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Born in Singapore, Vivian is an ordinary girl who goes to school and ensures that academic is her priority. When she was in Primary 2, there was a violinist whom held a class enrollment activity in her school. For some reasons, the Primary 2 girl managed to remember the exact date and time - she asked her parents to bring her there.

Her parents brought her there and there was a briefing. As her parents knew nothing about music, they allowed her to make the decisions if she wants to pick up the skill. She felt that it was an interesting instrument and decided to attend violin lessons every Sunday.
This was how Vivian started learning violin at the age of eight. It was since then that she managed to make use some of her spare time to cultivate her love for violin. Her abecedarian teacher was SSO Violist Mr Chen Ge.

She did not give up violin when she was promoted to secondary school. During her teens, she was influenced to music from many genres. It was then that she realized Classical music wasn’t her only love. She tried whatever songs she liked on her violin and analyzed the special techniques needed.

Her interest with violin did not descend after she graduated from secondary school. She joined the String Ensemble club (SPSE) while she was in Singapore Polytechnic. Under the supervision of the conductor - Mr Yang Shili, she enjoyed her performance at every event. She was the 1st violinist of the club and the concert committee chairperson (Classical Renaissance VI) in 2004.

She was offered a place in Nanyang Technological University (NTU) for a Degree in Computer Engineering. Since she believed that good things are meant to be shared, it is why she started teaching violin during her free time to pass her skills to her students.

In her final year of her Degree in Computer Engineering, she fused music with computing and wrote a program for music composition and music evolution. She was glad that her music knowledge came into good use and is surprised with the results of music (evolutionary) computing. As it wasn’t something very well known to the public, she hopes to educate the public on the existence of such computing technology.