Soprano Chia Yee Yean
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Soprano Chia Yee Yean is a native of Johor Bahru, Malaysia.
She is often invited by various organizations and churches to perform as soloist and provide masterclasses.
Her performance highlights include
Bach’s Mass in B minor,
St. John Passion,
and numerous cantatas;
Handel’s Messiah;
Telemann’s Weiche, Lust und Fröhlichkeit,
Mendelssohn’s St. Paul,
and Schumann’s Frauenliebe und leben, Op. 42,
among others.
Chia Yee Yean is the founding member of the Malaysia Bach Festival Choir and Orchestra.
In 2004, Chia graduated from Vienna Academy of Music and Performing Arts with the Master of Music degree in Vocal Performance,
where she studied under Hilda De Groote and Helga Wagner.
Since returning to Asia,
she continued to study voice with renowned Hong Kong soprano Nancy Yuen,
Malaysia’s chief soprano Cecilia Yap,
tenor Lim Shieh Yih,
and conductor Toh Ban Sheng,
in addition to studying choral conducting from conductor Rev. Lee Chong Min and Dr. Audrey Chung.
Chia Yee Yean has loved singing as a child, and her early voice instructors include Wai Yinn Chin and Lulu Yip.
