Associate Professor Ysan Suit Yin is currently the Head of the Classical Music Degree at Instituteof Music (IMus), UCSI University in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. She is a very dedicated teacher and has been actively teaching since 1986. All her university students have either successfully moved into the music industry as their careers or to pursue their music studies in overseas. Suit Yin currently also holds the role of examiner for the Classical & Jazz panel, Trinity College of London.
Suit Yin academic achievements are mainly in teaching, ATCL (Teaching), LTCL (Teaching), LRSM (Teaching) and she was one of the first in the South-East Asia to be awarded the Fellowship of the Royal Schools of Music in teaching (Piano-Music Education) by the Royal School of Music in 2006. For personal growth, she completed the Post- Graduate Diploma in Tertiary Teaching in 2019.
While living in London, Suit Yin studied with Professor Vanessa Latarche (Head of Keyboard at the Royal College of Music), late Professor Dr. Colin Kingsley, late Dennis Lee and Toh Chee Hung. She
received an exemption from a Bachelor Degree in Music, hence a place was offered in London College of Music (LCM)with partial bursary for a Master Degree in Performance under the guidance of the Professor of Piano, Andrew Zolinsky. Her teachers also include Simon Rigby, Philip Mead and Dr. Anna McCready.
Having resided in London for 10 years, Suit Yin was a member of Kingston and District Chamber Music Society (KDCMS) in London and played regularly with the other members from the society between 2004 and 2012. During her academic year in LCM, Suit Yin was awarded a scholarship to the Dartington International Summer School. She was chosen to be one of the participants ina ‘Project Concert’ (music written between 1920 and 1940) and was one of the finalists in John Ireland Piano Competition in 2009.
Suit Yin is frequently invited to be the adjudicator in the UCSI InternationalPiano Festival and Competition since 2014 till present day. She was also invited to adjudicate the Asia International Piano Competition in 2015, and periodically adjudicate Piano Competition in High Schools in Malaysia. In 2018, she was invited by the International Music Society from Jakarta, Indonesia to judge apiano competition and presented a piano masterclass. In the following year shewas invited to Methodist Charles Wesley Music School in Medan, Indonesia to conduct piano masterclass. In 2021, Suit Yin had a collaboration with the Central International Education from Indonesia, organised an online piano competition during the COVID-19 pandemic where she was one of theadjudicators. In addition, she was invited to adjudicate the UCSI National Music Online Competition in Malaysia.
Suit Yin was the chairperson for UCSI University Piano Pedagogy Conference in 2019.She was appointed as a chairperson of Institute of Music Learning & Teaching since 2014 and was one of the committee members of UCSI’s Excellence and Professional Advancement (CAPA) between 2014 and 2019.
Suit Yin contributed a write-up “Tribute to Professor Dr. Colin Kingsley” to European Piano Teacher-Piano Professional and was published in the April 2021, Issue 56 of the European Piano Teacher Association-spta UK: www.epta-uk.org. Last year, Suit Yin performed in the Free Hand 2022: 2nd Malaysian Contemporary Composers Piano Festival which featured 9 Malaysian composers’ works. Recently, Suit Yin had a joint recital with Mathias Boegner, a German/Swiss violinist at UCSI University.