VSA Singapore - Music Appreciation through Drama holiday workshop

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Very Special Arts Singapore held a Music Appreciation through Drama holiday workshop for our special needs beneficiaries on 3 June 2015, which demonstrated to participants how to interpret and appreciate a piece of music by contextualising it with a familiar tale, Little Red Riding Hood. We were stoked to have Tan Wee-Hsin (viola) and Lillian Wang (violin), musicians from the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, perform for us live at the end of the workshop! Wee-Hsin and Lillian will perform at VSA Singapore's inaugural fundraising chamber music concert, Tapestry of Hope, on 5 July 2015, 7.30pm, at School of the Arts (SOTA) Concert Hall. Join them and classical pianist Azariah Tan as they captivate you with impeccable interpretations of sublime works by Mozart, Brahms and Beethoven! Visit our Facebook events page at https://www.facebook.com/events/998026293541943/ Tickets available at http://www.sistic.com.sg/events/chope0715. We hope you will grace our concert with your presence! TAN WEE-HSIN Singaporean violist Tan has been a full-time musician with the SSO since 2001. He has also performed with the Chicago Symphony, Rochester and Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestras and is active in the local music scene as a much sought after chamber musician and guest principal violist. A recipient of the SSO/MOE scholarship, Tan holds Doctor and Master of Music degrees from Northwestern University and graduated from the Eastman School with Highest Distinction. His principal teachers include Lim Tze Chian, George Taylor, Bradley Lubman (conducting) and Roland Vamos, whom Tan served as Teaching Assistant. LILLIAN WANG Born in Taiwan and raised in the USA, SSO violinist Lillian began her studies at the age of six. Under the tutelage of her primary teacher Jennifer Bellusci, Lillian received full scholarships from the Eastman School of Music and Northwestern University, where she obtained her Certificate in Performance as well as Bachelor and Master’s degrees. Lillian studied with Charles Castleman, Ilya Kaler and Gerardo Ribeiro (whom Lillian served as Teaching Assistant) and played in masterclasses by Lin Cho-Liang, Robert Lipsett, William Preucil, Zvi Zeitlin, Robert Chen, Oleh Krysa, and the Ying Quartet, among others. Lillian was First Violinist of the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra, Concertmaster of the YMF Debut Orchestra (Los Angeles), Principal Second of the Chicago Civic Orchestra, and a substitute with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Chicagoland Pops and Elgin Symphony Orchestras. AZARIAH TAN As a National Arts Council-Conservatory scholar and President’s Young Performer, Azariah graduated from the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music with first-class honours in 2011, and obtained two Master of Music degrees in Piano Performance and Chamber Music from the University of Michigan in 2013. He clinched top spots in The American Prize 2012 Solo and Concerto categories, the New York International Artists Association Piano Competition and the American Protégé International Concerto Competition in 2014, and the “Laureate” title at the WPTA International Piano Competition 2013. Diagnosed with bilateral sensorineural hearing loss from a young age of 4, he is now working towards his Doctor of Musical Arts in Piano Performance with Logan Skelton at the Rackham Graduate School. VERY SPECIAL ARTS SINGAPORE Launched in September 1993 by Singapore’s Ambassador-at-Large and VSA Patron, Professor Tommy Koh, Very Special Arts Singapore is a local charity organisation dedicated to providing opportunities for people with disabilities to be involved in the arts. For the past 22 years, VSA Singapore has been running successful art programmes, workshops, competitions and art exhibitions for the special needs community, creating awareness among members of the public of their immense talent and resilience. Through our programmes, we promote the educational, social, rehabilitative and therapeutic benefits of visual, performing and literary arts; integrate individuals with disabilities into mainstream society through the arts; and assist them in obtaining financial independence through arts and arts-creation. www.vsa.org.sg www.facebook.com/vsa.singapore