Quan Hui's Bio

Quan Hui started his music education with piano, obtaining an ATCL in piano performance. In his teens, he picked up the trombone and then led the Raffles Junior College Symphonic Band to top honours in the All-American Music Festival in Orlando, Florida in 1999, inspiring the judges to create an Outstanding Student Conductor award just for him. Subsequently, he decided to venture into singing, beginning his first classical voice lessons four years ago. Still a young singer, he has studied with William Lim and Reuben Lai of Singapore Lyric Opera, Pamela Turner of West Australian Opera, Russell Smythe of the Royal College of Music, London. In the U.S., Quan Hui was under Bruce Tammen's tutelage in his three years at the University of Chicago. Subsequently, while pursuing his Master’s degree in his one year at Harvard, he continued to study voice with James McDonald and Mark Pearson of New England Conservatory. Thus far, Quan Hui has participated in four vocal showcases in Chicago, before singing his first recital Love and Life – A Musical Journey in Singapore in August 2005. Bidding farewell to his four years in the U.S., he held a second recital Vocal Crossroads at Harvard in May 2006. Live and Love Again marks his third recital in his very short singing "career" and he hopes to share what he has learnt over the past four years with you today.