Singapore Symphony Orchestra 2016/17 Season Brochure

LAN SHUI

20

th SSO season

2016/17 season

LAN SHUI Music Director

Singapore Symphony Orchestra 2016/17 season

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SSO Recommends

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Subscription / Gala / Christmas Concerts

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SSO Pops Concerts

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Concerts for Children & Discovering Music!

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SSO Chamber Series

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Booking Information & Ticket Prices

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Free Performances

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Index

Patron President Tony Tan Keng Yam

Board of Directors CHAIRMAN

Mr Goh Yew Lin DEPUTY CHAIRMAN

Ms Yong Ying-I DIRECTORS

Mr Ang Chek Meng Mrs Odile Benjamin Mr Chng Hak-Peng Mr Lionel Choi

Victoria Concert Hall: Home of the SSO Esplanade Concert Hall: Performing Home of the SSO The information in this publication is correct at press time but the SSO reserves the right to change programmes or artists without prior notice.

Prof Arnoud De Meyer Mr Heinrich Grafe Mr Kwee Liong Seen Ms Liew Wei Li Ms Lim Mei Prof Lim Seh Chun Mr Andreas Sohmen-Pao Ms Tan Choo Leng Mr Paul Tan Dr Kelly Tang Mr Yee Chen Fah

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Old Friends. Bookends.

Welcome from the Music Director When the Singapore Symphony Orchestra requested a special year of concerts for 2016/17 because it would be my 20th concert season with them, it brought a smile to my face. My friendship with the SSO as Music Director began on 10 January 1997, and looking back at how far we have come, I feel honoured to be a part of this amazing SSO family.

There is no better way to celebrate a journey than by welcoming back friends old and new – Charles Dutoit, Andrew Litton, Robert Spano, Yu Long, Masaaki Suzuki, Gil Shaham, Wang Jian, Frank Peter Zimmermann, Renaud Capuçon, and Kam Ning. We are also thrilled that two of classical music’s superstars, Yo-Yo Ma and Gustavo Dudamel, will share the stage with our orchestra.

We also welcome back our dearest friend Okko Kamu for two concerts. Okko will step down as our Principal Guest Conductor after more than 20 years. He has introduced some wonderful repertoire to us, especially the music of Sibelius, and is well-loved by our musicians. With our final concert of the season featuring Crusell’s Sinfonia Concertante in B-flat, we bid farewell to Zhang Jin Min, our Principal Bassoon of 30 years who has played a key role in the SSO’s development.

This season, we have chosen an exciting line-up of works from the sensuous to the sensational, from familiar favourites from the past to new music from more modern times. Among the highlights are a full concert of Broadway music, Carnival of the Animals and Harry Potter music especially for our young friends, and the BBC’s Frozen Planet in Concert for film buffs. We are also proud to perform Messiaen’s Turangalîla-symphonie for the first time since 1994, as well as Bruckner’s Mass No. 3 in F minor with the Singapore Symphony Chorus.

A major theme pays tribute to the world of books and the stories between their covers.

We are excited to present Shakespeare400, where we pay tribute to the legacy of William Shakespeare through the gorgeous music inspired by his stories, such as A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Hamlet. We are also exploring different ways composers reflect on the love and tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. Aside from Shakespeare, immerse yourself in fables about fantastic firebirds, puppets who come to life, and fairy princesses inside three oranges. The SSO brings these stories to life in Stravinsky’s The Firebird and Petrushka, and Prokofiev’s The Love of Three Oranges.

Come join me and our wonderful musicians as we celebrate our friendship this season.

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LAN SHUI Music Director

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Singapore Symphony Orchestra

‘Who would suppose an orchestra in Asia could remind one of Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia?’

FANFARE

Since its founding in 1979, the Singapore Symphony Orchestra (SSO) has been Singapore’s flagship orchestra, touching lives through classical music and providing the heartbeat of the cultural scene in the cosmopolitan city-state. In addition to its subscription series concerts, the orchestra is well-loved for its outdoor and community appearances, and its significant role in educating the young people of Singapore. The SSO has also earned an international reputation for its orchestral virtuosity, having garnered sterling reviews for its overseas tours and many successful recordings.

The SSO makes its performing home at the 1,800-seat state-of-the-art Esplanade Concert Hall. More intimate works and all outreach and community performances take place at the 673-seat Victoria Concert Hall, the home of the SSO. The orchestra performs 100 concerts a year, and its versatile repertoire spans all-time favourites and orchestral masterpieces to exciting cutting-edge premieres. Bridging the musical traditions of East and West, Singaporean and Asian musicians and composers are regularly showcased in the concert season. This has been a core of the SSO’s programming philosophy from the very beginning under Choo Hoey, who was Music Director from 1979 to 1996.

Since Lan Shui assumed the position of Music Director in 1997, the SSO has performed in Europe, Asia and the United States. In September 2014 the SSO’s debut at the 120th BBC Proms in London received critical acclaim in the major UK newspapers The Guardian and Telegraph. In 2010 the SSO’s 6-city tour of London and Germany, which included a concert at the Berlin Philharmonie, garnered rave reviews from The Times and Sueddeutsche Zeitung.

Notable SSO releases under BIS include a Rachmaninov series, a Debussy disc, Seascapes featuring sea-themed music by Debussy, Frank Bridge, Glazunov and Zhou Long, and the first-ever cycle of Tcherepnin’s piano concertos and symphonies. The SSO has also collaborated with such great artists as Lorin Maazel, Charles Dutoit, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Neeme Järvi, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Lang Lang, Yo-Yo Ma, Leonidas Kavakos and Gil Shaham.

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Lan Shui Music Director

‘Lan Shui is the master of movement, detail, and musical integrity, and elicits playing so refined it sounds like one of the world’s greatest orchestras.’

AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE

Lan Shui is renowned for his abilities as an orchestral builder and for his passion in commissioning, premiering and recording new works by leading Asian composers. As Music Director of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra since 1997, American Record Review noted that Shui has “turned a good regional orchestra into a world-class ensemble that plays its heart out at every concert”. Together they have made several acclaimed tours to Europe, Asia and the United States and appeared for the first time at the BBC Proms in September 2014.

Lan Shui held the position of Chief Conductor of the Copenhagen Phil from 2007 to 2016, and from 2017 he will be their Conductor Laureate. He recently concluded a fouryear period as Artistic Advisor of the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra. As a guest conductor, Shui has worked with many orchestras. In the United States he has appeared with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, and Baltimore and Detroit symphony orchestras. In Europe he has performed with Deutsches SymphonieOrchester Berlin, hr-Sinfonieorchester, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, RadioSinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR, Deutsche Radio Philharmonie, Gothenburg Symphony, Tampere Philharmonic and Orchestre National de Lille. In Asia he has conducted the Hong Kong, Malaysian and Japan Philharmonic orchestras and maintains a close relationship with the China Philharmonic and Shanghai Symphony.

Since 1998 Shui has recorded over 20 CDs for BIS – including a Rachmaninov series, a Seascapes disc and the first-ever complete cycle of Tcherepnin’s symphonies with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra – and also music by Arnold and Hindemith with the Malmö Symphony Orchestra, which has received two Grammy nominations.

Lan Shui is the recipient of several international awards from the Beijing Arts Festival and the New York Tcherepnin Society, the 37th Besançon Conductors’ Competition in France and Boston University (Distinguished Alumni Award) as well as the Cultural Medallion Singapore’s highest accolade in the arts.

Born in Hangzhou, China, Shui studied composition at the Shanghai Conservatory and graduated from The Beijing Central Conservatory. He continued his graduate studies at Boston University while at the same time working closely with Leonard Bernstein at the Tanglewood Music Festival. He has worked together with David Zinman as Conducting Affiliate of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, as Associate Conductor to Neeme Järvi at the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, and with Kurt Masur at the New York Philharmonic and Pierre Boulez at The Cleveland Orchestra.

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The Orchestra

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LAN SHUI Music Director

JASON LAI Associate Conductor

JOSHUA TAN Associate Conductor

FIRST VIOLIN

VIOLA

DOUBLE BASS

COR ANGLAIS

HORN

TIMPANI

Concertmaster Igor Yuzefovich°

Principal Zhang Manchin

Principal Guennadi Mouzyka

Associate Principal Elaine Yeo

Principal Han Chang Chou

Principal Christian Schiøler

Co-Concertmaster Lynnette Seah

Associate Principal Guan Qi

Associate Principal Yang Zheng Yi

CLARINET

Associate Concertmaster Kong Zhao Hui*

Fixed Chair Gu Bing Jie*

Fixed Chair Karen Yeo

Principal Ma Yue

Associate Principal Gao Jian Jamie Hersch Marc-Antoine Robillard

Fixed Chair Chan Yoong-Han

Marietta Ku Luo Biao Shui Bing Tan Wee-Hsin Tong Yi Ping Yang Shi Li

Olga Alexandrova Ma Li Ming Jacek Mirucki Wang Xu

Associate Principal Li Xin

Kartik Alan Jairamin Wang Min

Principal Jonathan Fox

Liu Yoko Tang Xiao Ping

TRUMPET

Associate Principal Mark Suter

BASS CLARINET

Principal Jon Paul Dante

Assistant Principal Tang Xiao Ping

Associate Principal David Smith

BASSOON

TROMBONE

Principal Zhang Jin Min

Principal Allen Meek

Associate Principal Liu Chang

Associate Principal Damian Patti

Christoph Wichert Zhao Ying Xue

Samuel Armstrong

Cao Can* Chen Da Wei* Duan Yu Ling Foo Say Ming Gu Wen Li Jin Li Cindy Lee Sui Jing Jing Karen Tan William Tan Wei Zhe

SECOND VIOLIN CHOO HOEY Conductor Emeritus

Associate Principal Michael Loh Fixed Chair Hai-Won Kwok

OKKO KAMU Principal Guest Conductor

Nikolai Koval* Priscilla Neo Chikako Sasaki* Margit Saur Shao Tao Tao Lillian Wang Wu Man Yun* Xu Jue Yi* Ye Lin* Yeo Teow Meng Yin Shu Zhan* Zhang Si Jing*

CELLO Principal Ng Pei-Sian Associate Principal Yu Jing Fixed Chair Guo Hao Chan Wei Shing Song Woon Teng Wang Yan Wang Zihao* Peter Wilson Wu Dai Dai Zhao Yu Er

FLUTE Principal Jin Ta Associate Principal Evgueni Brokmiller Roberto Alvarez Miao Shanshan

PICCOLO Assistant Principal Roberto Alvarez

OBOE Principal Rachel Walker Associate Principal Pan Yun

CONTRA BASSOON Assistant Principal Zhao Ying Xue

Carolyn Hollier Elaine Yeo

Associate Principal Jonathan Fox

PERCUSSION

Mark De Souza Lim Meng Keh Zhu Zheng Yi

HARP Principal Gulnara Mashurova

BASS TROMBONE Assistant Principal Wang Wei

TUBA Principal Hidehiro Fujita

LIM YAU Choral Director

*With deep appreciation to Mr & Mrs Rin Kei Mei for their generous loan of string instruments from the Rin Collection °Igor Yuzefovich plays an instrument generously loaned by Mr & Mrs G K Goh

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Musicians listed alphabetically rotate their seats on a per programme basis.

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Musicians’ Chair

7 JULY 2016

To continue to be one of the most outstanding orchestras in the region, the Singapore Symphony Orchestra needs to recruit and maintain its pool of talented musicians. We would like to thank the following organisations for their generous support for our Musicians’ Chair programme.

‘IF MUSIC BE THE FOOD OF LOVE, PLAY ON.’

MENDELSSOHN: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM SUITE Lan Shui, conductor

15 JULY 2016

PROKOFIEV: SCENES FROM ROMEO & JULIET Lan Shui, conductor

23 JULY 2016

Shakespear e400

Celebrating the Bard

GUENNADI MOUZYKA

GUO HAO

NG PEI-SIAN

principal double bass

fixed chair cello

principal cello

2016 marks 400 years since the death of William Shakespeare, whose legacy continues to live on in theatres and concert halls the world over. The SSO celebrates Shakespeare400 with a selection of orchestral favourites by Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky and Berlioz.

BERLIOZ: SCENES FROM ROMEO & JULIET BEATRICE & BENEDICT OVERTURE Yan Pascal Tortelier, conductor

19 AUGUST 2016

TCHAIKOVSKY: HAMLET FANTASY OVERTURE Darrell Ang, conductor

26 AUGUST 2016

TCHAIKOVSKY: ROMEO & JULIET FANTASY OVERTURE 12

Michal Nesterowicz, conductor

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20 th

SSO season

In celebration of Music Director Lan Shui’s 20th SSO season in 2016/17, we take a walk down memory lane, revisiting his inaugural concert of January 1997, as well as his very first appearances with the SSO as guest conductor.

‘When the Singapore Symphony Orchestra’s new maestro, Shui Lan, put down his baton after leading it through a galloping rendition of Beethoven’s famous Fifth Symphony last Friday, the audience broke into long and appreciative applause and shouts of ‘Bravo!’.

THE STRAITS TIMES, 13 January 1997

6 OCTOBER 2016

9 & 10 DECEMBER 2016

13 JANUARY 2017

MUSSORGSKY: PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION

SCHUMANN: SYMPHONY NO. 2 IN C MAJOR

BEETHOVEN: LEONORE OVERTURE NO. 3

R. STRAUSS: DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION

Performed by SSO under Lan Shui on 9 & 10 September 1994

PIANO CONCERTO NO. 4 IN G MAJOR

Performed by SSO under Lan Shui on 2 & 3 April 1993

SYMPHONY NO. 5 IN C MINOR Nicholas Angelich, piano Performed by SSO under Music Director Lan Shui on 10 & 11 January 1997

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SSO RECOMMENDS

CONCERTS FOR BEGINNERS These concerts help guide beginners embarking on their first concerts, enhancing their understanding and appreciation of classical music and the orchestra.

Thinking of watching a SSO concert but not sure where to start? Here are our suggestions on how to choose the right concert!

SSO Discovering Music!

READY FOR MORE? Becoming more comfortable with classical music, and would like to listen to more?

These concerts introduce you to a wider range of composers and music.

7 Jul 16 All-Mendelssohn evening 15 Jul 16 Chopin & Prokofiev 29 Oct 16 Rachmaninov Symphony No. 2

SSO Pops Concerts SSO Outdoor and Community Concerts

24 Mar 17 Petrushka 28 Apr 17 Mozart’s Requiem 15 Apr 17 Mahler 1

CONCERTS FOR FAMILIES AND YOUNG PEOPLE Kids love coming to the orchestra, and these are our most popular children’s concerts!

SSO Babies’ Proms (suitable for ages up to 6) SSO Concerts for Children (for ages up to 14) SSO Campus Concerts (free)

FEELING ADVENTUROUS? Discover some of the most fascinating modern composers of the 20th and 21st centuries through these concerts.

FAMILIAR FAVOURITES These concerts are bound to get you hooked on classics, and keep you coming back for more!

26 Aug 16 Grieg & Sibelius 6 Oct 16 Pictures at an Exhibition 16

21 & 22 Oct 16 Eight Seasons: Vivaldi & Piazzolla

5 & 6 Jan 17 Dvořák: New World Symphony 13 Jan 17 SSO Beethoven Gala

19 Aug 16 Prokofiev & Shostakovich 12

1 Apr 17 Messiaen Turangalîla

9 & 10 Dec 16 Liszt

20 Apr 17 Tan Dun

21 Jan 17 Zechariah Goh (Singaporean composer)

19 & 20 May 17 Jeremiah Li (Singaporean composer)

4 Mar 17 Ibert Flute Concerto 17

7 JULY 2016 THU | 7.30PM ESPLANADE CONCERT HALL

Shakespear e400 A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM GIL SHAHAM

THE GREAT Beethoven Experience the tender lyricism of one of the greatest composers of all time – the great Beethoven – as we bring you four All-Beethoven programmes.

24 & 25 FEBRUARY 2017

SSO BEETHOVEN GALA

A WEEKEND WITH BEETHOVEN

Leonore Overture No. 3, Op. 72b Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major, Op. 58 Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67 Lan Shui, conductor Nicholas Angelich, piano

Egmont: Overture, Op. 84a Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major, Op. 15 Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92 Yu Long, conductor Serena Wang, piano

10 FEBRUARY 2017

11 FEBRUARY 2017

SSO CHAMBER SERIES: THE GREAT BEETHOVEN I

SSO CHAMBER SERIES: THE GREAT BEETHOVEN II

Serenade for Flute, Violin and Viola in

String Quartet in F major, Op. 18, No. 1

D major, Op. 25 String Quartet in C minor, Op. 18, No. 4 String Quintet in C major, Op. 29

Septet in E-flat major, Op. 20

‘The course of true love never did run smooth.’ Relive the jolly adventures of Puck, Hermia and Lysander in A Midsummer Night’s Dream through Mendelssohn’s Suite, in the first installment of SSO’s Shakespeare400 series in 2016. This all-Mendelssohn evening sees old friend Gil Shaham join the SSO for the beloved Violin Concerto in E minor. Composed just a year earlier, the magical Fair Melusina Overture paints an emotional picture of the mythical Melusina and her aquatic home.

MENDELSSOHN The Fair Melusina Overture

MENDELSSOHN © Luke Ratray

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Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64

MENDELSSOHN A Midsummer Night’s Dream Suite Lan Shui, conductor Gil Shaham, violin

‘One of today’s preeminent violinists’ THE NEW YORK TIMES

Stradivari Quartet with SSO musicians

Stradivari Quartet with SSO musicians 18

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15 JULY 2016

23 JULY 2016

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SAT | 7.30PM

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ESPLANADE CONCERT HALL

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ROMEO AND JULIET CHOPIN PIANO CONCERTO NO. 1

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ROMEO AND JULIET RACHMANINOV CONCERTO NO. 2

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© K. Miura

‘That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet.’ Lan Shui brings the world’s most famous love story to life through scenes from the Prokofiev’s captivating Romeo and Juliet.

Immerse yourself in the deeply reflective First Piano Concerto, which expresses Chopin’s love for his native Poland – featuring no less than the dazzling winner of the 2010 Chopin Competition, Yulianna Avdeeva.

Shakespeare’s star-crossed lovers have inspired some of the most gorgeous music we know. Yan Pascal Tortelier leads the SSO in scenes from Berlioz’s Romeo and Juliet, which captures the essence of the fabled tale of the Montagues and Capulets in fair Verona. Dmitri Alexeev returns with the ever-popular Second Piano Concerto by Rachmaninov, whose adagio theme inspired the pop ballad All By Myself.

SMETANA

BERLIOZ

The Moldau from My Fatherland

Beatrice and Benedict: Overture

CHOPIN

RACHMANINOV

Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11

Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18

PROKOFIEV

BERLIOZ

Scenes from Romeo and Juliet, Op. 64

Scenes from Romeo and Juliet, Op. 17

Lan Shui, conductor Yulianna Avdeeva, piano

Yan Pascal Tortelier, conductor Dmitri Alexeev, piano

19 AUGUST 2016 FRI | 7.30PM ESPLANADE CONCERT HALL

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HAMLET • THE YEAR 1917 ‘This above all: to thine own self be true’. An avid reader and theatregoer, Tchaikovsky looked to Shakespeare thrice for his symphonic poems – Romeo and Juliet, The Tempest and Hamlet – and the vindictive role of Hamlet lends itself well to musical representation. This Russian programme sees old friend Nikolai Demidenko take on the lyrical and virtuosic Third Piano Concerto by Prokofiev. Homegrown conductor Darrell Ang closes the concert with Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 12, a passionate portrait of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution.

TCHAIKOVSKY Hamlet: Fantasy Overture, Op. 67

PROKOFIEV Piano Concerto No. 3 in C major, Op. 26

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 12 in D minor, Op. 112 ‘The Year 1917’ Darrell Ang, conductor Nikolai Demidenko, piano

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26 AUGUST 2016

23 SEPTEMBER 2016

30 SEPTEMBER & 1 OCTOBER 2016

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FRI & SAT | 7.30PM

ESPLANADE CONCERT HALL

VICTORIA CONCERT HALL

VICTORIA CONCERT HALL

PRESIDENT’S YOUNG PERFORMERS CONCERT

ROCOCO VARIATIONS

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© Lukasz Rajchert

JAVIER PERIANES PLAYS GRIEG

Tchaikovsky’s Shakespearean dreams took flight with Romeo and Juliet, the first and most popular of his three orchestral fantasies inspired by the Bard. Spanish pianist Javier Perianes has earned glowing praise for his 2015 album of the Grieg Piano Concerto, a perennial favourite heard on Adrian Lyne’s film Lolita. Music from yet another great Nordic composer, Sibelius, closes the evening. Of the Third Symphony Sibelius described its restless finale as a “crystallization of thought from chaos”.

R. STRAUSS Oboe Concerto in D major, TrV.292

TCHAIKOVSKY

ELGAR

Romeo and Juliet: Fantasy Overture

Sea Pictures, Op. 37

GRIEG

BRAHMS

Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16

Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 73

SIBELIUS Symphony No. 3 in C major, Op. 52 © Josep Molina

Jade Tan, 21, and Bernice Lee, 22, are the soloists in this President’s Young Performers Concert celebrating Singapore’s rising stars. Explore the deepest feelings of Elgar through his song cycle Sea Pictures for mezzo-soprano and orchestra, and embrace the warmth of Brahms’ cheerful Second Symphony. A friendship between Richard Strauss and a young American soldier in post-war Bavaria sowed the seeds for his glorious Oboe Concerto.

Michal Nesterowicz, conductor Javier Perianes, piano

Jason Lai, conductor Jade Tan Shi Yu, mezzo-soprano Bernice Lee, oboe Sponsored by

Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations is one of those pieces that never fails to delight, and its grace and poetry come alive in the steady hands of SSO’s Principal Cellist Ng Pei-Sian in this concert.

Principal Guest Conductor Okko Kamu lends his insight to two glorious masterpieces composed in the key of D major which is usually associated with celebration: Prokofiev’s famous Classical Symphony, and Beethoven’s cheerful Second Symphony.

PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 1 in D major, Op. 25 ‘Classical’

TCHAIKOVSKY Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op. 33

BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 36 Okko Kamu, conductor Ng Pei-Sian, cello

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‘A pianist of impeccable and refined tastes, blessed with a warmth of touch’ THE TELEGRAPH

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DAVID SMITH associate principal trumpet

15 OCTOBER 2016

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PICTURES AT 20

AN EXHIBITION

th SSO season

BRUCKNER MASS NO. 3

The Gnome. Children playing in the Tuileries.

The Great Gate of Kiev. These paintings come to life in Ravel’s vivid and colourful orchestration of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition. But first, Lan Shui brings you a heartfelt rendition of Death and Transfiguration, and the intense Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto featuring rising violinist Sayaka Shoji.

Expect some of the most sublime and spiritually uplifting music with Anton Bruckner’s magnificent Mass No. 3 in F minor, in this sensational performance directed by Lim Yau. Opening the concert is Estonian composer Arvo Pärt’s Te Deum, which Pärt described as “immeasurable serenity imparted by a mountain panorama”.

LAN SHUI

R. STRAUSS

PÄRT

Tod und Verklärung (Death and Transfiguration), Op. 24

Te Deum

TCHAIKOVSKY

Mass No. 3 in F minor, WAB.28 ‘Great’

BRUCKNER

Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35

MUSSORGSKY (Orch. RAVEL) Pictures at an Exhibition Lan Shui, conductor Sayaka Shoji, violin

‘An emerging star’ THE INDEPENDENT on Sayaka Shoji

© Yew Jiajun

6 OCTOBER 2016

Lim Yau, conductor Singapore Symphony Chorus The NAFA Chamber Choir The Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Singapore

‘One of the greatest and most sublime settings ever composed’ GRAMOPHONE

21 & 22 OCTOBER 2016 FRI & SAT | 7.30PM VICTORIA CONCERT HALL

EIGHT SEASONS: VIVALDI & PIAZZOLLA Spring. Summer. Autumn. Winter. Enjoy this striking pairing of tango master Piazzolla’s Four Seasons of Buenos Aires with Vivaldi’s timeless Four Seasons, a ravishing masterpiece which can be heard on over 1,000 recordings today.

VIVALDI The Four Seasons

PIAZZOLLA (arr. Leonid Desyatnikov) The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires Sponsored by

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29 OCTOBER 2016 SAT | 7.30PM ESPLANADE CONCERT HALL

ROUSE AND RACHMANINOV Gold. Love. The Curse. Wagner’s famous opera The Ring of the Nibelung inspired Grammy-winning composer Christopher Rouse’s Der Gerettete Alberich (‘Alberich Saved’), a fantasy for solo percussion and orchestra. It is paired here with Rachmaninov’s majestic Second Symphony, led by Andrew Litton.

ROUSE Der Gerettete Alberich

RACHMANINOV Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27 Andrew Litton, conductor Jonathan Fox, percussion

‘Sheer dynamite from beginning to end’ THE HERALD on Andrew Litton

‘From the first notes there was no doubt of being in the presence of something special’ THE STRAD on Ray Chen

3 NOVEMBER 2016 THU | 7.30PM ESPLANADE CONCERT HALL

RAY CHEN PLAYS BRUCH Expect soul-searching lyricism as violinist Ray Chen brings out the unusual beauty of Bruch’s First Violin Concerto. Prokofiev’s Fifth Symphony, meant to inspire Russians in time of war and to “sing the praises of the free and happy man”, closes this concert.

COPLAND An Outdoor Overture

BRUCH Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 26

PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 5 in B-flat major, Op. 100 Andrew Litton, conductor Ray Chen, violin

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11 & 12 NOVEMBER 2016 FRI & SAT | 7.30PM ESPLANADE CONCERT HALL

SSO GALA

YO-YO MA & THE SILK ROAD ENSEMBLE Prepare to be astounded as the SSO brings you two gala programmes featuring superstar cellist Yo-Yo Ma and Silk Road Ensemble! On November 11, Yo-Yo Ma brings tenderness and exuberance to Elgar’s Cello Concerto in E minor, and Lan Shui will also conduct soloist Kayhan Kalhor’s Silent City with members of the Silk Road Ensemble.

© Todd Rosenberg

On November 12, the Silk Road Ensemble performs with their artistic director Yo-Yo Ma, who partners Wu Tong for Zhao Lin’s Duo, a double concerto for cello and sheng, a traditional Chinese woodwind instrument comprised of 17 bamboo pipes, and the first half includes Dmitri Yanov-Yanovsky’s Sacred Signs Suite, which draws parallels between Russian instrumental traditions and seemingly diverse instruments such as sheng, pipa and kamancheh.

Lan Shui, conductor Yo-Yo Ma, cello Silk Road Ensemble

‘Yo-Yo Ma is the cello’s superstar’

‘Roving musical laboratory without walls’ BOSTON GLOBE on The Silk Road Ensemble

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CHAN WEI SHING cello OLGA ALEXANDROVA double bass MICHAEL LOH associate principal second violin GUENNADI MOUZYKA principal double bass

GUO HAO cello fixed chair

2 DECEMBER 2016

9 & 10 DECEMBER 2016

FRI | 7.30PM

FRI & SAT | 7.30PM

ESPLANADE CONCERT HALL

VICTORIA CONCERT HALL LAN SHUI

MAHLER 5

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‘I live alone in my heaven, in my loving, in my song.’ Despair, nostalgia, escape… Experience the kaleidoscopic emotions in Mahler’s Fifth Symphony and find inner peace in the Adagietto, his most famous movement. First up, enjoy a performance of Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 20 by Zhang Haochen, Gold Medallist of the 2009 Van Cliburn Piano Competition.

BERTRAND CHAMAYOU PLAYS LISZT French pianist Bertrand Chamayou brings poetry and imagination to Liszt’s Second Piano Concerto.

Lan Shui closes the concert with Schumann’s lively Second Symphony; the Adagio is a reflection of Schumann’s deep love for his wife Clara.

MOZART Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K.466

MAHLER Symphony No. 5 in C-sharp minor

BEETHOVEN

Lan Shui, conductor Zhang Haochen, piano

Leonore Overture No. 1, Op. 138

LISZT

‘Lithe energy, crystal clarity and impressive precision’

Piano Concerto No. 2 in A major, S.125

SCHUMANN Symphony No. 2 in C major, Op. 61 Lan Shui, conductor Bertrand Chamayou, piano

© Marco Borggreve

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FINANCIAL TIMES on Zhang Haochen

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5 & 6 JANUARY 2017 THU & FRI | 7.30PM ESPLANADE CONCERT HALL

SSO GALA

The phenomenal Gustavo Dudamel, poster boy of Venezuela’s El Sistema music programme, marks his Singapore debut conducting Dvořák’s famous New World Symphony. He is joined by old friend of the SSO, Renaud Capuçon, for Alban Berg’s Violin Concerto, a piece dedicated ‘to the memory of an angel’.

© Maria Ziegelboeck

GUSTAVO DUDAMEL & RENAUD CAPUÇON

BRAHMS Academic Festival Overture

BERG Violin Concerto

FRI & SAT | 7.30PM

DVOŘÁK

SUN | 4PM

Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95 ‘From the New World’

VICTORIA CONCERT HALL

SSO CHRISTMAS CONCERT I’m dreaming of a white Christmas. Get into the mood for Christmas as Associate Conductor Joshua Tan and the SSO take you on a jolly sleigh ride through a dazzling array of yuletide treasures in the Victoria Concert Hall. A favourite with audiences young and old, the SSO Christmas Concert also includes a popular sing-a-long segment.

Joshua Tan, conductor Singapore Symphony Chorus Singapore Symphony Children’s Choir

Gustavo Dudamel, conductor Renaud Capuçon, violin

‘He inhabits both score and orchestra, offering a seamless conduit between the two’ THE GUARDIAN on Gustavo Dudamel

‘Fun songs that deck the halls’ THE STRAITS TIMES

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© Adam Latham

16, 17 & 18 DECEMBER 2016

LAN SHUI music director MA YUE principal clarinet

13 JANUARY 2017

21 JANUARY 2017

FRI | 7.30PM

SAT | 7.30PM

ESPLANADE CONCERT HALL

ESPLANADE CONCERT HALL

LAN SHUI

20

th SSO season

SSO BEETHOVEN GALA

LAN SHUI – 20TH SSO SEASON In celebration of Music Director Lan Shui’s 20th SSO season in 2016/ 17, we take a walk down memory lane, revisiting his inaugural concert of January 1997. More than 200 years after its premiere, Beethoven’s Fifth – the world’s most famous symphony – still has the power to shock us. It is paired here with the grand Leonore Overture No. 3 and the Piano Concerto No. 4, a piece hailed as one of Beethoven’s most original works.

BEETHOVEN

WEST SIDE STORY Bernstein’s Symphonic Dances to West Side Story is the perfect piece to set the mood for the weekend, and Joshua Tan opens the concert with an exciting new work by Singaporean composer Zechariah Goh. A ‘body through which the dream flows’ was how John Adams described his Violin Concerto. Listen out for the endless solo voice of the violin creating unique colours in this masterpiece.

ZECHARIAH GOH New Work

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ADAMS Violin Concerto

Leonore Overture No. 3, Op. 72b

BEETHOVEN

BERNSTEIN West Side Story: Symphonic Dances

Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major, Op. 58

BEETHOVEN

ADAMS Short Ride in a Fast Machine

Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67 Lan Shui, conductor Nicholas Angelich, piano

Joshua Tan, conductor Kam Ning, violin

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JOHN ADAMS

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16 FEBRUARY 2017

24 & 25 FEBRUARY 2017

THU | 7.30PM

FRI & SAT | 7.30PM

ESPLANADE CONCERT HALL

VICTORIA CONCERT HALL

SSO GALA

A WEEKEND WITH BEETHOVEN

CHARLES DUTOIT • RHAPSODY ON A THEME OF PAGANINI A fabulous bird with a plumage of fire sits at the heart of Stravinsky’s stunning masterpiece, which comes alive at the hands of celebrated Swiss maestro Charles Dutoit. Expect passionate artistry as the brilliant Russian pianist Lukas Geniušas joins Dutoit and the SSO for Rachmaninov’s virtuosic showpiece, the Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.

RAVEL Alborada del Gracioso

RACHMANINOV Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43

STRAVINSKY The Firebird: Complete Ballet

© Jean-Baptiste Millot

Charles Dutoit, conductor Lukas Geniušas, piano

BEETHOVEN Egmont: Overture, Op. 84a

BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major, Op. 15

BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92 Yu Long, conductor Serena Wang, piano

‘China’s Herbert von Karajan’ THE NEW YORK TIMES

‘Geniušas plays with a prizewinner’s brilliance, yet with a mature ability to recreate a work’s architecture, and an expressiveness that doesn’t overtly draw attention to itself’ THE GUARDIAN

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Expect surpassing beauty as leading Chinese conductor Yu Long returns with an all-Beethoven programme featuring the extraordinary Seventh Symphony and Egmont Overture, a tale of oppression, courage and liberation. 12-year-old piano prodigy Serena Wang is the soloist in Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1.

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4 MARCH 2017

24 MARCH 2017

1 APRIL 2017

15 APRIL 2017

SAT | 7.30PM

FRI | 7.30PM

SAT | 7.30PM

SAT | 7.30PM

ESPLANADE CONCERT HALL

ESPLANADE CONCERT HALL

ESPLANADE CONCERT HALL

ESPLANADE CONCERT HALL

IBERT FLUTE CONCERTO • SHOSTAKOVICH 5

PETRUSHKA • BRAHMS PIANO CONCERTO NO. 1

MESSIAEN TURANGALÎLA

ROBERT SPANO TITAN

A prince is under a curse and falls in love with three giant oranges, of which one contains his true love.

Live the fantasy in Prokofiev’s scintillating opera The Love for Three Oranges through his sixmovement Suite. Hear the flute sing and leap in the magical Flute Concerto by Jacques Ibert, featuring SSO Principal Flautist Jin Ta. Yu Long closes a brilliant evening with ‘a true Soviet masterpiece’, Shostakovich’s Fifth.

A puppet comes to life and falls in love with a ballerina in Stravinsky’s Petrushka, a colourful masterpiece filled with gorgeous Russian folk melodies. Expect grandiose and wild passion as Nikolai Lugansky returns to play Brahms’ First Piano Concerto.

Olivier Messiaen wrote of his epic Turangalîlasymphonie: ‘It is a love song, a hymn to joy; love that is fatal, irresistible, transcending everything, suppressing everything outside; joy that is superhuman, overwhelming, blinding, unlimited.”

Andreas Haefliger and Cynthia Millar join Lan Shui, the SSO and combined forces for this radiant 75-minute symphony of 10 movements.

Gustav Mahler’s daring Symphony No. 1 is an exceptional work that effortlessly transits between tranquility to grandeur within an hour of music.

Setting the scene to Titan is Schubert’s Unfinished Symphony, known as one of the greatest, and the strangest, of the genre.

PROKOFIEV The Love for Three Oranges: Suite, Op. 33a

IBERT Flute Concerto

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47 Yu Long, conductor Jin Ta, flute

STRAVINSKY Petrushka

BRAHMS Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 15 Okko Kamu, conductor Nikolai Lugansky, piano

‘His performances dig so deeply into the substance beneath the surface’

•

SCHUBERT Symphony No. 8 in B minor, D.759 ‘Unfinished’

MESSIAEN Turangalîla-symphonie

MAHLER

Lan Shui, conductor Andreas Haefliger, piano Cynthia Millar, ondes Martenot

Robert Spano, conductor

‘A milestone of 20th-century music’ THE NEW YORK TIMES

Symphony No. 1 in D major ‘Titan’

‘Spano has that great skill in a conductor of making every performance radiate joy’ THE NEW YORK TIMES

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH on Nikolai Lugansky

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PRE-CONCERT TALK 6.30pm-7pm | library@esplanade

PRE-CONCERT TALK 6.30pm-7pm | library@esplanade

OPEN REHEARSAL 1 Apr, Sat, 9.30am | Esplanade Concert Hall PRE-CONCERT TALK 6.30pm-7pm | library@esplanade

PRE-CONCERT TALK 6.30pm-7pm | library@esplanade

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ZHANG MANCHIN principal viola

WILLIAM TAN first violin

20 APRIL 2017

28 APRIL 2017

THU | 7.30PM

FRI | 7.30PM

ESPLANADE CONCERT HALL

ESPLANADE CONCERT HALL

TAN DUN • FAREWELL MY CONCUBINE

SSO GALA

Peking opera meets the piano in Grammywinning composer Tan Dun’s symphonic poem Farewell My Concubine, which paints a tragic love story between warrior Xiang Yu and consort Yu. Passacaglia: Secret of Wind and Birds draws on forms and methods from East and West, ancient and modern, and incorporates birdsong produced by smartphones.

MASAAKI SUZUKI CONDUCTS MOZART Expect purity and sublime spirituality as Masaaki Suzuki, founder of Bach Collegium Japan, brings glorious insights to Mozart’s final masterpiece, the Requiem in D minor. Suzuki prefaces this with the beloved G minor Symphony, which exudes astonishing grace and grief.

MOZART Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K.550

BARTÓK Dance Suite

MOZART Requiem in D minor, K.626

TAN DUN Farewell My Concubine

TAN DUN Passacaglia: Secret of Wind and Birds

Masaaki Suzuki, conductor Singapore Symphony Chorus The Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Singapore Lim Yau, choral director

BARTÓK

Tan Dun, conductor

‘A dynamic conductor’ THE NEW YORK TIMES

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‘It would take an iron bar not to be moved by his crispness, sobriety and spiritual vigour’ THE TIMES

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The Miraculous Mandarin, Op. 19: Suite

5 MAY 2017

19 & 20 MAY 2017

FRI | 7.30PM

FRI & SAT | 7.30PM

ESPLANADE CONCERT HALL

VICTORIA CONCERT HALL

DEBUSSY AND DVOŘÁK

SSO GALA

Cellist Wang Jian returns to perform with the SSO in Dvořák’s sublime masterpiece, the Cello Concerto in B minor, one of the most performed cello concertos in the world. Expect evocative soundscapes as Lan Shui conducts three works by French composer Claude Debussy, including Printemps and Sacred and Profane Dances.

DEBUSSY

BEETHOVEN VIOLIN CONCERTO • CRUSELL SINFONIA CONCERTANTE SSO brings its spectacular season to a close with Beethoven’s crown jewel, the Violin Concerto in D major performed in the capable hands of Frank Peter Zimmermann, and the delightful triple concerto by Finnish-Swedish composer Bernhard Crusell featuring old friends Ma Yue, Han Chang Chou and Zhang Jin Min, who will step down as Principal Bassoon after this season. The concert opens with music by Singaporean composer Jeremiah Li.

Scottish March on a Popular Theme

DEBUSSY

JEREMIAH LI New Work

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Sacred and Profane Dances

DEBUSSY

CRUSELL Sinfonia concertante in B-flat major, Op. 3

Printemps

DVOŘÁK Cello Concerto in B minor, Op. 104 Lan Shui, conductor Wang Jian, cello Gulnara Mashurova, harp

‘An impressive blend of charm, elegance and bravura’

BEETHOVEN Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61

Lan Shui, conductor Frank Peter Zimmermann, violin Ma Yue, clarinet Han Chang Chou, horn Zhang Jin Min, bassoon

‘Gorgeously ripe tone, easy swagger and intoxicating range of colour’ GRAMOPHONE on Frank Peter Zimmermann

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© Harald Hoffmann

THE NEW YORK TIMES on Wang Jian

JAMIE HERSCH associate principal horn MARC-ANTOINE ROBILLARD associate principal horn

PRE-CONCERT TALK

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19 AUG 16, FRI

1 OCT 16, SAT

20 APR 17, THU

20 MAY 17, SAT

OPEN REHEARSAL That amazing concert you just watched is the result of several rehearsals and a lot of hard work. Open rehearsals offer a behindthe-scenes perspective of how the conductor shapes every note and phrase with the orchestra, and how the individual sections come together as a harmonious whole.

14 OCT 16, FRI, 7.30PM

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29 JULY 2016 FRI | 7.30PM ESPLANADE CONCERT HALL Enjoy some of the greatest Broadway hits – Tonight, I Could Have Danced All Night, Cheek to Cheek – at this SSO Pops Concert featuring conductor Joshua Tan and singer Rani Singam. Let your hair down as they bring you a stunning selection of favourite songs from the best-selling musicals My Fair Lady, West Side Story, The Sound of Music and more!

ss o concer t

8 APRIL 2017

TCHAIKOVSKY

SAT | 7.30PM

(arr. by D. ELLINGTON &

ESPLANADE CONCERT HALL

B. STRAYHORN, orch J. TYZIK)

Prepare to be thrilled as acclaimed Japanese jazz pianist Makoto Ozone joins Joshua Tan and the Singapore Symphony Orchestra at the Esplanade Concert Hall for a one-night-only Pops Concert featuring American composer George Gershwin’s ever-popular Rhapsody In Blue, which draws on lively jazz elements.

Makoto Ozone will also perform Ravel’s Concerto in G major.

RAVEL

The Nutcracker Suite

Concerto in G major

TYZIK Symphonic Swing

GERSHWIN Rhapsody in Blue Joshua Tan, conductor Makoto Ozone, piano

Joshua Tan, conductor Rani Singam, vocalist

‘Thrilling, virtuosic and unabashedly personal’ THE NEW YORK TIMES

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A Night on Broadway: $88, $68, $48, $28 [Priority sales: 3 May 16 | Public sales: 6 May 16] Makoto Ozone • Rhapsody in Blue: $88, $68, $48, $28 [Priority sales: 5 Dec 16 | Public sales: 8 Dec 16] Family of 4 packages: 15% discount (Cat 1-3)

8 SEPTEMBER 2016

3 & 4 SEPTEMBER 2016

THU | 7.30PM

SAT | 2PM & 4PM, SUN | 2PM

ESPLANADE CONCERT HALL

VICTORIA CONCERT HALL

Concerts for Children The last of BBC’s acclaimed Planet Earth Trilogy

SYMPHONIC SORCERY – THE MUSIC OF HARRY POTTER Take a ride on Harry Potter’s flying broom, and race across the night skies to Hogwarts Academy, and relive the intrigue, magic and wonder of the first six Harry Potter stories… all on the wings of music.

Enjoy the magical compositions of John Williams and Nicholas Hooper as they create a world filled with witches, wizards, warlocks and muggles. Your host is a delightful old wizard, who guides you through Harry’s thrilling years at Hogwarts Academy. You’ll meet giant spiders; learn about potions and Quidditch; and you’ll fly on a Nimbus 2000!

Jason Lai, conductor Dandi Productions

The Blue Planet Live! and Planet Earth in Concert enraptured Singapore audiences at the Esplanade Concert Hall. Now, we present Frozen Planet in Concert, the third and final chapter of BBC’s Earth Trilogy.

The ultimate portrait of Earth’s polar regions is brought to awe-inspiring life through high-resolution film images on a 10-metre tall curved screen stretching across the Concert Hall stage. Joshua Tan leads the Singapore Symphony Orchestra in a gripping journey through the struggles and triumphs of this icy realm.

Filmed entirely in high definition on an unimaginable scale from seemingly impossible locations and enlivened by an emotive score by award-winning British composer George Fenton, Frozen Planet in Concert takes us on an extraordinary cinematic journey through a majestic and frozen wilderness.

Joshua Tan, conductor

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18 & 19 MARCH 2017 SAT | 2PM & 4PM, SUN | 2PM VICTORIA CONCERT HALL

JASON’S YOUNG PERSON’S GUIDE TO THE ORCHESTRA British composer Benjamin Britten wrote The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra in 1946, as a listening guide to the musical instruments in the orchestra. SSO Associate Conductor Jason Lai gives an exciting new spin with his very own take on the work with Jason’s Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra! From flutes to bassoons, trumpets to tubas, find out all about the different instruments (and the musicians) as he brings you on a thrilling journey with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra.

Concerts for Children

Jason Lai, conductor

25 & 26 NOVEMBER 2016 FRI | 6PM, SAT | 11AM, 2PM & 4PM VICTORIA CONCERT HALL

CARNIVAL OF THE ANIMALS

Concerts for Children

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Discover the marvellous universe of the Carnival of the Animals by Camille Saint-Saëns with Octave and Mandoline, as they guide you through a magical world where lions, kangaroos, turtles and other animals come to life through the use of small and large marionettes, each more surprising than the other.

Joshua Tan, conductor L’Arsenal à Musique Low Shao Suan & Low Shao Ying, pianos

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Discovering Music!

Join SSO Associate Conductor Jason Lai for a trio of Discovering Music! concerts exploring how composers use stories, plays and poems as an inspiration to write great music. From Shakespeare’s plays to Wagner’s music dramas, and Tchaikovsky’s ballets to Stravinsky’s colorful ballets based on folk tales, feast your ears on some truly incredible music!

19 & 20 NOVEMBER 2016 SAT | 2PM & 4PM, SUN | 11AM, 2PM & 4PM VICTORIA CONCERT HALL

SSO Babies’ Pr s Join Uncle Peter and the SSO for an amazing musical adventure like no other and discover the fun and fantastic world of the orchestra and its different instruments! Now into its 14th year, the SSO Babies’ Proms promises to be an hour of great fun and entertainment for parents and children alike.

11 SEPTEMBER 2016

5 NOVEMBER 2016

SUN | 4PM

SAT | 4PM

VICTORIA CONCERT HALL

VICTORIA CONCERT HALL

Music Inspired

by Shakespeare

The World’s a Stage: The Drama of Opera

18 FEBRUARY 2017 SAT | 4PM VICTORIA CONCERT HALL

Peter Moore, conductor/ presenter

Colourful Tales

Jason Lai conductor

TICKETS $40, $30 Priority sales: 26 Jul 16 | Public sales: 29 Jul 16 Suitable for children aged 6 and below.

Tickets are required for children aged 2 and above.

Each concert lasts one hour, and pre-concert activities will be held 30 minutes before the respective show.

For pre-school bookings, please call 6602 4245 or email shafiqah@sso.org.sg.

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TICKETS $20 Family packages & school packages available. Suitable for ages 5 and above. Please visit www.sso.org.sg for event updates.

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PETER WILSON cello

CHAN WEI SHING cello

WIND, WATER & WAVES: BAROQUE FESTIVAL WITH PAVLO BEZNOSIUK Pavlo Beznosiuk, violin/ direct

12 AUGUST 2016

13 AUGUST 2016

14 AUGUST 2016

FRI | 7.30PM

SAT | 7.30PM

SUN | 4PM

REBEL

VIVALDI

LOCKE

Les élémens (The Elements)

Overture to La Senna Festeggiante, RV 693

The Tempest: Incidental music

Concerto for Violin in A major, TWV.51:A4 ‘Die Relinge’ (The Frog)

VALENTINI

Concerto in D major, RV 562

Concerto for Four Violins in A minor, Op. 7, No. 11

HANDEL

TELEMANN

VIVALDI

Overture in C major, TWV.55:C3 ‘Wassermusik’ (Water Music)

Concerto for Violin in E-flat major, RV 253 ‘La tempesta di mare’

TELEMANN

VIVALDI

Selections from Water Music Suites

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CAO CAN first violin

Orchestral Suite in F major, TWV.55:F11 ‘Alster Overture’ 25

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DVOŘÁK SERENADE FOR WINDS

CAPUÇON & ANGELICH • BERG KAMMERKONZERT

23 OCTOBER 2016

8 JANUARY 2017

SUN | 4PM

SUN | 4PM

RAVEL

BRAHMS

Introduction & Allegro for Harp, Flute, Clarinet and String Quartet

Violin Sonata No. 2 in A major, Op. 100

POULENC

BERG

Sextet for Piano and Wind Quintet, Op. 100

Kammerkonzert

DVOŘÁK Serenade for Winds in D minor, Op. 44

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THE GREAT BEETHOVEN II 11 FEBRUARY 2017 SAT | 7.30PM BEETHOVEN String Quartet in F major, Op. 18, No. 1

BEETHOVEN Septet in E-flat major, Op. 20 Stradivari Quartet with SSO musicians

Lan Shui, conductor Renaud Capuçon, violin Nicholas Angelich, piano

VIVE LA FRANCE!

THE GREAT BEETHOVEN I

SCHUMANN PIANO QUINTET

FOUR SEASONS

27 NOVEMBER 2016

10 FEBRUARY 2017

25 MARCH 2017

23 APRIL 2017

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FRI | 7.30PM

SAT | 7.30PM

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CHAUSSON

BEETHOVEN

MOZART

PIAZZOLLA

Chanson Perpetuelle for Voice, Piano and String Quartet

Serenade for Flute, Violin and Viola in D major, Op. 25

Piano Trio No. 6 in G major, K.564

Oblivion for Piano Trio

BRIDGE

PIAZZOLLA

RAVEL

BEETHOVEN

Four Seasons for Piano Trio

Piano Trio in A minor

String Quartet in C minor, Op. 18, No. 4

Miniatures for Piano Trio, Set 2: Romance, Intermezzo & Saltarello

FAURÉ

BEETHOVEN

SCHUMANN

Piano Quartet No. 3 in C minor, Op. 60

Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 15

String Quintet in C major, Op. 29

Piano Quintet in E-flat major, Op. 44

Stradivari Quartet with SSO musicians

Chiao-Ying, piano

BRAHMS

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Singapore Symphony Chorus Lim Yau, Choral Director The Singapore Symphony Chorus (SSC) was initiated in 1980 under the direction of Choo Hoey, then Music Director of the SSO, giving its first performance on 13 June 1980 - Brahms’ German Requiem. In 1981, Lim Yau was appointed Chorus Master. Under his guidance, the SSC established itself as one of the finest choirs in the region and one of the few symphony choruses in Southeast Asia.

The chorus has worked with renowned conductors such as Peter Erdei, Eric Ericsson, John Nelson, Claus Peter Flor, Okko Kamu as well as SSO’s own Lan Shui. They have amassed a wide repertoire over the years, performing such works as Orff’s Carmina Burana, Rachmaninov’s The Bells, Tippett’s A Child of Our Time, Macmillan’s Seven Last Words from the Cross, Kodály’s Missa Brevis, Britten’s War Requiem, and baroque classic Bach’s St John Passion, amongst many others.

For audition details, please email choral@sso.org.sg.

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Singapore Symphony Children’s Choir

Singapore National Youth Orchestra

Wong Lai Foon, Choirmaster Darius Lim, Assistant Choirmaster

Leonard Tan, Principal Conductor Lin Juan, Assistant Conductor

The Singapore Symphony Children’s Choir (SSCC) celebrates 10 wonderful years of singing in 2016.

Since its debut performance in 2007, the SSCC has given many successful concerts, including appearances with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra (SSO) in its ever-popular Christmas Concerts and in the great choral masterpieces such as Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, Mahler’s Third Symphony, Berlioz’s Damnation of Faust, Orff’s Carmina Burana and Britten’s War Requiem.

Under the direction of choirmaster Wong Lai Foon and assistant choirmaster Darius Lim, the SSCC provides a nurturing environment for young singers aged between 9 and 16 years, allowing them to explore their love of music while enriching them with a comprehensive initiation into the art of classical singing.

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In June 2015, the choir made their first trip overseas, collaborating with the Maîtrise de Radio France in Paris. They performed Berlioz’s Te Deum at the Philharmonie de Paris as part of the Singapour en France – le Festival. The choir was also featured in MediaCorp’s SG50: The Gift of Song - These Are The Days.

3 SEPTEMBER 2016, SAT | 6PM SINGAPORE BOTANIC GARDENS

SSCC IN THE PARK FREE ADMISSION

7 DECEMBER 2016, WED | 7.30PM VICTORIA CONCERT HALL

SSCC & SNYO PRE-TOUR CONCERT: COLOURS OF S.E.A 27 MAY 2017, SAT | 7.30PM VICTORIA CONCERT HALL

SSCC 11TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT: SOUND MUSINGS

The Singapore National Youth Orchestra (SNYO) occupies a special place in Singapore’s music community having produced a strong alumni contributing significantly to both seeding the Singapore Symphony Orchestra (SSO) and other community orchestras in Singapore as well as teaching the next generation of budding musicians.

The SNYO is made up of over 180 talented young musicians representing more than 60 schools across Singapore. Under its talent development programme, selected members receive individual tutoring from professional musicians including SSO musicians.

Recognised by the Ministry of Education as a National Project of Excellence, entry into the SNYO is by a rigorous audition process.

Members in mainstream secondary schools with sustained involvement in the SNYO will have their participation in the orchestra recognised in lieu of a school-based Co-Curricular Activity (CCA).

28 JULY 2016, THU | 7.30PM ESPLANADE CONCERT HALL

18 MARCH 2017, SAT | 7.30PM VICTORIA CONCERT HALL

In April 2015, the SNYO started a new chapter in its musical journey with the transfer of the management and operations from the Ministry of Education to the Singapore Symphony Orchestra to draw on the knowledge and expertise of Singapore’s flagship orchestra.

For audition details, please email choral@sso.org.sg.

For ticketing updates, please visit www.sso.org.sg.

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Kinokuniya Privilege Card: 10% off Subscription, Pops, Discovering Music! and SSO Chamber Series concerts (Cat 1-3).

Subscription Concerts, Discovering Music! & SSO Chamber Series: $10 (min. 4 tickets) Pops Concerts: $35, 20 (15 tickets) Concerts for Children: Carnival of the Animals: $32, $24 (15 tickets)

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SSO Chamber Series Concessions: $15 2-Concert Package: 20% discount Priority sales: 7 Jun 16 | Public sales: 10 Jun 16

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SSO Beethoven Gala (13 Jan 17) Concessions: $30, $20 Priority sales: 3 Oct 16 | Public sales: 6 Oct 16

Priority sales: 3 May 16 | Public sales: 6 May 16

Makoto Ozone • Rhapsody in Blue (8 Apr 17)

Concessions: $25, $15

SSO Christmas Concert (16-18 Dec 16)

A Night on Broadway (29 Jul 16)

Concessions: $15 Family of 4 Package: $60 Please visit www.sso.org.sg for ticketing updates.

Babies’ Proms (19 & 20 Nov 16)

SSO Gala: Charles Dutoit (16 Feb 17) Concessions: $30, $20 Priority sales: 3 Oct 16 | Public sales: 6 Oct 16

The Music of Harry Potter (3 & 4 Sep 16) Family of 4 Package: $116 & $90 Priority sales: 12 Apr 16 | Public sales: 15 Apr 16

SSO Gala: Masaaki Suzuki (28 Apr 17) Concessions: $30, $20 Priority sales: 3 Oct 16 | Public sales: 6 Oct 16

SSO Gala: Beethoven Violin Concerto • Crusell Sinfonia Concertante (19 & 20 May 17) Concessions: $30, $20 Priority sales: 3 Oct 16 | Public sales: 6 Oct 16 78

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Images Pour Orchestra Prelude a L’apres-Midi D’un Faune Lan Shui, conductor

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RACHMANINOV: SYMPHONY NO. 1 PIANO CONCERTO NO. 1 Lan Shui, conductor Yevgeny Sudbin, piano

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SAINT-SAËNS: CARNIVAL OF THE ANIMALS*/ BRITTEN: YOUNG PERSON’S GUIDE TO THE ORCHESTRA Lan Shui, conductor Low Shao Suan & Low Shao Ying, pianos William Ledbetter, Andrew Lim & Koh Chieng Mun, presenters *Narration available in both English and Mandarin SSO recordings are available from the SSO merchandise cart during performances.

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9 MARCH 2017, THU | 12.30PM

FREE SSO PERFORMANCES

LUNCHTIME CONCERT: VICTORIA CONCERT HALL Jason Lai, conductor

10 MARCH 2017, FRI | 7.30PM

SSO ON CAMPUS: ITE CENTRAL 7 AUGUST 2016, SUN | 6PM

CLASSICS IN THE PARK: SINGAPORE BOTANIC GARDENS Joshua Tan, conductor

31 AUGUST 2016, WED | 12.30PM

SSO ON CAMPUS: UNIVERSITY CULTURAL CENTRE Jason Lai, conductor

Jason Lai, conductor

11 MARCH 2017, SAT | 6.30PM

CLASSICS IN THE PARK: GARDENS BY THE BAY Joshua Tan, conductor

14 MAY 2017, SUN | 6PM

MOTHER’S DAY CONCERT: SINGAPORE BOTANIC GARDENS Jason Lai, conductor

1 SEPTEMBER 2016 THU | 12.30PM VICTORIA CONCERT HALL

SPH Gift of Music Series

SSO LUNCHTIME CONCERT Jason Lai, conductor Singapore Symphony Orchestra

3 SEPTEMBER 2016 Since its launch in 2005, the SPH Gift of Music series has reached out to tens of thousands of Singaporeans through its many free performances in the heartlands, parks, concert halls and shopping malls.

Admission is free.

Outdoor concerts are subject to prevailing weather conditions.

SAT | 6PM SINGAPORE BOTANIC GARDENS

SSCC IN THE PARK Darius Lim, conductor Singapore Symphony Children’s Choir 85

SSO Committees Nominating and Executive Committee CHAIRMAN

Mr Goh Yew Lin

Artistic Advisory Committee

Mrs Clarinda Tjia-Dharmadi Martin

Development & Sponsorship

CHAIRMAN

Ms Paige Parker

Mr Anthony Chng, Mgr

Prof Bernard Tan

Ms Kris Tan

Ms Nikki Chuang

Ms Manju Vangal

Ms Jermaine Oh

Mr Mervin Beng Dr Chang Tou Liang Mr Foo Say Ming

Mr Paul Tan

Prof Bernard Lanskey

Ms Yong Ying-I

Ms Pang Siu Yuin Dr Kelly Tang

Audit Committee

Mr Zhang Jin Min

CHAIRMAN

Mr Yee Chen Fah Mr Kwee Liong Seen Ms Lim Mei

SNYO Committee CHAIRLADY

Ms Liew Wei Li Mr Ang Chek Meng

Endowment Fund Committee CHAIRMAN

Prof Cham Tao Soon

Ms Vivien Goh Dr Kee Kirk Chin Mrs Valarie Wilson

Mr David Goh

Musicians’ Committee

Mr Paul Supramanian

Mr Chan Wei Shing

Mr Anthony Teo

Mr Jon Paul Dante Mr Jamie Hersch

SSO Council

Mr Jin Ta

CHAIRMAN

Mr Ng Pei-Sian

Prof Cham Tao Soon

Mr Marc-Antoine Robillard Mr Mark Suter

MEMBERS

Mr Alan Chan Ms Chew Gek Khim Mr Choo Chiau Beng Dr Geh Min

Mrs Grace Yeh

Mr Christoph Wichert Mr Yang Zheng Yi Mr Yeo Teow Meng SSO Ladies’ League

Mr Goh Geok Khim

CHAIRLADY

Mr Khoo Boon Hui

Mrs Odile Benjamin

SSO Management Chief Executive Officer Mr Chng Hak-Peng

Marketing Communications & Customer Experience Ms Cindy Lim, Mgr Ms Myrtle Lee Ms Hong Shu Hui Ms Cheryl Pek Ms Melissa Tan

CEO’s Office

Ms Rose Chew (Ticketing)

Ms Cham Gee Len, Mgr

Ms Nur Shafiqah Bte Othman (Ticketing)

Orchestra Management Mr Ernest Khoo, Sr Mgr Mr Chia Jit Min, Mgr Ms Shirin Foo Mr Ramayah Elango

Finance Mr Rick Ong, Sr Mgr Mr Alan Ong, Mgr Ms Goh Hoey Fen

Library

Human Resources & Administration

Mr Lim Yeow Siang, Mgr

Ms Wee Puay Cheng, Sr Mgr

Mr Lim Lip Hua

Mr Desmen Low

Programmes (SSO)

Ms Shanti Govindasamy

Ms Kua Li Leng, Sr Mgr

Concert Hall Operations

Ms Teo Chew Yen, Mgr

Mr Abdul Wahab Bin Sakir

Ms Jolene Yeo

Mr Abiden Bin Md Said

Programmes (VCH)

Mr Mohamed Zailani Bin Md Said

Ms Michelle Yeo, Sr Mgr

Mr Radin Sulaiman Bin Ali

Ms Erin Tan Community Outreach

Singapore National Youth Orchestra

DEPUTY CHAIRLADY

Ms Kathleen Tan, Mgr

Ms Pang Siu Yuin, Dy GM

Dr Stephen Riady

Mrs Kwan Lui

Ms Vanessa Lee

Mr Tan Yong Qing

Ms Priscylla Shaw

Mrs Celeste Basapa

Dr Gralf Sieghold

Choral Programmes

Mrs Maisy Beh

Mr Andreas Sohmen-Pao

Ms Regina Lee

ABRSM

Mrs Kim Camacho

Ms Hay Su-San, Sr Mgr

Dr Tan Chin Nam

Ms Kathleen Oei

Mrs Rosy Ho

Ms Patricia Yee, Mgr

Ms Tan Choo Leng

Ms Judy Hunt

Ms Lai Li-Yng

Mr Tan Soo Nan

Prof Annie Koh

Mr Joong Siow Chong

Mr Wee Ee Cheong

Dr Julie Lo

Prof Tommy Koh Mr JY Pillay

Ms Tang Ya Yun

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ADAMS ADAMS BARTÓK BARTÓK BEETHOVEN BEETHOVEN BEETHOVEN BEETHOVEN BEETHOVEN BEETHOVEN BEETHOVEN BEETHOVEN BEETHOVEN BEETHOVEN BEETHOVEN BEETHOVEN BEETHOVEN BEETHOVEN BERG BERG BERLIOZ BERLIOZ BERNSTEIN BRAHMS BRAHMS BRAHMS BRAHMS BRAHMS BRIDGE BRUCH BRUCKNER CHAUSSON CHOPIN COPLAND CRUSELL DEBUSSY DEBUSSY DEBUSSY DVOŘÁK DVOŘÁK DVOŘÁK ELGAR ELGAR FAURÉ GERSHWIN GRIEG ZECHARIAH GOH HANDEL IBERT KALHOR JEREMIAH LI LISZT LOCKE MAHLER MAHLER MENDELSSOHN

Short Ride in a Fast Machine Violin Concerto Dance Suite The Miraculous Mandarin, Op. 19: Suite Egmont: Overture, Op. 84a Leonore Overture No. 1, Op. 138 Leonore Overture No. 3, Op. 72b Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major, Op. 15 Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major, Op. 58 Septet in E-flat major, Op. 20 Serenade for Flute, Violin and Viola in D major, Op. 25 String Quartet in C minor, Op. 18, No. 4 String Quintet in C major, Op. 29 String Quartet in F major, Op. 18, No. 1 Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 36 Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67 Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92 Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61 Violin Concerto Kammerkonzert Beatrice and Benedict: Overture Scenes from Romeo and Juliet, Op. 17 West Side Story: Symphonic Dances Academic Festival Overture Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 15 Piano Quartet No. 3 in C minor, Op. 60 Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 73 Violin Sonata No. 2 in A major, Op. 100 Miniatures for Piano Trio, Set 2: Romance, Intermezzo & Saltarello Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 26 Mass No. 3 in F minor, WAB.28 ‘Great’ Chanson Perpetuelle for Voice, Piano and String Quartet Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11 An Outdoor Overture Sinfonia concertante in B-flat major, Op. 3 Printemps Sacred and Profane Dances Scottish March on a Popular Theme Cello Concerto in B minor, Op. 104 Serenade for Winds in D minor, Op. 44 Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95 ‘From the New World’ Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85 Sea Pictures, Op. 37 Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 15 Rhapsody in Blue Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16 New Work commissioned by the SSO Selections from Water Music Suites Flute Concerto Silent City New Work commissioned by the SSO Piano Concerto No. 2 in A major, S.125 The Tempest: Incidental music Symphony No. 1 in D major ‘Titan’ Symphony No. 5 in C-sharp minor A Midsummer Night’s Dream Suite

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MENDELSSOHN MENDELSSOHN MESSIAEN MOZART MOZART MOZART MOZART MUSSORGSKY PÄRT PIAZZOLLA PIAZZOLLA PIAZZOLLA POULENC PROKOFIEV PROKOFIEV PROKOFIEV PROKOFIEV PROKOFIEV RACHMANINOV RACHMANINOV RACHMANINOV RAVEL RAVEL RAVEL RAVEL REBEL ROUSE SCHUBERT SCHUMANN SCHUMANN SIBELIUS SHOSTAKOVICH SHOSTAKOVICH SMETANA R. STRAUSS R. STRAUSS STRAVINSKY STRAVINSKY TAN DUN TAN DUN TCHAIKOVSKY TCHAIKOVSKY TCHAIKOVSKY TCHAIKOVSKY TCHAIKOVSKY TELEMANN TELEMANN TELEMANN TYZIK VALENTINI VIVALDI VIVALDI VIVALDI VIVALDI YANOV-YANOVSKY ZHAO LIN

The Fair Melusina Overture Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64 Turangalîla-symphonie Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K.466 Piano Trio No. 6 in G major, K.564 Requiem in D minor, K.626 Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K.550 Pictures at an Exhibition Te Deum Four Seasons for Piano Trio Oblivion for Piano Trio The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires Sextet for Piano and Wind Quintet, Op. 100 Piano Concerto No. 3 in C major, Op. 26 The Love for Three Oranges: Suite, Op. 33a Scenes from Romeo and Juliet, Op. 64 Symphony No. 1 in D major, Op. 25 ‘Classical’ Symphony No. 5 in B-flat major, Op. 100 Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18 Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43 Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27 Alborada del Gracioso Concerto in G major Introduction & Allegro for Harp, Flute, Clarinet and String Quartet Piano Trio in A minor Les élémens (The Elements) Der Gerettete Alberich Symphony No. 8 in B minor, D.759 ‘Unfinished’ Piano Quintet in E-flat major, Op. 44 Symphony No. 2 in C major, Op. 61 Symphony No. 3 in C major, Op. 52 Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47 Symphony No. 12 in D minor, Op. 112 ‘The Year 1917’ The Moldau from My Fatherland Oboe Concerto in D major, TrV.292 Tod und Verklärung (Death and Transfiguration), Op. 24 Petrushka The Firebird: Complete Ballet Farewell My Concubine Passacaglia: Secret of Wind and Birds Hamlet: Fantasy Overture, Op. 67 Romeo and Juliet: Fantasy Overture The Nutcracker Suite Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op. 33 Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35 Concerto for Violin in A major, TWV.51:A4 ‘Die Relinge’ (The Frog) Orchestral Suite in F major, TWV.55:F11 ‘Alster Overture’ Overture in C major, TWV.55:C3 ‘Wassermusik’ (Water Music) Symphonic Swing Concerto for Four Violins in A minor, Op. 7, No. 11 Concerto for Violin in E-flat major, RV 253 ‘La tempesta di mare’ Concerto in D major, RV 562 Overture to La Senna Festeggiante, RV 693 The Four Seasons Sacred Signs Suite Duo

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THU | 7.30PM, ECH SHAKESPEARE400: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM • GIL SHAHAM Lan Shui, conductor | Gil Shaham, violin

15

ECH: Esplanade Concert Hall VCH: Victoria Concert Hall

OCT 16

JUL 16

At a Glance 2016/17 CONCERT CALENDAR 30 SEP &1 6

FRI | 7.30PM, ECH SHAKESPEARE400: ROMEO AND JULIET • CHOPIN PIANO CONCERTO NO. 1 Lan Shui, conductor | Yulianna Avdeeva, piano

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15

SAT | 7.30PM, ECH SHAKESPEARE400: ROMEO AND JULIET • RACHMANINOV CONCERTO NO. 2

AUG 16

Okko Kamu, conductor | Ng Pei-Sian, cello THU | 7.30PM, ECH PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION

SAT | 7.30PM, ECH BRUCKNER MASS NO. 3 Lim Yau, conductor

21 & 22

FRI | 7.30PM, ECH POPS CONCERT: A NIGHT ON BROADWAY Joshua Tan, conductor | Rani Singam, vocalist

12-14

ROCOCO VARIATIONS

Lan Shui, conductor | Sayaka Shoji, violin

Yan Pascal Tortelier, conductor | Dmitri Alexeev, piano

29

FRI & SAT | 7.30PM, VCH

FRI & SAT | 7.30PM, SUN | 4PM, VCH SSO CHAMBER SERIES: WIND, WATER & WAVES: BAROQUE FESTIVAL WITH PAVLO BEZNOSIUK

FRI & SAT | 7.30PM, VCH EIGHT SEASONS: VIVALDI & PIAZZOLLA Igor Yuzefovich, violin / direct

23

SUN | 4PM, VCH

29

SAT | 7.30PM, ECH

SSO CHAMBER SERIES: DVOŘÁK SERENADE FOR WINDS

Pavlo Beznosiuk, violin/ direct

19

FRI | 7.30PM, ECH SHAKESPEARE400: HAMLET • THE YEAR 1917

ROUSE AND RACHMANINOV Andrew Litton, conductor | Jonathan Fox, percussion

26

FRI | 7.30PM, ECH SHAKESPEARE400 • JAVIER PERIANES PLAYS GRIEG

NOV 16

Darrell Ang, conductor | Nikolai Demidenko, piano

3

THU | 7.30PM, ECH RAY CHEN PLAYS BRUCH Andrew Litton, conductor | Ray Chen, violin

SEP 16

Michal Nesterowicz, conductor | Javier Perianes, piano

3&4

SAT | 2PM & 4PM, SUN | 2PM, VCH

5

CONCERTS FOR CHILDREN: SYMPHONIC SORCERY – THE MUSIC OF HARRY POTTER

SAT | 4PM, VCH DISCOVERING MUSIC! – THE WORLD’S A STAGE: THE DRAMA OF OPERA Jason Lai, conductor

Jason Lai, conductor | Dandi Productions

8

THU | 7.30PM, ECH FROZEN PLANET IN CONCERT

11 & 12

FRI & SAT | 7.30PM, ECH

19 & 20

SAT | 2PM & 4PM, SUN | 11AM, 2PM & 4PM, VCH

25 & 26

FRI | 6PM, SAT | 11AM, 2PM & 4PM, VCH

SSO GALA: YO-YO MA & THE SILK ROAD ENSEMBLE Lan Shui, conductor | Yo-Yo Ma, cello | Silk Road Ensemble

Joshua Tan, conductor

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SUN | 4PM, VCH DISCOVERING MUSIC! – MUSIC INSPIRED BY SHAKESPEARE

SSO BABIES’ PROMS Peter Moore, conductor/ presenter

Jason Lai, conductor

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FRI | 7.30PM, VCH PRESIDENT’S YOUNG PERFORMERS CONCERT

CONCERTS FOR CHILDREN: CARNIVAL OF THE ANIMALS Joshua Tan, conductor | L’Arsenal à Musique | Low Shao Suan & Low Shao Ying, pianos

Jason Lai, conductor | Jade Tan Shi Yu, mezzo-soprano | Bernice Lee, oboe

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SUN | 4PM, VCH SSO CHAMBER SERIES: VIVE LA FRANCE! 93

MAR 17

MAHLER 5 Lan Shui, conductor | Zhang Haochen, piano

9& 10

JAN 17

FRI | 7.30PM, ECH

BERTRAND CHAMAYOU PLAYS LISZT Lan Shui, conductor | Bertrand Chamayou, piano

16, 17 & 18

FRI & SAT | 7.30PM, SUN | 4PM, VCH

5&6

THU & FRI | 7.30PM, ECH

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SSO CHRISTMAS CONCERT Joshua Tan, conductor

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SSO GALA: GUSTAVO DUDAMEL & RENAUD CAPUÇON

SUN | 4PM, VCH SSO CHAMBER SERIES: CAPUÇON & ANGELICH • BERG KAMMERKONZERT Lan Shui, conductor | Renaud Capuçon, violin | Nicholas Angelich, piano

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FRI | 7.30PM, ECH SSO BEETHOVEN GALA: LAN SHUI – 20TH SSO SEASON

FEB 17

Jason Lai, conductor FRI | 7.30PM, ECH PETRUSHKA • BRAHMS PIANO CONCERTO NO. 1

SAT | 7.30PM, VCH SSO CHAMBER SERIES: SCHUMANN PIANO QUINTET

SAT | 7.30PM, ECH MESSIAEN TURANGALÎLA

SAT | 7.30PM, ECH SSO POPS CONCERT: MAKOTO OZONE • RHAPSODY IN BLUE Joshua Tan, conductor | Makoto Ozone, piano

15

SAT | 7.30PM, ECH WEST SIDE STORY

SAT | 7.30PM, ECH ROBERT SPANO • TITAN Robert Spano, conductor

20

FRI | 7.30PM, VCH SSO CHAMBER SERIES: THE GREAT BEETHOVEN I Stradivari Quartet with SSO musicians

11

CONCERTS FOR CHILDREN: JASON’S YOUNG PERSON’S GUIDE TO THE ORCHESTRA

Lan Shui, conductor | Andreas Haefliger, piano | Cynthia Millar, ondes Martenot

Joshua Tan, conductor | Kam Ning, violin

10

SAT | 2PM & 4PM, SUN | 2PM, VCH

Chiao-Ying, piano

Lan Shui, conductor | Nicholas Angelich, piano

21

IBERT FLUTE CONCERTO • SHOSTAKOVICH 5

Okko Kamu, conductor | Nikolai Lugansky, piano

Gustavo Dudamel, conductor | Renaud Capuçon, violin

8

SAT | 7.30PM, ECH Yu Long, conductor | Jin Ta, flute

18 & 19

FRI & SAT | 7.30PM, VCH

APR 17

DEC 16

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THU | 7.30PM, ECH TAN DUN • FAREWELL MY CONCUBINE Tan Dun, conductor

SAT | 7.30PM, VCH SSO CHAMBER SERIES: THE GREAT BEETHOVEN II

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SUN | 4PM, VCH

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FRI | 7.30PM, ECH

SSO CHAMBER SERIES: FOUR SEASONS

Stradivari Quartet with SSO musicians

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THU | 7.30PM, ECH SSO GALA: CHARLES DUTOIT • RHAPSODY ON A THEME OF PAGANINI

SSO GALA: MASAAKI SUZUKI CONDUCTS MOZART Masaaki Suzuki, conductor

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SAT | 4PM, VCH DISCOVERING MUSIC! – COLOURFUL TALES

MAY 17

Charles Dutoit, conductor | Lukas Geniušas, piano

5

FRI | 7.30PM, ECH DEBUSSY AND DVOŘÁK Lan Shui, conductor | Wang Jian, cello | Gulnara Mashurova, harp

Jason Lai, conductor

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FRI & SAT | 7.30PM, VCH A WEEKEND WITH BEETHOVEN Yu Long, conductor | Serena Wang, piano

19 & 20

FRI & SAT | 7.30PM, VCH SSO GALA: BEETHOVEN VIOLIN CONCERTO • CRUSELL SINFONIA CONCERTANTE Lan Shui, conductor | Frank Peter Zimmermann, violin | Ma Yue, clarinet Han Chang Chou, horn | Zhang Jin Min, bassoon 95

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