Music Appreciation Workshop

All the participants taking photos with Thomas, Jonas, Wan Ping and Andrew (from left to right, seated)
Jonas and Wan Ping in action!!

Prelude Academy of Music had organised a music appreciation workshop on 21 July 2007 (Saturday). We had 21 students from various brass bands attending the workshop. Millions thanks to Jonas and Wan Ping.

Yap Ling & Geoffrey Pratley musical concert on 11 August

Date: Saturday, 11 August 2007

Time: 7.30pm

Venue: Ming Ong Methodist Church

Organised by Feeltone Classical

Presented by Prelude Academy of Music

(For tickets enquiries - please call 086-316051; 086-331621; 016-8862016)

Piano Master Class by Ong Wan Ping

Piano Master Class by Ong Wan Ping

Date: 20th July 2007 (Friday)

Time: 2pm to 6pm, 7:30pm-9:30pm (First come first served basis)

Venue: Prelude Academy of Music

The workshop, targeted to all piano students, will be conducted by Miss Ong Wan Ping, a piano post-graduate from London College of Music & Media (LLCM). In 2005, she was awarded the Giuseppe Terroni Prize and nominated best postgraduate student by LCMM. Currently she is the principal of the Musical Talent Education Centre, Kuala Lumpur.



Biography of Miss Ong Wan Ping


Ong Wan Ping currently studies piano under Mr. Loo Bang Hean, and voice under Miss Tan Khar Gee.

She has performed with and accompanied different instrumentalists and singers in various concerts and competitions, such as the National Chinese Art Songs competition (for the elderly), Youth Symphony Orchestra concert (organized by Istana Budaya), Refugee: Images (the musical), and a choir concert organized by the Singapore Choir Association.

She gained a postgraduate certificate in piano performance from the London College of Music and Media in 2005. In the same year, she was awarded the Giuseppe Terroni Prize and nominated best postgraduate student by LCMM. She was one of two pianists chosen by LCMM to perform in that year’s gala concert. She explored an extensive and varied repertoire by Jonathan Harvey, Khachaturian, Olivier Messiaen, George Crumb, Shostakovich and others.

Her former teachers include Dr. Michael Shreider, Philip Mead, Au Yang Yao Chih, Tan Boon Gee, Thean Kin Pin, Cecilia Yap Keat Chee (voice), Yong Yew Yean (voice), Mayya Musaeva (violin), Lim Fang Chee, and Lim Cheng Leng. She has attended masterclasses by Paul Roberts, Bryce Morrison, Mark Kruger, Julian Jacobson, William Fong, Irina Ossipova, Ruth Haigh, Fazliddin Husanov, Leonid Kontorovski, Olga Malisova and others.

She is very active in music activities and music teaching. She is the member of the PJ Youth Chamber orchestra (violin) and the Sound Blender (voice), and is accompanist for various choirs. Currently she is the principal of the Musical Talent Education Centre.