Principal for Piano Performance:~
Sylvia Ng -
Concert Pianist, Piano Pedagogue
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US Pianist Sylvia R. Ng,
received her Bachelor of Music and Master of Music in Piano
Performance highest degree summa cum laude from the University
of Redlands, under the supervision of Professor Louanne Fuchs
Long.
She began studying piano at the age of 8. Five years later she
won an all city competition in Jakarta. Born in Indonesia, she
migrated to the United States in 1987, later becoming a
citizen of the United States. Three months after her arrival,
she entered and won first prize in the Young Artist
Competition sponsored by Music Teachers Association. Since
then, she has won first prizes and honors in numerous
competitions such as High Desert Symphony Concert Competition,
Universtiy of Redlands Concerto Competition, Redlands Bowl
Competition, Rio Hondo Young Artist Competition, Cypress
College Competition.
At the University of
Redlands, she was the recipient of many awards and
scholarships.
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Academically, she was
on Dean List every year and she was
named as Most Outstanding Student. During her graduate year, she was honored as Most Outstanding
Performer by the music faculty. She was invited to membership
in the national music honor society, Pi Kappa Lambda, the highest honor that can be bestowed at collegiate level, and the
national professional music sorority, Sigma Alpha Iota. In the
Spring of 1992, Ms. Sylvia Ng was given scholarship to study
and perform in Europe.
Ms. Sylvia Ng is a frequent recitalist and has appeared as
solo with concerto appearance in areas of Southern California,
Austria and Singapore. She has been invited in a yearly series
concert artist in the United States. She will be remembered
for her performance with the Redlands Symphony Orchestra. She
has been hailed professionally by critics as "a pianist who
truly charm the audience and was lauded as one very worthy of
the professional concert stage in a fasten your seat belt
performance.
Sylvia Ng, a prominent piano teacher as well as concert
artist, enjoys teaching piano, she has been teaching for twenty five years. As a Piano Pedagogue she has been teaching hundreds of students in the Asia and the United States, including children as young as three year old, ranging from beginners to piano teachers and concert pianists.
Other reviews:
"played the very difficult solo part with the energy needed
for such a difficult work." (The Sun, US Newspaper).
"an outstanding performer with a remarkable facility. She
delights audiences with the enormous power and vitality and
musical sensitivities" (Professor Louanne Fuchs Long,
University of Redlands).
"concentrated beauty of tone..."(Betty Trobisch, Director of
Musical Sutdies, Salzburg, Austria)
"plays with intelligence, with intense feeling and with
marvelous technical command." (Dr. Alexandra Pierce,
composer)
"very worthy of the professional concert stage...a fasten your seat belt performance..." (Redlands
Daily Facts, US News paper)
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