Book Talk
Composer Chua Jon Lin treasures reading with her son, believes a child’s love for books starts at home
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Composer Chua Jon Lin is reading Pyramids at the Louvre by Glenn Watkins and A Colette Sequence & Other Poems by Robert Yeo.
ST PHOTO: SARAH LEE
Felicia Keok
Who: Composer Chua Jon Lin, 40, is an adjunct lecturer at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts-University of the Arts Singapore (NAFA-UAS), vice-president of the Composers Society of Singapore and a private music teacher. Besides composing music, she also writes concert commentaries and essays for organisations including the Singapore Chinese Orchestra, Lianhe Zaobao and Singapore International Festival of Arts.
Her upcoming projects include Ascent To The Bamboo Forest, a new collaboration with contemporary dance company Arts Fission, which will be at The Arts House on June 5 and 6. She is also producing the Singapore Composers Festival on June 7, a one-day event featuring concerts and discussions centred on contemporary music by Singaporean and South Korean composers. She is married with an eight-year-old son.