Ma Huan

Ma Huan began learning Yangqin at the age of four under the tutelage of Professor Wei Yanming. She was admitted to the China Conservatory of Music in 2002 and became the protégé of renowned Yangqin educator Xiang Zuhua. Furthermore, she learned the Hungarian dulcimer from Viktoria Herencsar and studied percussion under Professor Wang Yidong. After graduating in 2008 with a Master’s degree, she was employed as an instructor by the Chinese Opera Institute. In 2010, she joined the Singapore Chinese Orchestra as a Yangqin musician. After which, she learned composition from Singapore musician Law Wai Lun and conducting from local famed conductor Dr Tay Teow Kiat. She is currently the Vice Chairperson of Singapore Yangqin Association.

In 2002, Ma Huan won the Young Professional Group Performance Award and set up a String Chamber Orchestra that won a group gold medal at the International Youth Instrumental Competition 2003 in Macau. During her years in college, she participated in the CCTV “Teochew Music Festival special” performance, the Seventh Beijing International Music Festival, Sino French Music Festival and Hungarian Music Festival. She successfully held a series of “Yangqin Works of Xiang Zuhua Teacher Student” concerts and performed in the first public performance of the double Yanqin piece The Butterfly Lovers．Butterfly Qin Tunes, after which she participated in the CD recording Best of Xiang Zuhua Yangqin Collection II.

In January 2013, she held a concert named Silken Expressions at Esplanade Singapore Theatres on the Bay. In 2015, she was invited as the judge of the NAFA music contest. Her students won numerous awards at the Singapore National Music Instrumental Competition. As a composer, her works include Lost, school song of Pei Chun Primary School, Let it go, Dream chaser and Fantasia twinkle twinkle little star. She also produced an orchestra piece with distinctive Singaporean characteristics, titled A Ditty of Nyonya.