DR. THAM HORNG KENT

kent
@fmsp.upsi.edu.my

05-4506757

EXPERTISE

Muzik
Piano Performance

Research
(Principal Investigator)

1

RM10,000

Publication

59

Supervision

10

PhD

3

Master

Biography

A lecturer from the Faculty Of Music And Performing Arts , Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris (UPSI), Tanjung Malim, Perak, Malaysia. Specializes in Piano Performance.











1 JPO Family Program: Reimagining a Pianist

Jesselton Philharmonic Orchestra

2020 Leader Completed
2 Invited to perform at National University of Singapore (NUS) Alumni Concerts

NUS Office of Alumni Relations

2017 Leader Completed
3 Invited to conduct a piano masterclass

Huzza Music

2021 Leader Completed
4 Piano Four Hands Recital with Dr. Chai Tse Wei

Bentley Music Academy

2019 Leader Completed
5 Invited to perform at Ipoh Music Festival 2017

Virama

2017 Leader Completed
6 Invited to conduct a piano masterclass

Huzza Music

2017 Leader Completed
7 Invited to be one of the juries of 2nd WPTA Finland International Piano Competition

WPTA Finland

2020 Member Completed
8 Invited to be one of the juries of 1st WPTA Finland International Piano Competition

WPTA Finland

2019 Member Completed
9 Jury Member for 3rd ODIN International Youth Piano Festival

European Academic Artists Association

2018 Member Completed
10 Jury Member for Kingsburg International Piano Competition 2018

Yantai Kingsburg Piano Co. LTD, China

2018 Member Completed
11 Invited for Official Meeting of Kingsburg International Piano Competition 2018

Huzza Music

2017 Member Completed
12 Invited to perform at SoundBridge 2017

SOCIETY OF MALAYSIAN CONTEMPORARY COMPOSERS (SMCC)

2017 Member Completed
13 Invited to be one of the juries of 26th Kota Kinabalu Music and Dance Festival

KK Music Society

2019 Member Completed
14 Jury Member for Kota Kinabalu Music Festival 2018

Kota Kinabalu Music Society

2018 Member Completed
15 Official Invitation to DEBONAIR Recital

Clavier Music Studio

2018 Member Completed
16 Official Invitation to DEBONAIR recital

Clavier Music Studio

2017 Member Completed
17 Jury Member

Kota Kinabalu Music Society

2016 Member Completed
1 Intertextual Perspectives In Performing Arno Babajanian's Violin Concerto In A Minor

2025 PhD International Supervisor Completed

2 Interpreting And Performing The Embodied Musical Gestures And Expression In Selected Impromptus For Solo Piano By Franz Schubert And Frédéric Chopin

2025 PhD International Supervisor Completed

3 Pianist As Transcriber : Towards A Performance Of Selected Sergei Rachmaninoff's Solo Piano Transcriptions

2026 PhD International Supervisor Waiting for Viva

4 Idiomatic Writing As An Interpretative Tool In Performing The Selected Solo Piano Works By Claude Debussy And Wang Jianzhong

2026 PhD International Supervisor Presentation

5 AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE ARPEGGIO PLAYING TECHNIQUES IN THE PIANO SOLO WORKS BY ZHANG ZHAO

2026 PhD International Supervisor Presentation

6 The Formation Mechanism Of Flow Experience Among Piano Learners And Its Impact On Performance Anxiety

2026 PhD International Supervisor In Progress

7 The Adaptation Of Edwin Gordon Audition In Improving Memorization Skills Among The Piano Students

2026 PhD International Co-Supervisor Presentation

8 Performing And Interpretating The Musical Expression In The Selected Flute Works By Women Composers In The Eighteenth- And Nineteenth-Centuries

2026 PhD National Supervisor Presentation

9 An Investigation Into Brahms’ Clarinet Works: A Study Of Technical Playing Between Different Clarinet Designs In Performing Brahms’ Complete Clarinet Works

2026 PhD National Supervisor Presentation

10 Interpretative Dynamics In Pauline Viardot's Transcriptions Of Chopin's 12 Mazurkas: A Singer’s Perspective

2026 PhD National Co-Supervisor In Progress

11 Exploring The Extended Techniques Of Piano Through Selected Twentieth And Twenty-First Century Repertoire

2022 Master National Supervisor Completed

12 Improvisasi Jazz Trombon Menggunakan Pendekatan Bebop Pada Lagu Nyanyian Zain Azman Melalui Latihan Terancang

2025 Master National Supervisor Completed

13 Romanticism In Motion: Interpreting Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto In D Major, OP.35 From A Performer's Perspective

2026 Master National Supervisor In Progress

1 Latihan Terancang untuk Meningkatkan Kemahiran Improvisasi Trombon Jazz Bebop menggunakan Lagu Nyanyian Zain Azman

2025

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2 "Motivic Intertextuality and Embedded Intermusicality: Performer Agency in Babajanian’s Violin Concerto First Movement"

2025

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1 Embodied Interpretation: Interpreting Gesture and Expression in Impromptu Op.29 No.1 in A-flat Major by Frédéric Chopin
Harmonia: Journal of Arts Research and Education

2025SCOPUSCo-AuthorCorrespondence Author
2 Towards a Performance of Tazul Izan Tajuddin Kabus Pantun (2018)
Wacana Seni

2019SCOPUSFirst Author
3 Latihan Terancang untuk Meningkatkan Kemahiran Improvisasi Trombon Jazz Bebop menggunakan Lagu Nyanyian Zain Azman
Jurai Sembah

2025Google ScholarCo-Author
4 "Motivic Intertextuality and Embedded Intermusicality: Performer Agency in Babajanian’s Violin Concerto First Movement"
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MUSIC AND PERFORMING ARTS

2025Google ScholarCo-Author
5 Technological Advancements in Bite-sized Learning: Developing a Framework for Basic Jazz Guitar Reharmonization Techniques
Journal of Advanced Research in Applied Sciences and Engineering Technology

2023SCOPUSCo-Author
6 Performer as Narrator: The Second Movement of Franz Schuberts Piano Sonata in A Major D959
Malaysian Music Journal

2016SCOPUSFirst Author
1 Piano Collaborator for the Gold Star International Music Competitions 2024 Final Round

2024 Art International

2 Piano Collaborator for the Gold Star International Music Competitions 2024 Grand Final

2024 Art International

3 Invitation As Pianist in Borneo Ensemble Composer Series II

2024 Art International

4 Tornado in the Sea, Array of Corals, Swift Predators, Barracuda, Blue Edge, Borneo Water Spiral

2024 Creative International

5 Invited to perform at the SoundBridge 2023

2023 Art International

6 Invited to be the piano accompanist for the Basel Youth Choir Concert Tour in Australia

2023 Art International

7 Virtual Performance at the 4th International Music and Performing Arts Conference (IMPAC2022)

2022 Art International

8 Kota Kinabalu Music Society's Online Zoom into Music

2021 Art International

9 Global Artists Concert Series - Dr. Tham Horng Kent's Piano Recital in Tallinn, Estonia

2016 Art International

10 THE 7th JPO MUSIC FESTIVAL: INTERNATIONAL VIRTUAL MUSIC FESTIVAL 2020

2020 Art International

11 JPO Family Program: Reimagining a Pianist

2020 Art International

12 Invited to be the piano accompanist for the BCCM Interior Parish Youth Choir Concert Tour in Taiwan.

2019 Art International

13 Invited to be the piano accompanist for the Basel Youth Choir Concert Tour in Germany

2019 Art International

14 Constructing a Musical Plot in the Second Movement of Franz Schubert Piano Sonata in A Major D959

2019 Art International

15 Towards a Performance of Tazul Izan Tajuddin's Selected Solo Piano Works: A Lecture Recital

2018 Art International

16 Opening Concert at the 3rd Odin International Youth Piano Festival 2018 at Estonia

2018 Art International

17 Sedap Cycle for Piano Four-Hands

2017 Creative International

18 Piano Campur: Tham 2 Goh (Dr. Tham Horng Kent and Dr. Yen-Lin Goh) present the fourth performance of Sedap Cycle for Piano Four Hands by Wesley Allan Johnson at the Kota Kinabalu Music Festival

2017 Art International

19 Piano Campur: Tham 2 Goh (Dr. Tham Horng Kent and Dr. Yen-Lin Goh) present the fifth performance of Sedap Cycle for Piano Four Hands by Wesley Allan Johnson at MATRADE Exhibition and Convention Centre as part of the Southeast Asian Music Edication Exchange (SEAMEX)

2017 Art International

20 Invited to perform at NUS Alumni Concerts

2017 Art International

21 Concert tour with the Tenom Children's Choir and Youth Choir of Stuggart Germany in Sabah

2017 Art International

22 Lecture Recital at the Music Department, Faculty of Creative Arts, Universiti Malaya

2025 Art National

23 Piano Collaborator for "New Works for Biula and Piano"

2025 Art National

24 Invitation to perform in "RESONANCE OF SOUNDS" as a distinguished UPM Alumni.

2024 Art National

25 Invited to perform at the KK Music Festival 2023

2023 Art National

26 VIRAMA Chamber Concert 2022

2022 Art National

27 Invitation to Workshop and Concert “CALL FOR SCORES – BORNEO ENSEMBLE COMPOSER SERIES”

2022 Art National

28 Putra Piano Trio Concert 2022

2022 Art National

29 Persembahan Solo di BENGKEL PIANO MASTERCLASS

2021 Art National

30 Four Hands Piano Recital

2019 Art National

31 Violin and Piano Duo Recital: Kreisler-Revealed

2018 Art National

32 Kreisler-Revealed: Violin and Piano Duo Recital

2018 Art National

33 Tazul Izan Tajuddin's Selected Solo Piano Works Concert

2018 Art National

34 Tazul Izan Tajuddin's Selected Solo Piano Works: A Lecture Recital

2018 Art National

35 Lecture Recital: An Introduction to Tazul Izan Tajuddin's Selected Solo Piano Works

2018 Art National

36 Concert with Debonair

2018 Art National

37 Lecture Recital Series: An introduction to Tazul Izan Tajuddin's Selected Solo Piano Works

2018 Art National

38 Lecture Recital on Tazul Izan Tajuddin's Selected Solo Piano Works

2018 Art National

39 Lecture Recital: Tazul Izan Tajuddin's Selected Solo Piano Works

2018 Art National

40 Piano Campur: Tham 2 Goh (Dr. Tham Horng Kent and Dr. Yen-Lin Goh) present music by Stravinsky and Dvorak, and the third performance of Sedap Cycle for Piano Four Hands by Wesley Allan Johnson at Huzza Music Inc in Johor Bahru

2017 Art National

41 Piano Campur: Tham 2 Goh (Dr. Tham Horng Kent and Dr. Yen-Lin Goh) present music by Stravinsky and Dvorak, and the second performance of Sedap Cycle for Piano Four Hands by Wesley Allan Johnson at UCSI Institute of Music

2017 Art National

42 Piano Campur: Tham 2 Goh (Dr. Tham Horng Kent and Dr. Yen-Lin Goh) present a world premiere performance of Sedap Cycle for Piano Four Hands by Wesley Allan Johnson at Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris Faculty of Music and Performing Arts

2017 Art National

43 Dancing Between Sonatas and Prelude -piano four hands performance with Dr. Tham Horng Kent

2017 Art National

44 Debonair Concert

2017 Art National

45 Invited to perform at the SoundBridge 2017

2017 Art National

46 Invitation to Perform at Ipoh Music Festival 2017

2017 Art National

47 Soloist fort he Love's Joy, Love's Sorrow concert

2017 Art National

48 Chamber Recital Flute And Piano

2012 Art National

1 Developing A Performance Guidelines To Tazul Izan Tajuddin\'s Selected Solo Piano Works Through Practice-Led Research

2017 Leader Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris Completed

2 Rebawang Malim: Creating A Programmatic Music Composition Combining Rebana Perak, Sewang Songs And Western Music

2017 Member Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris Completed

3 Sedap Cycle: Creating A Multi-Movement Musical Composition Based On Malaysian Cuisine

2016 Member Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris Completed

4 Borneo Ensemble Composer Series 2.0

2024 Member Swasta Tempatan In Progress

5 Reimaging The Biola And Isun-Isun Within Western Ensemble Contexts

2024 Member Universiti Malaysia Sabah In Progress

6 Development Piano Method Based On The International Graded Examination Syllabus Grade 1

2021 Member Prodigy Music Centre In Progress

7 Development Piano Method Based On The International Graded Examination Syllabus Grade 2

2021 Member Prodigy Music Centre In Progress

1 Sedap Cycle

Malaysia Technology Expo 2018

2018 International Gold
2 Licentiate Diploma In Recital In Piano (with Distinction)

Trinity College London

2010 International
3 Fellowship Diploma In Recital In Piano

Trinity College London

2010 International
4 Ltcl In Solo Piano 2010 (award Winner)

Trinity Guildhall Awards & Concert Sabah 2010

2010 National

Research
(Principal Investigator)

1

RM10,000

Publication

59

Supervision

10

PhD

3

Master