As A Teacher
As a Teacher
In 1987, Flavia opened her own music studio, the Atelier de Musique - 'Music Studio' in French - in Petaling Jaya, a suburban town skirting Kuala Lumpur. Initially she taught students seeking the Licentiate music diplomas from London. While training student teachers she turned her focus towards how children were taught music. In doing so, Flavia developed her own ideas of teaching methods.
With some of the students at the Atelier de Musique and Ms. Doreen Yeoh, a diploma student who became Flavia’s assistant teacher.
With some of the students at the Atelier de Musique and Ms. Doreen Yeoh, a diploma student who became Flavia’s assistant teacher.
Subsequently, Flavia has taught a large number of students, of all levels and grades in music, some even hailing from Sarawak and Indonesia. There were students who successfully obtained the Performing and Teaching Licentiate Diplomas of the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music, ABRSM, and the Trinity College of Music, London. Three of her diploma students who obtained outstanding results in the Performing Licentiate examinations, LRSM, were recipients of full scholarships to study music at the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal College of Music in London. Others went on to include music academically in universities in Canada and Australia.




Winston Ee was Flavia’s first student after her return home from Paris. He was her first Diploma student who was awarded a music scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music in London.
Winston Ee was Flavia’s first student after her return home from Paris. He was her first Diploma student who was awarded a music scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music in London.
Other students went on to pursue music degrees in Australia, Canada and the U.S.A. Another student, Muzaffar Abdullah became a concert pianist and currently resides in Paris.
While working with diploma-level students, Flavia was invited to Hong Kong to conduct a ten-day seminar of masterclasses and workshops co-jointly with two other professors. The seminar was based on the diploma exam syllabus of the London Trinity College of Music.
Activities organised at and by the Atelier de Musique have been students' concerts, audio-visual talks on History of Music, together with a visiting American Professor of Music, Dr. Marcia Anderson, audio-visual talks on composers' lives, especially after the cultural award trips to Austria and Norway, a piano and violin masterclass seminar and some chamber music concerts as well.

With Dr. Marcia Anderson seen seated holding her clarinet. The student next to her, Loke Tuck May, was one of the three scholarship students who studied music in London.

For the concert season 2006-2007, at the Dewan Filharmonik Petronas, DFP, in Kuala Lumpur, Flavia conducted two events for the Outreach Education Programme at the DFP.
Using slides which Flavia took on her first Cultural Award to Norway, this was an educational talk about Edvard Grieg. It was attended by the late Norwegian Ambassador, Arild Braastad and his wife.
This was a fun project for children to make music ‘shakers’ using recycled drink cans which the children decorated themselves.
In 2002, Flavia was invited to present her teaching ideas at the Genesis Creative Arts Camp at the National University of Singapore, NUS. 
In July 2005, she was one of the Speakers at the 7th Australasian Pedagogy Conference at the University of Adelaide, South Australia where she presented her ideas on her method of teaching young children. It met with success in Adelaide.
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