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Artistic
Director & Chief Adjudicator 艺术咨询
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Nelson
KWEI (Singapore) |
 Mr
Nelson Kwei is an accomplished conductor, music arranger
and vocal tutor in the music scene, having attained a
Licentiate in singing from the Guildhall School of Music.
He won the coveted title of “Most Promising Singer” in
an Asian Art Song Competition at the age of 20. Mr Nelson
Kwei was also the first choral scholar from Singapore.
He was awarded a prestigious scholarship in 1990 by the
Ministry of Education to do an advance post-graduate studies
in Choral Conducting from the Royal Academy of Music in
London.
In 1993, Mr Kwei was honoured with the “National
Youth Service Award” , the highest Youth Award
in Singapore, in recognition of his significant contribution
in the field of choral art. In 1999, he was awarded with
the “Culture Award” by the Japanese Chamber
of Commerce and Industry and in 2001, the Rotary Club
honoured him as the “Ambassador of the Arts”
for Singapore.
On the international level,
Mr Kwei won the prestigious “Outstanding Choral Director Award” two years
in a row at the International Choral Competition in Germany, 1998 &
1999 and also the “Best Conductor Award” at the Petr Eben International Choral
Competition 2002 in Prague. In recent years, he has led his choirs to 8 Gold
awards including 3 Category Champions in the Choir Olympic held in Bremen,
Germany & Xiamen, China. His choir was also the first Asian choir to win the
Grand Prize & Audience Prize at the prestigious Concorso Corale
Internazionale held in Riva Del Garda.
Presently he is a member of the National Arts Council’s
Advisory Board for Choral Development in Singapore and
the Chairman of the Choral Directors’ Association (Singapore).
On the international level, he is the First Vice-Chairman
of the Asian Youth Choir Council, an
international federation for choirs & conductors and
the Artistic Director of A Voyage of Songs, an international
choral competition held every 2 years. He was also invited
as both clinician and adjudicator in many international
choral festivals and competitions. Currently he is the
Conductor of many prestigious schools, colleges and community
choirs in Singapore which have won numerous national and
international awards. |
Panel
of Judges 评委
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MENG
Dapeng (China) |
Mr Meng Dapeng, People’s Rebublic of China Grade 1 Conductor,
graduated with outstanding results from Beijing Teacher’s
University, Music Faculty in 1983 under the tutelage of
renowned Conductor Mr Nie Zhong Ming. Currently the Artistic
Director and resident conductor of Central Radio Youth
Choir. He is also the Chairman of the China’s Children’s
Choral Music Committee, Vice-Chairman of the China Chorus
Association and counsel member of the World Choir Olympics
Committee.
Meng have successfully toured Asia and Europe with his
choirs and was invited as a representative of China’s
conductors in many international choral event introducing
the choral scene, development and choral music of China.
He was also on the organising committee of the 2nd &
3rd National Children Choirs Festival and the 1st, 2nd
& 3rd International Children Choir Festival in China.
Meng have also adjudicated in the 2002 Beijing International
Choral Festival, 2004 International Choral Competition
held in Sweden, 2005 National Youth Singer Competition
held in China and the 2006 World Choir Games held in Xiamen,
China. He was one of the invited conductor in the recent
World Children Choir Festival, 2005 held in Hong Kong.
The festival title Songbridge is co-presented by the International
Federation for Choral Music. |
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Tommyanto
KANDISAPUTRA (Indonesia) |
 Born
on the 8th of November 1963 and currently residing in
Bandung, West Java, Indonesia. A psychologist by profession,
Mr Tommyanto founded and is also the president of the
Bandung Choral Society, Studio Cantorum Choir & Orchestra.
Mr Tommyanto is also a regular clinician, lecturer, artistic
advisor, voice teacher and conductor of many choirs and
events. Other than organizing the Indonesian “Symposium
on Church Choral Music” in 2003, 2005 & 2007,
he adjudicated in the World Choir Games, Xiamen, China
2006.
At present Mr Tommyanto holds the post of Chairman for
INTERKULTUR Indonesia and Committee for Indonesian Choral
Association and is also chosen to be the Artistic Director
for the 1st Asian Choir Games in Jakarta 2007.
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