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Susanna Saw is an active music educator promoting music and choral education in Malaysia. She obtained her Master in Music Education (Choral Focus) from Westminster Choir College, U.S.A. She is currently a choir director at the Faculty of Music at the University of Malaya (UM), Akademi Seni Budaya Dan Warisan Kebangsaan (ASWARA) and the Adjunct Professor at the Taylor’s University.

In 2007, Susanna established the Young Choral Academy in Kuala Lumpur, a venue for choral lovers to learn more about vocal and choral education. She was instrumental in bringing the Kodály Teachers’ Training Course to the Southeast Asia region to improve the standards of classroom music teaching. She organised numerous events to promote music and choral education. During the pandemic, Susanna organized monthly Kodály Online Hangouts, bringing together music educators from around the world to learn, sing and stay connected. The hangout session is in the hybrid format now, keeping in touch with the active music educators globally.

Susanna is also the Founder and Director of the Malaysian Choral Eisteddfod (MCE), which organised various symposium, national and international choir festival since 2002. Since 2007, Susanna has been regularly invited by INTERKULTUR, Germany, to be a member of the jury for the Asia Pacific and World Choir Games. She has been appointed a member of the Working Committee for the Asia-Pacific Choral Council, under the auspices of the International Federation of Choral Music (IFCM), as well as at the Asian Choral Association (ACA) and World Choral Conducting Network (WCCN). Susanna is also an active speaker at various music education events, promoting effective music teaching in the 21st century. She is currently the Vice-President of the International Kodály Society, the World Youth and Children Choral Artists’ Association, and the Malaysian Association for Music Education. She is also serves on the Advisory Board of INTERKULTUR and CHORALSPACE, Germany.

• Founder and Artistic Director of the acclaimed St. Mary's Varsity Male Ensemble and International Show Choir of Tokyo, Japan.
• Music educator in choral movement and co-author, with Henry Leck, of Creating Artistry: Movement and the Maturing Male Voice.
• Editor of the Randy and Rachel Choral Series for Santa Barbara Music Publishing, the Randy Stenson Male Choral Series and Randy Stenson International Choral Series for Pavane Publishing.
• Guest conductor, clinician-lecturer in over 30 countries.
• International choral adjudicator for competitions all over the world.

• one of Korea’s most prominent composers, who has emerged as a formidable voice in choral music
• her groundbreaking works blend traditional Korean musical elements and Western techniques and include settings of the Latin text, playful spatial music, and arrangements examining wordless human encounters
• former composer-in-residence with the National Chorus of Korea from 2018-2021, with the Seoul Ladies’ Singers since 1996, and with the Incheon City Chorale, led by Hak-Won Yoon, from 1999-2014
• her works are highly sought after worldwide and have been critically acclaimed at the 2009 ACDA National Conference, Polyfolia in France, and the IFCM choral symposium
• she is on faculty at the Chorus Center Academy in Seoul and has taught choral compositions at various universities in Korea and was most recently a visiting fellow at the University of Michigan
• her works are published by Walton Inc. and Hal Leonard in the United States and Seoul Chorus Center in South Korea