Batu Pahat : Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM) was held their first royal concert to celebrate the 20th UTHM anniversary. The concert was accompanied by orchestra team from National University of Singapore (NUS) together with UTHM combo. The concert was participated by one of Malaysia’s foremost music director Datuk Johari Salleh and the event become more exciting with present of popular singer Anuar Zain and Alyah.
The wife of the Sultan of Johor, Tuanku Raja Zarith Sofiah Sultan Idris Shah, who was awarded an honorary doctorate at the university's 7th convocation ceremony in 2008, has been the guest-of-honour.
Seventy-six members of NUS's symphony orchestra have collaborated with musicians from UTHM and Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM). The concert has been held at the Konvokesyen UTHM which can accommodate 3,000 people. Students and staff that came to event wore formal attire showing elegant side of UTHM community.
The concept of the symphony orchestra has been a major heart rhythm this concert also giving the prestige of the concert was in line with the maturity age UTHM two decades that has produced more than 20 thousand graduates so far. This concert was recorded their own history to Batu Pahat District for the first time symphony orchestra performances in this area. As a sign of closer ties with the people of Batu Pahat with UTHM, the district leaders and community leaders also have been invited to campus as part of the jubilee celebrations.
In conjunction with this concert, both of university had a student mobility program involving UTHM and NUS students also conducted. 76 NUS students were led to the two villages around Parit Raja to visit and taste traditional Malay village life there. Meanwhile, a total of 1,000 course of their study was to Singapore for a visit at NUS scientific and certain selected location there.
When interviewed, student said the concert was