Prelude Music will be presenting the Classical Journey by “DOUS”, a chamber music concert featuring Singaporean violinist Foo Say Ming, and KK's eminent husband and wife duo, Yap Ling and Grace Lee. DUOS will present some duos and duets repertoire written for violin and piano, violin and viola, & 2 violins pieces including pieces by Romantic Belgium violin composer Charles de Beriot, Baroque composer Handel and French Jazz composer Darius Milhaud. There will also a Chinese folk tune entitled Glowing Red Morningstar Lilies. For the finale, our trio of musicians will transport you to sunny Spain with the scintillating "Navarra", a brilliant showpiece written by the Spanish composer and virtuoso Sarasate. With the deft skills of violinist Foo Say Ming and violist/violinist Yap Ling, and accompanied by Grace Lee on piano, Classical Journey is set to enthrall and entertain.
The concert in Kota Kinabalu will also raise fund for 2 bodies namely the Lion Club of KK City for their Medical Camp and in aid of SRS Datuk Simon Fung Audio Visual Facilities. Prelude Music is also very honored to be able to work with The Borneo Post, See Hua Daily News and Life&Style.com.my as the event media.
Singaporean violinist Foo Say Ming 符史洺walked away with two 1st prizes of the competition: in the Violin (Open) Category, and the Ensemble (Open) Category. The judging panel also unanimously awarded him the grand prize of the competition: the Best Performer Award. He remains the only musician in the competition's history to have received multiple awards.
Say Ming furthered his musical studies at the Royal College of Music (London, United Kingdom) where he studied with Rodney Friend (concertmaster of BBC Symphony Orchestra and former leader of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra). He was awarded several prizes at the College, notably The Margerie & Arnold Ziff Prize for The Outstanding Graduation Recital, a Concerto Prize, an Exhibition Prize, and the WH Reed Prize. A recipient of a Monte de Paschi Summer Scholarship, he studied at the Academia Musicale Chigiana in Sienna (Italy) with renowned Russian violinist, Boris Belkin. He was later accepted into the Conservatoire de Lausanne (Switzerland), where he continued his studies with the great French violinist Pierre Amoyal, a protégé of the great Jascha Heifetz. He was conferred Virtuosité (Premier Prix avec Félicitations du Jury).
Say Ming has been featured as soloists with Singapore Symphony Orchestra (SSO), playing works by Lalo, Saint-Saëns, Glazunov, Walton, Rosza, to name a few. In addition, he was also featured as soloist with Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne (Switzerland). He was featured and soloist and director in “Seasons”, a project with the Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, performing Vivaldi's "The Four Seasons" and giving Singapore's premier of Piazolla's "The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires". He was featured soloist with National University of Singapore Symphony Orchestra (NUSSO) on its successful tour to Scotland at the Aberdeen International Youth Festival (Scotland).
In the capacity of conductor/director, Say Ming is conductor of the Singapore National Youth Sinfonia. He is also assistant conductor of the NUSSO.
Say Ming leads and directs the chamber orchestra "re: mix”. Since its formation, “re: mix” has collaborated with many of Singapore's finest composers and various arts groups, and has been responsible for the commission of new repertoire for this genre. They have just given a charity concert last month at the Shangri-La’s Tanjung Aru Resort, KK.
Yap Ling 叶凌 is a versatile musician who performs, teaches, conducts and arranges music. After obtaining his LRSM in 1986, he entered the Royal Academy of Music, London (RAM). At the RAM, Yap Ling studied under Clarence Myerscough (violin), Adrian Leaper & Denise Ham (Conducting) and Roger Steptoe (Orchestration/ composition).While in London he was the Concertmaster for the Chelsea Symphony Orchestra, the Chelsea String Quartet, The London Chinese Ensemble and the Piano Trio under the Amadeus Quartet’s tutelage. Upgrading and performances has taken him to Singapore, Indonesia, Brunei, Thailand, Hong Kong, Germany, Italy, France, New Zealand, Australia, Japan, Moscow (Russia), China and USA.
In 1990, he participated in the 1st World Youth Music Camp in KL and the 1st Pacific Music Festival in Japan (under the baton of Maestro Leonard Bernstein). He represented Malaysia as a violin tutor in the 1991 ASEAN Youth Music Workshop in Jakarta, Indonesia. He was a string tutor at UNIMAS & conducted their orchestra. He was the Artistic Director and Principal Conductor for the 1st and the 2nd Sarawak Music Camp in Kuching and Sibu respectively for 1999 and 2001. In June this year, he organized the 1st Sabah State Music Camp at UMS where he was also the Artistic Director and Principal Conductor.
Now Yap Ling is the conductor of Jesselton Philharmonic Orchestra (JPO), Kian Kok Youth Orchestra (KKYO), the Tshung Tsin String Orchestra and the Guest Conductor for the Miri Orchestra and Choir (MOC). As a chamber musician, besides Duos he is also the violinist for the MP3rio, the Malaysian Ars Nova Ensemble and the L’espressivo Trio which have performed regularly in Malaysia and abroad. He has led the orchestra for performances of Mendelssohn's Elijah, Handel’s Messiah and Haydn’s Creation under the baton of Rev. Lee Chung Ming which has performed for numerous concerts in various parts of Malaysia including Sandakan in 1998.
In 1997 he was conferred the Associate of the Royal Academy of Music (ARAM) in recognition for his contribution towards developing the music standard and promoting music in this part of the world.
Besides giving regular recitals with his wife Grace Lee, he has also appeared as soloist with the Monash Simfonia in Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, the Penang Symphony Orchestra and the National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) from KL playing the Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto. He also conducted the Violin Masterclasses for ABRSM in Malaysia and regularly giving violin masterclasses and orchestra workshops throughout the country. Presently he also teaches at UMS.
Not given to inactivity, the DUOS will be performing in KK on 30 Oct and a week later, on 6, 7 & 8 Nov, Yap Ling will be playing the solo for the Vivaldi’s 4 Seasons with the Scrolls, a chamber string orchestra which he directed in KK.
Grace Lee Sui Lin 李瑞玲 obtained her Bachelor of Music degree from Auckland University, where she studied piano under Professor Tamas Vesmas. She also had conducting lessons with Uwe Groud and Karen Grill. While there, Grace conducted the Auckland Chinese Choir and served as pianist for several choirs.
Besides giving solo performances she plays chamber music and serves as an orchestra pianist. She is a member of the L’espressivo Trio (Vocal-Violin-Piano) which have performed in Miri in March 2006. She also accompanies several prominent choirs and musicians which includes the Singaporean violinist Foo Say Ming and the soprano Phoon Sook Peng from time to time. These have taken her to England, Australia, New Zealand, Brunei and all over Malaysia. In order to upgrade herself, she also took up consultation lessons abroad with professors including Jeffrey Pratley and Tamara Smolyar.
In 2000, she attended the Professional Development Program for Music Teacher conducted by the AMEB in September in Melbourne. She also attended a special short-term upgrading program at the Monash University then.
In 2005, Grace performed the Mozart Double Piano Concerto with Thomas Ling and the Kota Kinabalu Symphony Orchestra for the New Year Concert in Kota Kinabalu.
She played the orchestra reduction of the Yellow River Cantata for Concert with the choir on 12th May 2006 in Kota Kinabalu and later in October accompanied the “Duos” of violin and viola played by Foo Say Ming & Yap Ling for concerts in KK and Miri.
Grace 2008 concert activities include accompanying the Famous ‘Malaysian 3 Tenors’- David Ngim, Lim Cheong Hock and Armando Chin Yong and Sabah based Soprano Phoon Sook Peng in “The Yellow River Cantata”; Representing Sabah as an accompanist for National Art Song Singing Competition in KL in January; Accompanying two well known Sopranos from Taiwan in July; In September, playing solo with Jesselton Philharmonic Orchestra (JPO) performing Two Piano Concerto in C Minor by J.S.Bach with Loo Bang Hean; In October, accompanying Phoon Sook Peng and Armando Chin Yong at KL PAC for the Dama Vocal Festival; In November, performing as a timpanist in Yap Ling Chamber Orchestra conducted by Rev Lee Chong Min playing “Elijah” by Mendelssohn in Sibu, Bintulu and Miri; As accompanist again representing Sabah for National Art Song Singing Competition in Penang.
In 2009 Grace appearances include organizing one day Children Choral Workshop at Song En Methodist Church; Playing as solo pianist and accompanist for the Grace Singers’ “Yellow River Cantata” Concert in Sibu in June; Concert with Phoon Sook Peng in Miri in September; Later on 6th, 7th and 8th November, she will be playing in the Vivaldi Concert with the Scrolls at the Dewan Resital, UMS, KK.
Besides playing the piano, she is also conducting the children choir for Penampang Song En Methodist Church in KK.
PERFORMANCES & TICKETS:
28th October 2009 – Sandakan, Dewan Kuliah Utama, ILP Sandakan
30th October 2009 – Kota Kinabalu, Dewan Resital, UMS
Please contact:
Alice: +6 016 833 3034 for Kota Kinabalu enquiries
Ms. Tham/Ms. Tang: +6 089 221 259 for Sandakan enquiries
All tickets are priced at RM30.
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