choral director
Mr Nelson Kwei
is an accomplished conductor, music arranger and vocal tutor in the
music scene, having attained a Licentiate in singing from the Guildhall
School of Music. He won the coveted title of “Most Promising Singer” in
an Asian Art Song Competition at the age of 20. Mr Nelson Kwei was also
the first choral scholar from Singapore. He was awarded a prestigious
scholarship in 1990 by the Ministry of Education to do an advance
post-graduate studies in Choral Conducting from the Royal Academy of
Music in London.
In 1993, Mr Kwei was honoured with the
“National Youth Service Award” , the highest Youth Award in Singapore,
in recognition of his significant contribution in the field of choral
art. In 1999, he was awarded with the “Culture Award” by the Japanese
Chamber of Commerce and Industry and in 2001, the Rotary Club honoured
him as the “Ambassador of the Arts” for Singapore.
On the
international level, Mr Kwei won the prestigious “Outstanding
Choral Director Award” two years in a row at the
International
Choral Competition in Germany, 1998 & 1999 and also the “Best
Conductor Award” at the Petr Eben International Choral Competition 2002
in Prague. In recent years, he has led his choirs to 8 Gold awards
including 3 Category Champions in the Choir Olympic held in Bremen,
Germany & Xiamen, China. His choir was also the first Asian
choir
to win the Grand Prize & Audience Prize at the prestigious
Concorso
Corale Internazionale held in Riva Del Garda.
Presently he
is a member of the National Arts Council’s Advisory Board for Choral
Development in Singapore and the Chairman of the Choral Directors’
Association (Singapore). On the international level, he is the First
Vice-Chairman of the Asian Youth Choir Council, an international
federation for choirs & conductors and the Artistic Director of
A
Voyage of Songs, an international choral competition held every 2
years. He was also invited as both clinician and adjudicator in many
international choral festivals and competitions. Currently he is the
Conductor of many prestigious schools, colleges and community choirs in
Singapore which have won numerous national and international
awards.