11-year old Alyssa Kok and 15-year-old Nigel Lim both took the 1st runner-up awards in Categories 2 and 3, respectively.
The Competition was held for the second time at the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music Concert Hall on May 17, 2014. Each participant had to play a 20-minute program that included the first movement from a Classical Sonata.
Alyssa played Haydn’s Sonata in C, Hob.XVI/50, Glinka’s Variations on “The Nightingale” by Alyabyev and Debussy’s Prelude “Les Collines d’Anacapri”.
Nigel performed Haydn’s B minor Sonata Hob.XVI/32, Brahms’s Scherzo in E-flat minor, Op. 4 and Debussy’s Prelude “Ondine”.