Yeo Chow Shern

Malaysian composer YEO Chow Shern recently graduated from the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music with a major in composition and minor in violin. Prior to this, he received his music education at the Malaysian Institute of Art and was an exchange student with the Peabody Institute of Music in Baltimore, USA. His principal composition teachers include Chong Kee Yong, Steven M. Miller, Ho Chee Kong, Kevin Puts, Yuan Leow Yunn, and has worked with composers Branko Stark and Cecilia Kim in master classes. His choral work "The Sound of Portuguese Malacca" was selected and made into recording by the Lisbon Chamber Choir in Portugal for the CD project "Asian Music". In February 2013, he represented Malaysia/Singapore to participate in MODART13 in Sydney by The Song Company directed by Roland Peelman. Chow Shern won the 2013 Southeast Asia Competition and Festival with his work "What is a Tree?" for ZhongRuan and ensemble. His latest accomplishment "Teo" for Flute, Oboe and Bassoon, which will be premiered at the ACME Darmstadt and in Cologne in August 2014.