Nicole Murphy
Liong Kit Yeng | Jeremiah Li | Felix Phang | Daniel Yiau | Naomi Sekiya | Chen Zhangyi
STUDIES
Hochschule für Musik, Theater, und Medien Hannover, Germany:
2012 - Masters of Music (Chamber Music - Lied Interpretation)
2010 - Diplom with Distinction (Piano Major)
complemented by lessons in Historical Keyboard Instruments, Opera Co-repetition, and Baroque Dance
Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore:
2007 - Diploma with Distinction (Piano Major)
MENTORS
Jan Philip Schulze | Beatrice Berthold | Zvi Meniker | Martin Brauß | Christian Schulte | Onno Grohmann
Lena Ching | Jennifer Tham | Eleanor Tan | Thomas Manhart | Yeong Yoon Ching | Chang Si Fun
MASTERCLASSES
Christoph Eschenbach | Matthias Goerne | Axel Bauni | Peter Sheppard Skaeverd
Henrik Wiese | Alexej Lubimov | Jacques Rouvier | Joaquín Soriano | Eriko Takezawa
Grace Chung | Tatjana Rankovich | Andrzej Grabiec | Patsy Toh | Reinhold Friedrich
Hyperion Trio | ensemble recherche | Freiburger Barockorchester | Jürgen Schrappe
SCHOLARSHIPS + AWARDS
Justus-Hermann-Wetzel Stipendium, 2013
Bayreuth Stipendienstiftung des Richard-Wagner-Verbandes Hannover e.V, 2012
First prize (Chamber Music) at the 11th Deutsche Akkordeon Musikpreis, 2009
NAC (Singapore) Overseas Bursary, 2007
NAFA Full Scholarship, 2004-2007