Saturday, November 13, 2010
OMG Shaun Choo represented Singapore in the Beijing International Chopin Concerto Competition and won the first prize! I'm not so shocked that he won, afterall Chopin's his element. It's more the fact that he beat all the PRCs in the competition before a PRC-dominated adjudication panel to win it. This would make it his 5th win in an international piano competition for 2010.
Anyway I'm also very happy because I don't have to write more memos justifying the costs (if he lost).
Now we just have to wrap up the whole event by preparing for his prizewinners' concert on 23 November, and also Lim Yan's recital on 28 November in Beijing.
Man, I translated both pianists' biographies into chinese and I've been writing chinese emails to Beijing since August, thank God it's gonna be over soon. Some of the stuff I've had to translate... can you imagine translating "Beethoven's Choral Fantasy" into Chinese? It's 贝多芬合唱幻想曲. Yes.
Anyway to view more of my translating handicraft, try
Lim Yan's biography. I got a lot of help from Qiling in tidying up the intangibles like the chinese grammar and making it sound more formal.
Flying off to Paris this wednesday!
Omnia mutantur
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