1. What is your greatest passion or joy as a singer, voice teacher, or vocal professional?
Being a vocal teacher, the happiest thing is to be able to guide different types of student and listen to their singing every day. Music has been part of my life. It is a joy for me to share all that I have learned with my students.
2. Please tell us the latest news about you, your studio, and your work.
Recently, I am occupied with training and guiding vocal students to sing confidently and to shine on the stage in the recent singing competitions.
Apart from that, I'm also busy with music video filming for some of my students. After work, I will work on students' music recordings and music productions. Although my working hours are extremely long and tiring, I enjoy it very much.
3. What is an interesting or funny fact about you?
My students will call me teacher Doraemon. This is because not only that they know I love Doraemon very much since childhood, but most importantly, when they face problems during singing or expressing their emotions, I will always act like Doraemon, whom can help them solve problems, realize their dreams, and becoming the teacher Doraemon!
4. What led you to the NYVC Voice Teacher Training & Certification Program?
To me, learning is an endless process. I had 8 years of experience in coaching vocal students before I embarked on this course. When I saw the music vocal teaching shared by Justin Stoney on YouTube, I had a strong urge that the knowledge of music teaching should be a continuous learning and updating process.
5. What was your experience in the NYVC Voice Teacher Training & Certification Program?
I benefited a lot from this NYVC Voice Teacher Training & Certification Program, especially during the class, Justin Stoney instilled us with a lot of scientific music knowledge, besides analyzing and introducing many effective ways of music teaching for us. When observing Justin Stoney teaching with students in class, I realized that as a vocal music teacher, we must understand and respect each students. Coaching students according to their attitudes and watching them sing happily is our greatest sense of satisfaction.
6. What advice would you give to future participants of the Program?
My advice to future participants is to try to reflect and share what they have learned with their own students after completing such a knowledgeable course. As vocal teacher or a singer, you must be able to analyze and explore what you have learned at different stages, in order to break through yourself and advance yourself to become an outstanding vocalist.
7. What is the biggest challenge you’ve faced as an artist, teacher, or vocal professional?
The biggest challenge I face is misunderstanding with the students’ parents. Communication is very important. Different parents and students have different ideas and thinking. Sometimes even the parents themselves have different thinking and don’t really understand their own children. As a teacher, I must always maintain a balance in-between them while also understanding their situation and responding appropriately to ease out any misunderstandings.
8. What was your greatest victory ever as an artist, teacher, or vocal professional?
As a vocal music teacher, I am very grateful that many of my students have become singers, pursuing music degree in college, and won numerous awards in competitions. Nonetheless, my greatest victory is that after so many years, there is a group of students that have been with me since their childhood to adulthood. They still remember me as the music teacher in their hearts, and continue to sing joyfully.
9. What is one piece of advice that you would love all singers to know?
Singing is an art of expressing feelings and emotions. Don't overemphasize on getting achievements and destroy the enthusiasm for singing. We should always recall our original aspirations of singing and keep the joy of music in order to let others listen to your voice of singing.
10. What is something you've learned on your journey that you would love other vocal professionals to know?
Everyone of us has our own background and stories about music. For example, I was a music teacher of a primary school; you were a popular singer of a popular restaurant; he was a music professor of a University. But music doesn't care about personal identity, level and background. At different stages, you will comprehend different music recognitions through your own work experiences. Therefore, we must always update and breakthrough our own music teaching knowledge in order to bring more and better music to others.
11. How can we find out more about you and your work?
Find more about me on Facebook and Instagram - J Musique Academy
