There’s more than just a concert in your ticket. Join us at various fringe events associated with each concert, specially designed to help you enjoy the music even more.
Last updated: 6 May 2021
Discover new insights into the music you are about to hear in the concert hall. Let our specialist speakers (and even the occasional guest artist!) enrich your experience of the world’s greatest composers and their works. Pre-Concert Talks are held from 6.30pm-7pm. Open to public.
Note: Concert titles listed below may not reflect the actual topic of the talk.
| Date | Venue | Details |
|---|---|---|
| From Thu, 30 Jul 2020 onwards | Facebook and YouTube |
Debussy & Dvořák: Serenade and Dance Speakers: Chief Conductor, Hans Graf and Dvořák’s great-great-granddaughter, Marketa Dvořák |
| From Thu, 27 Aug 2020 onwards | Facebook and YouTube |
Mozart & Stravinsky: Music on the Air Speaker: Chief Conductor, Hans Graf |
| From Thu, 24 Sep 2020 onwards | Facebook and YouTube |
Kahchun Wong Conducts Debussy, Wagner and Shostakovich Speaker: Conductor, Kahchun Wong |
| From Thu, 8 Oct 2020 onwards | Facebook and YouTube |
President’s Young Performers Concert Speaker: Music educator, Darren Sim |
| From Thu, 22 Oct 2020 onwards | Facebook and YouTube |
Music For All Time - Celebrating Bach I Speaker: SSO trombonist, Samuel Armstrong |
| From Thu, 5 Nov 2020 onwards | Facebook and YouTube |
Metamorphosen and Mozart with Hans Graf Speaker: Chief Conductor, Hans Graf |
| From Wed, 18 Nov 2020 onwards | Facebook and YouTube |
Divertissement: An Evening of French Music Speaker: Conductor, Darrell Ang |
| From Sun, 29 Nov 2020 onwards | Facebook and YouTube |
A Little Mozart with Chloe Chua Speaker: Chief Conductor, Hans Graf |
| From Thu, 3 Dec 2020 onwards | Facebook and YouTube |
Miracle of Music - Celebrating Bach II Speaker: Esplanade musicologist and programmer, Natalie Ng |
| From Tue, 5 Jan 2021 onwards | Facebook and YouTube |
To Vienna and Linz with Mozart Speaker: Pianist and Associate Professor, Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music, Albert Tiu |
| From Wed, 6 Jan 2021 onwards | Facebook and YouTube |
Ng Pei-Sian Plays Shostakovich Speaker: Chief Conductor, Hans Graf |
| From Wed, 3 Feb 2021 onwards | Facebook and YouTube |
A Gift to the Universe - Celebrating Bach III Speaker: Organist, Isaac Lee |
| From Tue, 9 Mar 2021 onwards | Facebook and YouTube |
Fête Musicale - A Musical Celebration Speaker: Music educator and pianist, Pamela Krakauer |
| From Mon, 29 Mar 2021 onwards | Facebook and YouTube |
Speaker: Musicologist and educator, Dr. Katherine Wallace |
| From Thu, 8 Apr 2021 onwards | Facebook and YouTube |
Speaker: SSO Principal Flute, Jin Ta |
| From Thu, 15 Apr 2021 onwards | Facebook and YouTube |
Speaker: Chief Conductor, Hans Graf |
| From Wed, 5 May 2021 onwards | Facebook and YouTube |
Speaker: Dr. Margaret Chen |
| Further talks will be added at a later date. | ||
Autograph sessions are arranged for selected concerts, allowing you the rare chance to meet performers face-to-face and offer your compliments. All autograph sessions are held during intermission unless otherwise indicated. Where applicable, priority in the queue is given to attendees with artiste merchandise.
| Date | Venue | Artiste |
|---|---|---|
| More autograph sessions will be added at a later date. | ||
| Date | Time | Venue | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| Please check back for updates. | |||
That amazing concert you just watched is the result of several rehearsals and a lot of hard work. Open rehearsals offer a behind-the-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. Open to public.
| Date | Time | Venue | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| Further Open Rehearsals will be added at a later date. | |||
| Date | Time | Venue |
|---|---|---|
| Please check back for updates. | ||