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While studying in the United Kingdom, Yeoh participated in:
the Aberystwyth Music Festival
the Edinburgh Festival
the Aberdeen Music Festival

She also played an active role with the Sorrel Quartet during the Leeds Annual Music Festival in 1999. After returning to Malaysia, Yeoh participated in the Asian Youth Orchestra (2000), travelling to Vietnam, Japan, Australia, Korea and Hong Kong.

In 2002, she performed alongside Jacky Cheung in his “Music Odyssey Tour 2002/2003″, covering over 40 concerts around the world. Her tour with Jacky Cheung included performances in Malaysia, Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan, China, Taiwan, Brunei, U.S., UK and Canada.

In 2003, she performed with David Tao in his “Soul Power Tour 2003″, touring Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore and Taiwan.

In 2003, she wrote a book entitled Music in a Multidisplinary Context: Writings on Various Aspects of Music Studies, published by Universiti Putra Malaysia Press, Serdang. She has also given a number of public lectures on music, that include:
The Benefits and Limitations of Using Scientific Approaches in The Study of Musical Performance (2000).
Do Women Need Their Own Musicology? (2001)
Methods of Overcoming Anxiety in Music Performance (2003)
Are You A Victim of Performance Anxiety? An Expose On Performance Anxiety (2003)
Is Music Just A Form of Entertainment?’ Discover The Hidden Powers of Music (2004)

In 2004, she released her debut album entitled, Joanne Yeoh: Pulse of a Metropolis, comprising nine English songs and one Malay song. In the same year, she was selected as the honoree for “The Outstanding Young Malaysian Award (2004)”, for the category of “Personal Improvement and Accomplishment”.

Yeoh lectures at the Music Department of Universiti Putra Malaysia and is part of a panel of international examiners for Trinity Guildhall London.

Yeoh had her high school education at Sekolah Menengah Subang Jaya from 1990 till 1994. She obtained a Bachelor of Arts (1st Class Honors) from Middlesex University, United Kingdom in 1998 and was subsequently awarded a Luther and Ernest Gaunt Scholarship for Strings to study at the University of Leeds. During her study there, she was also chosen to receive a Foreign and Commonwealth Office Scholarship, in association with the British Council and the University of Leeds. She completed her Masters in Music Performance (MMus) in 1999.

Joanne is a Fellow of Trinity College, UK (Piano), as well as, a Fellow of Trinity College, UK (Violin).

Joanne Yeoh (born 28th April 1977) is a Malaysian violinist who has performed worldwide. In 2004, she was selected as the honoree for The Outstanding Young Malaysian Award for the category, “Personal Improvement and Accomplishment”.

Laura Willoughby MBE, (born 27 May 1974 in Chard, Somerset) is a Liberal Democrat politician. She is currently a councillor on Islington Council in London and was the parliamentary candidate in the May 2005 general election for the Liberal Democrats in the Islington North constituency where she lives. She previously stood for the seat in the June 2001 general election.

Willoughby was Chief Executive of The Food Chain, a London-based HIV charity, between 2005 and November 2007.

Prior to becoming a councillor, Willoughby has worked among other things as a press officer with Stonewall (1999-2000) and as a press and parliamentary officer with YMCA England (2000-2002). While a student she volunteered to work in former party leader Paddy Ashdown’s constituency office. She has a BSc in Communications and Media Studies from Loughborough University and a DipPD in Voluntary Sector Management from Middlesex University.

The Queen’s Birthday Honours list in June 2005, recognises Laura’s service to the community in Islington and across Greater London, and appointed her an MBE[1].

Notorious for going knicker-less, she caused a stir in 1992 when she came to collect the OBE,

Ben Westwood, son of Vivienne and Derek Westwood, is a photographer of erotica.
Joseph Corre, son of Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren, founder of lingerie brand Agent Provocateur.

In 2007 Glossopdale Community College named one of its newly created houses, Westwood, after Vivienne. Westwood accepted a DBE in the 2006 New Year’s Honours List for services to fashion, and has thrice earned the award for British Designer of the Year. On a more personal level, Westwood is the godmother of highfashion model and socialite lady Elissa Spencer-Wilhelmsen Ainsworth, and was the one who discovered designer Rosamund Lodge-Ainsworth who happens to be Lady Elissa’s sister in law, after marrying lord Philip Spencer-Wilhelmsen Ainsworth. Westwood designed the wedding dress together with the bride, and attended the wedding along with her sons like normal guests.

Westwood is also widely known as a political activist. On Easter Sunday 2008, she campaigned in person at the biggest Campaign for Nuclear disarmament demonstration in ten years, at the Atomic Weapons Establishment, Aldermaston in Berkshire, UK.[2]

In September 2005, Westwood joined forces with the British civil rights group Liberty and launched exclusive limited design T-shirts and baby wear bearing the slogan I AM NOT A TERRORIST, please don’t arrest me. Westwood said she was supporting the campaign and defending habeas corpus. “When I was a schoolgirl my history teacher, Mr. Scott, began to take classes in civic affairs. The first thing he explained to us was the fundamental rule of law embodied in habeas corpus. He spoke with pride of civilisation and democracy. The hatred of arbitrary arrest by the lettres de cachet of the French monarchy caused the storming of the Bastille. We can only take democracy for granted if we insist on our liberty”, she said.[3] The sale of the £50 T-shirts raised funds for the organisation. Dame Vivienne has recently stated on television that she has transferred her long standing support for the Labour Party to the Conservative Party, over the issues of civil liberties and human rights.[4]

Throughout her career, Westwood has been influential in launching the careers of other designers into the British fashion industry. Most notably, she employed the services of Patrick Cox to design shoes for her Clint Eastwood collection in 1984. The result was a prototype of the nine inch heeled shoes in which supermodel Naomi Campbell famously fell during a Westwood fashion show in Paris in 1994.

In May 2006, Westwood wrote a poem and provided personal photographs eulogising Swallows Wood, a Nature Reserve near Tintwistle where she was born and grew up. The Reserve is threatened with destruction by the construction of the Longdendale Bypass.

The first major retrospective of her work was shown in 2004–5 at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and the National Gallery of Australia. The exhibition was made up of around 145 complete outfits, grouped into the themes, from the early 1970s to the present day, drawn from her own personal archive and the V&A’s extensive collection. They range from early punk garments to glamorous “historical” evening gowns. The retrospective is touring the world and is set to continue until 2008.

Her Autumn/Winter 2005/06 Propaganda Collection drew inspiration from her archive, reinterpreting designs using Wolford’s exclusive knitting technology, who she has worked in close collaboration with since 2003. In 2006, collaborated with Nine West. These shoes are not designed directly by Westwood, however, the Nine West brand name shares its label with Westwood. Her hats for Gold Label and MAN are created by Prudence Millinery for Vivienne Westwood.

In December 2003, she and the Wedgwood pottery company launched a series of tea sets featuring her designs.