It’s been nearly a year since their successful recital ‘Could this be death?’ last year (read review here), and this time, soprano Cheryl Lee Peixin and pianist Wong Yun Qi have something up their sleeves again, promising to be just as amazing as their recital before. Better still, it’s absolutely…
Nicholas Loh is one of the most unassuming and talented pianists today, and he attributes that to looking more ‘like the guy who comes to fix aircons or replace empty gas canisters instead’. He has been the featured young virtuoso in the Singapore International Piano Festival in 2009, and has…
Next week sees an exciting week of chamber music happening at the Esplanade Recital Studio, with a selection of rarely/never-heard quintets by Nordic composers, fusion jazz/anime/film music, and contemporary music. Plink, Plonk, Plunk picks: don’t miss out on these three concerts! 24 May 2015 – Take 5 Piano Quintet: Northern…
Imagine an earth of the future, one so polluted that man cannot live on it anymore. To survive, man took to the skies. After all, the sky’s the limit, isn’t it? They built sky-cities to live in, but the pollution continued. It continued so badly that the skies were almost…
They’re back again! The Philharmonic Orchestra is having their New Year’s Eve Countdown Concert yet again, so if you don’t want to be jostling with the crowds at Siloso Beach or around the Esplanade, then why not join TPO in the classiest way to spend the countdown? Programme: 1) Strauss-…
92steel&guts presents THE WAY NORTH Sunday, 4th January 2015 || 4:30pm – 6:15pm (incl. Intermission) Esplanade Recital Studio Free Admission || Donations welcomed, post-concert ___________________________________________________________________ Gelato and pizza by the Leaning Tower, a scorching 40°C; Star-gazing under the Aurora Borealis at a freezing –40°C. Mamma-mia! Basta! ; Uff da! Så…
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…
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…
Singapore turns 49 in less than a week! In celebration of our national day, Plink Plonk Plunk takes a look at what three of Singapore’s ensembles offer: No new NDP theme song this year? There’s still a new song: “It’s Here, I’ll Stay” was written by local conductor/composer Kah Chun…
You’ve heard of a double- or a triple-bill, but what about a quadruple one? Chamber Sounds, a contemporary music ensemble of composers and musicians, is presenting four chamber operas in a single concert. Composers featured are from various countries, and the operas cover themes from shoe-shopping to the poetry of…