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INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL  FOR SINGERS 2008   

Biographies

  LOH SIEW-TUAN , now resident in London, was born in Fujian province, China but was brought up in Penang, Malaysia. She had her initial training at Trinity College of Music, London, where she was awarded F.T.C.L. in Singing Performance and A.T.C.L. in Piano Teaching.

Throughout her international singing career, she has acquired a great deal of knowledge and experience as a performer and her wide-ranging Opera and Lieder repertoire encompasses from early Baroque to Schonberg and Zemlinsky.  Her singing engagements have taken her to more than 20 countries world-wide, including Belgium, France, Italy, Portugal the Czech Republic, North and South America, the Far East, Australia and New Zealand.

In 1992 she was Chairman of the Jury for both the Australian Singing Competition and for the Mobil Song Quest in New Zealand, an honour which she shares with Vera Rozsa, Sarah Walker, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa and Tom Krause.

As a long time student and collaborator of the world-renowned Vocal Consultant, Madame Vera Rozsa, Miss Loh is widely recognised internationally as a Vocal Arts teacher of considerable reputation.

Her teaching engagements have included positions at; the European Centre for Opera and Vocal Art (ECOV) in Belgium; the Maîtrise du Centre de Musique Baroque de Versaille;   Notre Dame de Paris, France. She was responsible for the development of many talented Venezuelan recitalists and opera singers at the time when she was the Professor of Vocal Studies at the Opera de Caracas, Venezuela.

From 1996-1999, she was Visiting Professor of Opera at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Brussels, during which time she conceived the idea for and set-up the organisation OPERAPLUS , an independent training centre, dedicated to assisting young singers in the advancement of their vocal, musical and dramatic capabilities.

As a Vocal Teacher, Miss Loh is in regular demand internationally and has given Master Classes at; the New South Wales Conservatory in Sydney, Australia; the Victoria University in Wellington, as well as in Christchurch and Auckland, New Zealand; and at the Royal Irish Academy of Music and the DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama, Dublin, Ireland. For many years she has also had a close association with the International Vocal Summer School in Salt Lake City, USA, and has given Master Classes at the Utah Opera.

Above all, Loh Siew-Tuan is known and respected for her sympathetic affinity and close involvement with young singers, throughout Europe and elsewhere, who aspire to a career in the performing arena. Since 1997, as a founding member and Artistic Director of OPERAPLUS , she has launched; a highly successful series of Celebrity Master Classes with internationally renowned artists, in co-operation with the Belgian National Opera, La Monnaie, Brussels; a yearly International Summer School for Young Singers at Kortenberg, Belgium; and has conducted 17 two-day workshops for young singers on vocal technique, musicianship, rôle-interpretation, character-studies and stage movement. Miss Loh was also invited by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, in 1999 and 2000, to direct two summer school programmes for young singers in Belfast.

Since October 2004, Ms Loh is the Vocal Consultant at the Flanders Opera Studio.