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…
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…
Critique, Commentary and Rectification by Simon CheongonNathan 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….
Simon Cheong’s Lecture-Recital, ICGR Conference 2016 – A photo albumIGRC Conference 17-23 March 2016 – My photo albumRecording of a World Premiere International Guitar Research Centre (IGRC) Conference18th to 23rd March 2016Lecture-Recital onJohn Duarte’s contribution to the classical guitar repertoire in Malaysia:Variations on a Malaysian song op. 125, ‘Getaran Jiwa’ andVariations on an Indonesian song…
The Kuala Lumpur Guitar Ensemble II was formed by Simon Cheong sometime in March 2002 with the objective of giving concerts as well as performing at functions. Due to the members’ busy teaching schedules, KLGE II had very little time to practice nor give performances. In 2004, the Ensemble gave a preview in a short…
I had asked Jong if he would like to write something on the festival/camp when I saw him for class and sometime in May 2014 a few months later, I got this. I usually do edit what is given to me but this time I will reproduce this entire article as is written by Jong….
This article was copied from Carlos Bonell’s Blog. When Carlos showed me his blog and on what he has written about his visit here in Malaysia, I asked him for permission to reproduce it here onto our website and he generously granted me the right to reproduce any of his essays on the blog here…Thank…
This article was copied from Carlos Bonell’s Blog. When Carlos showed me his blog and on what he has written about his visit here in Malaysia, I asked him for permission to reproduce it here onto our website and he generously granted me the right to reproduce any of his essays on the blog here…Thank…
A false notion by Clifford Cheam – to quote – ‘Classical Guitar is dying’!? From a video clip made by William Kok posted on the Society’s Facebook page. Since this video was posted onto the Society’s Facebook , as the President of the Classical Guitar Society (Malaysia), I feel that I am responsible for correcting…
A New Design for our Website Dear visitors to www.cgs.net.my, Hi, it has been quite a while now since you last heard any news from these pages… reason…I have 4 computers in my home, guess what? Well, every one of them broke down on me one after another. The 3 main ones that contained all the important stuff were…