SOC ORGANIZED THE 8TH ORCHESTRA CONCERT AT ENGINEERING CAMPUS
NIBONG TEBAL, 6 December 2015 –The Chinese Orchestra Secretariat (SOC) with the cooperation of the Chinese Orchestra for Engineering Campus (COFEC) successfully organized the 8th orchestra concert at the Main hall, Engineering Campus, Universiti Sains Malaysia here yesterday.
SOC is a traditional Chinese music society at Universiti Sains Malaysia and was established on the 5th of October 2009 while COFEC was established in 2011 at the Engineering campus.
According to the Project Director, Lim Jia Sing, 22, the society hopes to develop traditional Chinese music and to encourage the learning spirit within the USM populace as well as to encourage the mastery of traditional Chinese instruments to the public especially USM students.
“We hope that the programme will be well received by the community and the music would be an alternative in acquiring peace”, said the third year student of Bachelor of Arts in Translation and Interpretation, School of Humanities.
“To me, music is able to reduce stress for humans if we fully understand the beauty and art in producing a song with the perfect melody”, he added.
“The theme of the concert shows the success of the frame of traditional music and the innovation of Chinese orchestra”, he said further.
As many as 15 songs including Malay, Indian, Korean and traditional songs were played in the Chinese Orchestra Concert which comprised of 220 students from the Main Campus and the Engineering Campus.
The melodious sound from the musical instruments such as dizi, yang qin, erhu and zhong luan were very enchanting to more than 900 members of the audience which consisted of students and members of the community who were mesmerized with the students’ talents in the orchestra.
The concert was also sponsored by JAKO Language Learning Centre, Smooth Faces Image & Beauty and Max Style.
Translation: Siti Sara Zainal Abidin
Text: Mohd Kamil Ashar (
Photos: Bani Faidzzainami Baniyamin (