Albert Tay Email & Phone Number

Award-winning composer, conductor, educator Albert TAY is a global citizen and “playaholic” for whom “work” is play! When not composing, the thinker-innovator can be found guest-conducting, giving lectures, masterclasses and adjudicating choral/singing competitions around the world.Albert is the founding director of the Kodaly Academy of Music (Singapore) (KAM) where he leads diverse and dynamic teams of artists and administrators from different countries in spear-heading the biennial Asia Kodaly Symposium as well as multi-disciplinary direction and training of hundreds of choristers in numerous school and community choirs encompassing the full gamut of voicing, age groups, genres and skill levels. As a result of sound processes and a values-based education, many of his choirs have won top awards and reviews in international and local festivals. He is Artistic Director of Schola Cantorum Singapore Ltd. a non-profit choir collective.Albert was awarded the professional title of Magister Chori and an honorary membership by the Association of Croatian Choral Directors. He is the first Singaporean musician to receive the Hungarian Gold Cross of Merit, a state decoration conferred by the President of Hungary in 2021, for his efforts in promoting classical music and the Kodaly Concept in Asia.

Listed skills include Conducting, Singing, Choral, Arts, and 18 others.