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This is a pre-recorded online concert. There is no live performance at the Singapore Botanic Gardens. Tune in to NParksBuzz Facebook, NParksSG YouTube or Singapore Symphony Orchestra’s Facebook on 14 November 2021, 6pm to watch.
Let the Singapore Symphony serenade you in the comfort of your home, from the enchanting surrounds of the Singapore Botanic Gardens. The woodwinds of Trio MoSSO will take turns with our string quartet to bring you music of beauty, joy and nostalgia, plus a new work, Vortex, specially written by our Principal Flute, Jin Ta.
Tune in to <a href="https://www.facebook.com/nparksbuzz">NParksBuzz Facebook</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHJP8bKNDPaj7rY935Mq8GA">NParksSG YouTube</a> or <a href="https://www.facebook.com/singaporesymphony/">Singapore Symphony Orchestra’s Facebook</a> at 6pm on Sunday, 14 Nov for a relaxing close to your weekend.
Photo credits: Donovan Teo

Synopsis

Flutist, educator and composer, Jin Ta has been in the Singapore Symphony Orchestra (SSO) as Principal Flute since 1998. 
In 1991, after completing his studies at the Central Music Conservatory (Beijing) with Professor Zhu Tong De, he entered the University of Michigan on a full-scholarship.
In 1995, he studied with Professor Fenwick Smith at the New England Conservatory of Music and was selected as an Artist Diploma candidate in 1997. During the eight years he spent in the US, Jin Ta won numerous flute competitions including the Silver Prize in the National Flute Talk Competition and NFA Young Artist Competition (1995), First Prize in the James Pappoutsakis Memorial Flute Competition (1996), Israel Haifa International Flute Competition (2001), among many others.
Besides performing with the SSO, Jin Ta is dedicated to teaching. He has taught at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA) and LaSalle College of the Arts. He is also a founding faculty member of the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music (National University of Singapore). His students are now working in many professional orchestras in China, Taiwan and Korea. Jin Ta is also a self-taught composer and has published a number of works such as his First Flute Sonata, and Second Sonata, “Mongol”. He frequently gives talks and masterclasses in China, Taiwan, Thailand and South Korea.
During the COVID-19 circuit breaker period, he and his wife <a href="https://www.sso.org.sg/about/singapore-symphony-orchestra/the-orchestra/yu-jing">Yu Jing (SSO Associate Principal Cello)</a> created a flute education WeChat channel “Lumino’s art of flute” (小 鲁仔长笛艺术). This channel focusses on contributing free online flute lessons for both college level students and young flutists, and musical stories for children.

Ta Jin (Jin Ta)

Li Xin entered the middle school affiliated to Shanghai Conservatory of Music for clarinet learning with Professor Gu Peng and later entered the middle school affiliated to the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, study with Professor Tao Chunxiao. Li Xin has won the prizes at the National Clarinet Competition at the age of 16 in Beijing and the "Shanghai Spring" International Music Festival in 2001.
With a full scholarship awarded by Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music at National University of Singapore, Li Xin continued studying with Ma Yue and completed his Bachelor degree of music. In April 2005, Li Xin was among the first group of six Conservatory students selected for Yong Siew Toh Conservatory Fellowship Programme at the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore, USA, where he received coaching from Peabody faculty, as well as the clarinettist in Philadelphia Orchestra and the professor at Juilliard school.
In the past years, Li Xin performed often with the conservatory orchestra in China and solo performance at Shanghai Concert Hall. In Singapore, he performed with the Conservatory Orchestra often as principle clarinet and as a member of a Conservatory Wind Quintet. He also played in the Peabody Symphony Orchestra, Singapore Symphony Orchestra, the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra and as Principal clarinet in Macao Orchestra. He often goes to the international music festival as well, like Asian Youth Orchestra, the Canton International Summer Music Academy, where he performed with some renowned soloists and conductors, such as Martha Argerich and Charles Dutoit.
In 2007, Li Xin continued his studies in Europe, where he received lessons with the clainet professor in Geneva, Zurich and Lyon. He was accepted as freelance musician in the Orchestra of Zurich Opera and the Orchestra Musikkollegium Winterthur in Switzerland.

Xin Li (Li Xin)

The Austrian bassoonist joined the Singapore Symphony Orchestra in 2008. He is a graduate of the Conservatory Vienna where he studied performance with Michael Werba (Principal Bassoon, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra) and education. Various masterclasses complemented his education.
During his university years Christoph Wichert was able to gain experience in various ensembles of the Viennese concert life such as with the Wiener Kammerorchester. He is also a founding member of the Feuerhaus Kammerorchester. As a substitute player at the State Opera of Vienna and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, he was able to work, tour and record under conductors such as Zubin Mehta, Seiji Ozawa, Mariss Jansons, Riccardo Muti and Nikolaus Harnoncourt. He has performed as a soloist in various recitals and with orchestras playing concertos by Mozart, Weber, Pauer and Hartl.
Before moving to Singapore, Christoph Wichert was working as solo bassoonist with the Orchester der Vereinigten Bühnen in Wien for their productions and at the music school of Tulln teaching bassoon, music theory and guiding the symphonic wind band. In Tulln, he was able to successfully prepare some of his students for studies at music universities and started a composition workshop together with his colleague Cordula Bösze.
Being an active chamber musician with Ensemble QuinTonic, a devoted teacher and through his intense engagement in contemporary music, Christoph Wichert is always trying to widen his musical horizon.

Christoph Wichert

A native of Kaohsiung, Taiwan, violinist Cindy Lee started her piano lessons when she was four and had her first public performance at seven. She started violin studies at eight under a special artistic programme founded by local government. While she was a student in Taiwan, Cindy has performed Mozart Piano Concerto No. 21 as a soloist with her school orchestra, as well as the Barber Violin Concerto with the Kaohsiung City Symphony Orchestra.
A graduate of the National Taiwan Normal University and the Eastman School of Music, her principal teachers included Yung-Shin Fang, Zen-Sheng Chen, Shu-Te Lee, Chia-Hong Liao, Oleh Krysa and David Brickman.
As an orchestra musician, Cindy has performed as part of the Asian Youth Orchestra, Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, Spoleto Festival (Italy), Civic Orchestra of Chicago, Kaohsiung City Symphony Orchestra and Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra.
Cindy Lee has been a member of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra since 2004.

Cindy Lee

Born in Kyiv in Ukraine, Nikolai Koval started playing the violin at the age of five and graduated from the National Music Academy of Ukraine (Kyiv Conservatory). He started his career in the Kyiv Chamber Orchestra and performed in many countries in Europe, Asia and America. While in the chamber orchestra, he worked with many of the world’s leading soloists including Gidon Kremer, Natalia Gutman, Alexei Lyubimov and Mischa Maisky. He was also involved in many chamber projects such as with the Ukraine National Philharmonic String Quartet. In 1996 he performed as soloist with Lysenko Chamber Orchestra at the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam and made a recording under the Disky Communications label in Netherlands. Nikolai moved to Germany in 1997, where he played Principal Second Violin with Philharmonia of the Nations until he joined the Singapore Symphony Orchestra in 2002.

Nikolai Koval

Dandan Wang started violin studies at the age of six. When she was 16, she switched to viola studies with Prof Xi-Di Shen. In 2010, Dandan started her undergraduate studies in the Shanghai Conservatory of Music with scholarship, where she was a student of Prof Nian Liu.
She performed in the Chamber Music Festival hosted by Shanghai Conservatory of Music and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music in 2010. In 2015, she was invited by Oscar and Grammy-awarded Chinese Composer Tan Dun to perform his chamber music pieces in Shanghai and Beijing.
In January 2015, Dandan began her study in San Francisco Conservatory of Music as a graduate student. She was a student of Prof Jay Liu, Associate Principal Viola of San Francisco Symphony. In July 2016, she was admitted to Pacific Music Festival, one of the most famous festivals in the world. She served as the Principal Viola, performing with maestro Valery Gergiev, violinist Leonidas Kavakos, and with musicians from the Berlin Philharmonic, Vienna Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, Metropolitan Opera, National Symphony and San Francisco Symphony. 
After graduating from San Francisco Conservatory, Dandan was a guest violist of the San Francisco Symphony and at the same time, a fellow musician of San Jose Opera.
Dandan has served as a violist tutti in the Singapore Symphony Orchestra since February 2018 and as a coach in the Singapore National Youth Orchestra.

Dandan Wang

Chan Wei Shing was born into a musical family and started playing the piano at the age of eight and cello at the age of ten. In 1985, he won First Prize in the cello open and chamber music categories of the National Music Competition. 
In 1988, he began studying with Professor Angelika May at the University of Music in Vienna and later with Professor Rudolf Leopold in Graz in Austria. In 1996, he was awarded a Masters in Cello Performance. 
In 2011, Wei Shing and his wife started a opera company - they have since become the company's Music Directors and have conducted many operas including Die Fledermaus, A Midsummer Night's Dream and Dialogues des Carmélites, to name a few.
Wei Shing's passion lies not only in music: he also dives regularly and has a passion for photography and cooking.


Tico-Tico no Fubá	Abreu arr. Goodman
Vortex World Premiere	Jin Ta
Allegro moderato from The Lark Quartet	Haydn
Molto vivace from the American Quartet	Dvořák
Variations on La ci darem la mano from Mozart's Don Giovanni	Beethoven
Moon River from Breakfast at Tiffany's	Mancini arr. Pedro Merendi
Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor Recorded live at the Singapore Botanic Gardens, July 2018	BORODIN

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