Winner of the 2005 Cameronian Arts Awards for Malaysia’s Most Promising Artist Award and Best Original Composition in 2005 and 2003, in 2014 she was also featured in the ‘Top 10 of Asia’ list of the New Generation Music Composers.
Graduating from the Eastman School of Music, USA, Adeline received a scholarship for postgraduate studies at the Royal College of Music London, where she was awarded the Cobbett and Hurlstone Composition Prize. Composition teachers have included, Joseph Schwanter, Christopher Rouse, David Liptak, Augusta Read Thomas and Edwin Roxburgh.
Adeline is currently the President of the Malaysian Composers Collective, a platform that promotes Malaysian contemporary classical music at home and abroad. In 2019 she was the artistic director of the Free Hand Festival – 1st Malaysian Contemporary Composers Piano Festival 2019 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Following the festival’s success, Adeline together with the Malaysia Composers Collective was responsible for curating the nation’s first ever anthology of 21st Century piano scores, published as Free Hand Anthology I and distributed by Faber Music internationally.
