Guitar Alive! 2019

Place: Auditorium Balai Seni Visual Negara

2, Jalan Temerloh off Jalan Tun Razak, 53200, Kuala Lumpur

Day: 17 November 2019

Time: 4.00 p.m. (Sunday)

Guitar Alive! 2018

Place: Auditorium Balai Seni Visual Negara

2, Jalan Temerloh off Jalan Tun Razak, 53200, Kuala Lumpur

Day: 2 December 2018

Time: 4.00 p.m. (Sunday)

Simon Cheong's new CD!

'Getaran Jiwa'

Simon Cheong, a Malaysian guitarist.

Playing Catalan folksongs, Granados, Rodrigo, Leo Brouwer, Simon's Malaysian classical guitar arrangements and the World Premiere of John Duarte’s Variations on a Malaysian song op. 125 ‘Getaran Jiwa’

Recorded and Produced by John Taylor at Holy Trinity Church, Weston, Hertfordshire, England 14-16 March 2016.

CD liner notes by Graham Wade

Roland Dyens (19 Oct 1955) - RIP

29 October 2016, 10.45a.m.

It is sad to hear of Roland Dyens passing. I had but only one encounter with him sadly. This was at the Calcutta International Guitar Festival 2014. During the week, guests of the Festival were put in the same hotel and somehow or other, almost every morning I would meet Roland for breakfast – not that we had planned it! There was this one morning when I walked in and was looking at the breakfast spread when I heard my name called and I turned around, it was Roland peeking from behind a pillar with a cheeky smile! There was another time when he was not feeling too good and I asked if he believed in taking Chinese herbal medicine. He did, and I had some tablets with me and gave him some. Another morning, I asked him if he would like to have my books and my CD and he said he would love to have them. Another morning, he couldn’t wait to give his opinion on a concert we had heard! As he was the last artist to give his performance, that Friday morning, he was deciding on how to have the microphones placed. I mentioned to him that I had liked the sound Johannes Moller produced when he started his concert by playing with a different kind of microphone placement at the edge of the stage in front of the curtains. He agreed, and that night he played his concert with that microphone placement.

Knowing the man during the festival week, he was gregarious and playful and of course, I had known of his music before meeting the man. I have taught and played his music and forever will his music live with the classical guitarist…

Simon Cheong

www.simoncheong.com

Critique, Commentary and Rectification by Simon Cheong

on

Nathan Fischer's Pride, Pedagogy and Performance:

Getaran Jiwa, Variations on a Malaysian Song op. 125, by John Duarte

This paper was written after I had read Nathan Fischer's Pride, Pedagogy and Performance which I had found on the net on 26 August 2015 and set about writing this paper on 30 August. I then completed this paper and sent it to the Chief Editor, Dr Jean Penny of Malaysian Music Journal, Fakulti Muzik dan Seni Persembahan Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris on 15 September 2015.

International Guitar Research Centre Conference 2016 -  Simon's paper

If you wish to read the articles below , please visit www.simoncheong.com

Simon Cheong's Lecture-Recital, ICGR Conference 2016 - A photo album

IGRC Conference 17-23 March 2016 - My photo album

Recording of a World Premiere

International Guitar Research Centre Conference 2016

Surrey University, UK  - 18 to 23 March, 2016

Lecture recital by Simon Cheong

John Duarte ‘s contribution to the classical guitar repertoire in Malaysia –

Variations on a Malaysian song op 125, ‘Getaran Jiwa’

and

Variations on an Indonesian song op 124, ‘Gubahanku’

Lecture recitals and papers 2016

2015

Indian Guitar Federation -  International Classical Guitar Festival and Competition 2015

Bangalore & Chennai

December 13 -17