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The Voice of Aoji aims to build a free music platform to provide opportunities for all students to compete and communicate on stage. On 20th May 2019, the Voice of Aoji Grand Finale was successfully held in the Sydney Opera House. During this event Aoji Education has received works from more than 50 institutions’ and 173 candidates; received over 10 million online visits and online voting. The judge penal of the competition was made up of top Australian musicians, including the winner of The Voice of Australia, Harrison Craig; internationally renowned pianist, Clemens Leske and Mezzo Soprano from Pacific Opera, Barbara Jin. We have also invited the most senior vocalist in Australia, Mr. George Torbay as the adjudicator for the South Australian Division.
The event has received strong support from all arrays of the community. Councillor Robert Kok from the City of Sydney presented a speech on behalf the Lord Mayor of Sydney. The Minister for Customer Service, the Honorable Victor Michael Dominello, MP was also present to show his support.
The nine finalists were: Kirby Lu, Simon Liu, James Zhang, Bowei Zhang, Winston Chen, Lenny Guo, Alicia Zhang, Paola Marquez Castro and Weihao Guo. After two rounds of exciting competition, the champion of the night was Weihao Guo, second place went to Paola Marquez Castro and third place to Kitby Lu.
The guest performers on the night were all highly reputable, for example, the winner of The Voice of Australia, Harrison Craig; internationally renowned pianist, Clemens Leske; and a pianist from Manhattan School of Music, champion of 2015 & 2016 Sydney Eisteddfod Classic Piano Concerto competition, Jack Cheng. There were also outstanding High School student performances, for example, an original piece for piano solo and dance composed by Kevin Wang from Newington College and Summer Smyth from SCECGS Redlands; choir, rap and band performances by St Augustine’s College students, contemporary dance performance by St Paul’s Grammar students.
Every year, my team and I would encounter hundreds of students from different countries and regions. I find that many students study music from an early age, but they tend to give up on music when they come to Australia to study. One of the most important reasons is that they don’t have a stage to perform, and couldn’t find a right cohort of audience. I feel that we should build a charity platform, so that the music dreams of students from all over the world could come true… Music brings us together, no matter which country the students are come, what language or background they have, music can be the perfect bridge of communication.” The Voice of Aoji hopes to share happiness and joy through our common language – Music.” – Aileen Wang, the Director of AOJI Education Australia.
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