Selly Oak Music School, Birmingham
Motivation, Ability & Self-Esteem
With great passion in teaching music, our goal is to provide the opportunity to everyone to learn and enjoy music through our friendly and encouraging teachers. We believe the great learning experiences can stimulate pupils’ musical potential. Futhermore, we aim to provide excellent quality of musical lessons affordable for everyone.
Dr. Heng-Ching Fang (Ching)
Ching is a pianist and string player (Violin and Viola) living and working in the West Midlands & Yorkshire. She has performed at various venues and won several competitions. Started to learn piano from age 4, and violin (viola) from age 9, she is the prize winner of the Leeds Chamber Orchestra Soloist Competition, finalist in the Ludlow Philharmonic Competition, the First Prize in the Taipei West District Viola Competition and third-prize winner of the National Viola Competition. After her study at Taipei Municipal Teacher’s College (BMus in Music Education, with Government Scholarship), Birmingham Conservatoire (PGDip, with international scholarship), and the Guildhall School of Music (MMus, with full GSMD funded scholarship), Ching also gained a PhD Degree ( received scholarship from The Aidan Woodcock Charity and Kathleen & Margery Elliott Scholarship Trust) from the University of Leeds. During her doctoral candidature she was the recipient of two prestigious and highly competitive research awards: a British Woman Foundation Fund Scholarship Award and a Music and Letters award from the Oxford Journals.
Ching has been invited to play with the Macau Orchestra, Chiemi Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, Leeds Baroque Orchestra, Pacific Music Festival, Schleswig Holstein Music Festival, London Charity Orchestra, Asian Young Orchestra and toured in Europe and Asia. Heng-Ching and organist Daniel Gordon have recorded the Treeness, which was dedicated by composer Nigel Morgan, and commissioned by the A-R Editions Inc., and published in 2008.
Dr. Heng-Ching Fang’s First Academic Publication: Available at Amazon
The Twentieth-Century Revolution in String Playing: A Practice-Based Study (Paperback)
More information about Dr. HengChing Fang can be found here.
Dr. HengChing Fang playing Rebecca Clarke Sonata for viola and piano
Dr. Fang playing Chopin Valse Op. 69 No. 2
Dr. Fang’s Research
Selected conference papers are as followed:
- Performing Romantic Music in the Twentieth-First Century”, Performing Romantic Music: Theory and Practice Conference, Durham University, UK, July 2008.
- “Lionel Tertis’ Interpretation Aesthetics: A Discussion of Bax’s Sonata for Viola and Piano,”The 35th International Viola Congress, University of Adelaide. Australia, July- Aug 2007.(with sponsorship from The Aidan Woodcock Charity and Kathleen & Margery Elliott Scholarship Trust.)
- “Sound of the Early Twentieth-Century Viola Music: Revelation of Lionel Tertis Interpretation Aesthetics,” MARS Study Day, University of Leeds, UK, May 2007.
- “String Performing Practices in the Twentieth Century,”Music Institutions with Doctoral Arts Studies (M.I.D.A.S) workshop, Royal College of Music, UK, April 2007.
- “Transition of Audible Perception: Revelation of Tertis’ Interpretation Aesthetics,” Music Archival Research Skills (MARS) Study Day, University of Leeds, UK, March 2007.
- “Revelation of Lionel Tertis’ Interpretation Aesthetic,” Royal Musical Association Research Student’s Conference (RMA), University of Bristol, UK, Jan. 2007.
- “Performing Practices in the Twentieth Century,” Progress Conference, University of Manchester, UK, June 2006.
- “Historical Performance with Modern Players,” Research Study Day, University of Leeds, UK, May 2004.