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2008 International Choral Festival
第三届国际合唱节
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2007 International Arts Festival
国际艺术节
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2007 International Choral & Dance Festival
第二届国际合唱节
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2006 Cultural Exchange in Osaka
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2006 3rd International Chinese Music Festival
第三届国际华乐节
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2005 International Band Competition
国际乐团赛
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2004 2nd International Chinese Music Festival
第二届国际华乐节
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2003 International Choral Festival: A Voyage of Songs
国际合唱节
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2002 International Chinese Music Festival 国际华乐节
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Mr. Ong Tee Hoe

The 21st Century Genting International Band Competition provides a platform and opportunity for the gathering of concert bands to showcase their love of music and excellence in performance.

Firstly, I would like to express my appreciation and gratitude to the panel of adjudicators for their help in moving the 21st Century Genting International Competition to greater heights, sharing their wealth of knowledge and experience with the participants.

I would also like to thank all the participating band directors ,teachers for their commitment and dedication to enable their bands to come to this beautiful place.

For this year ,I am pleased to inform that I am able to engage a Brass Quintet , the B5 from the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music to perform and conduct workshop for trumpets, horns ,trombone and lower brass.

To all the participating bands ,I hope that you will continue to appreciate and enjoy music- making ,may you keep your passion for music alive. Have a wonderful stay in Genting Highland.

Joost Christiaan Flach is a graduate from the Sweelinck Conservatory Amsterdam. He works and lives in S.E.Asia since 1984. Before he was appointed co-principal oboe player in the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra he worked in the Bangkok Symphony Orchestra, Singapore Symphony Orchestra and K.L.Symphony Orchestra.

He has given several oboe recitals in which he premiered contemporary Asian compositions which were specially written for him.

In 1990 he became lecturer at the Institut Seni Indonesia, Yogyakarta, being part of a development project of the government of the Netherlands. In the capacity of music inspector and educational project officer for the ministry of Education of Singapore he conducted several school- and community bands. For the same ministry he conducted an on-going oboe course for secondary school students.

His teaching skills passed S.E.Asian boundaries when he was invited to give a masterclass at the Music Conservatory of Shanghai. He has been member of the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra's oboe team since the orchestra's inception in 1998. He is an ardent supporter of the orchestra's educational role in developing wind playing in Malaysia. One of the many initiatives he undertook in collaboration with the orchestra's Educational/Outreach department was the development of the Ipoh Symphonic Band society and the foundation of a classical wind ensemble 'High Winds' Over all these years he has seen an enormous expansion of the musical infrastructure in all these S.E.Asian countries and he feels proud that he has been able to contribute to this development.

Mr. Mitsuo Nonami (Japan)

Mr. Mitsuo, a renowed band clinician, composer from Japan was born in Okinawa. He was a band member in the American Armed Forces station in Japan and was offered a job in the Yamaha Foundation after his graduation from the Nemono Insitute of Music. He studied band composition under Bin Kanede a famouse composer in Japan.

He has been the most sought after adjudicator in Japan, Singapore and Malaysia. Has contributed much to the development of school bands in Singapore and Malaysia.

Joost Christiaan Flach is a graduate from the Sweelinck Conservatory Amsterdam. He works and lives in S.E.Asia since 1984.

Before he was appointed co-principal oboe player in the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra he worked in the Bangkok Symphony Orchestra, Singapore Symphony Orchestra and K.L.Symphony Orchestra.

He has given several oboe recitals in which he premiered contemporary Asian compositions which were specially written for him.

In 1990 he became lecturer at the Institut Seni Indonesia, Yogyakarta, being part of a development project of the government of the Netherlands.

In the capacity of music inspector and educational project officer for the ministry of Education of Singapore he conducted several school- and community bands. For the same ministry he conducted an on-going oboe course for secondary school students.

His teaching skills passed S.E.Asian boundaries when he was invited to give a masterclass at the Music Conservatory of Shanghai. He has been member of the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra's oboe team since the orchestra's inception in 1998. He is an ardent supporter of the orchestra's educational role in developing wind playing in Malaysia. One of the many initiatives he undertook in collaboration with the orchestra's Educational/Outreach department was the development of the Ipoh Symphonic Band society and the foundation of a classical wind ensemble 'High Winds'Over all these years he has seen an enormous expansion of the musical infrastructure in all these S.E.Asian countries and he feels proud that he has been able to contribute to this development.

Prof. John Howard (Britain)

John Howard was born in 1950 in Glasgow, and is active as a composer, music educator/musicologist, and conductor. He read music at the University of Durham, and subsequently received his PhD there. He studied composition with David Lumsdaine.

Music education publications include several articles for Music File, two books for Cambridge University Press, & two secondary school textbooks for Singapore ( Exploring Music 1 & 2 , Pansing Books). His interest in Chinese music has produced a number of related papers, including Fusion or con-fusion, composing for Chinese orchestra , in the symposium of the ISME, 1992. Recent work included a contribution to the symposium related to David Elliott's work, to be published by OUP (New York), and a major review in the British Journal of Music Education 2001.

His music has been widely commissioned, performed and broadcast internationally, and his output includes three works for the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra and one for the p'ip'a virtuoso, Wong Ching Ping. He has been commissioned by Meriel Dickinson, the English Brass Ensemble, Bronwen Naish, Grimethorpe Colliery Brass Band, Gemini, the Medici String Quartet, Ronald Lumsden, Singapore Symphony Orchestra and others.

His music has been performed in Australia, UK, Hong Kong, USA, the Netherlands, Taiwan, Zimbabwe, Israel, and Singapore, and by many distinguished performers including Peter Lawson, Richard Deering, Lontano, London Sinfonietta Voices, Electric Phoenix, Resonance, Inter-Artes, the London Collegiate Brass, Mary Weigold, and John Bingham.

Recent work includes There the Dance is , for the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, two string quartets for the Medici Quartet, two choral works ( Song for Cranleigh, and The Splendour Falls ); Concertino for Trumpet & Band and African Toccata, a solo piano piece for Julian Hellaby.

After many years as a lecturer and subsequently Deputy Head of Music at Kingston University, he became Head of Visual & Performing Arts at the National Institute of Education/NTU, Singapore, from 1992-2000, and was awarded the title Professor in 1999. As from August 2000, he became Head of Research/Manager of Exams at the London College of Music & Media, Thames Valley University, and is currently the Director of Examinations there.