Our Director

Sarah Wong

Sarah started her musical journey as a pianist at the age of four, and then a harpist during her teenage years. Her passion for music and the harp eventually led her in pursuing music full time at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA). She graduated with a Diploma in Music with Distinction from NAFA, and attained Best Graduate Award. During her studies at NAFA, she was privileged to have been under the tutelage of the harpists of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra – Gulnara Mashurova and Huang Yu-Hsin. Sarah now holds a Bachelor of Music with Honours from the Royal College of Music (London), in collaboration with NAFA.

 

As an active orchestral musician, she has performed in various ensembles such as The Philharmonic Orchestra, re:Sound Collective, the Orchestra of the Music Makers, the Singapore National Youth Orchestra, NAFA Orchestra, Ding Yi Music Company, as well as the Orchestra Collective. In 2012, she was a finalist of the NAFA-Music Essentials Concerto Competition, where she performed Mozart’s Flute and Harp Concerto.

As a harpist of the Singapore National Youth Orchestra (SNYO) in 2014, she received a full sponsorship to attend and participate in the LANXESS SNYO Classic, Cultural Exchange Programme at Berlin, where she had the privilege to study with Marie-Pierre Langlamet, Principal Harpist of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. In the same year, she also received a scholarship to participate in the Young Artist’s Harp Seminar in the United States, where she studied with Skaila Kanga, Susan Brady and Kimberly Rowe.

 

In 2015, she has been invited as a harp soloist to perform Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez with the AudioImage Wind Ensemble as well as Mozart’s Flute and Harp Concerto with acclaimed British flautist, William Bennett, and the NAFA Orchestra in 2016.