PAGE TO STAGE - Piano Masterclass with Dr Melody Quah

In this engaging session, we’ll explore how to bring music off the page and onto the stage with creativity, expression, and confidence. Discover new tools to unlock musical excellence, enhance performance skills, and ignite the creative spirit in every pianist.

Participants will:

• ✅ Receive a certificate of participation
• 🎶 Perform in a recital at the end of the masterclass
• 📀 Get a recording of your recital performance
• 🧠 Join an engaging workshop designed for all ages and levels

About Our Guest Artist

Dr. Melody Quah – “A poet with titanium fingers” (Vancouver Sun)

Malaysian pianist Melody Quah has performed extensively on stages across Asia, Europe, Australia, and North America.  Her multifaceted career spans solo and collaborative performances, chamber music, education, adjudication, and artistic direction.

A prizewinner of the 7th International Paderewski Competition held in Bydgoszcz, Poland, she has appeared in recital at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Hall, and as chamber musician at the Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theatre. She has appeared as a soloist with orchestras worldwide, including the Ku-Ring-Gai Symphony and Central Coast Symphony in Australia; the Pomeranian Philharmonic in Poland; and various ensembles in Canada and the United States, such as the Richmond Philharmonic, Academy Philharmonic, Vancouver Philharmonic, Vancouver Symphony, West Coast Symphony, Penn’s Woods Festival Orchestra, Williamsport Symphony, and Altoona Symphony Orchestras. In her native Malaysia, she has performed with the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra at the Dewan Filharmonik PETRONAS.

Quah has premiered more than two dozen works by living composers, and has commissioned works for solo piano by Adeline Wong and Tazul Tajuddin (Malaysia), Parisa Sabet (Iran/Canada), Sidney Boquiren (Philippines), Marisa Hartanto (Indonesia), Emily Koh (Singapore), and Piyawat Louilarpprasert (Thailand). Recordings of their works are currently in production. Additionally, she has recorded music by Tom DeLio and Baljinder Sekhon, released on Neuma Records and the Blue Griffin label.

Currently an Assistant Professor of Piano at Penn State University, Quah has served as Artist Faculty at the Nanyang International Piano Academy (Singapore) and Euro Arts Festival (Poland). She has presented masterclasses at institutions including University Sedaya College International and Universiti Teknologi MARA (Malaysia), Medan Musik School (Indonesia), Royal Birmingham Conservatoire (UK), and various universities across the United States. An active adjudicator and presenter, she contributes regularly to the Music Teachers National Association and the College Music Society. She is the current President of the Pennsylvania Music Teachers Association.

Quah earned the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the Peabody Institute of the Johns

Hopkins University as well as graduate degrees from the Yale School of Music and The

Juilliard School. She received her Bachelor of Music from the Vancouver Academy of Music and completed her high school education at the Australian Institute of Music in Sydney, Australia. Quah’s principal teachers included Boris Slutsky, Peter Frankl, Matti Raekallio, Lee Kum Sing, and Snezana Panovska. 

Quah is a Yamaha Artist. 

Limited spots available — register now to begin your journey from Page to Stage! 🎶