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(b. 1998, SINGAPORE)BERLIN, DE | She/her
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MA Sound Studies and Sonic Art, Universität der Künste Berlin (2021 - 2024)
Bachelor of Music (classical percussion, with first class Honours), Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (2017 - 2021)
Percussion tutors:
Timothy White (2017 - 2021)
Mark Suter (2020 - 2021)
{ awards }
2023/24
Deutschland Stipendium, Universität der Künste Berlin
2022
2nd Place, short radio play competition
“warum bin ich [auf deutsch] so empfindlich?”
KURZHÖRSPIELWETTBEWERB, Cologne, Germany
2021
Luigi Paolino Award for Excellence in Classical Percussion (Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts)
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percussionist/drummer, sound artist, performance artist, educator.
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Photo by Jasmin Nimmrich
{private lessons DE/EN}
Drum Set
Musikschule Harmonie, Potsdam
The Planet Drum, Berlin (Pankow, Schöneberg)
Percussion
(still looking for a studio in Berlin! ☺️)
Photo by Annie Harvey
MA Sound Studies and Sonic Art, Universität der Künste Berlin (2021 - 2024)
Bachelor of Music (classical percussion, with first class Honours), Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (2017 - 2021)
Percussion tutors:
Timothy White (2017 - 2021)
Mark Suter (2020 - 2021)
{ awards }
2023/24
Deutschland Stipendium, Universität der Künste Berlin
2022
2nd Place, short radio play competition
“warum bin ich [auf deutsch] so empfindlich?”
KURZHÖRSPIELWETTBEWERB, Cologne, Germany
2021
Luigi Paolino Award for Excellence in Classical Percussion (Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts)
Photo by Simon Hertling
percussionist/drummer, sound artist, performance artist, educator.
Photo by Jasmin Nimmrich
{private lessons DE/EN}
Drum Set
Musikschule Harmonie, Potsdam
The Planet Drum, Berlin (Pankow, Schöneberg)
Percussion
(still looking for a studio in Berlin! ☺️)
{ sound }
2023
SEDAP in re:natura #03- Myxos
re:natura label, Berlin
Producer/ Composer 2023
Fantasy of Exit
Video Game, Multimedia Installation
In Collaboration with Anja Khersonska (all pronouns), Gabriel Jeanjean (he/him), Jeanot Kempf (they/them) and their community circles.
Sound Design/ Composer 2023
Arnold Dreyblatt: Kill the Light – ein Haus ohne Strom
Time to Listen
Akademie der Künste
Performer 2023
Cinema Ad: Rundgang 2023
Yorck Kinos, Berlin
Sound Design/Mix 2023
Two Singaporeans Discuss Local Politics in a Public Space
UdK Rundgang’23
Sound Artist 2023
GEMEINSAM DRUCKEN
UdK Rundgang’23
Sound Artist 2023
The Mushrooms, They Speak
Radio Play, Unpublished
Solo Production 2023
THE LARGE BEINGS
SoundsAbout Gallery, Berlin
Sound Artist 2023
THE LARGE BEINGS)
Sound Art Lab, Struer, Denmark
Artist in Residence 2023
blueprint ft. Dr Parwinder Kaur
By Aiv Puglielli
Sound Production 2023
2022
Wheels’00
Märkisches Museum, Berlin
Sound Artist 2022
🔤👀⏯👂⏏️
[Sprache im technischen Zeitalter]
Universitätsbibliotheken TU & UdK Berlin
Sound Artist 2022
Bathroom Orchestra
UdK Rundgang’22
Sound Artist 2022
warum bin ich [auf deutsch] so empfindlich?
Radio play @ Hörspielwiese Köln, Cologne Germany
Solo Production 2022
Distinct Glowing Things
By Aiv Puglielli
Sound Production 2022
2021
Binary Coalescence Project [Continuum]
By Aiv Puglielli
Sound Production 2021
Not Sold Separately’s The 2020 Isolympics
Fringe Festival Perth 2021
Composer 2021
2020
Lady Moon and the Gondolier
Fringe Festival Perth
Composer 2020
2019
Breaking Point: A Show on Sexual Assault
Curator, Composer, Performer 2019
{drums&percussion}
2023
Austra (CA) @ Astra Club Berlin
Glas Danse Festival
Drummer Nov 2023
2022
||re:pete:|| by Nora Krahl
Performer 2022
?Corporel (1984) by Vinko Globokar
¡Power to the Performer!, Berlin
Solo Body Percussion 2022
2020
Louise Devenish’s Digital Phasing
Percussion 2020
Ah Trees Band
Drum Kit 2018 – 2021
2019
VAMP Presented by Drug Aware
Drum Kit/ Percussion 2019
Cat Hope’s ‘Speechless Opera’
Perth International Arts Festival
Drum Kit
2019
Perth Symphony Orchestra 2019
- Girls’ Night Out (Percussion) @ Astor Theatre
- Romance on the Green @ Rockingham (Drum Kit & Percussion)
City of Perth Marching Corps Drumline:
Tenor Drums 2014 – 2019
Drumline Co-director 2018-2019
2018
Orchestre de la Francaphonie
Principal Timpani
{ sound }
2023
SEDAP in re:natura #03- Myxos
re:natura label, Berlin
Producer/ Composer 2023
Fantasy of Exit
Video Game, Multimedia Installation
In Collaboration with Anja Khersonska (all pronouns), Gabriel Jeanjean (he/him), Jeanot Kempf (they/them) and their community circles.
Sound Design/ Composer 2023
Arnold Dreyblatt: Kill the Light – ein Haus ohne Strom
Time to Listen
Akademie der Künste
Performer 2023
Cinema Ad: Rundgang 2023
Yorck Kinos, Berlin
Sound Design/Mix 2023
Two Singaporeans Discuss Local Politics in a Public Space
UdK Rundgang’23
Sound Artist 2023
GEMEINSAM DRUCKEN
UdK Rundgang’23
Sound Artist 2023
The Mushrooms, They Speak
Radio Play, Unpublished
Solo Production 2023
THE LARGE BEINGS
SoundsAbout Gallery, Berlin
Sound Artist 2023
THE LARGE BEINGS)
Sound Art Lab, Struer, Denmark
Artist in Residence 2023
blueprint ft. Dr Parwinder Kaur
By Aiv Puglielli
Sound Production 2023
2022
Wheels’00
Märkisches Museum, Berlin
Sound Artist 2022
🔤👀⏯👂⏏️ [Sprache im technischen Zeitalter]
Universitätsbibliotheken TU & UdK Berlin
Sound Artist 2022
Bathroom Orchestra
UdK Rundgang’22
Sound Artist 2022
warum bin ich [auf deutsch] so empfindlich?
Radio play @ Hörspielwiese Köln, Cologne Germany
Solo Production 2022
Distinct Glowing Things
By Aiv Puglielli
Sound Production 2022
2021
Binary Coalescence Project [Continuum]
By Aiv Puglielli
Sound Production 2021
Not Sold Separately’s The 2020 Isolympics
Fringe Festival Perth 2021
Composer 2021
2020
Lady Moon and the Gondolier
Fringe Festival Perth
Composer 2020
2019
Breaking Point: A Show on Sexual Assault
Curator, Composer, Performer 2019
2023
SEDAP in re:natura #03- Myxos
re:natura label, Berlin
Producer/ Composer 2023
Fantasy of Exit
Video Game, Multimedia Installation
In Collaboration with Anja Khersonska (all pronouns), Gabriel Jeanjean (he/him), Jeanot Kempf (they/them) and their community circles.
Sound Design/ Composer 2023
Arnold Dreyblatt: Kill the Light – ein Haus ohne Strom
Time to Listen
Akademie der Künste
Performer 2023
Cinema Ad: Rundgang 2023
Yorck Kinos, Berlin
Sound Design/Mix 2023
Two Singaporeans Discuss Local Politics in a Public Space
UdK Rundgang’23
Sound Artist 2023
GEMEINSAM DRUCKEN
UdK Rundgang’23
Sound Artist 2023
The Mushrooms, They Speak
Radio Play, Unpublished
Solo Production 2023
THE LARGE BEINGS
SoundsAbout Gallery, Berlin
Sound Artist 2023
THE LARGE BEINGS)
Sound Art Lab, Struer, Denmark
Artist in Residence 2023
blueprint ft. Dr Parwinder Kaur
By Aiv Puglielli
Sound Production 2023
2022
Wheels’00
Märkisches Museum, Berlin
Sound Artist 2022
🔤👀⏯👂⏏️ [Sprache im technischen Zeitalter]
Universitätsbibliotheken TU & UdK Berlin
Sound Artist 2022
Bathroom Orchestra
UdK Rundgang’22
Sound Artist 2022
warum bin ich [auf deutsch] so empfindlich?
Radio play @ Hörspielwiese Köln, Cologne Germany
Solo Production 2022
Distinct Glowing Things
By Aiv Puglielli
Sound Production 2022
2021
Binary Coalescence Project [Continuum]
By Aiv Puglielli
Sound Production 2021
Not Sold Separately’s The 2020 Isolympics
Fringe Festival Perth 2021
Composer 2021
2020
Lady Moon and the Gondolier
Fringe Festival Perth
Composer 2020
2019
Breaking Point: A Show on Sexual Assault
Curator, Composer, Performer 2019
{drums&percussion}
2023
Austra (CA) @ Astra Club Berlin
Glas Danse Festival
Drummer Nov 2023
2022
||re:pete:|| by Nora Krahl
Performer 2022
?Corporel (1984) by Vinko Globokar
¡Power to the Performer!, Berlin
Solo Body Percussion 2022
2020
Louise Devenish’s Digital Phasing
Percussion 2020
Ah Trees Band
Drum Kit 2018 – 2021
2019
VAMP Presented by Drug Aware
Drum Kit/ Percussion 2019
Cat Hope’s ‘Speechless Opera’
Perth International Arts Festival
Drum Kit 2019
Perth Symphony Orchestra 2019
- Girls’ Night Out (Percussion) @ Astor Theatre
- Romance on the Green @ Rockingham (Drum Kit & Percussion)
City of Perth Marching Corps Drumline:
Tenor Drums 2014 – 2019
Drumline Co-director 2018-2019
2018
Orchestre de la Francaphonie
Principal Timpani
2023
Austra (CA) @ Astra Club Berlin
Glas Danse Festival
Drummer Nov 2023
2022
||re:pete:|| by Nora Krahl
Performer 2022
?Corporel (1984) by Vinko Globokar
¡Power to the Performer!, Berlin
Solo Body Percussion 2022
2020
Louise Devenish’s Digital Phasing
Percussion 2020
Ah Trees Band
Drum Kit 2018 – 2021
2019
VAMP Presented by Drug Aware
Drum Kit/ Percussion 2019
Cat Hope’s ‘Speechless Opera’
Perth International Arts Festival
Drum Kit 2019
Perth Symphony Orchestra 2019
- Girls’ Night Out (Percussion) @ Astor Theatre
- Romance on the Green @ Rockingham (Drum Kit & Percussion)
City of Perth Marching Corps Drumline:
Tenor Drums 2014 – 2019
Drumline Co-director 2018-2019
2018
Orchestre de la Francaphonie
Principal Timpani
{ other ensembles }
Berliner Blockflöte Orchester (BBO)
Tenor Recorder/Percussionist 2022/23
WAAPA’s Defying Gravity Percussion Ensemble, West Australia
Percussionist 2017 – 2021
WAAPA’s Eneksis Choir, West Australia
Alto 2018 – 2021
WAAPA Symphony Orchestra, West Australia
Principal Percussionist 2019 – 2020
Percussionist 2017 – 2018
WA Youth Orchestra, West Australia
Principal Percussionist 2019
Percussionist 2018
WA Wind Symphony, West Australia
Principal Percussionist 2019
New Music Ensemble, Ensemble Ilinx, UdK Berlin
Percussionist 2022
Die Fledermaus Opera, WAAPA Symphony Orchestra, West Australia
Timpani 2019
WA Philharmonic Orchestra, West Australia
Associate Principal Percussionist 2018
WAAPA Musical: Sunday in the Park with George, Stephen Sondheim)
Drum Kit/ Percussion 2018
WAAPA Musical: In the Heights, Quiara Alegr a Hudes & Lin-Manuel Miranda
Percussionist 2018
WAAPA Musical: The Threepenny Opera, Bertolt Brecht & Kurt Weill
Percussionist 2017
{ other ensembles }
Berliner Blockflöte Orchester (BBO)
Tenor Recorder/Percussionist 2022/23
WAAPA’s Defying Gravity Percussion Ensemble, West Australia
Percussionist 2017 – 2021
WAAPA’s Eneksis Choir, West Australia
Alto 2018 – 2021
WAAPA Symphony Orchestra, West Australia
Principal Percussionist 2019 – 2020
Percussionist 2017 – 2018
WA Youth Orchestra, West Australia
Principal Percussionist 2019
Percussionist 2018
WA Wind Symphony, West Australia
Principal Percussionist 2019
Berliner Blockflöte Orchester (BBO)
Tenor Recorder/Percussionist 2022/23
WAAPA’s Defying Gravity Percussion Ensemble, West Australia
Percussionist 2017 – 2021
WAAPA’s Eneksis Choir, West Australia
Alto 2018 – 2021
WAAPA Symphony Orchestra, West Australia
Principal Percussionist 2019 – 2020
Percussionist 2017 – 2018
WA Youth Orchestra, West Australia
Principal Percussionist 2019
Percussionist 2018
WA Wind Symphony, West Australia
Principal Percussionist 2019
New Music Ensemble, Ensemble Ilinx, UdK Berlin
Percussionist 2022
Die Fledermaus Opera, WAAPA Symphony Orchestra, West Australia
Timpani 2019
WA Philharmonic Orchestra, West Australia
Associate Principal Percussionist 2018
WAAPA Musical: Sunday in the Park with George, Stephen Sondheim)
Drum Kit/ Percussion 2018
WAAPA Musical: In the Heights, Quiara Alegr a Hudes & Lin-Manuel Miranda
Percussionist 2018
WAAPA Musical: The Threepenny Opera, Bertolt Brecht & Kurt Weill
Percussionist 2017