As Cultural Awardee
To commemorate the Mozart Bicentennial Year in 1991, Flavia was invited as Cultural Awardee for two weeks to Austria, to Salzburg and Vienna. Upon returning to Kuala Lumpur, she gave an all-Mozart recital under the auspices of the Austrian Embassy. She also formed a String Ensemble and a Piano Quartet, performing Mozart's works, for several concerts which continued into 1992 in various places in Kuala Lumpur as well as in Ipoh, a town in the northern state of Perak. It was at this time that Flavia decided to enhance her concert performances using the photographic slides she had taken herself during her visits abroad as Cultural Awardee.
In 1994, Flavia was invited to Norway by the Ambassador of Norway to Malaysia, H.E. Carsten J. Helgeby, where she visited Bergen and Oslo. Upon her return to Kuala Lumpur, she gave an audio-visual concert in Kuala Lumpur under the auspices of the Royal Norwegian Embassy. She also did other concerts and several audio-visual presentations on Edvard Grieg, Norway’s most famous composer, the first one being opened by the Norwegian Ambassador, H.E. Helgeby, at her music studio, the Atelier de Musique.
Three years later, the same Ambassador, H.E. Carsten J. Helgeby, invited Flavia for the second time to Norway as Cultural Awardee. This time the trip took her to Trondheim, to commemorate its Millenium, then to Stavanger, to attend an International Chamber Music Festival. Back home in Kuala Lumpur, she did more concerts and audio-visual presentations under the auspices of the Royal Norwegian Embassy.
Flavia in the countryside of the Hardanger countryside in Norway.