Visit by Young UK Musicians

Six post graduate students from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama United Kingdom visited Rumah Aman on August 20, and made music for the children.

The children had fun singing along with the students and the one that captured their imagination most was making harmonic noises to the rhythm of a beat-box music.

The students, Jonathan Ang (Singapore), Fernando Machado (Brazil), Felipe Souza (Portugal), Aiko (Japan), Letty (United Kingdom) and Preetha (USA) were in Singapore and Malaysia for a leadership programme which forms part of their school curriculum.

While in Malaysia, they were hosted by The Malaysian Philharmonic Youth Orchestra (MPYO).

MPYO Senior Executive, Audrey Huey Lin Ho said, the students had visited the National Arts Culture and Heritage Academy and also attended a music workshop withn their peers at the Music Faculty of MARA University Institute of Technology (UiTM).

She said, the students were here to interact with local musicians in their age group without much assitance of musical instruments to produce a "very organic" kind of music.

Rumah Aman was their last stop before proceeding to Bali for a vacation and then for home.