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YII Kah Hoe is a Malaysian composer and improviser. Yii was the winner of 11th BOH Cameronian Arts Awards (Malaysia, 2014), the winner of Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra Forum for Malaysian Composers (Malaysia, 2007), the 3rd Prize in the International Composition for Chinese Orchestra (Singapore 2006), the finalist of International Composers Competition "Città di Udine" (Italy, 2010). 

Yii has been recognized as one of the major voices among Southeast Asian composers of his generation. His music has been widely performed in Asia, America, and Europe by ensembles such as Ensemble Mosaik, Interensemble, Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra, Singapore, The Claremont Concert Choir, Singapore Chinese Orchestra, Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra, Birmingham Symphonic Winds, Pan-Pacific Ensemble and musicians such as Peter Veale, Christopher Redgate, Moritz Ernst, Jürg Henneberger, Maruta Staravoitava, Anne Harley, Luisa Sello, Duplum Duo and etc.

Yii’s music is perceived as bold and avant-garde. His works use sounds and rhythms of many traditional instruments from various ethnic cultures. The sensitivity of space that Yii mastered as an artist (Fine art) in his younger years is also evident in his music. 

In the fall of 2015, Yii was the Erma Taylor O’Brien Distinguished Visiting Professor at Scripps College in Claremont. Yii engaged in music education and the organization of a contemporary music collective, concerts and a festival in Kuala Lumpur, contributing intellectually and socially in the field. Yii was the festival director of Kuala Lumpur Contemporary Music Festival 2009, the festival director of SoundBridge festival 2013, the president of Society of Malaysian Contemporary Composers (2014 – 2016) and a senior lecturer at SEGi College Subang Jaya, Malaysia since 2000.

Chong Kee Yong is one of the Malaysia's leading composers with a rare talent of fashioning a truly individual sound from modern experimental techniques.
Born in Kluang in southern Malaysia where his parents were farmers, he completed his Bachelor of Arts at the Xian Conservatory (China) and received his Master of Composition (Highest Honours) at the Royal Conservatory of Music of Brussels. He has also attended master classes by Brian Ferneyhough, Peter Eötvös, Salvatore Sciarrino, Henri Pousseur and Hanspeter Kyburz.
Chong's distinctive style has won him many awards, commissions and composer-in-residencies, for example, the 4th International Andrzej Panufnik Competition, the 2nd Seoul International Competition for Composers, the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra International Composers' Award, Lutoslawski award, BMW award in the International Isang Yun Music Prize, the Herrenhaus Edenkoben Foundation (Germany) and Asian Cultural Council.(New York)
Most recently, CHONG received the prestigious commission grant award 2009 by the Serge Koussevitzky Music Foundation. (USA)
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鍾啟榮是马来西亚顶尖的青年作曲家，并在创作现代试验性和具有特殊风格的音乐方面拥有绝对特殊的天分。著名作曲家和指揮家Peter Eötvös形容他为一名“富有想象力和诗意”的作曲家，另一名著名英國作曲家Jonathan Harvey则形容他的音乐为“非常具有创造力和纯洁的”

钟启荣诞生于南马的居銮，其父母都是种植油棕的小园主。1990年至1993年，他在马来西亚吉隆坡表演艺术学院学习古典吉他和作曲。1995年后，他远赴中国西安音乐学院并获得一等荣誉学士学位，师从饶余燕教授和张大龙教授。

1997年后，他再到比利时皇家音乐学院修读作曲系，师从Jan Van Landeghem和Daniel Capelletti教授。在2001年6月，他以一等荣誉的成绩获得作曲硕士学位。此外，他也曾经参与多位知名作曲家教授开设的大师课程，例如：Brian Ferneyhough, Daan Manneke, Zoltan Janey, Peter Eötvös, Salvatore Sciarrino, Henri Pousseur 和 Hanspeter Kyburz。

鍾啟榮的卓越表现，让他在國際上赢得多个奖项和获得无数的赞扬，因此，他也获得和世界上衆多世界級顶尖的音乐家，樂團，音乐节和基金会合作的机会。



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Froya’s quirky charm and distinctive vocal has remained a constant, while her music has continued to evolve since her earliest indie pop endeavours into a more experimental, yet readily accessible, groove- driven synth electronica. Having enjoyed significant rotation on radio – both locally and internationally - the self-produced songbird has also performed as featured artist at a few prestigious music festivals in Asia such as Aliwal Urban Art Festival 2019, Good Vibes Festival 2018, St. Jerome’s Laneway Festival Singapore 2017, Good Vibes Festival 2014 & 2016, Singapore’s BayBeats Festival and Music Matters Live. Along the away she has shared the same stage with the likes of Lorde, Alt-J, Ellie Goulding, Glass Animals, Tash Sultana, Aurora, Nao, Banks, Nick Murphy (Chet Faker), Disclosure etc.

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