Ariana Chong

Location:

Willoughby, NSW
Australia 2068

Contact:

arianachong@gmail.com

Additional Info:

Ms Ariana Chong was the first student in Singapore to study Music at Oxford University under the prestigious Singapore Public Service Commission (PSC) Scholarship. She attained her ABRSM Grade 8 in piano at the age of 13, LRSM Performance Diploma (Licentiate of the Royal Schools of Music) at 16, and FTCL (Fellowship of the Trinity College of Music, London) at 18. She was the only Singaporean in that year to be awarded the FTCL. While at Worcester College, Oxford, Ariana was awarded the College Instrumental Scholarship, and studied piano with the renowned Norma Fisher in London. Soon after her BA Honours Music degree, she was awarded the MA Music degree by Oxford University. Ariana also served as a committee member in the Worcerster-Sommerville Music Society.

Ariana proceeded to attain her second Master’s degree in Music at the National Institute of Education (NIE) of Singapore under a Music Research Scholarship. She had been highly active in the arts scene, having been the musical director in the production of Dining With Ernest (by Bob Nimmo) held in the Mandarin Hotel Ballroom, and having sung in productions with the Singapore Lyric Opera and in the Singapore Symphony Chorus. She had also conducted a number of school choirs, and had helped them win awards in the highly competitive Singapore Youth Festival (SYF) Choir Competitions. Besides having done numerous CD recordings with the choirs, she had also led choirs on performance tours to Europe and Australia.

Besides teaching piano and singing, providing piano accompaniment and performing by invitation, Ariana had also been involved in the planning and organisation of music programmes for weddings, anniversary celebrations and festive occasions. She had performed in the presence of dignitaries like the former Singapore Transport Minister RAdm Lui Tuck Yew, former British High Commissioner to Singapore Paul Madden, former Singapore Chief Justice Yong Pung How, current Singapore Chief Justice Chan Sek Keong and the last Governor of Hong Kong and former EU Commissioner, Lord Patten of Barnes.

Ariana is currently a member of The Oxford and Cambridge Society of Singapore and The Oxford University Society of NSW, Australia.

Fees

$ 150.00 Australian Dollars Per Hour
Accompaniment work is charged at a minimum of 1 hour. Any additional time clocked is calculated to the next half hour.
Additional fees may apply in situations where a considerable amount of practice time is needed on the part of the accompanist due to the complexity of the piece(s).

Instruments

Piano

Specialisms

Instrumental Accompaniment, Vocal Accompaniment

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