About Us

Vincent Chong

CEO – IPVAEB

Chairman – IPVAEB Board

Vincent Chong, founder and Chief Executive Officer of International Performing & Visual Arts

Examination Board (IPVAEB), and Chief Executive of VP Agency International Pte Ltd. He has

more than 40 years of working experiences of which 18 years are in music education and

classical music events and artist management.

He organised the first Ars Nova International Piano competition in 2012 and is the co-founder of Ars Nova Fest.

Simon Soh

Director – Sinfonia Music studio

Academic Advisory Board – IPVAEB

Examiners Council – IPVAEB

Editorial Team – IPVAEB Examination Repertoires

Simon Soh runs a music studio in Singapore since 2002. He is also a music consultant in

Johor. He has several diplomas in both teaching and performance from Trinity College

London, Guildhall School of Music and Drama and London College of Music. In 1995, he was

invited to play with the Singapore Wind Symphony. Beside teaching, he conducts piano

workshops and seminars regularly in Singapore and Malaysia.

Simon is an advisor/consultant for IPVAEB piano exam syllabus development team. He

frequently adjudicating in both Singapore and Johor.

Clarence Lee

Concert Pianist

VP – IPVAEB Examinations

Member of the Board – IPVAEB

Clarence was admitted to the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music at the age of 15 as a

National Arts Council Scholar, and graduated with 1st class Honours where he was his class

valedictorian and was awarded the coveted Lee Kuan Yew Gold Medallion. Clarence also has

a Master of Music degree and Graduate Diploma in Piano Performance from the Yong Siew

Toh Conservatory of Music.

Clarence is currently on the Piano Faculty at LASALLE College of the Arts, an Adjunct

Collaborative Pianist at the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music and a Program Director

and a Senior Teacher (Piano) for the Young Artist Program at MW Fine Arts Academy.

Khoong Shok Meng Kellie

Director/Principal – MW Fine Arts Academy

VP/Academic Dean – IPVAEB Academy

Member of the Board - IPVAEB

The author of a children’s music program – Smart Kidz Keyboard Course and the founder of

MW Fine Arts Academy, Shok Meng’s teaching goal is to motivate and nurture young talent.

Shok Meng is a former chief instructress in Yamaha Music School and was also appointed

Clinician for Alfred Publishing Company, conducting public seminars and workshops in

Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong

Benjamin Loh

Steinway Artist

Member of the Board – IPVAEB

Benjamin Loh first obtained his B.Sc. in Economics from the Wharton School of Business,

University of Pennsylvania. Subsequently, he studied at the Manhattan School of Music,

where he graduated with a Master of Music in Piano Performance as a student of Dr. Marc

Silverman.

He is also very much in demand as a teacher. Presently, he is on the piano faculty of the

Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts and the LASALLE College of the Arts, and also maintains an

active private teaching studio....

Kacie Tee

Director – Forte Music Studio Sdn Bhd

Member of the Board – IPVAEB

Tee Pei Ling Kacie, is a director and principal of Forte Academy of Music in Johor, Malaysia.

She has more than twenty years of teaching experience in piano and early childhood

education. Apart from teaching piano, she is also active in organising music activities for the

pre-schools in Malaysia and Singapore. She is currently pursuing her online music degree in

pedagogy.

Kay Kok Chung Oi

Director of Fine Arts - IPVAEB

Interdisciplinary Artist

Independent Researcher

Writer Art Educator 

Kay Kok Chung Oi received her Doctorate’s Degree in Education from Durham University, UK. Kay also graduated with a master’s degree in Art Education and a bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts from the School of the Arts Institute of Chicago, USA and Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia, respectively.

As an interdisciplinary artist and art researcher, Kay’s artworks revolve around the field of geometry as it best expresses her artistic viewpoint. This is in part, because she has been greatly inspired by the works of Russian avant garde artists namely, El Lizzitky and Kalemich. One of Kay’s art research interests center on the history and culture of Singapore and Southeast Asia. Kay investigates the contents of literature from ethnohistorian and historian and reinvent or innovate these contents as creative resources to derive her paintings and drawings. Kay created artworks based on books that were written by a renowned ethnohistorian, Professor James Francis Warren from Murdoch University, Australia. Her solo exhibition, “Distant Call” in 2004, was based on Professor James Francis Warren’s book, “Rickshaw Coolie: A People's History of Singapore 1880-1940”. These artworks were mentioned in Professor James Francis Warren’s keynote speech, which was delivered during the inauguration of National Singapore Museum in 2007. As an art educator, Kay teaches conceptual thinking skills, design thinking skills, drawing, and painting too.

Kay taught at Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, and Singapore University of Social Sciences. She taught painting/drawing, research methods for arts and design, art history, art theory and dissertation writing at Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts. She taught aesthetics for early childhood education and history of art education at Singapore University of Social Sciences. Kay is also a People’s Association Advisory Committee in the People’s Association Children’s Art Programme in Singapore.

As a writer, Kay published her book entitled, “Let the Little Children Teach Us Love: Teaching International Student in Istanbul”. The book reflects her teaching experiences with international children in Istanbul from 2000 to 2001. Kay continues to be active in creating artworks and research on STEM education