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Tutor's Bio
Timothy Ku
Music Director
Timothy Ku studied the piano under Lam Kim Lian and Ong Lip Tat. After winning a prize in the 1989 National Music Competition, Ku left to study music in New York. While studying in New York, he worked as a chamber pianist, academic tutor and teaching assistant, and received several scholarship offers. Ku worked with a number of prominent pianists and pedagogues, including Adam Wodnicki, Marc Silverman, Nina Svetlanova, Michael Rogers and Agustin Anievas. He also studied the harpsichord under the renowned Louis Bagger, and conducting with Glen Cortese and Bruce McIntire.
Back home in Singapore, Ku has evolved into an insightful performer and inspiring educator. Having worked as the resident pianist for the Singapore Symphony Chorus under Bart Folse, his current duties include music directorship of NUS Piano Ensemble, tutorship with Victoria Junior College Piano Ensemble, and Principal-Study Teacher-Lecturer at Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts and School of the Arts. He functions in a wide range of teaching activities such as group workshops, masterclasses and studio teaching.
On the performance scene, Ku is a highly adventurous and versatile soloist, ensemble pianist and accompanist, whose repertoire includes Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, Hindemith's The Four Temperaments, Brahms' Horn Trio, Rebecca Clarke's Viola Sonata, Barber's Piano Sonata and solo works by Mompou. His solo and chamber concerts at Victoria Concert Hall and appearances in the region won him rave reviews and return engagements. Ku appears regularly in concert with pianist wife, Soon Liok Kee, his violist sister, Marietta Ku, and the chamber group, Spitze. In July 2003, Ku appeared as pianist, receiving positive reviews, in a chamber concert that featured Schubert's Trout Quintet and Brahms' G-minor Piano Quartet. With his piano duo partner Soon Liok Kee, Ku has given the Singapore premiere of Grainger's The Warriors (2005), Poulenc's Capriccio apres Le Bal masque (2006) and Bolcom's The Serpent's Kiss: Rag Fantasy (2007). In May 2006, Ku appeared in a chamber concert at Esplanade offering works such as Vieuxtemps' Viola Sonata and Brahms' Clarinet Trio, among others.
