Something about Sara

Sara Ngooi is a trained contemporary pianist, organist (electone), keyboardist, vocalist, producer, composer and arranger. She holds a Graduate Cert in Music Technology from the University of Newcastle(Australia) and a Bachelor of Music (honours) degree in Popular Music & Music Technology from the University of Wolverhampton (United Kingdom) and is currently working on her research Masters in Music Technology with the University of Newcastle(Australia).

Sara started her music teaching career in 2002 with experiences working with children of different age groups. Her vast experiences include working with the Wesley Methodist Children’s choir and the Ipoh Children’s Choir. She also coaches and arranges songs for high school choirs around Kuala Lumpur. She is also a visiting lecturer at the Yamaha Academy of Arts and Music.

As one of the lecturers at the UCSI University Music Faculty, Ms. Sara lectures on contemporary and creative base subjects such as Music Technology, Composing for Commercial Music, Ear Training and Theory. Besides that she also coaches in contemporary voice and piano at the University.

In addition to working with choral groups, Sara also a composer, producer , vocalist and voice over talent for animation companies as well as producing mobile contents for Maxis(Msia), Digi(Msia) and Singtel(sg). She also does recording for choirs and demo albums. Sara’s passion in life is to unleash the creativity in every individual. She believe that children, if trained in musicality and creativity, would reach potential heights discovering new and creative ways in music making and expressing themselves through music.