About Us
Golden Microphone’s eloquence and traditional Chinese culture courses help students unlock their potential through engaging, interactive learning that develops voice and stage presence. The training nurtures confidence and transforms shy learners into expressive and confident individuals. Through speech, debate, recitation, presentation, drama, opera, singing, dance, and traditional folk arts, students gain a deep appreciation of Chinese culture and the beauty of the language, while building fluent and versatile communication skills. The program has also nurtured hundreds of award-winning students, including national champions, runners-up, and recipients of gold, silver, bronze, and excellence awards in storytelling, speech, recitation, and debate competitions, and has been widely featured in media coverage.
Our tuition courses have consistently helped students achieve strong results in the PSLE and O-Level examinations. Many students continue their learning journey with us from primary to secondary school. These lasting relationships between students, parents, and the centre are at the heart of Golden Microphone and define our core values.
Additionally, the centre has been invited to deliver specialised teaching programmes for PSLE reading comprehension, oral exams, and composition in various primary and secondary schools, as well as O-Level Chinese reading comprehension and oral exam preparation courses. These initiatives help students strengthen their exam techniques and have been well-received from schools and learners alike.
Our Principals
Ms. Liu Chang
Teacher Liu Chang is the founder and principal of Golden Microphone Learning Center. With 35 years of experience in front-line teaching and training, she is well-versed in child psychology and has unique methods for children's elocution and performing arts training. She is skilled at discovering students' potential, stimulating their interest, and changing children's timid personality, and is deeply loved by students and parents.
Teacher Liu Chang is a multiple champion mentor in national competitions for primary and secondary school students in Singapore, including Chinese storytelling, speech, text recitation, and crosstalk. Since coaching her first student to win a championship in 2005, she has coached hundreds of students to win numerous awards; in the past decade, she has coached nearly 300 students to win championships, runners-up, third-place finishes, and various other awards in the aforementioned national competitions.
Ms. Liu Chang has conducted courses and lectures in speech, recitation, storytelling, performing arts CCA, PSLE preparation, and O-Level Chinese oral examination sprint programmes in nearly 30 government primary and secondary schools over the past 20 years. She has also coached school teams to multiple top-three finishes in national competitions. Many of her champion students have been featured in major media outlets, including Lianhe Zaobao, The Straits Times, Thumbs Up, Mediacorp’s “Singapore Today 6:30”, CAPITAL 958 and 96.3 好 FM.
Ms. Liu Chang is a registered senior public speaking coach, drama instructor, and Chinese language teacher with Singapore’s Ministry of Education, and also a public speaking and performing arts instructor with the Singapore People’s Association. She is a former Class One Teacher and Model Teacher in China.
She has received multiple awards in teaching and arts competitions organised by the Chinese Ministry of Education and Ministry of Culture, and has coached children’s troupes featured in numerous major television productions, including two CCTV-17 Mid-Autumn Festival Galas.
Ms. Liu's students' poetry recitation, song and dance drama programs have been invited to participate in dozens of large-scale cultural performances in Singapore. She is the general director of the "First Youth Poetry and Culture Arts Festival and the Second Singapore Poetry Spring Festival" and the "Lion City Children's Chinese Arts Festival". She is also the executive director of "Lion City Children's Four Great Classical Novels" and "Sixty Years of Singapore Children's Original Drama Showcase". She has devoted herself to creating high-quality programs and leading students to participate in community and charity performances, broadening their horizons and cultivating their sense of social responsibility while practicing on stage, so as to contribute to public welfare and charity.
Mr. Zhu Ning
Mr. Zhu Ning is the founder of the Golden Microphone Learning Centre and has more than 30 years of experience as a professional host and emcee.Hehas received numerous personal honorary awards in China. He is the recipient of the China Radio and Television Golden Microphone Award, has been named one of the first "Top Ten Hosts" of China's city radio, and has won first prize in the China Good News Awards.
In Singapore, Mr. Zhu achieved a Grand Slam in multiple speech competitions at the International Speech Contest. His accolades include the first National Humorous Speech Champion, the Champion of the Singapore International Speech Contest, and the Champion of the inaugural Lianhe Zaobao Singapore Chinese Speech Open.
Beyond his own achievements, Mr. Zhu has made a significant impact as a coach in primary and secondary schools. He has guided numerous students to top-three finishes in the Singapore National Chinese Speech and Storytelling Competition and has coached renowned schools to multiple victories in the National Secondary School Bilingual Debate Championship.CounselingNeighborhood Middle School won the Best Charm Award in the competition.And was interviewed by "8 World"; also tutoredNeighborhood Middle School won the second place in the same bilingual debate competition.
Zhu Ning has conducted speech, debate, hosting, and young journalist classes at over 20 local primary and secondary schools. She has mentored students from prestigious and neighborhood schools to win first and second place in the Singapore National Debating Team and has trained four young people to become professional radio hosts in China. Zhu Ning has also served as a featured host on MediaCorp Radio's 958 City Channel and Love972.
Our Creative Arts Consultant
Professor Chua Soo Pong
Professor Cai Shupeng is the founding dean of the Singapore Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts. He studied dance and music from a young age, participating in theatrical activities at Hwa Chong Institution and its alumni association. At 19, he became the head of the dance and art groups in the children's theatre troupe. He choreographed and directed numerous works in the children's theatre troupe and later the youth theatre troupe, many of which were broadcast on the radio or performed on stage. In 1989, recommended by the Singapore Ministry of Social Development, Professor Cai was appointed as the first Senior Performing Arts Specialist at the Southeast Asian Archaeology and Art Centre under the Southeast Asian Education Ministers' Organization, thus launching his career on the Southeast Asian stage. Professor Cai is also a theatre and dance critic, invited to serve as a judge in international theatre, dance, and puppetry competitions held in over a dozen countries including the US, China, Japan, South Korea, Indonesia, and Malaysia. In 2021, Professor Cai met Ms. Liu Chang, continuing the tradition of spreading Yangzhou opera in Singapore and serving as her special artistic advisor.
Our Stars
Zhu Zeliang
Zhu Zeliang is currently a DJ at YES933 radio station in Singapore. In 2005, Zeliang won his first championship in the Mediacorp Children's Talent Competition. In 2008, he participated in the 4th National Primary School Students' Mandarin Storytelling Competition, winning the championship and being featured in Lianhe Zaobao. He was also the first national champion trained by the Golden Microphone Learning Center. Even during his student years, Zeliang displayed talent in storytelling, drama performance, and public speaking, consistently placing in the top three. His radio career officially began in 2016 with the radio show "Finding New Voices." After winning the championship, he joined the top pop music radio station YES 933 as a part-time DJ, hosting programs such as "Weekend Players" and "New Star Whispers." Four years later, in 2021, Zeliang officially joined YES 933's evening program "YEAH Never Closes." Zeliang serves as a bilingual host for numerous events and has also ventured into television dramas, variety shows, travel programs, and web dramas, developing a multi-faceted career. From 2023 to 2025, Ze Liang was nominated for the Star Awards' Most Popular Potential Star. In 2025, Ze Liang was nominated for the Star Awards' Best Radio Program Host in the Professional category. In 2026, Ze Liang and his program received four Star Awards nominations, including the Best Radio Program Host in the Professional category.
Meera
Meera is the first Indian student at the Golden Microphone Learning Centre. She has been studying under Ms. Liu since first grade. Under Ms. Liu's meticulous guidance, Meera has won numerous awards, including third place in the National Primary School Mandarin Storytelling Competition and first place in the National Secondary School Speech Competition. In 2017, Meera, in a team with contestants from China, won first prize in the Singapore "Global Village" Bilingual Speech Competition and first place in the YMCA Mandarin Speech Competition. She has been featured multiple times in newspapers such as *Lianhe Zaobao* and *The Straits Times*. In March 2019, Ms. Liu mentored Meera and two teammates from China to win the highest award at the Global Youth Speech Festival held in Beijing, which was also reported by Chinese media.
