Vocal Teachers
Amelia Tang
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11 years of training under Ms Khor Ai Ming
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Trinity College London Advanced Certificate (Distinction)
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Experienced Artiste who has performed for the Emperor and Empress of Japan
Amelia has 9 years of training under Ms Khor Ai Ming. She is a skilful Artiste with local and overseas stage experience and has performed before the Emperor and Empress of Japan. Amelia has also competed as a finalist in pop singing competitions in Thailand.
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Amelia was awarded a Distinction the Trinity College London’s Advanced Performance Certificate and is pursuing an Associate of Trinity College London (ATCL) Diploma. Amelia’s students are routinely awarded Merits and Distinctions in the TCL’s singing examinations, with her highest scoring student achieving 95 out of 100.
Vocal Teachers
Stephanie Leong
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11 years of training under Ms Khor Ai Ming
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Licentiate of Trinity College London (Distinction)
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Performed at Edinburgh Fringe Festival, UK
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Pioneer teacher of Ms Khor’s Studio since 2012
Stephanie Leong has taught at Ms Khor’s Studio since its opening in 2012 and is also an assistant choir conductor for several school choirs under Ms Khor Ai Ming. Over the years, Stephanie’s students have repeatedly attained Merit and Distinction in Trinity College London Singing Examinations, as well as First and Second Place in multiple categories at the American Protégé International Vocal Competition.
Vocal Teachers
Ong Jean Wei
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16 years of training under Ms Khor Ai Ming
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Performed at the Carnegie Hall (NYC) & Walt Disney Concert Hall (LA)
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2nd Place, Chicago International Music Competition 2019 (Vocal Division)
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Singapore's highest scorer for Trinity Guildhall’s Performance Certificate (Advanced) 2016
Ong Jean Wei was the highest scorer for the Trinity Guildhall’s Performance Certificate (Advanced). She holds Grade 8 certificates in Music Theory and Piano from the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (ABRSM). Jean is an accomplished Artiste with experience on the global stage. She has performed in New York City’s Carnegie Hall and Los Angeles’ Walt Disney Concert Hall. ​
She placed 1st at the local level and 2nd at the international level in the Chicago International Music Competition 2019 (Vocal Division). She also placed 1st in the American Protégé International Vocal Competition 2013 (Musical Theatre Intermediate Category).
Jean was a featured soloist at the Singapore Business Awards 2019 Opening Ceremony and the Chingay Parade 2014 Grand Opening. She has trained with renowned conductors and directors, Alice Farnham and Hong Xia. Jean is an instructor for several local school choirs and also teaches disadvantaged and visually-impaired children at the Lighthouse School Choir.
Vocal Teachers
Samuel Yuen
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13 years of training under Ms Khor Ai Ming
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Licentiate of Trinity College London (Distinction)
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Soloist of "SSO Christmas Concert" with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra
Singing has always been in the blood of Samuel Yuen Hao. He started performing on stage during his kindergarten graduation concert, and he was invited to join his school choir early at primary 2, while most other boys would start in primary 3. At the age of nine years, he started voice lessons with Ms Khor Ai Ming. In 2018, he obtained the Associate Trinity College of London (ATCL) Diploma.
Apart from the regular performances with Vocal Associates, he has performed in numerous events, both locally and overseas, either as a soloist or as part of a choir. More notably, are his role as boy soprano in the opening number of the Chingay Parade 2013, “Fellowship of the Ring” and “Two Towers” movie concerts with the Metropolitan Festival Orchestra, “SSO Christmas Concert” with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, “The Planets” with Orchestra of the Music Makers, “Winds of the East” with Singapore Wind Symphony, “Faure’s Requiem” with Braddell Heights Symphony Orchestra, “ChildAid Concert All Stars 2014”, and performing as a winner in New York Carnegie Hall for American Protégé International Vocal Competition. In July 2017, he appeared with the Honors Performance Series Choir at the Sydney Opera House.
Samuel also actively participates in community outreach activities. He performed for the PAssionARTS Singing Festival, which took place at various locations such as Bukit Merah, Toa Payoh, Bedok Town Centre, Bedok Library and Nee Soon Market. As a part of the Music Elective Scholarship, he also had the opportunity to mentor students from Queensway Secondary School. During his school’s Values In Action project, he was involved in teaching music to kids at Children’s Wishing Well, a non-profit organisation caring for children in low-income households. Samuel has also been involved in teaching music to children with special needs, such as students with visual-impairment and autism. He has also been involved in projects with Purple Symphony, which promotes inclusivity by including people with and without special needs.
Piano, Sight-reading & Aural
Loh Shu Han
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Fellow in Piano Performance (FRSM), Royal Schools of Music
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Master of music Performance, Royal Northern College of Music, UK
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Chethams International Summer School for Pianists, Half Scholarship
Singaporean pianist Loh Shu Han has firmly established himself as a performer, accompanist, musicologist, and educator. A graduate of the Royal Northern College of Music, Shu Han graduated with a Master in Music degree and a Bachelor of Music (Honours) from the Royal Northern College in 2015 and 2013 respectively, studying under the tutelege of eminent British pianist Paul Janes. In 2014, Shu Han was admitted as a Fellow of the Royal Schools of Music (FRSM) in Piano Performance, joining just a handful of musicians worldwide to have been awarded this prestigious accolade. Shu Han was also awarded a half-scholarship to attend the 2013 Chethams International Summer School for Pianists, where he had masterclasses with Professor Gabriel Kwok, Head of Keyboard Studies at the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts, and the internationally acclaimed pianist Carlo Grante.
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Most at home as a collaborative musician and an accompanist, Shu Han is frequently sought after as an accompanist for music examinations and choirs. In the concert season 2016/2017, he has worked with renowned soprano Khor Ai Ming as choral rehearsal pianist on numerous occasions, accompanying the Vocal Associates Children's Choir, The Joy Chorale, as well as the East Coast Choir. He also frequently collaborates with Malaysian tenor Raymond Lee Pei Khoon, having accompanied his choirs and vocal students for competitions and examinations.
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As a solo pianist, Shu Han's repertoire consists of music composed over a few hundred years, and he is as comfortable performing 20th Century music such as that of of Bela Bartok and Gyorgy Ligeti, as he is performing bringing out the lyrical nuances of Schubert and Chopin.
Piano, Sight-reading & Aural
Bertrand Lee
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​Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance, Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music (under Albert Tiu)
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Featured with Asian Contemporary Ensemble in Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire, Esplanade
"...remarkable sensitivity...the music shone through" - The Straits Times 2017
Bertrand Lee studied with Albert Tiu at the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music on a full scholarship. He has since performed with some of Singapore's best musicians, and has been featured in events with Presidents Nathan, Tony Tan and Halimah Yacob as guests of honour.
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As an accompanist, Bertrand has played in New York at Carnegie Hall with the top prize-winners of the American Protégé Competition. He has worked with the Singapore Lyric Opera on various productions, and was also an accompanist at the School of the Arts, Singapore. He has performed with the students of Yong Siew Toh and the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts in competitions where they emerged as top prize-winners. Bertrand was featured with the Asian Contemporary Ensemble in an acclaimed performance of Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire at the Esplanade. He is currently the rehearsal pianist of the Vocal Associates Festival Chorus and the Joy Chorale. With them he has worked with several distinguished conductors on orchestral works with chorus, including Mahler's Symphony No. 8, Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, Faure's Requiem, Rutter's Mass of the Children, and Karl Jenkins's The Armed Man.
Diction Coach
Merry C Joslin-Kelly
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American native English Speaker
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BA in German and Russian
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Taught spoken English at Jilin University in Changchun, China and taught English to Vietnamese refugees in Hong Kong
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Chris has been the diction coach of Vocal Associates since 2014. She is also our Principal, Ms Khor's personal English diction coach