An Amazing Day

Wow! What an amazing day.

The heat was on, both figuratively and literally! The competition was fierce, but eventually Lai Ze Ren emerged as the winner for Category 1 and Nicholas Tham was the winner for Category 2. However, in our books, all the contestants are already winners in their own right. Here are the results...

Category 1

• Champion - Lai Ze Ren
• 1st runner up - Rayner Goh
• 2nd runner up - Sheila Julis
• Consolation prize winners - Max Chin, Chong Hoc Weng and Raja A/L Kamachi

Category 2

• Champion - Nicholas Tham
• 1st runner up - Lieu Ka Syn
• 2nd runner up - Agastya Bhatia
• Consolation prize winners - Mr Ong Tee Li and Jarrod Dev-Ooi

Lai Ze Ren (Winner of Category 1)

Nicholas Tham (Winner of Category 2)

A group photo session with all the competitors and organizers

The evening's concert started off with the winners and contestants in each category performing a few pieces which bagged them the awards. This was followed by local guitarists taking to the stage. This included Leon Thum, Victor Ng and our guest guitarist from Klang - Andy Ngew. Andy had earlier in the afternoon given a workshop on fingerstyle guitar. Among the topics that Andy touched on were the arrangement of incorporating multiple musical layers and parts such as the bass, percussion, rhythm and melody all into a fingerstyle piece.

Andy Ngew delivering his workshop to a packed room

A word of thanks to the judges of the Qualifying Round i.e. Suzie Lim, Victor Ng, William Kok, Roger Wang, Janden Wood and Clifford Cheam and to the Grand Final judges Andy Ngew, Carolyn Khor and Leon Thum.

Last but not least, we would also like to thank YB Teh Yee Cheu and JKKK Sungai Emas for sponsoring and supporting the event. Not forgetting LBS Music World, Spectrum Music and Nova Prodigy Music as well.