Ahmad Aliff has been playing and performing music since his schoolboy days. Growing up mostly in Penang, his formative music years were spent in his school's marching band, as a violinist for a traditional dance troupe in Jabatan Kebudayaan dan Kesenian Negara Pulau Pinang, and in the Penang Symphony Orchestra. He later became a founding member of the Malaysian Philharmonic Youth Orchestra.

Even before graduating with an honours degree in music performance at the top of his class, Aliff was racking up experience as a paid performer in the industry, a violin teacher, and a coach for school orchestras. He left his government job as a tutti violinist in a local broadcast orchestra to pursue his musical goals. The culmination of both his desire for knowledge and interest in conducting saw him attend a Symphonic Conducting Master Course in Moscow with Professor Vladimir Ponkin in 2017.

Prior to being married, Aliff and Rini created a brand called Cerita Muzik, starting out as music service providers but with the real goal of spreading the art, culture, and values that come from doing good music. Under Cerita Muzik, they managed to organise a total of seven orchestra and chamber concerts over three years, which were all completely independent and self-funded.

Now, the husband-and-wife team continues to be full-time musicians who wish to keep collaborating with like-minded people to promote a higher standard of living through music. At worst, their musical activities have provided a meeting place for budding couples who are now busy being young parents.

Dr. “Andre” Ng Hong Liang is a graduate of the Doctor of Musical Arts in Collaborative Piano Performance at North Dakota State University, Challey School of Music. He is a passionate pianist who enjoys working collaboratively with other musicians. As a collaborative pianist, he involved himself in many forms of collaborative recitals and competitions, from working with university students to professional musicians.

As an opera lover, Ng involved himself in various opera productions in NDSU Opera and Fargo-Moorhead Opera as a répétiteur and a rehearsal pianist. He was involved in productions such as Lee Hoiby’s Bon Appétit!, Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro, Handel's Giulio Cesare, Jack Heggie's Three Decembers, and Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel. Recent involvement was being the assistant music director for NDSU’s production of Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte in February 2023. Ng joined various music festivals to improve his craftmanship further and share his love of music-making. He was recently involved with MN SourceSong Festival as MNDuo in 2022. He was also involved in several NDSU's Chamber Music Festivals and collaborated with world-renowned performers such as violinist Grace Park, cellist Paul Wiancko, cellist Collin Carr, and mezzo-soprano Clara Osowski. He was a piano fellow at Bay View Music Festival in 2019 for their mainstage opera production, Mozart's Die Zauberflöte and the performance keyboardist for the musical West Side Story. He was also an alum of MN SongSource Festival in 2016 as MNDuo. Ng earned his master's degree with an Outstanding Award from Middle Tennessee State University and Bachelor's degree from UCSI University in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Ng is also a holder of ATCL and LTCL certificates from the Trinity College London, Malaysia.

Ng is a pianist who is passionate about teaching music, not only sharing universe of musical creativity, but it builds wonderful personalities through learning music. Before leaving the United States in 2023, he was involved in a workshop series with three other professional singers called The Every Person’s Guide to Opera, with the purpose of educating public school students from the remote places about classical singing and the culture of the opera. Coming back in Malaysia, Ng did a workshop/recital with a renowned mezzo-soprano Chaing YiLing in a jazz bar, sharing the culture of musical salon and cabaret. Ng is currently a part-time music lecturer in Sunway University, a freelance pianist, and a chorister in Lollapalooza Singers.

Our lives changed after learning and performing art music. It turned us into discerning listeners, made our minds sharp, broadened our perspectives through meeting different people and discovering different places, and made our lives more colourful. We are truly blessed by all the experience we have gained. We hope that through our performances and events, we can inspire others and remind people of the beautiful things in life.

If you like what we do and want to contribute to our cause, please make your donations to the account as detailed below. Your contributions help us keep the lights on and make future events possible. Thank you for your generosity!