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Assistant Professor Dr Choong Hueyuen
Assistant Professor
Academic Qualifications
PhD in Music
Master of Music with Commendation
Bachelor of Music in Contemporary Music
Foundation Certificate in Music
Areas of Interest
Choong Hueyuen is a popular music scholar, music educator and drummer. After completing BMus and MMus degrees in music performance as a drummer in Malaysia and the UK, she worked as a music lecturer before commencing her PhD journey at the University of Westminster.
Hueyuen's research interest primarily revolves around the music-learning culture of popular musicians, and her PhD work explored the impacts of learning histories on the music-making practices, attitudes, dispositions, and musical proficiencies of popular musicians. Her latest research examines this subject matter within the Malaysian context, and future research plans include a closer examination of HPME, and the disturbances that such modes of becoming popular musicians caused within the culture of popular music-making.
Publications:
• Choong, H. (2022). The learning experiences and musical proficiencies of formal and informal popular musicians in Malaysia. International Journal of Music Education. https://doi.org/10.1177/02557614221107917
• Choong, H. (2022). K-Pop in Malaysian popular music education: Yea or nay? In M. A. Santella (Ed.), Popular music in East and Southeast Asia: Sonic (under) Currents and Currencies (pp. 88-98). Sunway University Press.
Conference and Seminars:
As Panel Organiser and Presenter
• 5 – 9 July 2022
“Surviving COVID-19: Malaysian musicians’ response to the pandemic”
Panel: Fissures and responses: The pandemic experience of Southeast Asian musicians
21st Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM) 2022, Daegu, Korea.
As Presenter
• 3 – 6 December 2020
“K-pop in Malaysian popular music education: Yae or Nay?”
The 7th IAPMS Conference, Inter-Asia Popular Music Studies Group, Sunway University, Malaysia
• 31 January – 2 February 2020
“The learning culture of Malaysian popular musicians”
2nd IASPM-SEA Conference, International Association for the Study of Popular Music - Southeast Asia, Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines.
• 11 – 13 January 2019
“Formalisation of popular music learning: The diminishing tradition of popular music learning culture”
IASPM-SEA Conference, International Association for the Study of Popular Music - Southeast Asia, RUANG by Think City, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
• 2 – 3 July 2018
“The impact of learning experience on the performing abilities of working popular musicians”
Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media (CREAM) Summer PhD Symposium, University of Westminster, United Kingdom.
Notable Performances:
• Hillsong Christmas Carols, Wembley SSE Arena, UK (2019, 2018, 2017)
• Butterfly Lovers - A New Musical, Tristan Bates Theatre, UK (2018)
• My Music Festival 2015, Ministry of Tourism and Culture, Malaysia (2015)
• Hillsong Conference, O2 Arena, UK (2014)
• International Youth Art Festival, UK (2014)
• Oxfam Music Festival, UK (2014)
• Kuala Lumpur International Jazz Festival, Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre, Malaysia (2012)
• Kiss of the Spider Woman, Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Centre, Malaysia (2012)
• UCSI University's Inaugural Contemporary Music Festival, UCSI University, Malaysia (2011)
1. Web and Publications, Executive Committee, International Association for the Study of Popular Music - Southeast Asia (IASPM-SEA)
2. IASPM Social Media Committee Representative, International Association for the Study of Popular Music - International (IASPM)
