AMS Teacher’s Training Programme
Date: 8th June 2013
Time: 6.00pm – 7.30pm
Fees: RM 150 (AMS will subsidise for
AMS teachers 30% of the fees)
Speaker
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Chong Lee
Suan holds Bachelor Degree in Theory & Composition and Master Degree in
Ethnomusicology, with piano as major instrument, from University of Hawaii at
Manoa, USA. Her distinguished piano teachers include Paul Lyddon who had toured
as a recitalist soloist over 700 concerts in United States, Europe and Asia and
Dr. Edward Shipwright, a member of the upper division departmental faculties of
Juilliard School in New York and toured solo recitals and served as an
adjudicator in piano competitions around United States. Among her many great
Ethnomusicology professors are Professor Dr. Byong Won Lee, an honored figure
as one of the 85 “Proud Koreans Abroad” by Seoul Metropolitan Government and as
the Advisory Committee on Democratic and Peaceful Unification of Korea by the
President of Republic of Korea; and Professor Dr. Barbara Smith, an
internationally honored and well-known Ethnomusicologist active in
International Council for Traditional Music-UNESCO, Society for
Ethnomusicology, America Music Educators National Conferences and Charles
Seeger Memorial Conferences. Her main theory and composition
teachers include Professor Dr. Elmer Takeo Kudo who have performed his
orchestral works throughout USA, Japan, Hong Kong, Korea, South America, Canada
and Hawaii, Professor Dr. Allen Trubitt, who was a well-known composer and
music theory author; Professor Dr. Byron K. Yasui, who served as co-chair of
Society of Composers and honored as one of the 500 most influential Asian
Americans in USA in 1996; and Professor Dr. Donald Reid Womack, who had his
works performed throughout USA, Japan, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand,
Italy, Poland, Argentina, New Zealand, U.S. Virgin Island and Puerto Rico.
She has been lecturing in University Malaysia Sabah
in piano, aural training, music theory and Ethnomusicology. She has more than
20 years experiences in piano teaching, including children mind music courses.
One of her piano students had won the recipient of the Best Performer in 2012
Yamaha Asian Music Performances Competition. She is also a researcher and
Ethnomusicologist who was awarded FRGS Research Grants by Malaysia Ministry of
Higher Education, published her research works in distinguished Asian Music
Journal in USA, and had received Jessie Cheng Scholarship Award in USA, Merit
Citation for Excellence in Piano Performance presented by University of Hawaii
at Manoa and 1st Prize in Honpa Honwangji Mission of Hawaii Music
Composition Contest in Hawaii.
