YiLing holds her bachelor degree from Birmingham Conservatoire (UK) as vocal and operatic performance singer and completed master degree at the Kodály Institute of Franz Liszt Academy of Music (Hungary) as Kodály expert in music education. YiLing’s international operatic performance career and as Kodaly Expert brought her to many cities for concert as well as international workshops as speaker.
She has been invited to major cities of the United Kingdom, Hungary, Australia, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Indonesia, China, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia & Malaysia. She sang in many venues as soloist/opera singer. Among her prestigious appearance are a concert with Princess Galyani Foundation in Bangkok with the royal presence of H.R.H Princess Soamsawali of Thailand, special concert for Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra (MPO), Opera Siam, the 60th anniversary of the founding treaty of the European Union, Embassy of America, Embassy of Malaysia, Embassy of Czech,
and Embassy of Russia.
She received excellent review from several press of her unique rich and warm middle register, as “wine-under-the-moon-like silvery sky”.
Her operatic role inclusive of Lay Sister in Puccini’s “Suor Angelica” (2013), Kate Julian in Britten’s “Owen Wingrave” (2013), Ravel’s Scheherazade (2014), Surya in Somtow Sucharitkul’s opera premiere “Das Jati” (2016), 3rd Lady in Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” (2017 & 2019), 3rd Wood Sprite in Dvořák's “Rusalka” (2017), Cherubino in Mozart’s “Le Nozze di Figaro” (2017), Hansel in Humperdinck’s “Hansel & Gretel” (2018), Kate Pinkerton in Puccini’s “Madame Butterfly” (2018), Flora Bervoix in Verdi’s “La Traviata” (2019), and as Elle in Poulenc’s solo opera “La Voix Humaine” (2022) and the title rile in Bizet’s “Carmen”.
YiLing is currently a music lecturer at Universiti Teknologi MARA.