ABC International
School, BVIS and BIS came together to celebrate the musical gifts in our
Primary Young Musician of the Year Competition 2018.
Children from across
ABC International School, BVIS and BIS have all taken part in first round
auditions, semi-finals and then on Tuesday 16th October they took
part in the final for the Young Musician Competition, an annual celebration of
music from our younger soloists. The
Primary Young Musician of the Year 2018 Competition has grown this year to
include our sister FOBISIA school ABC. The competition started with only BIS
almost 8 years ago, we added BVIS in 2016 and this year invited ABC
International School to join the celebration of music. Each child has had to go
through two rounds of auditions to make it to the grand finale, which was held
on Tuesday 16th October in the BIS Secondary Theatre. From the first
to the last round nearly three hundred children have taken part across the
three schools but only fifteen made it to the final performance. Our judges, Ms
Georgina Hardiman (Head of Secondary Music at BVIS), Mr Gareth Groves (Head of
Visual and Performing Arts at ABC) and Mr Ian Alexander (Director of Music at
BIS), had a challenging decision to make and had many conversations about who
should win the prestigious title of Young Musician of the Year 2018.
Our young
performers excelled on the piano, guitar, ukulele, violin and cello and for the
first time ever, the kit drum too. We heard music from Schubert, Handel, Mozart
and Shostakovich. Our audience was thrilled to also hear music from our two
previous winners Anya Chakrabarty from 2016 playing on her violin and Caitlin
Chua from 2017 performing confidently on her cello. A huge well done to our
finalists: Wei
Jie (Bon) Ng, Bao Quyen (BQ) Nguyen, Bach LUU, Bach LUU, Tuong Anh Ngo, Harry
Zhang, Quang Hien (Henry) Bui, Lilly Lee, Zhen Yang Chew,
TaeHwan Shin, Catherine Ko, and Duc Tri Tran.
These young performers have worked incredibly hard to get to this final stage of
the competition and have also shown wonderful musicianship in their support of
each other. Special congratulations go to our top three performers who this
year are; Khang Nguyen (ABC) who came third and performed a solo on the kit
drum; Dolly Nguyen (BIS) who came second overall and performed expertly on the
piano; and our winner of the 2018 Young Musician of the Year Competition Johnny
Nguyen (BIS) who performed the very mature and emotional piece of Nocturne in
C# minor by Chopin.
Well done to everyone who’s taken part and I look forward to
hearing many more entries again next year. Thank you to all those who have
supported and hopefully we can continue to share in the delights of our
children as they continue to grow as marvellous musicians.
Click here to see more photos from the event.
