5th HIGH SCORERS' CONCERT

The Hilton Hotel provided a comfortable and gracious location for the 5^th ABRSM High Scorers’ Concert in Kuching, Sarawak on 12^th October 2000.

The young performers enthralled an audience of proud parents, teachers and dignitaries with their playing of ABRSM examination pieces from piano, violin, flute and trumpet syllabuses.

The High Scorers’ event is sponsored by the Sarawak Music Society whose president is a former ABRSM scholar. Ms Yeoh Jun Lin commented ‘we like to provide an opportunity for the children to hear each other and it raises awareness as well as standards’.

One little fellow seated in the front row appeared to know all the music being played. This was evident by his enthusiastic humming and beaming smile of approval during the performances . When it came to the final performance of the evening, Debussy’s piano prelude, ‘General Lavine Eccentric’, I thought ‘he surely will not know this piece’- but to my utter surprise he appeared to know every note of that too! When I enquired of his mother how her young son came to know the melodies and themes in all the concert pieces, she replied ‘well, I am a piano teacher and he sits for hours just listening to all the lessons- he appears to have absorbed it all’. He certainly had!

It was a delightful event and the Board are indeed grateful to Sarawak Music Society for their endeavours in organizing it with meticulous care.

All performers received their ABRSM high scorers’ badges, as well as Sarawak Music Society tee shirts!

reported by Bill Thomson