“To me, Miss Koh wasn’t just a piano teacher, she was like a Sister that guides me, wants the best for me, and not only teaches me piano but also tells me more about life”

I was with Miss Koh ever since I left music school to have private lessons. Thinking back, it has been a decade long. To me, Miss Koh wasn’t just a piano teacher, she was like a Sister that guides me, wants the best for me, and not only teaches me piano but also tells me more about life.

The reason why I could finish both grade 8 theory and practical was not just reliant on me but the support of her and my parents.

She once shared with me that all the steps on doing theory questions are what she came up with herself and i’m thankful that she adjust her teaching methods to suit our individual needs and learning capabilities.

From this, I could tell that she treats her students sincerely and genuinely and does not take her work as “just a job” but truly wants to share her passion for music with others.

She produced numerous outstanding students throughout her 18 years of teaching and I’m thankful that because of her, I managed to get a distinction for my recent grade 8 theory exam. She’s indeed a teacher and a friend hard to come by and I treasure the relationship we forged throughout these years.

“The useful exam techniques she taught me allowed me to perform beyond my expectations and attain my Grade 8 Music Theory from Grade 5 in just 6 months!”

Learning music theory from Ms Koh was an enriching experience and a really enjoyable journey. As a passionate teacher, she certainly inspired me to strive and do my best in music.

The useful exam techniques she taught me allowed me to perform beyond my expectations and attain my Grade 8 Music Theory from Grade 5 in just 6 months! Really grateful for such an encouraging teacher!

“Because of her faith and belief in me, I am proud to say that i DID pass my final grade 8 practical exam with flying colours in the Aural section!”

This is from my personal experience with Ms koh: I recall when I first started learning piano where my parents had originally sent me to a music school to attend a group piano class at three years old.

The teacher was fierce, unsympathetic and left students behind who weren’t able to catch up with her pace of teaching. As such, I was full of fear, hesitation and misconceptions about music when I had my first one-on-one lesson with Ms Koh.

She was very patient and full of understanding as she went through and corrected all the misconceptions that I had originally learnt from the previous teacher.

Despite my slow learning, she never once gave up on me and was even willing to patiently explain a theory concept more than five times until I was certain of it. For that, I am sincerely thankful and grateful to having such a wonderful teacher as she was to me.

Despite my growing passion for music, I was sadly terrible at singing and conquering those horrid aural tests that every candidate has to go through during their piano exams.

Even after attaining grade three, I was still unable to sing more three notes without one of them going off-key. Yet Ms Koh never once gave up on me in frustration. If I couldn’t comprehend how to get there by technique A, she would go the extra mile to find a technique that i could make sense of even if it took ‘technique Z’ for me to grasp it.

Because of her faith and belief in me, I am proud to say that i DID pass my final grade 8 practical exam with flying colours in the Aural section!”