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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=200 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" background="0a7d4c03.jpg"> <div> content update: 16 Jun 2003</div> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="04af46c3.gif"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FF6600" FACE="Arial" ><B>chester tan</B></FONT><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#333399" FACE="Arial" >    </FONT> |     <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="chester tan"><U>home</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id2.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="ctt Music"><U>ctt Music</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id4.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Photo Album"><U>Photo Album</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id6.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Favourite Software"><U>Favourite Software</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id16.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="SonyEricsson T68i / P800"><U>SonyEricsson T68i / P800</U></A>   |   <B>About Chester</B>   |   <A HREF="id42.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Sign Guestbook"><U>Sign Guestbook</U></A></div> <div> About Chester</div> <div> <IMG SRC="0a2da5f0.gif" border=0 width="218" height="95" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> life goes on ...</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Born on Christmas Eve, 1975 </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Capricorn - peaceful, practical, cautious, self-conscious, thinker, introvert. </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">1.76m tall, weighs 73kg; blood type O+ </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Resides in Ang Mo Kio, central part of Singapore</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Bachelor of Business (Marketing) at Nanyang Technological University </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Music, photography and computers</div> <bR> <div> music history ...</div> <div> <IMG SRC="06018180.gif" border=0 width="24" height="24" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Started playing the piano when he was 6, learns the violin at 9, and fiddles with the viola at 17</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="06018180.gif" border=0 width="24" height="24" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Obtained ABRSM Grade 8 (piano and theory) at 14, and Performer's Certificate, TCL at 16.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="06018180.gif" border=0 width="24" height="24" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Started choral singing at 15, from a Soprano, to a Tenor, and now sings Bass/Baritone. His vocal range is from low G to middle G, with falsetto reaching high D</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="06018180.gif" border=0 width="24" height="24" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Favourite classical composers are Handel, Mozart, and Ravel.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="06018180.gif" border=0 width="24" height="24" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Favourite music personality is David Foster</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="06018180.gif" border=0 width="24" height="24" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Most listened music artistes are Enya, Yukie Nishimura, Secret Garden, Adiemus, Yanni, and Keiko Matsui. </div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="06018180.gif" border=0 width="24" height="24" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Between May and June 1998, composed one song a day for over 20 days and posted them on the Internet daily. Those were 'Music Diary' (you can listen to clips on the music website.</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.angelfire.com/music4/chestertan/music/id17.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.angelfire.com/music4/chestert"><U><B>musical credentials</B></U></A> :</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Oct-Feb 2003: Composed and arranged music for Hall V <A HREF="http://www.quintsical.com/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.quintsical.com/"><U>Quintsical Productions 02/03</U></A></div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Dec 2002: Composed and arranged music for Metropolitan YMCA "Dance Fantasea" staged on 7 Dec 2002</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">May-Nov 2002: Minus-one soundtrack transcription of 'Les Miserables' for Bendemeer Secondary School </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">May 2002: Music Director for "Put On Your Dancing Shoes" on 27 May 2002</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Feb 2001: Composed and arranged music for Woodlands Constituency Chinese New Year Dinner</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Jul 2000: Composed and arranged music for Bukit Panjang Sec. School 'Pupils' Creed' and school anthem </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Jan 2000 : Sound Effects Director for DramaBox Production of "Mr Beng" </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Jun 1999: Composed and arranged music for YMCA "Magic Moments" staged on 3&4 July 1999</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Mar-Jul 1999 : Music Director of "Shades of Love" for StagePals</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Feb 1999 : NUS CACS Jam and Jive Finalists - "Rubber Dollz" (3rd prize), "Non-Descript" (consolation) </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">1998-99 : Music Director, Choral Director and cast of NTU Hall Five Quintsical Productions 98/99 </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">1997-98 : Music Director and Choral Director of NTU Hall Five Quintsical Productions 97/98 </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">1997-98 : Choir Head and Conductor of NTU Hall Five Choir "Fivers' Chorale" </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Jun-Jul 1997 : NTU Hall Five Jam Band keyboardist </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">1996-97 : Conductor of NTU Hall Five Choir "Fivers' Chorale" </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">1996-97 : Choral Director, Music Arranger and Male Lead for NTU Hall Five Quintsical Productions 96/97 </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">1993-94 : Choir (Bass) and Chamber Ensemble (Violin, Viola) member of Temasek Junior College </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">1989-91 : Choir member (Tenor/Bass) and Accompanist of Catholic High School (Secondary section) </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">1986-87 : Orchestra member (Violin) of Catholic High School (Primary section) </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">1984-86 : Instrumental Ensemble member (Recorder) of Catholic High School (Primary section) </div> <bR> <div> photo shots ...</div> <div> <IMG SRC="062341e0.gif" border=0 width="52" height="30" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Previous photographic possessions include Nikon F60, FA, FE2, EM, SB-16B flash unit. Currently owns Canon S45 4MP, a full manual digital camera.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="062341e0.gif" border=0 width="52" height="30" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Between 1995-1998 taken almost 70 rolls of film, both colour and black&whites. Two-thirds of them were taken in Taiwan, while the rest were personal portraits of his friends</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="062341e0.gif" border=0 width="52" height="30" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Thanks to digital camera, he has captured so much digital photos. During his honeymoon trip in Korea, he took over 500 shots in a short span of 7 days, using up 3x256MB CF cards. Within less than a year of owning the digicam, he has snapped over 2200 photos, surpassing the amount of celluloid film taken in the previous years.</div> <bR> <div> bites and bytes ...</div> <div> <IMG SRC="05f2b250.gif" border=0 width="43" height="37" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Currently owns a self-assembled personal computer purchased in Sep 2002. Configuration : MSI KT4 mobo, AMD Athlon XP-2200 (1.8GHz), Samsung 512MB DDR333 SDRAM, AOpen 48X12X CD-RW, Creative Audigy2 Platinium, Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI, Maxtor DiamondMax9 80GB, Relisys 17" monitor</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="05f2b250.gif" border=0 width="43" height="37" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Uses PC mainly to surf the Internet, store and edit digital images, record TV programs and most importantly to compose and produce music using Cakewalk Pro Audio and Roland XP-30 synthesizer plus Korg SP-500 Digital Piano. Cool Edit Pro is used to digitally mix the songs.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <I>This website is maintained by </I><B>Chester Tan </B><I>. © Copyright 1997 - 2003. All rights reserved.</I></div> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>