The Gift of Peace - A Violin & Viola Duo Concert

This is a collaboration between the Jesselton Philharmonic Orchestra (JPO) and the Japan String Teachers Association (JASTA). It is a fund raising concert for the JPO Outreach String Program.

The Gift of Peace is a violin and viola concert initiated and performed by the Founder and Conductor of JPO and the President of JASTA. It is the start of goodwill musical exchange between the 2 organizations where JASTA have kindly undertook to assist JPO on its Outreach String Program by providing support in donating instruments and teaching expertise. In doing so, more underpriviledged communities will have a chance to learn the string instruments with more efficient method of learning.

We hope the concert will appeal to all to attend. On the one hand they could enjoy the good music and on the other, supporting this noble cause.

Following is the proposed programme for the evening:

Concert Program:
Pleyel - Trios Grands Duos No.1, Op.69
Mozart - Duos K.V.423
JS Bach - Badinerie
Paradis - Sicilienne
Drdla - Serenade & Souvenir
Carlos Gardel - Melodia de arrabal & Por una cabeza
handel-halvorsen - Passacaglia
Hoffmeister - Duet for Violin & Viola
P. Ramlee - Getaran Jiwa
Joe Hisaishi - Ashitaka and San (Princess Mononoke)

Tickets:
Student RM30
Adult RM50
(The proceeds collected will be donated to JPO Outreach program.)

For purchasing the tickets, you can bank in to Maybank account no. 110198001524 under Yap Ling. Then send the bank in slip via whatsapp to +6016-820 0355 with your name. You can then collect the tickets at the door before the concert under your name.

For further inquiry and purchasing tickets, please do not hesitate to whatsapp +6016-838 0966 or +6016-820 0355

We look forward to seeing you at the concert with your family and friends. We would appreciate if you could forward this messages to your circle of friends and help us to promote.

Thank you.

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Writeup about the performers:

THE VIOLINIST

YAP LING is a versatile musician who performs, teaches, conducts and arranges music. His professional training from Royal Academy of Music, London (RAM), has taken him to many countries including USA, Australia, New Zealand, Dubai, Russia, Asian and European countries. In 1997 he was conferred an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music (ARAM) by his alma mater in recognition for his contribution towards developing the music standard and promoting music in this part of the world.

In 1990, he participated in the 1st World Youth Music Camp in KL and the 1st Pacific Music Festival in Japan (under the baton of Maestro Leonard Bernstein). He represented Malaysia as a violin tutor in the 1991 ASEAN Youth Music Workshop in Jakarta, Indonesia. He was a string tutor at Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS) and Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) where he conducted their orchestras. He was the Artistic Director and Principal Conductor for the 1st and the 2nd Sarawak Music Camp in Kuching and Sibu respectively for 1999 and 2001, the 1st Sabah State Music Camp at University Malaysia Sabah (UMS) in 2009.

Yap Ling is the conductor and founder of Jesselton Philharmonic Orchestra (JPO), Kian Kok Youth Orchestra (KKYO), the Tshung Tsin String Orchestra, The Kota Marudu Skycommunity String Orchestra and the Kota Kinabalu String Music Festival for the past 5 years, which includes the Outreach Teaching Program he started that enables teaching of strings instruments to the orphanages and hostels in Kota Marudu Skycom, Tuaran Jireh Home, Papar Care For the Future Malaysia, Tawau Vision Schools, Yangon Ywama Baptish Church Orchestra and the Bangi PLPP Orkestra & Koir (for the physically handicapped). To date, more than 100 students are receiving free tutelage under his leadership.

He has conducted Violin Masterclasses and Violin Teacher Seminars for ABRSM in Malaysia and regularly gives violin masterclasses and orchestra workshops throughout the country. Last year, he was invited by Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore to give a talk and to conduct string masterclasses. Presently he is the assistant conductor and violin tutor for the Permata Seni Muzik (PSM), a national program for musically gifted children below the age of 14.

As a Guest Conductor, he conducts the Miri Orchestra and Choir (MOC), The Musica Sinfonietta, Penang and The orchestra of the Music For Our Young Foundation, Hong Kong. He also co-founded the annual Bintulu Music Camp in 2015 where he is the artistic director and conductor. He conducted the Gala Friendship Concert (Malaysia & Korea) in Kota Kinabalu in 2015, collaboration between the Korean Opera Company Association and the JPO.

As a chamber musician, he plays viola in his Duos group. Yap Ling is also the violinist for the Three-in-1, MP3rio (Piano Trio), the Jesselton Trio (Oboe-Violin-Piano), Re:mix (Singaporean String Ensemble), the Malaysian Ars Nova Ensemble (String Quintet with Piano), the L’espressivo Trio (Vocal-Violin-Piano), the Fuegokoori Trio (Violin-Cello-Guitar) and the CrossStringsDuo (Violin & Guitar) which has performed regularly in various parts of Malaysia and abroad.

Besides giving regular recitals with his wife Grace Lee, Yap Ling has also appeared as soloist with the Monash Sinfonia in Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, the Penang Symphony Orchestra and the National Symphony Orchestra (Malaysia). Apart from classical music, he was invited to perform with Jackfruit (Jazz Band) at the 10th Nanjing International Jazz & World Music Festival, China in 2011.

Yap Ling is also very active in sacred music performances in past 30 years where he has lead the festival orchestras for works like Elijah, Messiah, The Creation, Masses and Cantatas and has collaborated with David Chin, Elaine Pao and Rev. Lee Chong Ming. The most recent being the Bach Cantata Performances in Bintulu and Sibu on 1st week of July and the Kian Kok Youth Orchestra Annual Concert on 21 July in KK.

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THE VIOLIST

SHIGERU TACHIKI studied in Berlin Karajan Academy, Germany under Prof. Giusto Cappone and with Prof. Bruno Pasquier at Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris (France). He was the violist in The Berlin Opera House and various European orchestras.

While in Brazil, he served as a viola professor at the Brasilia National University for seven years. Shigeru was also the principal violist in Brasilia National Theater Symphony Orchestra and Paraiba State Symphony Orchestra.

He has served as Director of Musical Academy in Mexico City. Since 1991 he has served as a Deputy Principal of the Kurouma Yuriko Conservatory in Mexico City, and at the same time as a member of the Kurouma Yuriko String Trio which gave performances throughout the world.

Shigeru is an active violist who performs a lot not only in orchestras and chamber groups but also in recital and as a soloist. He is now frequent the countries of Japan, Germany, France and South America giving concerts.

Presently he is the President of the Japan String Teachers Association (JASTA). The viola he plays is made by Shotaro Nishimura in Cremona in 2014.

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THE PIANIST

GRACE LEE SUI LIN obtained her Bachelor of Music Degree from Auckland University, where she studied piano under Professor Tamas Vesmas, and conducting with Uwe Groud and Karen Grill. Whole there, she conducted the Auckland Chinese Choir and served as pianist for several choirs.

She is a member of the L’espressivo Trio (Vocal-Violin-Piano) and the Jesselton Trio. She has also accompanied several prominent choirs and musicians, including the Singaporean violinst, Foo Say Ming, and soprano, Phoon Sook Peng. As an accompanist, she has played alongside the Malaysian 3 tenors (comprising David Ngim, Lim Choeng Hock and Armando Chin Yong), the ‘Duos’ Ensemble, and represented Sabah for the National Art Song Singing Competition.

She has also appeared as soloist, in 2005 playing the Mozart Double Piano Concerto and in 2008, J.S. Bach’s concerto for two pianos in C minor with Loo Bang Hean and the JPO. Her career has taken her to England, Australia, New Zealand, Brunei and all over Malaysia.

2014, she conducted the Premier Performance of ' ANGEL' by English composer Rebecca Burns during JPO Christmas Outreach Concert. In 2015, Grace performed as a cembalist in the String Festival Concert KK and as a pianist with D' Arte Ensemble in July. In 2016 and 2017, Grace performed as a harpsichordist for Bach Cantata and as a Timpanist for Sacred Music Concert.

Grace also a member of KK based Grajenda Trio, and also "Three-In-1" Trio who perform regularly in Penang. Early of the month, she has just done the Bach Cantata performances in Bintulu and Sibu performing as an harpsichordist.