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Loo Bang Hean
Born in Ipoh, Malaysia, Bang Hean was the winner of the First National Mozart Piano Competition in 1987, and two years later a scholarship from the music exam board, ABRSM enabled him to study at the Royal College of Music (RCM), London.
Bang Hean’s early teachers in Malaysia include Serena Chow and Rickie Oui, while in England he studied with Yonty Solomon, John Blakely and Dennis Lee. He won multiple prizes at the RCM, and upon graduating received awards from the Anthony Saltmarsh Prize and the Countess of Munster Musical Trust to enable him to undergo postgraduate studies with Ilonka Deckers-Kuszler in Milan, Italy.
Since his return to Malaysia, Bang Hean has made regular appearances in solo recitals, chamber concerts as well as concerto performances. He has appeared in most major concert venues in Malaysia and has been featured as a soloist with various local orchestras, including the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra (MPO). An active chamber musician, he collaborates frequently with various instrumentalists and vocalists, and is a frequent guest pianist at the MPO chamber concert series. Bang Hean has performed abroad in countries such as England, Italy, Brunei, Singapore, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Cambodia, and Korea.
Bang Hean is an adjunct lecturer at the Institute of Music, UCSI University, and is frequently invited to adjudicate, examine, and conduct masterclasses both locally and abroad. A frequent presenter for ABRSM, he has presented both ABRSM and other seminars around South-East Asia, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, China, India as well as the Middle East.
Ysan Suit Yin
Associate Professor Ysan Suit Yin is currently the Head of the Classical Music Degree at Instituteof Music (IMus), UCSI University in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. She is a very dedicated teacher and has been actively teaching since 1986. All her university students have either successfully moved into the music industry as their careers or to pursue their music studies in overseas. Suit Yin currently also holds the role of examiner for the Classical & Jazz panel, Trinity College of London.
Suit Yin academic achievements are mainly in teaching, ATCL (Teaching), LTCL (Teaching), LRSM (Teaching) and she was one of the first in the South-East Asia to be awarded the Fellowship of the Royal Schools of Music in teaching (Piano-Music Education) by the Royal School of Music in 2006. For personal growth, she completed the Post-Graduate Diploma in Tertiary Teaching in 2019.
While living in London, Suit Yin studied with Professor Vanessa Latarche (Head of Keyboard at the Royal College of Music), late Professor Dr. Colin Kingsley, late Dennis Lee and Toh Chee Hung. She received an exemption from a Bachelor Degree in Music, hence a place was offered in London College of Music (LCM)with partial bursary for a Master Degree in Performance under the guidance of the Professor of Piano, Andrew Zolinsky. Her teachers also include Simon Rigby, Philip Mead and Dr. Anna McCready.
Having resided in London for 10 years, Suit Yin was a member of Kingston and District Chamber Music Society (KDCMS) in London and played regularly with the other members from the society between 2004 and 2012. During her academic year in LCM, Suit Yin was awarded a scholarship to the Dartington International Summer School. She was chosen to be one of the participants ina ‘Project Concert’ (music written between 1920 and 1940) and was one of the finalists in John Ireland Piano Competition in 2009.
Suit Yin is frequently invited to be the adjudicator in the UCSI International Piano Festival and Competition since 2014 till present day. She was also invited to adjudicate the Asia International Piano Competition in 2015, and periodically adjudicate Piano Competition in High Schools in Malaysia. In 2018, she was invited by the International Music Society from Jakarta, Indonesia to judge apiano competition and presented a piano masterclass. In the following year shewas invited to Methodist Charles Wesley Music School in Medan, Indonesia to conduct piano masterclass. In 2021, Suit Yin had a collaboration with the Central International Education from Indonesia, organised an online piano competition during the COVID-19 pandemic where she was one of theadjudicators. In addition, she was invited to adjudicate the UCSI National Music Online Competition in Malaysia.
Suit Yin was the chairperson for UCSI University Piano Pedagogy Conference in 2019.She was appointed as a chairperson of Institute of Music Learning & Teaching since 2014 and was one of the committee members of UCSI’s Excellence and Professional Advancement (CAPA) between 2014 and 2019.
Suit Yin contributed a write-up “Tribute to Professor Dr. Colin Kingsley” to European Piano Teacher-Piano Professional and was published in the April 2021, Issue 56 of the European Piano Teacher Association-spta UK: www.epta-uk.org. Last year, Suit Yin performed in the Free Hand 2022: 2nd Malaysian Contemporary Composers Piano Festival which featured 9 Malaysian composers’ works. Recently, Suit Yin had a joint recital with Mathias Boegner, a German/Swiss violinist at UCSI University.
Samuel Tan Hsien Chin
Samuel Tan earned his Bachelor of Performing Arts (Music) from the University of Malaya with First Class Honours, under the tutelage of Miss Geneviene Wong Jen – Pei.
Subsequently, he obtained a Master of Music in Piano Performance and Accompanying withDistinction, and an Advanced Postgraduate Diploma in Professional Performance with Distinction from the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire (UK), where he attended on a full scholarship. During his time at the conservatoire, he studied with esteemed professors Malcolm Wilson, John Humphreys, and Simon Nicholls, and participated in masterclasses led by distinguished pianists such as Louis Lortie, Steven Osborne, Peter Donohoe and Graham Johnson.
Among the awards Samuel has received are the Yamaha Asian Music Scholarship Award 2008 and the Champion in the Solo Classical Piano Category of the Roland Piano Festival Competition 2009. While studying at the Conservatoire, Samuel won the Delia Hall Accompanist Prize for Pianists, the John Ireland Solo Piano Prize, and the grand AdvPgDip Course Prize. He was also selected from the Piano Department to receive the Burke Trophy for Piano – Playing and was subsequently offered a full scholarship to study at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, Hungary. He was also a finalist in several competitions, including the Birmingham Conservatoire Piano Prize, the Reginald Vincent Lieder Prize, and the Gordon Clinton English Song Prize.
Since his return from the United Kingdom in 2011, Samuel has enjoyed a varied and rewarding music career. He is a collaborative pianist performing in a range of genres, including opera, musical theatre, chamber music, and contemporary music, both locally and internationally. His commitment to higher education in both classical and popular music programmes has been extensive, ranging from curriculum development to programme leadership. He held positions at the University of Malaya, the National Academy of Arts Culture & Heritage, International College of Music, and Sunway University.
Samuel is currently an accredited examiner for the Trinity College London examination board, while also pursuing a doctorate in ethnomusicology at Sunway University. His research interests center on the sociocultural and historical background of the Malaysian Chinese art song. Samuel also contributes to the music community as the pianist and arranger for the National Choir and Genius Seni Koir (children and youth choirs), under the National Department for Culture and Arts (JKKN). His research-creation initiatives involve arranging traditional and children’s songs for the choirs and recording local art songs.
