UW News

October 5, 2006

Pianist Melody Quah to perform Oct. 8

Prizewinning pianist Melody Quah will perform at 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 8 in Brechemin Auditorium in the Music Building. Her recital includes works by Bach, Schumann, and Liszt.

Quah was born in 1988 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. At age 2, she started playing the piano, and was accepted into a gifted children’s program two years later. Quah began piano lessons with Snezana Panovska when she was 6, and performed in the Franz Liszt Hall in Hungary at age 7.

Quah has performed on the stages of Malaysia, Hungary, Japan, Ukraine, Czech Republic, China, Australia, Canada, and The Netherlands. She was selected to perform her own compositions in the International Junior Original Concert in Japan in 1996 and 2001, and was invited to perform for the 100th Anniversary of Utsunomia, Japan.

In 2002, she went to Australia to study with Professor Victor Makarov at the Australian Institute of Music in Sydney. Since September 2005, Quah has continued her studies with Lee Kum Sing at the Vancouver Academy of Music in British Columbia. She has had master classes with distinguished pianists such as Karl-Heinz Kammerling, Stephen Kovacevich, Vladimir Krainev, Piotr Paleczny, Christopher Elton, and Rita Reichmann. In addition, she has had the honor of meeting and playing for Vladimir Ashkenazy, John Lill, and Dame Joan Sutherland.

Tickets for the concert are $10 at the door.