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Violin Lesson Pricing

Violin lessons for advanced violinists and young talents

Violin lessons are delivered at Shao-wen's home studio located near Holland Village.

Online lessons are also available.

60 Minute Lesson

$100

Why Violin Lessons With Shao-Wen

Shao-wen’s rigorous training in violin playing included intensive lessons with internationally renowned violin professors such as Prof. Erick Friedman of Yale University and Prof. Hu Kun of the Royal Academy of Music, London. As a young teen, he won several performing prizes including 1st prize at the National Piano and Violin Competitions (Junior and Senior categories).

We understand that no two people (let alone musicians!) are identical in the way they learn music.

Practicing is not picking up your instrument and playing around without any real purpose. Practicing is not playing through a bunch of things you already know.

Many musicians starting out are playing familiar things way too fast to derive any benefit and in fact are likely to be developing sloppy habits by only repeating things they already “know”.

That is why each lesson taught by Shao-wen is planned according to the requirements of the individual learner.

He takes a comprehensive approach to the study of music and offers both violin lessons and music theory lessons.

What You Can Expect

Shao-wen’s lessons are for the serious young musician, for the conservatory student, and for the advancing young professional that seeks to elevate their level of violin playing.

This typically includes (but is not limited to):

Music Elective Programme (MEP) students
Singapore National Youth Orchestra (SNYO) members
Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA) students
Yong Siew Toh (YST) Conservatory students
School Of The Arts (SOTA) students
Other (foreign) conservatory students
People preparing to audition for conservatory admission
People fresh out of conservatory
Motivated secondary school music students
Tertiary institution students
Competition entrants
Gifted young musicians

Education

Shao-wen is a graduate of Columbia University (majoring in Music) and has a Master’s in Choral Studies from the University of Cambridge. At Cambridge, he studied conducting under the esteemed Stephen Layton (Director of Music at Trinity College, Cambridge).

Shao-wen especially enjoys premiering music by contemporary composers as well as exploring non-classical genres of music. In September 2015, he was the conductor for ELEVEN, a concert featuring original compositions by Chok Kerong. In May 2017, he was the conductor for Hong Kong Episodes, a series of concerts in China celebrating the cosmopolitan cityscape of Hong Kong, featuring the music of Teriver Cheung and Fung Lam with cinematic visuals by Anthony Lai. In August of the same year, Shao-wen conducted the premiere of Disquiet, a newly composed piece for pipe organ and string orchestra written by Chok Kerong and commissioned by Singapore Symphony Group for the Victoria Concert Hall Organ Series.

Shao-wen is passionate about music education and teaches harmony, composition, and violin privately. His other musical interests include songwriting and music production.

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