A MAESTRO COMES HOME

By Lim Wan Phing

October 2024 FEATURE
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At the European Opera Centre in Alden Biesen, Belgium in 1985.
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WHEN SOPRANO Loh Siew Tuan first began singing in a Methodist church choir as a child, little did she imagine that that would someday lead her to perform at London’s Wigmore Hall. Music was not in her blood, or so she thought. But all that changed when the choirmaster gave her a small solo and an aunt gave her her first piano lesson. That opened her eyes to classical music.THREE ISLANDS AND A LOVE FOR MUSICAt the European Opera Centre...

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Lim Wan Phing

is a freelance writer based in Penang. She has a short story collection, Two Figures in a Car published by Penguin SEA.

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