After reading my previous post, again, it's been a long long time since I manage this space. Firstly it's because I became lazy, second it's because everything seems to be on social media, no one really uses blog space anymore. But having my own personal space to record my experiences is kinda cool too, I'll try to keep this page alive.
This evening I attended this concert featuring Hou, a genius young trumpet player hailed from Taiwan, the place I studied my bachelor in music. I had the opportunity to meet Hou when my clarinet teacher Huang, who was the Head of Music Department in NTUA, lead the university students to Singapore for exchange concert, and Hou was one of the professor to came along because he was the Singapore NUS YST alumni.
It was an opportunity for me to travel to SG to meet my teacher (because travel by to Taiwan is so troublesome then). It was then I met Hou and he happens to be course mate of Howard, which we had knew each other through internet since high school days. Both of them are funny dudes.
Given his remarkable reputation in trumpet playing, his performance tonight is truly astonishing, and the program planned by Howard (tonight's performer too) is equally interesting, because I get to listen to Charles Ive's The Unanswered Question, which I would otherwise only get to see it mentioned in music textbook back in uni days.
Howard will be stepping down from leading the Virama ensemble after 10-years, as the co-founder and manager of the ensemble, he is very inspirational as a musician and manager in the classical music industry. Not sure who's going to succeed him yet, Howard has set the bar too high for us to follow, perhaps Kenny? Lol, good luck Kenny!
Meeting a few new and old friends, stayed around, chatted a while, took this opportunity to have a photo with Hou-god and sent it to Huang to say hi.
