Young cellist Lau Yun Xi is one to look out for. At 15, she is one of the best cellists in the SNYO, and she was one of three cellists selected to fly to London for a week to be mentored under British award-winning cellist Natalie Clein. In the…
Apologies for the long hiatus, there have been a few log-in and password issues, but everything’s back and running – and just in time too, for the upcoming LANXESS-SNYO concert happening at the Esplanade Concert Hall on Thursday evening. As a lead-up to the concert, Plink, Plonk, Plunk gets in…
An edited version of this review will be published in The Straits Times on 27 Oct 2014. The Merry Widow Singapore Lyric Opera Esplanade Theatre Friday, 24th October Since gender stereotyping has come under intense media scrutiny of late, the Singapore Lyric Opera’s production of Franz Lehar’s The Merry Widow…
So… when did Vadim Repin first perform in Singapore? He first performed in Singapore at the Singapore Festival of Arts in 1996 at Victoria Concert Hall, as shown by a search on NewspaperSG. He has subsequently returned multiple times in the next few years, including the year 2000, and the…
If paintings were songs, what would they sound like? Would their colours be harmonies; would their subjects be tempo markings? Join The Philharmonic Orchestra in exploring the picturesque music of Debussy in their next concert‘Debussy Tonight’ on October 26th! This concert is a continuation of their popular educational concert series…
Award-winning violinist Vadim Repin will be in Singapore to perform at an exclusive one-night only gala concert, Synergy in Music, this 28 October 2014 at the Victoria Theatre and Concert Hall. Repin will be performing at Synergy in Music together with six other Russian musical talents, where they will be…
It was on the 5th of January last year that I went to watch Stephen Hough play a programme of Chopin, Brahms, Schumann, and a work of his own at a church in Harrogate. Christmas and the New Year had come and gone, but our university had remained shut, leaving…
Antipodes: Having the feet opposite.Anti: against, opposite+opus; pod: foot. As a child living on the other side of the world, flautist Roberto Álvarez often wondered, ‘if you dig a hole straight down through the Earth, will you end up in New Zealand?’ And since New Zealand is on the other…
An edited version of this article was published in The Straits Times with the title ‘Classical music reaching out’. PLAY! by More than Music Loh Jun Hong and Gabriel Ng, violin, Abigail Sin, piano Esplanade Recital StudioTuesday More than Music’s approach of making classical music more accessible to public seems…
An edited version of this review will be published in The Straits Times on 9 September 2014. Listen to the 20th Century Southbank Centre, London Sinfonietta, YST Orchestra SOTA Concert Hall 5-7 September 2014 Day two of mini-festival Listen to the 20th Century presented by the London Sinfonietta and Southbank…