Seow Aik Keong

A pupil of Ms Lim Tshui Fang, Aik Keong won several prizes in the Intermediate, Senior and Open categories of the National Music competitions. He represented Singapore to participate in the Pan Pacific Advanced Piano School Camp once in 1995 as an oboist and again in 1998 as a pianist for the Advanced Piano School Camp in Sydney, Australia. He was selected twice to perform for the President of the Republic of Singapore, first in 1996 in a shared recital, and again in 1999 as a soloist with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra for the President’s Charity. In his first year of study in RJC, he appeared as a soloist twice, first as an oboist in a Handel’s oboe concerto and second time as one of the pianists in Le Carnaval de animaux. In his second year, he re-orchestrated the RJC anthem, was the Music Director of Raffles Symphonic Band, obtained an ‘S’ Paper distinction in Music and won the prestigious Creative Arts Awards. Aik Keong studied the piano with Professor Patsy Toh from the Royal Academy of Music while completing his music education (Honours and Masters) in King’s College London. Apart from being the principal oboist in the College orchestra, the Music Director of the Kings College London Wind Band, he also had the honour to perform as a soloist with the University Orchestra.