
Ms Lim Ai Hooi
Artistic Director, SourceWerkz
Founder and Artistic Director, ONE Chamber Choir
Singapore
Ai Hooi’s philosophy for choral music and teaching stems from her view that a fulfilling musical journey is one that is filled with sincerity, love and excellence. She uses the creation of music as a platform to share and infuse her values and beliefs in her singers, and inspires them to use the beauty of music to craft experiences that touch the hearts of the audience.
Born in Penang, Malaysia, Ai Hooi graduated from Royal College of Music, London with Majors in Piano and Voice. After moving to Singapore, Ai Hooi actively contributes to the growth of the local choral scene, through nurturing younger choral conductors and choristers. On top of conducting several local secondary and junior college choirs, Ai Hooi established ONE Chamber Choir, a young adult choir. In 2017, the choir achieved the 2nd Prize of the Mixed Choirs category at the 15th International Chamber Choir Competition Marktoberdorf 2017, as well as the Special Prize of the Carl-Orff-Stiftung Diessan am Ammersee for the best interpretation of a choral worked premiered at the competition for “The Emigrant” by Wolfram Buchenberg. The choir took part in the 10th World Choir Games in Tshwane, South Africa and achieved Gold in all three categories they competed in, including Champion of the World Choir Games in the Chamber Choir Category.
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Mr Yong Chee Foon
Artistic Director, Sourcewerkz
President, Choral Directors’ Association (Singapore)
Singapore
Yong Chee Foon’s journey as a choral director is a testament to his unwavering passion for choral music and commitment to artistic growth. Currently the President of the Choral Directors’ Association (Singapore), he began his musical journey by learning the piano, but his passion for choral music quickly took root when he joined the Victoria Junior College Choir and later, Victoria Chorale. This marked the beginning of a lifelong dedication to choral music education.
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Dr. Beverly Shangkuan-Cheng is the President of the Philippine Choral Directors Association, Artistic Director of the Las Piñas International Bamboo Organ Festival, and Associate Professor of Music at the University of the Philippines, where she teaches graduate and undergraduate conducting, chorus, and music history.
She is a First Prize Winner at the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) National Graduate Conducting Competition. She also won First Prize for the A1 Piano Category of the Philippines’ National Music Competitions for Young Artists (NAMCYA).
She is the Philippine representative to the Asia Pacific Choral Council and the Asia Choral Association. She has been an Adjudicator and the Philippine representative to the World Choir Council for the World Choir Games. For its 2018 Season, she was appointed Conductor of the Asia Pacific Youth Choir.
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Dr. Gene Peterson is the Artistic Director & Vice President of Artistic Development for Perform International/Perform America, casting the mission and vision for performance events and tours in the United States and throughout the world.
Dr. Peterson is an internationally recognized choral conductor and clinician, whose prior appointments include Director of Choral & Vocal Studies and Professor of Music at the Collinsworth School of Performing Arts at California Baptist University in Riverside, California, Director of Choral Studies at Bethel University (Minnesota) and Associate Director of Choral Activities at the University of Tennessee. Dr. Peterson has also served as music director and conductor for college, secondary school, church, and community choirs in California and Washington. Ensembles under his leadership have performed in venues throughout the United States, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand, including the Sistine Chapel, the Sydney Opera House, Chicago Symphony Hall, and Carnegie Hall.
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Born in Barcelona, Spain, Elisenda Carrasco i Ribot completed all the higher levels of Composition, Orchestral Conducting and Music Education, specialising in Choral Singing. For more than 30 years, she has been teaching and conducting children’s choirs.
She collaborates regularly with Barcelona Auditorium, she is co-director of the Cantània programme, in which more than 50,000 children take part every year. She also participates in the preparation and conducting of the symphonic-choral programmes of the OBC (Catalan Symphony Orchestra).
Since its creation more than 30 years ago, Elisenda Carrasco has been the conductor of the Sant Cugat Children’s Choir, where she uses the Kodály system as a basis for learning, the symphonic choir El Cor Canta, and Voxalba women’s choir. She also teaches Didactic of choral conducting at the ESMUC, Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya.
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Born in Lisbon, Mr. Paulo Vassalo Lourenço is the head of the master’s Program in Choral Conducting at the Lisbon’s Superior School of Music where he conducts the ESML Chamber Choir.
He has a doctoral degree in Choral (Stephen Coker and Earl Rivers) and Orchestral (Mark Gibson and Chang Zhang) Conducting at the College/Conservatory of Music – University of Cincinnati (USA).
He was appointed assistant conductor at the Gulbenkian Choir since 2012 to 2017. During this period he has prepared the major repertoire for such figures as: Gustavo Dudamel, Simone Young, Jonathan Nott, Alain Altinoglu, Lawrence Foster, Paul McCreesh, Lorenzo Viotti and many others.
He began his career at the of Portuguese Youth Choir (1990-1995) and the Ricercare Choir (1995-2002). With the Ricercare Choir he was awarded with 1st and 2nd prizes at the Certamen de Villancios (Madrid 1999) and II Certamen Internacional de Corales Polifonicas (Seville 1998).
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Soundarie David Rodrigo is a Pianist, Music Educator, Choral director, Composer, and Intellectual Property Lawyer. She pursed her musical education at the Royal College of Music, London, specializing in piano performance and piano accompaniment. She also pursued her legal studies at the University of California, Berkeley where she specialized in Entertainment Law, having been a recipient of the Rotary World Peace Scholarship.
Soundarie is the Founder and Music Director of Sri Lanka’s premiere female choral ensemble ‘Soul Sounds’ the first choir in Sri Lanka to perform and win awards internationally. Over the last twenty years Soul Sounds has given highly acclaimed performances in India, Australia, China, Kuwait, Austria, France, USA, Malaysia and South Africa, thus placing Sri Lanka on the map of International choral Music.
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