Profile : Goh Chiat Jin

Chiat is the Managing Director and founding member of Kindermusik Asia Pte Ltd. She has a deep interest in music all her life. Chiat attained a double degree in Bachelor of Arts and Music (piano performance) from the University of Washington, Seattle, USA with Neal O'Doan in 1983. She also studied vocal accompaniment and chamber music under Leonard Shure at the New England Conservatory in Boston, while completing her Master degree in piano performance at the Boston University with Professor Anthony DiBonaventura.

In 1986, she taught piano in Hong Kong and also became a mother. When she returned to Singapore in 1990, Chiat was looking for a suitable music program for her children but was unable to find any which met her requirements. She then began an extensive search for a quality early childhood music curricula worldwide which culminated in Kindermusik. She was so convinced of its superiority over the other curricula that she decided to make it into a business.

Since then, Ms Goh has been mentor to many educators in Asia Pacific, teaching them the skills required to be successful and effective Kindermusik teachers. In 1999 she attended her first Orff workshop and loved it so much she went on to complete the Graduate Diploma at the Australian Catholic Universtiy under Christoph Maubach. Her love for anything to do with Orff Schulwerk has led her to attend many Orff conferences worldwide, as well as a highly informative Jazz workshop with Doug Goodkin in San Francisco in the summer of 2002.

She now spends most of her time developing new educators, and managing, and marketing Kindermusik curricula in Singapore and Malaysia. Chiat's passion in Orff Schulwerk and her belief in the power of music has also seen her working with Alzheimer patients and children with epilepsy in her community work. She also conducts early childhood music and movement workshops with teachers in Yangon, Myanmar and Singapore.