Francis Liew

Member, Choral Directors’ Association (Singapore)

Conductor of:

Woodlands Primary School Choir

St. Andrew’s Junior School Choir

Kuo Chuan Presbyterian Primary School Choir

Yio Chu Kang Primary School Choir

Fuchun Primary School Choir

North Vista Secondary School Choir

Unity Secondary School Choir

St. Joseph’s Convent Choir

Christchurch Secondary School Choir

Francis Liew, Lyric Tenor, studied voice under Mdm Huang Phay Ching at the age of 18. He has since performed both as soloist and chorister with the National University of Singapore Choir, Varsity Choral Ensemble, Singapore Symphony Chorus, The Lyric Opera Chorus and The Philharmonic Chorus.

Francis started conducting his church choirs in 1980, as well as the many combined church choirs over the years. Since his involvement with schools choirs in Jan 1999, he has nurtured many choirs from the primary to polytechnic levels. Francis started many of these choirs from scratch and transformed them into award winning choir in very short time. One of his choir is in the prestigious Choral Excellence Programme while the rest has achieve Silver and Gold Awards in the Singapore Youth Festival, Central Judging of Choirs and International Choral Competitions.

Believing in providing opportunities for choirs to perform and compete not just locally, Francis has led his choirs to Hawaii, USA(2002), Genting, Malaysia(2003), Olomouc, Czech Republic(2005), Shah Alam, Malaysia(2005), Olomouc, Czech Republic(2006), Hong Kong(2006), Kagoshima, Japan(2006). In 2008 alone, 7 of his choirs went abroad for Competitions in countries like Hong Kong, Czech Republic, China, Japan and Malaysia.

Besides helping his own choirs to grow, Francis also finds time to give choral workshops and vocal classes to many primary, secondary and church choirs.

Back to members page