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Dennis Lau, born in 1996, is a native Malaysian holding a bachelor’s degree in piano performance (2020) and a master’s degree in choral conducting (2023). His musical journey begins at the age of nine, in a church choir. He also started his piano study in the following year. During his teenage years, besides singing as a chorister and playing for the church services, he also tried to compose, arrange, and conduct with his passion and curiosity about music. His vocal talent has been developed the most during his teenage. As a church and Kenaniah Youth Festival Chorale’s chorister, he had opportunities to attend choir camps, where he obtained both vocal and choral training before he went abroad for further music studies.
During his undergraduate study of piano performance in Taiwan, he remained active in choral activities by joining church, church, and community choirs. In his junior year, he was recommended by his choral conducting instructor as a director of Xiu-Lang Presbyterian Church choir. He worked there as a part-time choir director until his graduation.
While pursuing his graduate study of choral conducting at Georgia State University, he is a music intern at Central Presbyterian Church. There, he ran choral library administrations, assisted Bell’s choir, sang, and conducted occasionally the chancel choir, and assisted the children’s choir. Besides singing in college choirs, he also joined Coro Vocati. He was a selected candidate of the ACDA southern conducting masterclass in 2022, where he worked with Dr. Eugene Rogers.
