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Ralph McDonald + Yeoh Jun Lin |
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was born in 1955 and at age of 11 became a Junior Student at the Royal Scotish Academy of Music and Drama. His full-time studies at the RSAMD lasted from 1972-76, during which he won the Governors’ Recital Prize, the Hugh S Robertson Prize for vocal ensemble work and the General Good Work Prize awarded in the 3rd Year of the Dip Music Ed course. Scholarships from the Worshipful Company of Musicians and the Scottish International Education Trust enabled him to continue his studies with John Carol Case and Derek Hammond Stroud in London. From 1980 to 1992 he was Singing and Flute tutor at Uppingham School, a school which is renowned for its music and drama. As freelance soloist he also worked closely with the Hilliard Ensemble and as a member of the Western Wind Choir toured with the group all over Europe and Japan. As a soloist he has worked with such names as Sir Peter Pears, Linda Finnie and Neil Mackie and has a flourishing recital partnership with the pianist Andrew Plant. As a member of the Trinity College London examining panel he has toured worldwide. Presently his educational and performing commitmnets are evenly split between the UK and his second base in Taiwan. Swimming, bridge and the novels of E F Benson help to keep him occupied during his spare time.
Yeoh Jun Lin graduated from the prestigious Royal College of Music, London with the G.R.S.M. Honours course and also holds the A.R.C.M., L.R.A.M. and the L.T.C.L.. She passed both Grade 8 in piano and violin with high distinctions at the age of 13, but considers the piano her principal instrument which she studied with, first, her father, then Yeoh Geok Hoon in Penang, and later on the late David Parkhouse when she went at 16. She also pursued the violin with Kenneth Piper. She also participated in the debut recording of the BBC “The African Sanctus” by David Fanshawe, but Jun Lin was most involved with chamber groups and was in demand as a pianist in duos and ensembles. Now residing in Kuching, Jun Lin continues with her music. She did a piano concerto in the Mozart bicentennial celebrations, performed with violinist Clarence Myerscough, as a trio with Isin Cakmakciuglu and Rachel Atkinson, with trombonist Gila Rayberg and violinist Fintan Murphy. She was also producer of the Christmas concert with Chan Hui Ling in 1995. She has a select group of students whom she tutors. Jun Lin was the Chairman of the Sarawak Music Society from 1997-2000 where she organized a series of events which included the Young Musician of the Year Award in 1999. She also sat in the Kuching Festival Committee and adjudicated for several competitions. She was in the organizing committee for the annual Rainforest World Music Festival that started in 1998 under the Sarawak Tourism Board. She was Programme Director for the festival for 2001-2002, and Festival Director for 2003.
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