Classical music

Turning 20, Singaporean violinist Chloe Chua wants to bid goodbye to her ‘childish self’

Singaporean violinist Chloe Chua, 19, is on her biggest soloist gig yet – a seven-city China tour with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra that she confesses has been intense.

Can Finnish maestro Hannu Lintu forge a uniquely Singaporean sound for the SSO?

Finnish maestro Hannu Lintu, the Singapore Symphony Orchestra’s new music director, is leading the SSO in a seven-city China tour that is close to sold out.

Concert review

Transcriptions centre voices and cellos in two enjoyable concerts

Concert review

National Taiwan Symphony returns with pleasing programme including S’pore composers and musicians

Singers Maggie Lu Pei Yun, Teng Xiang Ting and Joyce Tung Lee performing with the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra.

Concert review

SSO delivers impressive sampler of programme for upcoming China tour

Violinists Chloe Chua and He Ziyu played Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante in E flat major (K.364) for violin and viola with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Hannu Lintu.

Concert review

Superstar Augustin Hadelich delivers elegantly suave Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto with SSO and triumphant solo recital

Violinist Augustin Hadelich performed with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of conductor Pierre Bleuse.

Concert review

SSO demonstrates growth with performance of Shostakovich’s epic Fourth Symphony

Members of the Singapore Symphony Children’s Chorus performed Arvo Part’s Our Garden.

Concert review

Shi Jia Ao, Natasha Da Costa and Kaelyn Soh shine at President’s Young Performers Concert

Kaelyn Soh drew a standing ovation for her performance.

BookTalk

Violinist Joy Yong reads in Chinese to train her attention span

Musician Joy Yong performs the music in the award-winning The Violinist animated feature.

Art or community work? Arts groups defy definitions by moving into Punggol, Lengkok Bahru, Ubin

Artists Woong Soak Teng and Genevieve Ang in Hoseh Global minimart in Punggol.

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