SSO/Singapore Symphony Orchestra

Concert review

Singapore composer Joyce Koh’s new work gives Earth its due amid Holst’s Planets

Austrian cellist Julia Hagen distinguished herself with an outsized personality and singing tone.

Concert review

SSO under baton of Kolja Blacher wins standing ovation for stirring Dvorak’s Ninth

Guest conductor Kolja Blacher led the Singapore Symphony Orchestra in a concert at the Esplanade Concert Hall on Jan 16.

Concert review

SSO and Ding Yi collaborate for mainstream and avant-garde fare

The Singapore Symphony Orchestra teamed up with Ding Yi Music Company for a West meets East programme of new music on Jan 11.

Arts Picks

Tampines ahead of Sengkang, Yishun for MRT poem competition submissions

145 Singapore poems are on panels in MRT trains.

Concert review

Composer Jonathan Shin’s new piano concerto is quintessentially Singaporean

Singaporean pianist Churen Li premiered a new concerto by Singapore composer Jonathan Shin under the baton of Hans Graf.

Hannu Lintu leads SSO in elegant and polished Haydn’s Mass

Conductor Hannu Lintu, incoming music director-designate of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, kept the orchestra on their toes.

Pianist Stephen Hough dazzles with transcendental technique, matched by energised SSO

Pianist Stephen Hough and the Singapore Symphony Orchestra brought down the house on Nov 7 with a scintillating concert.

Opera review: SSO in the pocket with refreshing take on Die Fledermaus operetta

(From left) Flavia Stricker, Jonathan Mark Macpherson and Damian Whiteley in Singapore Symphony Orchestra's Die Fledermaus in a Pocket.

Superstar Mikhail Pletnev demonstrates protean gifts in concert with SSO

This concert proved that his protean gifts as both composer and interpreter remain remarkably undimmed by age.

Concert review: Energy and precision from the SSO; Chloe Chua demonstrates growing maturity

mbchloe23 - Violinist Chloe Chua played with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra on Aug 21 and 22.

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