Currently, our team comprises of skilled professionals dedicated to dance, music and vocal education: Teachers of ballet, jazz, hip hop, social dance, musicians, vocalists who are early childhood educators and performers who strive to bring out the best in students.
Our centre echo with the joy, fun and sense of achievement that we share with our students. Our lessons are approached in a way that makes learning fulfilling and rewarding. The environment is welcoming, and every student is valued as an individual.
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Our Teachers |
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Principal – Mr Samuel LIM
Head (Dance) – Miss Yana DRAGIEVA
Head (Production) – Mr Ace YIP
Head (Music) – Miss TCHOMOEVA Tchynar
String - Amy TAN
String - Ani UMEDYAN
String - Viliana Angelova VRANGOVA
Piano - GANOVA Borisova Rumyana
Piano - Naira MKHITARYAN
Flute - Mr DIMOV Emil
Dance - Miss KOH Wen Jye
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Dance - Mr Max CHEN
Dance - Adeline EE Wei Ling
Dance - Denise ONG
Dance - Jessica LARBIG
Dance - WONG Liang Pei
Dance - Alana Della MORA
Dance - Stephanie Jane BURT
Dance - Asya MARGARYAN
Dance - ONG Kai Ming
Dance - Veron SHEN
Theory, Aural, Piano, Percussion - Mr Daniel GOON
Piano/ Vocal - Gayane VARDANYAN |
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For more information on teachers, please refer below.
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Samuel has been in the music industry his whole life. He graduated from Brandon University (Manitoba, Canada), started performing since his student days during recital lunch time concerts. He accumulated numerous concerts with the Brandon Choral Society and concert tours and performed in major recitals with Brandon Chorale Society accompanied by the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra.
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Teacher Emil earned his first degree in Music, a Bachelor of Flute, Piano, Chamber Music and Theory of Music from Russe College of Music. He later went for further studies at the State Academy of Music, Sofia and currently holds a Masters for Flute and Chamber Music. Throughout these years, he embarked on his music tours and travelled extensively to all parts of the world. |
Yana is an extremely qualified teacher. She graduated from one of the best Ballet Academy in Russia, Vaganova. She specialized in Vaganova (Russian) Technique and in the last few years I worked in West Europe and Canada. She is eligible to teach RAD technique as well. In addition she teaches classical variations, character, historical dance and basis of modern dance technique. She is able to create the choreographies across all levels.
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Teacher Liang Pei teaches ballet and modern dance to children from 2.5 years to adults. Liang Pei is trained both as a performer and dance teacher. She is trained in ballet and modern dance by Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts. She is a professional dancer and performs to her best. She has accumulated substantial teaching experience and developed techniques to help her students, especially the young dancers grow and nurture their skills.
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Ace has a strong passion in music production Since his teens, he was involved in music and concert productions. His various stints brought to several world class venues and concert locations. He worked amongst the best people in this industry and loves what he does with a deadly passion.
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Teacher Tchynar has an impressive legacy of work experience and academic qualifications. She graduated from the best music conservatory in the world, Sankt-Peterburg Conservatory (Russia). Her qualifications trained her as an orchestra player, chamber orchestra player, music teacher and an artiste for chamber ensemble. From 1996-2000, she was with Sankt -Peterburg Opera and Ballet Theatre (Mariinsky Theatre) as first violin (Russia). Subsequently, for seven years, from 2000-2007, she was concert master for the Seoul National Symphony Orchestra in South Korea.
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Teacher Amy Tan is an active violin teacher, music
educator and performer. She graduated and obtained her
Music Degree in Performance (First Class Honours) in
2001 from Queensland Conservatorium, Griffith
University, Australia. During her years of studying in
the university, Teacher Amy had been awarded Griffith
Award twice, in which she scored high distinctions on
most subjects, including String Pedagogy, Conducting,
Chamber Music and Orchestration.
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Max shares his passion for dance with his students. During his lessons, he practises his belief that children have an enormous capacity to learn and achieve success if the learning environment is based on an ideal model. Max taught in various Primary and Secondary schools and is a highly experienced dance choreographer.
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Teacher Ani began to learn violin at 6, studying in Music Schools, followed by Special Music College after R.Melikyan (Yerevan). In 1999, thanks to demonstrated high level standards of playing, she was awarded full State scholarship at the State Conservatory of Armenia with Prof. Bagrat Vardanyan. Teacher Ani played in numerous concerts across Armenia and abroad. She participated in different festivals and master-courses all around Europe and Australia.
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Rumyana graduated with distinctions in her piano class at the Music School in Bougas where she was piano soloist in the Symphony Orchestra. She was also a prize winner of the Svetoslav Obretenov National Competition. From 1981 to 1985, she studied at the Musical academy under Professor Lyuba Obretenova. Her performance was aired on National TV and the National Radio in Bulgaria.
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Teacher Daniel is a musician from Singapore performing mainly on the piano, organ, keyboards and percussion instruments. Daniel's orchestra performance experience includes involvement with Singapore Symphony Orchestra regular concerts as well as recording sessions, productions with the Singapore Lyric Opera, Singapore Opera Orchestra and Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra. |
Teacher Naira graduated Yerevan State Conservatory with full state scholarship. She also did her post graduate studies under Professor A. Ghazaryan. From 1989 to 2005, she worked as a concert master in the vocal classes and as a piano professor. Since 1990, she is working in Yerevan State Conservatory as a concert master in the class of opera-symphonic conductor under the direction of the well-known conductor, Professor Yuri Davlyan. She also teaches chamber music at the same conservatory. |
Teacher Gayane is a vocal and piano teacher since 1981. She has a naturally perfect voice and after being trained in music, she performed and excelled as a professional musician. Apart from working with the Armenian National Opera Choir and Ballet Theatre, she had concerts in Armenia and abroad, she combines her work in Theater of Opera and Ballet with teaching children giving them an overall musical experience. All students respect and love her a lot. |
Teacher Viliana finished State Music School in Plovdiv and did her Masters at the National Academy of Music "Pantcho Vladigerov" Sofia, Bulgaria. As an established musician, she won several awards across the years. In 2007 at the Competition for chamber music "Pancho Vladigerov", Sofia - Bulgaria, she won Special prize for interpretation by Bulgarian composer, in 2002 she won first prize in the Competition for duo (violin and piano), Pleven - Bulgaria and in 1998, she won first prize for the Competition for music by Antonin Dvorak, Varna - Bulgaria. |
Teacher Adeline started dancing in 1993. Her latest performance was at the Macau Youth Dance Festival with the THE Youth Company. In 2007, she performed Mambo (Salsa) in Cherating representing Dragones Latinos, Cheng Hsien Fa s Snow White and Lionel Araya Scholarship Show Break it Down . She is also a ballet specialist and has fourteen years of ballet dancing experience. Even after her dance degree training, she is an active performer. |
Since 1999, Teacher Denise started dancing professionally in various dance performances and participated in dance competitions. She also undertook ballet roles in Beijing and Malaysia as well as local performances at the Esplanade. Teacher Denise participated in CSTD Summer School and Asia-Pacific Dance Competitions. She currently specialises in teaching ballet to children and is trained to coach young children, to bring out their best. |
Dancing professionally for 8 years, Alana attended the National Ballet School's Full Time Professional Program (Toronto, ON). She continued her studies and went on to graduate from The Quinte Ballet School in Canada as well as train with The National Ballet of Cuba. Alana graduated from a 5 year joint program with York University and The National Ballet School in which she received her Honors Bachelor of Fine Arts and teaching diploma. |
Veron is an established dance teacher in her own right. She teaches ballet and modern dance to children from 2.5 years to adults. Veron is trained both as a performer and dance teacher. She is trained in ballet, hip hop and jazz. Apart from achieving her qualifications as a RAD certified teacher, she won awards for jazz as well. |
Stephanie has been active in the Performing Arts Scene since 2003, taking part in intensive dance workshops in Ballet and Jazz organized by the Commonwealth Society of Teachers of Dancing from Australia. She was awarded merit for her participation in a CSTD dance competition back in 2004. She has also performed under dance performances. |
Kai Ming is a self inspired dancer who started dancing since 2005, only started receiving professional training in 2007 at Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts. His first dance training at NAFA receiving daily technique classes of Ballet, Modern, Jazz and Asian Dance. His love for dance has allowed him to be exposed to other dance genres, like breaking, popping, hip hop. |
Jessica has an extensive dance background. She worked as a dancer with Dance Work Rotterdam in the Netherlands prior to coming to Singapore. She conducted lessons, audition classes, repertory workshops. She was formerly also in charge of the educational program for children between at Dance Work. She also choreograph and works a lot with children in the program. |
Asya started dancing at the age of 6. She received formal training from Yerevan State Dance College, Armenia which exposed her to different forms of dance. She graduated from her dance degree which trained her to be a performer and teacher for dance. Upon graduation, Teacher Asya taught in Golden Stars Dance Studio and Arabkir Dance School where her passion for teaching young children was ignited. |
Wen Jye teaches ballet and modern dance to children from 2.5 years to adults. Wen Jye couldn't wait to start learning ballet: at the age of five she began classes. During that time Wen Jye also learnt ballet, modern dance and chinese dance. She did extremely well in exams, partly due to the fact that she never felt nervous - she loved performing in front of people, even examiners!
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