Since 2010, Yan has been invited to run different types of workshops and perform some traditional Chinese folk song/dance in local schools, clubs, etc.
Yan was awarded the Outstanding Chinese Teacher Award in 2017. She received the Advanced Level of the International Chinese Teaching Certificate in 2015 and also work as a qualified music teacher in U.K.
Now, let's have a look at one of the adult Chinese classes she taught, click the short clip below.
Various performances in the Chinese New Year celebrations in different schools' events.
Below are some links to watch performances.
Performed with friends
August 2015
Piano duet
Chinese ink painting.
June 2014
"Colourful China" 多彩中国
The adult Mandarin class in Harlow Chinese School attended Yan's session, to learn about:
1) A brief feature comparison between the western music and the Chinese folk music.
2) A brief introduction to Chinese 56 Chinese ethnic groups. To know a few main features of the major minorities' folk songs, costumes, religious, etc.
3) To sing a Tibetan folk style song called The Himalayas, composed by Yan.
Below is the link to listen to the song Yan wrote:
July 2014 中国民族服饰着装聚会
An oriental dressed party for a lady's choir. All the beautiful oriental costumes were from the different ethnic groups. We even learned a Malaysian folk song called BURUNG KAKATUA. The lyrics is very funny, An old sister bird, perched on the window sill. Grandma is now quite old of her teeth, only two remain. A special thank to Lee from Malaysia for teaching us the lyrics and telling us a bit history about Malaysia.
If you want to learn it, here is a link. http://youtu.be/iAO_wpd2dH4An oriental dressed party for a lady's choir. All the beautiful oriental costumes were from the different ethnic groups. We even learned a Malaysian folk song called BURUNG KAKATUA. The lyrics is very funny, An old sister bird, perched on the window sill. Grandma is now quite old of her teeth, only two remain. A special thank to Lee from Malaysia for teaching us the lyrics and telling us a bit history about Malaysia.
February 2014
Celebrating Chinese New Year in Below was Year 2 class rehearsal
Year 2 sung 3 songs in Chinese.
1) Practise Good Manners, with simple dance movements.
2) Happy New Year Song, a few percussion instruments were played too.
3) Looking for a Friend, a music game song, it is part of our current Chinese language study listed in the text book on page 31.
To watch and listen to our recordings:
Chinese Folk Singing Workshop
An introduction to Chinese folk music in this interactive singing workshop. Participants learned the traditional Mandarin folk song. Hosted by The Daylight Club in St John’s Church Hall, Harpenden.
For more details, please click the link to see the full version. http://www.stalbans.gov.uk/Images/Music-City-rev7_tcm15-32826.pdf
Chinese Workshop
In a secondary school in Hertfordshire. Listen to part of the recorded session by clicking the link: http://youtu.be/JtHjQmdgaPw or
It's a wonderful chance to introduce our colourful Chinese culture to the English students. We had so much fun on watching a couple of boys in bright colour Chinese ladies' traditional costumes. They even volunteered to learn some traditional dance movements. After introduced a basic Chinese musical information and taught them a Chinese folk song, the session finished with a quiz. These boys and girls did really well on matching the costumes, dance movements, greeting words with the minority names and their residential locations on map of China. When they were leaving, they all looked so excited, their teacher had to stop their questions, for example, "Is there Google in China?", "Do you like noodles?". A girl told me that this was the most interesting session she ever had.
2010 to 2011
Performed Chinese folk songs in a few concerts with choir.
Below is the video to watch: 敖包相会
In some other community events. Click the link below to watch 茉莉花.
Learners' works could be similar to these:
Paper cutting 手工剪纸
Chinese music, folk singing and dance, performed with students
民族音乐与歌舞
Chinese water colour painting 儿童水彩画
Chinese characters writing 学汉字
We encourage our Chinese learners to prepare for HSK or YCT Chinese tests, from Level 1 to 6 available in U.K. Here is one of Yan's students' certificates received. 汉语考试
Thank you.
Yan
