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Nicholas Quek Wei Sheng was born in Singapore and started his music lessons at the age of 4 under the tutelage of Kellyn Quek from Music LifeStyle Academy who is currently an undergraduate at the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine. He is a recipient of the NUS Performing and Visual Arts Scholarship, and he has been passionate about music since young. In addition to composing music, he plays both the piano and guzheng. Besides attaining multiple distinctions in the ABRSM Graded Examinations for piano, he has also achieved his ABRSM Diploma in Piano Performance. He was the First Prize winner in the Intermediate Category of the Young Pianist Competition in 2006. Nicholas is also a student of the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts School of Young Talents (NAFA SYT) programme, learning guzheng under the tutelage of Mdm Yin Qun. In the Guzheng Youth Category of the National Chinese Music Competition, he was the first runner-up in 2010 and the champion in 2012. He has achieved his Diploma in Guzheng Performance from the Central Conservatory of Music Chinese Instrument Grading Examinations and won many accolades in guzheng competitions both local and abroad, including the First Prize of the F J Benjamin – NAFA School of Young Talents Music Competition in 2013. His ensemble work, “Round Dance”, was premiered at the Singapore Chinese Orchestra Composer Workshop in 2013, and his solo work for oboe, “chirrup”, was premiered at the “19 Years” exhibition at Wo Men Women 2014.