Zulkifli Mohamed Amin

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Name = Zulkifli Mohamed Amin


Img_capt = Zoulvabatiqah on accordion
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Background = non_performing_personnel
Birth_name = Zulkifli Bin Mohamed Amin
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Born = Birth date and age|1983|6|8|mf=y
Singapore, Singapore
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Origin = flagicon|Singapore MacPherson, Singapore
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Genre = Multi-ethnic music,
(Contemporary) Classical,
Contemporary Popular
Occupation = Composer, Conductor, Keyboardist, Accordionist
Years_active = 1983 - Present
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Associated_acts = Orkestra Melayu Singapura
URL = www.vabatiqah.com/
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Zulkifli Mohamed Amin also known as zoulvabatiqah (born 8 June 1983) is one of the youngest contemporary composer in Singapore. He has earned credits in composing/conducting for contemporary orchestras (including Orkestra Melayu Singapura). Since childhood, he was exposed to ethnomusicology, then known as comparative musicology and was greatly influenced by his roots of Indonesian descendent. In 2001, Zulkifli Mohamed Amin was accepted to Asia Pacific's leading arts institution, LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts.

Biography

Zulkifli Mohamed Amin is a multi-disciplinary composer/artist who has performed and produced music for various productions and events. A music graduate from LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts (Singapore), his repertoire extends from classical to contemporary world music, which includes APHORISM for large contemporary wind ensemble premiered by The Philharmonic Winds in 2002. His Piano Etudes No.1 and 2 were selected as set pieces for the 2003 final-year diploma examination at LASALLE-SIA. He joined the Orkestra Melayu Singapura (OMS) or Singapore Malay Orchestra in 2000 as a trombone player and since then doubled up as a keyboardist and accordionist. He has been a music director and band leader for various performances such as the National Day Dinner (NDD) 2004 and recently the 2nd OMS youth concert in 2005. Since the formation of the youth wing, Zulkifli has been appointed as their keyboard instructor and currently a resident arranger/composer. His active involvement and enthusiasm for the development of the orchestra has gained him the due respect from the musicians to bring the music to a new frontier. Through vigorous training process, he hopes that the OMS will achieve a professional status on par with other groups of the same interest around the world.

Having mostly self-taught in composition since at the tender age of 13, Zulkifli has participated in composition master classes by world renowned composers which include, Prof. Gerald Brophy (Australia), Zachar Laskewicz (Austria), Eric Watson (United Kingdom) as his composition tutor, Dr Alan Laurens (America) as his conducting professor, and Dr Alex Dea (Indonesia) in Ethnomusicology.

Since 2003, Zulkifli has been actively involved in conducting and music directorship. This led him to the formation of his contemporary pop orchestra for a concert at LASALLE-SIA which is also his conducting debut and in September 2006, appointed as Music Director for the closing concert of Singapore Management University Arts Festival 2006 among others.

As a young and prolific composer of his generation, he experiments and explores new techniques of contemporary/world music writing often ambiguous but technically and musically demanding. In collaboration with musicians and composers of the same line, he incorporates all this into an original work. Interestingly enough, his work for gongs and bells (his first experimental music) was well received by musicians and music critics. Zulkifli’s innovative and original work bears his unique creative stamp.

He has been an active pit musician throughout his musical journey having played in dance productions. The start of 2004-5, Zulkifli begin his new focus on world music and visual-art music composition and performance.

Although busy with commissioned works and projects, Zulkifli is an ardent researcher with interest in cross-cultural music composition techniques, ethnomusicology; south-east Asia region in particular and world music performance and composition. Zulkifli also holds the positions of Music Director for VaBatiqah, Instructor and arranger for Orkestra Melayu Singapura (Belia). Currently, he served as musician with Al-Bedouin, Middle-East Traditional Ensemble and Bedouin Groove and also featured artist with MrMusichouse. He was also a member of the award-wining Singapore Wind Symphony and Honorary advisor to Changkat Changi Secondary School Band.

External links

* [http://www.vabatiqah.com Zulkifli Mohamed Amin]