SINGAPORE – Cultural Medallion recipient Vivien Goh has established a brand new award for younger musicians in honour of the a hundred and tenth start anniversary of her father, violinist Goh Quickly Tioe.
On Thursday (Dec 16), she endowed the Goh Quickly Tioe Management Award on the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music with $100,000, which after authorities matching will come as much as $150,000.
An achieved violinist, conductor, trainer and impresario who died in 1982 aged 70, Goh Quickly Tioe is remembered as considered one of Singapore’s best musical pioneers.
“In a younger musician’s journey, it’s essential to have alternatives to develop via working with new environments, colleagues and challenges,” says Ms Goh, 73, a governing board member of the conservatory and adjunct college on the College of the Arts Singapore (Sota).
In 2011, she established the Goh Quickly Tioe Centenary Fund in her father’s reminiscence to assist excellent younger string gamers wishing to construct a profession in music.
The brand new award, nonetheless, helps gamers of all orchestral devices who’re Yr 3 or 4 Singaporean college students on the conservatory.
Ms Goh says: “The award permits college students on the conservatory to develop their studying and develop as musicians who’re well-placed to guide with their artistry, simply as Goh Quickly Tioe did.”
From subsequent yr, eligible college students on the conservatory can apply for the award to pursue worldwide festivals, internships or programmes in orchestral instrument efficiency. The variety of awardees and quantity given annually is topic to that yr’s purposes.