big THANKS to Elvia for joining me on this podcast session - the theme for this podcast is about the ARTS, something that I was previously insanely active in, where all my available time was only for music rehearsals, performances and practice (i'm not exaggerating..).   

Elvia's expertise is in arts management and she's currently the General Manager and Dingyi Music Company. She previously worked at the National Arts Council and graduated from the Singapore Management University - she also founded the Singapore Management University Chinese Orchestra during her undergraduate days!  I feel that there's really a lot more awareness and appreciation that can be raised for arts managers because they play a very critical role into making arts happen - whether if its live performances, arts workshops or engagement programmes, no arts can survive without arts managers. This podcast is dedicated to raising that awareness, even if its just a little bit, to hopefully inspire those individuals who are interested in the arts and may not be artists themselves.   

On another note, Elvia has changed my life to a certain extent as it was in my first interactions with her that I found the joy of creating - the process of creating something out of nothing and the power of making ideas happen - whether that's in the form of writing proposals to organise concerts, all the way to just making ideas realities; I've been addicted to creating things since then, but yet fall-short on the ability to sustain ideas and it's definitely an important take away that I had from this podcast.   Hope this podcast will be useful to all aspiring artists and arts managers :)