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YAP LING (Professional Certificate (HONS) ARAM, LRAM, ARCM, LRSM) is a versatile musician who performs, teaches, conducts and arranges music. After obtaining his LRSM in 1986, he secured a Yayasan Sarawak Student’s loan which enabled him to enter the Royal Academy of Music, London (RAM). He was later awarded the Sarawak Foundation Scholarship and the RAM’s Alec Templeton Scholarship. At the RAM, Yap Ling studied under Clarence Myerscough (violin), Adrain Leaper & Denise Ham (Conducting) and Roger Steptoe (Orchetration/composition). Before he went to London, he has participated in consultation lessons, masterclasses, music camps and workshops in Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong. While in London , he became a member of the Chelsea Symphony Orchestra (concertmaster 1988), the Chelsea String Quartet, the London Chinese Ensemble and the PianoTrio. Since then, Yap Ling has been to Germany, Italy, France, New Zealand, Australia, Moscow (Russia), USA and China for upgrading and performances.
In 1990, he participated in the first World Youth Music Camp in Kuala Lumpur and the first Pacific Music Festival in Japan where he played under the baton of Leonard Bernstein. He was selected to represent Malaysia as a violin tutor in the 1991 ASEAN Youth Music Workshop in Jakarta, Indonesia. He was a string tutor at UNIMAS. He lead and founded the Panggau Libau Strings and the Sibu Strings. Because of his contributions towards developing the music standard in this part of the world, he was conferred the Associate of the Royal Academy of Music (ARAM) in 1997. He was the Artistic Director for the 1st and the 2nd Sarawak Music Camp in Kuching and Sibu respectively for 1999 and 2001. He has played the Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto with the Monash Sinfonia of the Monash University in Melbourne, Australia in 2000.
The most recent appearance as soloist was with the Penang Symphony Orchestra on 2 June 2002. Before he moved to Kota Kinabalu this year, he was the conductor of Orkestera Dewan Suarah Sibu (ODSS), the Sibu Hwai Ang Methodist Church Symphony Orchestra, the Wong Nai Siong School Concert Band, the Masland Methodist Church Band and the Hwai Ang Methodist Church Young Adult Fellowship Choir. Presently he is the leader of the Virtuoso Players and conductor of the Virtuoso Ensemble and the Shern En Methodist Church Youth Choir.
In 1990, he participated in the first World Youth Music Camp in Kuala Lumpur and the first Pacific Music Festival in Japan where he played under the baton of Leonard Bernstein. He was selected to represent Malaysia as a violin tutor in the 1991 ASEAN Youth Music Workshop in Jakarta, Indonesia. He was a string tutor at UNIMAS. He lead and founded the Panggau Libau Strings and the Sibu Strings. Because of his contributions towards developing the music standard in this part of the world, he was conferred the Associate of the Royal Academy of Music (ARAM) in 1997. He was the Artistic Director for the 1st and the 2nd Sarawak Music Camp in Kuching and Sibu respectively for 1999 and 2001. He has played the Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto with the Monash Sinfonia of the Monash University in Melbourne, Australia in 2000.
The most recent appearance as soloist was with the Penang Symphony Orchestra on 2 June 2002. Before he moved to Kota Kinabalu this year, he was the conductor of Orkestera Dewan Suarah Sibu (ODSS), the Sibu Hwai Ang Methodist Church Symphony Orchestra, the Wong Nai Siong School Concert Band, the Masland Methodist Church Band and the Hwai Ang Methodist Church Young Adult Fellowship Choir. Presently he is the leader of the Virtuoso Players and conductor of the Virtuoso Ensemble and the Shern En Methodist Church Youth Choir.
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