Workshops and Seminars
International Seminar and Symposium Presentations
2022
ICTM Study Group on Historical Sources 24th Meeting of the Study Group on Historical Sources Musical Instrument Museum (Brussels)
Panel: Towards connecting ethnomusicology data collections using distributed repositories ]and Linked Data technology {Research on Kenyah Songs}
(19th October)
2021
(a) 25th International Kodály Symposium ( August 9th to 13th ) Katowice, Poland -conducted online because of the pandemic
(i) Aug 13th : Keynote Speaker (Dr. Chong Pek Lin) : Bringing Kenyah Songs From Remote Bornean Villages to the modern classroom
(video-clip of speech)
(ii) Aug 11th: Joint Workshop Presentation (Chong Pek Lin and Miriam Factora): Songs from the Villages of Borneo and the Philippines for Modern Classrooms
(b)Kodály Online Hangout hosted by Kodály Society of Malaysia : Workshop presentation Songs from Sarawak [28th September 2021]
(c) 6th Colloquium on Arts, Expressions and Languages hosted by Kodály Mexico AC [November 19th 2021 ] Indigenous Songs of East Malaysia: From the Village to the classroom
2020
(a) Jesselton Philharmonic Orchestra Webinar
From a Chemistry Teacher to a Ethnic Music Researcher [April 26th 2020]
(b) The 7th Jesselton Philharmonic Orchestra Music Festival : International Virtual Music Festival 2020 [18th to 20th December] Ethnomusicology and its Challenges: A Borneo Perspective[20th December 2020]
2019
24th International Kodály Symposium 2019, Kuching Waterfront hotel (5th to 9th August 2019)
i. Menjelajahi dunia burung dengan lagu (6th August 2019)
ii. Folk Song forum (7th August 2019)
iii. Songs of Borneo through a Kodály lens (9th August 2019)
2018
Fifth Symposium of the International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM) study group on the Performing Arts of South-East Asia (PASEA) [16th to 22nd July 2018]. Belian dado’ (Kenyah dance-songs) across boundaries of language and ethnicity in music education
2017
Fifth Symposium of the International Council for Traditional Music Study Group on Multipart Music, Guangxi Arts University, Nanning, China (7th to 12th May 2017) Multipart singing in Borneo and Links with Taiwan.
2016
Fourth Symposium of the International Council for Traditional Music Study Group on Multipart Music, library@esplanade, Singapore (4th - 7th July 2016).
Kenyah Multipart Music Traditions Applied to Music Education.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7G-ZxbTvhk (video-clip of presentation at ICTM symposium, July 2016).
2012
Fourth Malaysian Music Education Conference, Universiti Pendidkan Sultan Idris, Tanjung Malim, Perak (14th -17th February, 2012) East Malaysian Music in the Classroom : Kenyah and Kadazandusun Recreational Songs and Jatung Utang
2008
International education research seminar on Indigenous Pedagogies in Diverse Cultural Contexts, Mega Hotel, Miri (10th -12th November 2008): Sarawak Ethnic Music in the Classroom: Kenyah Recreational Songs and Perunchong in Music Education
(g) ISME (International Society for Music Education) 28th World Conference, University of Bologna, (20th -25th July 2008) Introducing Traditional Musical Ensembles and Folk Songs of East Malaysia to Malaysian Schoolchildren (project undertaken in conjunction with the ISME-Gibson award 2006).
https://www.isme.org/other-publications/proceedings-ismes-28th-world-conference-bologna-italy-2008 pg. 423-424
(h) The Borneo Research Council 8th International Conference, Holiday Inn, Kuching (31st July -1st August 2006): The Recreational Songs of the Baram Kenyah and their Significance to Music Education
(i) Malaysian Music Education Seminar (Persidangan Pendidikan Muzik Malaysia), Concorde Hotel, Shah Alam (4th -6th August 2003). Kenyah Songs in the Modern Classroom.
(j) Sarawak Borneo International Ethnic Music Conference, Hotel Crowne Plaza Kuching (8th -9th July 2003): Kenyah Dance-Songs from Upriver Longhouses Adapted for the Urban Audience and the Modern Classroom
(k) The Borneo Research Council 7th International Conference, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu (15th -18th July 2002). Panel presentation on music and dance, Preservation-Modernization-Reinvention in the Performing Arts of Borneo.
Presentations and ethnic music courses (state and national level)
conducted with the assistance of teams of her students
Concert and Workshop on Folk songs of Sabah and Sarawak 2015, on 1st August 2015 at the Institute of Teacher Education Batu Lintang campus, Kuching https://www.theborneopost.com/2015/08/13/teacher-trainees-attend-workshop-on-folk-performing-arts-of-sarawak-sabah/
Concert and workshop on Folk songs of Sabah and Sarawak 2012 on the 3rd of May 2012 at the Institute of Teacher Education Batu Lintang campus, Kuching.
https://www.theborneopost.com/2012/05/04/teachers-training-institute-holds-folk-song-dance-workshop/
Series of workshops for schoolchildren, college students and teachers focusing on Kenyah and Kadazan songs, Bidayuh Peruncung for the project Introducing Traditional Musical Ensembles and Folk Songs of East Malaysia to Malaysian Schoolchildren
July 2007- May 2009
Venues: Kuching, Lubuk Antu, Nanga Delok, Bintulu, Long Gang, Belaga
Chong Pek Lin with Batu Lintang student facilitators and Sekolah Seni pupils , Workshop on Kenyah and Kadazan songs and Sarawak instruments, 2009
With Batu Lintang student facilitators and participants of the workshop (SMK Bintulu) in Bintulu, January 2008
Pedagogical Innovation Seminar 2008 : Sarawak and Sabah ethnic music in the classroom (28th August 2008, ITE Batu Lintang)
http://www.ipbl.edu.my/portal/penyelidikan/seminarpapers/2008/3a%20chong.pdf
Pedagogical Innovation Seminar 2007: Ethnic Music in the Classroom – Belian dado’ (Kenyah dance-songs) and Peruncung (Bidayuh percussion ensemble) 5th -6th Sept 2007, Merdeka Palace, Kuching http://www.ipbl.edu.my/portal/penyelidikan/seminarpapers/2007/bengkel/chongbengkelIPBLfp.pdf
Chong Pek Lin with student facilitators at the Seminar : workshop on belian dado’ (Kenyah dance-songs) and peruncong (Bidayuh instrument)
Series of workshops on Kenyah music and dance as part of the project From Upriver Longhouses to the modern classroom
(April - May 2006 Kuching and Miri)
Chong Pek Lin with student facilitators at the Miri workshops on Kenyah songs, May 2006 (Miri, Institute of Teacer Education Sarawak , Miri
April - May 2006 Kuching and Miri
Stage performance and presentation of the project “From Upriver Longhouses to the modern classroom” in conjunction with the 10th Anniversary Dinner for Sarawak Development Institute 7th Sept 2005 [Role: choir director and presenter]Hotel Crowne Plaza Kuching
Bengkel Induksi Muzik Etnik Sabah dan Sarawak Kurikulum Program Ijazah Sarjana Muda Perguruan (Course on Sabah and Sarawak ethnic music for the Bachelor of Education program) - a national level course for music lecturers from 27 teacher’s institutes throughout Malaysia 7th -11th March , 2005
[Organising secretary and speaker] Held at the Holiday Inn Hotel Kuching and Sarawak Cultural village
Music lecturers from colleges around Malaysia attending a sape workshop led by Matthew Ngau, at Hoilay Inn , Kuching 2005
Orang Ulu Traditional Music and Dance workshop: The Dance-Songs, Children’s Songs and Basic Dance Movements of the Baram Kayan and Kenyah Communities- Implications for Music Education
7 – 8 April 1997
Sarawak Museum