Kira Lim, 22, is a contemporary classical soprano under the tutelage of Ms Khor Ai Ming. She placed first for all categories (Classical/Folk/Opera) in the American Protege Vocal Competition 2018 and was later invited to perform at Carnegie Hall, New York City. She has also sung as a soloist in the Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles. In 2019, Kira graduated from Lasalle College of The Arts with a Diploma in Performance. In 2016, she attained a Distinction in the Trinity College London Advanced Performance Certificate. Kira was involved in the 2019’s SIFA production of Oreste by Ifigenia directed by Tan Shou Chen. In 2020, Kira was accepted into the prestigious Manhattan School of Music in New York City to pursue her Bachelors in Music (Classical Voice). She has performed several times with many established conductors including - Joshua Tan, Alice Farnham, Tsung Yeh and Justin Freer on a range of large works for chorus and orchestra, including Berstein’s Chichester Psalms, John Rutter’s Mass of the Children, Howard Shore’s music for Lord of the Rings and Liu San Jie - Musical Film Concert. Kira has a love of sharing and teaching the arts. Kira started teaching singing in 2017 at Ms Khor’s Studio and has worked with people of all ages and backgrounds. In 2019, she also taught singing and piano in SOMA and Joy Music Studio. In late 2020, she was invited to be a voice coach in the arts camp “我爱秀 I SHOW” with Singapore Raffles Music College for children and teenagers. Kira served as an assistant instructor to The Lighthouse School Choir which performs regularly with The Purple Symphony led by Mr Quek Ling Kiong. Kira is the main storyteller in PlayINC’s The Classics Retold, telling fairy tales but also bringing up issues that children may face today. She wants to continue inspiring young children to be imaginative, creative and chase their dreams. Kira has participated in some notable performances including: The Magic Flute (2014) as 'First Lady', Hansel and Gretel (2016) as 'Gretel', Mass of The Children and New York Sounds of Summer, Carnegie Hall (Soloist, 2016), Vocal Associates Songbirds Recital: Tsubasa (Soloist, 2017), You are the Music (Soloist, 2017), Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No.2 & Mass of the Children (Soloist, 2018), Los Angeles International Music Festival (Soloist, 2018), Carmina Burana (Soloist, 2019), StoryFest - Wings Of Love (Storyteller, 2019), Der Zwerg with the Opera People directed by Edith Podesta (2019) as ‘First Maiden’. In November 2019, Kira did a solo debut recital at the Esplanade Recital Studio, and she hopes to continue performing annually as she grows artistically.
Claire Teo has never stopped working towards excellence in her pursuit of the performing arts. She is the first visually impaired person to have graduated from a professional theatre course in Singapore in 2019, (LASALLE College of the Arts’ Diploma in Performance) and is closely mentored by Artist-Educator and Disability Arts Specialist, Peter Sau in her artistic endeavors. Since then, she saw the need for more communities to have access to arts education and has been developing and teaching drama curriculums for persons with diverse abilities. She is now the Academic Director of Talent Academy (a division of Singapore Raffles Music College) which aims "Towards Unwavering Artistic Excellence for all". As part of PLAYInc Pte Ltd, she is the scriptwriter and director of several assembly school show programmes, an episodic sitcom and a children's storytelling series called "The Classics Retold". In the long run, she wishes to work closely with her fellow disabled artists to break new artistic ground and champion the disability arts scene towards true inclusive practice; creating art with different communities that would empower and encourage awareness and social change.
Clarence is a Singaporean graduate of History from the National University of Singapore who has been a music composer and sound designer for art installations, film and advertising media for 10 years since 2011. His works span across Singapore, Malaysia, Korea, Italy and New York and Rotterdam. A key highlight in his arts/media production career is creating the English dub for a popular Korean children's animation as Voice Director. The episode of Arpo’s ‘Run For Your Life’ has gathered more than 200 million views on YouTube to date. Clarence’s passion for playing the guitar also led him from playing in small nightclubs locally to representing Singapore in Chengdu in 2015 as Musical Director of a 5-piece pop band. There he performed on mega stages (>3000 pax each) across Chengdu with Singapore pop starlet Tay Kewei. Today, though he no longer performs professionally, he is happy to share the magic and secrets of the guitar with other passionate strummers.
To overcome his tendency for paranoia, Samuel Woo (b. 1983) turns to imagination to create stories, often through photography, illustration and writing. The need to dispel his fears has transformed into creative skills and thought processes he now practises on a daily basis, mostly evident from his Instagram @moonoloco. On earth, he is human and holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography from Nanyang Technological University, two certificates in Product and Graphic Design, and an impossible addiction to making things pretty in strange, unusual ways. All because he believes #yolo.
Mintio is a visual artist born in Singapore. Trained as a photographer at the School of Art Design and Media in Nanyang Technological University, Mintio has been actively creating works and participating in exhibitions both locally and abroad. She is the founder of Ketemu Project Space in Bali.
Kok Choon Choo (Choon) is a painter based in Johor Bahru, Malaysia. His works are inspired by the German Expressionism and Japanese Pop Culture - creating vivid characters that bring his ideas of the society across. His workshop allows participants to explore drawing their facial features through different means - sight and touch. Choon has been given awards for his paintings. He also works as an arts educator in Malaysia, regularly conducting workshops. He is a member of National Art Gallery Malaysia, PPM (Malaysia Artists Society) and Persatuan Senilukis Rekacipta Negeri Johor (SERUPA). He graduated from University of Tasmania (UTAS @ Hobart Campus) and has a BFA (Bachelor of Fine Art) Painting 2001-CAA Academy of Art (Johor Bahru Campus).