Concerts

More Than Music, More Than Love

One beautiful April morning, on a narrow side street in Tokyo’s fashionable Harajuku neighbourhood, I walked past the 100% perfect girl. So begins a story of love, told from the sweet musings of Bach to the stormy passion of Brahms, framing the centrepiece: Jonathan Shin’s musical reflections on Murakami’s brief tale of perfect love so close, yet so far. Founders of the More Than Music chamber series, Loh Jun Hong and Abigail Sin, join SSO violist Dandan Wang and cellist Ng Pei-Sian in this musical momento of loneliness and longing.

J.S. BACH Aria from Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (arranged for String Trio) JONATHAN SHIN After Haruki Murakami’s short story

“On Seeing The 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful

April Morning” (Concert Premiere)* BRAHMS Piano Quartet No. 3 in C minor, Op. 60 Tue, 20 Jul 2021 Wed, 21 Jul 2021 7:30pm Concert Hall

LOH JUN HONG, VIOLIN DANDAN WANG, VIOLA NG PEI-SIAN, CELLO

(THE HEAD FOUNDATION CHAIR)

ABIGAIL SIN, PIANO TIMOTHY WAN, NARRATOR*

Pipe Up! Pedal to the Metal

Pipe Up! series organist Isaac Lee is drumming up a different beat this time as he’s joined by percussionists of the Singapore National Youth Orchestra in this eyeopening recital of contemporary pieces for solo organ, percussion or both together.

GÁRDONYI Mozart Changes WAMMES Miroir AYRES Toccata on “All You Need Is Love” SEJOURNE Losa TREVINO 2+1 COPLAND Fanfare for the Common Man ROGG Incantations for Organ and Percussion Sun, 1 Aug 2021 2pm, 5pm Concert Hall

ISAAC LEE, ORGAN CHLOE MIRANDA, PERCUSSION KEVIN TAN, PERCUSSION

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By Romantic Hand

By passion, by artistry, by lyric genius - Beethoven, Mendelssohn and Brahms are the epitome of the Romantic musical soul. Let the musicians of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra take you, by figurative hand and heart, into their musical world via three pieces each in a different chamber combination.

BEETHOVEN Variations on “Là ci darem la mano” from Mozart’s

Don Giovanni MENDELSSOHN String Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Op. 13 BRAHMS Piano Trio No. 3 in C minor, Op. 101

Fri, 3 Sep 2021 Sat, 4 Sep 2021 7:30pm Concert Hall

MUSICIANS OF THE SSO

INTIMATE MOMENTS 乐享时光 On the Air with Jin Ta

CONVERSATIONS IN MANDARIN ONLY

Jin Ta, veteran Principal Flute of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra and an impressive composer/ arranger in his own right, is our next artist in the limelight. Come and meet him in this next instalment of our Intimate Moments series, where he will perform as well as talk about his life and music.

TELEMANN Fantasia No. 1 in A major, for Solo Flute DUBOIS Petite Suite for Flute and Bassoon BOEHM Grand Polonaise Op. 16 for Flute and Piano BEETHOVEN Trio, Op. 87 for Flute, Clarinet and Bassoon JIN TA Rice - Tone Poem for Flute and Piano

Supported by Fri, 10 Sep 2021 Sat, 11 Sep 2021 7:30pm Concert Hall

JIN TA, FLUTE MUSICIANS OF THE SSO ZHANG HEYANG, PRESENTER