ABRSM Piano Spotlights - Initial Grade to Grade 8

Loo Bang Hean brings his vast professional experience as a performer and pedagogue to these sessions, highlighting the expressive, interpretative and technical demands of the pieces and how to approach them effectively. These webinars will feature pre-recorded content followed by a Q&A from the first broadcast in August 2020.

You will receive access to the webinars, the full transcripts plus an exclusive 10% discount code to redeem from the ABRSM online shop.

When can I Access the Webinars?

These webinars are On Demand only and available to view until Sunday 31 January 2021 (23:59 GMT).

PLEASE ALLOW 72 HOURS AFTER REGISTERING TO BE APPROVED.

10% Discount on the ABRSM Online Shop

The discount is applicable on all ABRSM publications, including the digital download editions of our Piano Exam Pieces, which includes 48 individual pieces from the Piano Syllabus 2021 & 2022. This discount will be valid until Tuesday 22 December 2020.

Born in Ipoh, Malaysia, Bang Hean was the winner of the First National Mozart Piano Competition in 1987, and two years later a scholarship from the music examination board, ABRSM enabled him to study at the Royal College of Music (RCM), London.

Bang Hean’s early teachers in Malaysia include Serena Chow and Rickie Oui while in England he studied with Yonty Solomon, John Blakely and Dennis Lee. He won numerous prizes at the RCM and upon graduating received awards from the Anthony Saltmarsh Prize and the Countess of Munster Musical Trust to enable him to undergo postgraduate studies with the Hungarian teacher Professor Ilonka Deckers in Milan, Italy.

Since his return to Malaysia Bang Hean has made regular appearances in solo recitals, chamber concerts as well as concerto performances. He has appeared in most major concert venues in Malaysia and has been featured as a soloist with many of the local orchestras, including a recent concerto performance with the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra (MPO) at the Dewan Filharmonik Petronas. An active chamber musician, he collaborates frequently with various instrumentalists and vocalists, and is a frequent guest pianist at the MPO chamber concert series. Bang Hean has performed abroad in countries such as England, Italy, Brunei, Singapore, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Cambodia and Korea.

Bang Hean is a lecturer at the Institute of Music, UCSI University and has frequently been invited to adjudicate, examine, and conduct masterclasses and in various countries. A frequent presenter for ABRSM, he has presented seminars around South East Asia, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau and China, India and the Middle East.