About Us
Established in 2023, Ms Khor's Boutique Theatre is part of Artistic Director Ms Khor Ai Ming's vision to provide an avenue for students and teachers of Ms Khor's Studio to develop themselves as performers and individuals - not just as vocalists, but holistically as artistes.
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With origins from the Teachers' Series I first held in 2018, the performers in the series have since put up Teachers' Series II: Love After Dark (2021) and Teachers' Series III: A Baroque Love Story - featuring Thomas Arne's comic opera Thomas and Sally (2022).
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Khor Ai Ming
Vocalist Extraordinaire
Celebrated as a contemporary classical soprano, choral conductor and voice teacher, Khor Ai Ming is an accomplished classical soprano, choral conductor, and voice teacher. She has received the COMPASS Artistic Excellence Award 2015 and is highly regarded in the Singapore arts scene. Ming has presented numerous premieres, including works by Berio, Messiaen, and Bansal. She has also performed at large-scale celebrations such as the Chingay Parade and the Marina Bay Singapore Countdown. The Straits Times has praised her annual solo recitals at the Esplanade Recital Studio.
Ai Ming is the principal of Ms Khor's Pte Ltd, one of Singapore's leading voice and music schools for aspiring vocalists. Ms Khor’s consistently produces the highest scorers for Trinity College London’s music examinations. Between 2013-2020, forty of her solo voice students won top prizes at the American Protégé International Vocal Competition (including Best Performer Awards and Judges Distinction Awards), and were accorded the honour of performing at the legendary Carnegie Hall, New York. Students of Ai Ming have also gone on to pursue their aspirations to become professional vocalists at premier music conservatories around the world. Her students have been accepted to renowned colleges, including the Manhattan School of Music, Berklee College of Music, The University of Queensland and Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music.
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In 2014, reflecting her devotion to the art of vocal pedagogy, Ai Ming established the Vocal Associates Festival Choruses as a platform for her vocal students to gain stage experience. This dynamic non-profit arts group consists of five major wings - VAFC (Vocal Associates Festival Chorus), VAFYC (Vocal Associates Festival Youth Choir), VAFCC (Vocal Associates Festival Children’s Choir), VASC (Vocal Associates Senior Choir) and Songbirds Solo Artistes. Blending distinct voices into melodious choruses is Ai Ming’s forte. With more than 100 singers, this active performing arts group reflects her trademark versatility. They perform regularly in a wide range of genres, including orchestral works, opera, chinese orchestral music, jazz, musical theatre and pop favourites. The group has performed Howard Shore's Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers , Mahler's Symphony No. 8, Bernstein's Chichester Psalms and the World premiere of Alarcón's Marco Polo Trilogy. In 2016, Ai Ming led the Vocal Associates Festival Choruses in a spectacular performance at the prestigious Carnegie Hall, New York, to a standing ovation. In 2018, the Choir went on to perform at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. Most recently in 2019, the Choir went on a music tour to Okinawa where they performed at a local school, the City Hall and Civic Theatre.
Ai Ming was the chorus mistress of both the Singapore Lyric Opera Chorus and Children’s Choir. As chorus mistress, she gained considerable experience working with distinguished opera directors including Andrew Sinclair, Tom Hawkes, David Edwards and Paul-Emile Fourny for the productions of Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffman; Puccini’s La Bohème, Manon Lescaut, and Madama Butterfly; Verdi’s La Traviata; Bizet’s Carmen; Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte and Don Giovanni. She has also had the pleasure of collaborating with many eminent orchestra conductors including Tsung Yeh from the Singapore Chinese Orchestra, Joshua Tan from the Singapore Symphony Orchestra and Alice Farnham from the Royal Opera House.
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Ai Ming enjoys working with young people and believes in spreading joy and love through singing. She conducts several local school choirs, some of which have garnered Distinction Awards at the Singapore Youth Festival. Schools that she has worked with include ACS Junior, CHIJ (Kellock) Primary, Pei Tong Primary, Gan Eng Seng Primary, Cantonment Primary, just to name a few. She gives vocal lessons to students in the Music Elective Programme and O Level Music at local schools include Anglo Chinese School (Independent), Singapore Chinese Girls’ School, Tanjong Katong Girls’ School, Raffles Junior College, CHIJ St Nicholas Girls’ School to name a few.
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Ai Ming has served as a mentor to the Singapore Street Festival for the past 20 years. In recent years, Ai Ming has generously dedicated much of her time and effort to community work, with a special interest in the elderly and disadvantaged children. She founded and established the Light House School Choir for visually-impaired children. She also gave singing classes to the children at the Cerebral Palsy Alliance Singapore. She started weekly therapeutic singing programmes for the Lions Home for the Elders, and saw encouraging improvement in some residents with dementia. She has also been the instructor of Breast Cancer Foundation Ladies Chorus for the past 10 years. In 2015, she founded two community choirs: The Joy Chorale under Braddell Heights Symphony Orchestra, and East Coast Choir under Kampong Chai Chee Community Centre.
Ai Ming holds a Fellowship in Voice (FTCL), and is under the tutelage of international opera star Ning Liang.
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Acclaimed by the Straits Times:
“…few are blessed with Khor's versatility. After all, who is equally at home singing Chinese and Malay songs, Western classical standards and modern works such as Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire?”
“She brought out the delightful innocence of these far-from-straightforward miniatures by means of some captivating vocal and visual characterisations.”
“….gloriously communicative personality and innate musicianship…”
“….a highly sophisticated and perceptive performance which went far beyond an ability to control a voice.”
“…one of the nation’s most versatile and distinctive art song practitioners.”
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