Music Is: Singapore Symphony Orchestra goes onscreen with Shaw Theatres

For the first time in the Singapore Symphony Orchestra’s history, an SSO concert will be screened in cinemas – on 27th and 30th November at Shaw Theatres. The film will be shown at Shaw Theatres Lido 4 in Orchard, on Friday 27th November, followed by a screening at Shaw Theatres Jewel 1 on Monday 30th November. The screening features the orchestra’s concert “Chorus of the … Continue reading Music Is: Singapore Symphony Orchestra goes onscreen with Shaw Theatres

Music Is: SSO announces first live concert with A Little Evening Music at Our Tampines Hub

SSO will be holding its first live concert since rules lifted, at the Festive Arts Theatre, Our Tampines Hub (OTH) on Sunday 22nd November, 5pm. This will be the first SSO concert to take place since restrictions were lifted around live performances on 1st November. A group of four musicians from SSO will perform for an audience of 100. The programme will include classical favourites by Mozart, Beethoven and Dvořák, plus a work … Continue reading Music Is: SSO announces first live concert with A Little Evening Music at Our Tampines Hub

Music Is: Singapore Symphony Orchestra announces newly recorded online concerts, with Chief Conductor Hans Graf

The Singapore Symphony Orchestra’s digital season SSOPlayOn! continues with a trio of online concerts led by its new Chief Conductor, Hans Graf, taking place in November, December and January and streamed on SISTIC Live. On Friday 6th November at 8pm, Hans Graf directs the SSO in a programme pairing Metamorphosen, Richard Strauss’s monumental work for strings, with Mozart’s “Gran Partita” Serenade. The following month, on Friday 4 December, Hans Graf conducts an … Continue reading Music Is: Singapore Symphony Orchestra announces newly recorded online concerts, with Chief Conductor Hans Graf

Music Is: Hitmaker Global Academy launches International Solo & Ensemble Competition 2020

Now in its second year, Hitmaker Global Academy, an advanced teaching methodology contemporary music learning school, has launched the International Solo & Ensemble competition (ISEC) for 2020. Due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, this year’s edition will combine both the Solo and the Ensemble segments and will be conducted online. A total of 750 participants have signed up from the preliminaries organised through online submissions … Continue reading Music Is: Hitmaker Global Academy launches International Solo & Ensemble Competition 2020

Music Is: Singapore Symphony Orchestra set to return to concert halls with a live audience pilot

On 8th October, the public can enjoy a live performance by musicians of the SSO for the first time since arts venues closed in March. The concert of chamber music will feature Haydn’s ‘Emperor’ String Quartet and Tchaikovsky’s Souvenir de Florence in front of an audience of 50 at the Victoria Concert Hall, Home of the SSO. The concert, which is part of SSO’s chamber music series VCHpresents, is one of a … Continue reading Music Is: Singapore Symphony Orchestra set to return to concert halls with a live audience pilot

Music Is: Sing in virtual choirs with the Singapore Symphony Chorus and Singapore Symphony Children’s Choir

The Singapore Symphony Children’s Choir (SSCC) and Singapore Symphony Chorus (SSC) have redesigned three annual events to take place online, in light of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Singapore Symphony Children’s Choir has adapted its annual The SSCC Experience to create a two-day online experience taking place during the school holidays, on Monday 7th & Tuesday 8th September. Participants will get a chance to experience a day in the … Continue reading Music Is: Sing in virtual choirs with the Singapore Symphony Chorus and Singapore Symphony Children’s Choir

Music Is: Singapore Symphony Orchestra back in concert hall for digital productions with Hans Graf and Kahchun Wong

September and October sees the SSO’s digital season, SSOPlayOn! continue with four concerts to be streamed online via SISTIC Live, with highlights including Debussy and Wagner conducted by the brilliant young conductor Kahchun Wong, and the first-ever marimba soloist, Julia Tan, to star in the President’s Young Performers Concert. In addition, tickets are now on sale for Mozart & Stravinsky: Music on the Air, with the SSO’s new Chief Conductor Hans Graf, … Continue reading Music Is: Singapore Symphony Orchestra back in concert hall for digital productions with Hans Graf and Kahchun Wong

Music Is: re:Sound is LIVE this August

Music, like great food, wine and the other pleasures of life, needs to be savoured live! In the first live orchestral concert in Singapore since Singapore’s Covid-19 Circuit Breaker. re:Sound invites you to a live-streamed after-dinner treat of Peter Warlock’s Capriol Suite and Mozart’s Symphony no. 40. Safety is paramount, so the musicians will perform with the aid of microphones and headphones, while maintaining approved … Continue reading Music Is: re:Sound is LIVE this August

Music Is: Melbourne and Singapore Symphony Orchestras unite to celebrate 55-year relationship between two countries

Melbourne and Singapore Symphony Orchestras will come together to celebrate 55 years of diplomatic relations between Australia and Singapore in an uplifting virtual side-by-side performance on Friday, 7th August. In Songs From Home the two orchestras will together perform an original medley of Australian and Singaporean songs. The special performance includes I Am Australian, We Are Singapore, Home, Waltzing Matilda, Click Go The Shears and Chan Mali Chan, led by … Continue reading Music Is: Melbourne and Singapore Symphony Orchestras unite to celebrate 55-year relationship between two countries

Music Is: Singapore Symphony Orchestra announces three digital concerts for August

The Singapore Symphony Orchestra has announced three online concerts set to take place in August, including the orchestra’s SSO National Day Concert. SSO’s annual showcase of Singapore music and national songs, the National Day Concert, will take place as scheduled on Saturday 15th August, but streamed on SISTIC Live due to on-going COVID-19 venue restrictions. This year’s concert will see the SSO premiere works by … Continue reading Music Is: Singapore Symphony Orchestra announces three digital concerts for August