Founder of Medan Music School
Mrs. Sce Yin Lemye - Tjong
1912 - 2012
Mrs. Sce Yin Lemye-Tjong was born in Medan on
June 11th, 1912 as the fifth child of Tjong A Fie and Lim Koei Yap. Her first encounter
with music was at the age of 3 and she started to take piano lessons from Mrs. De Veer
and Mrs. Wilke in Medan at the age of 7. In 1926, she went to study at the Geneva
Conservatoire of Music in Switzerland, for 8 years. She was the first Asian to receive many
awards in Geneva, Switzerland. In 1934, she gave her first piano concert in Singapore.
In 1948, Mrs. S. Y. Lemye-Tjong started to pioneer her music school by opening Solfeggio and Piano classes in Tjong A Fie Mansion.
It started with a few students and private classes, which attracted the attention of Medan’s society.
She decided to establish a music school in 1950. With all her ideas and vision,
on March 27th, 1950 Medan Music School was established by Mrs. S. Y. Lemye-Tjong and it was the first music school for Western classical music in Indonesia
In 1967, the name Medan Music School was changed into Sekolah Musik Murni (SMM); in 1977 it
became Lembaga Musik Murni (LMM) and then in 2011 it became Sumatra Conservatoire.
The vision and mission of Sumatra Conservatoire aims to raise appreciation for Western classical
music in Indonesia in an international standard school. The curriculum will be developed to a
college level standard, and the school will foster the formation of the Sumatra Symphony
Orchestra.
Since its establishment, the school has produced qualified students and teachers and thus has
become very well known in the music world both nationally and internationally. Sumatra
Conservatoire also actively cooperates with institutions abroad.
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