The concerts included in this section are supplementary to those in the afterEight Series, by Magnetic Band or SYC Ensemble Singers.
The over-riding artistic vision for the Magnetic Band is a focus on the here and now, on promoting contemporary music and the work of living composers. Now, the Band launches a landmark composition competition. They are inviting composers to participate in “Site-things”, through a call for scores written for and in response to the home of the Band – the YMS Arts Centre – and its inhabitants.
For more information and the competition brochure, please write to magneticband@yms.org.sg or click here.
This year the SYC is 45. We celebrated this with friends around the world, in a three-choir festival in Japan, in a concert with an Australian choir, with other local choirs in a tribute to pioneer Singapore composer Leong Yoon Pin, and on song-duty at the National Citizenship Ceremony.
We close the year with a special concert at the Esplanade Concert Hall on 13 December, with special musicians on stage. We have Vytautas Miškinis (from Lithuania, land of choral giants) to direct the SYC Ensemble Singers in an evening of music from the Baltic states, and also local jazz musicians Tamagoh and Tony Makarome to premiere a work for choir, jazz trio and additional piano, the “Light Mass” (by Miškinis himself). We are privileged to have such luminaries as our friends, on stage with us.
Share this extraordinary celebration with us.
Tickets are now on sale from SISTIC.
SYCES website: www.syc.org.sg
In addition to the concerts listed in this Features section, YMS has also served as Secretariat for the following events :
A Concert of Royal Compositions
On the Occasion of the 60th Anniversary Celebrations
of His Majesty's Accession to the Throne
by the Bangkok Symphony Orchestra
Sunday 8th October 2006, 8pm, Victoria Concert Hall
Featuring compositions of His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej (Thailand) rearranged in classical style by Privy Councillor and National Artist, His Excellency Rear Admiral Mom Luang Usni Pramoj, conductor of the BSO.
Singapore-Japan International Exchange Composers Concert
Thursday 31 March 2005, 8pm, Victoria Concert Hall
Featuring compositions by :
Singapore : Leong Yoon Pin, Phoon Yew Tien, Goh Toh Chai
Japan : Kentaro Shimizu, Michiharu Matsunaga, Motoki Takeda
1st Singapore Chamber Music Festival
26th - 31st August 2003, Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay
A series of Concerts and Masterclasses focused on Chamber Music with the aim to increase awareness and appreciation of this genre.
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