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Pre-Event Testing (PET) is required for this concert for those who are not exempted. Information on exemptions can be found <a href="https://www.sso.org.sg/about/pre-event-testing">here</a>. The free PET appointment at the venue can be booked via <a href="https://appointment.minmed.sg/product/art-singaporesymphonyorchestra/">this link</a> and your appointment will be confirmed via email.
Take a break from your daily grind and enjoy music live at the Victoria Concert Hall – the Singapore Symphony serenades you with a delightful programme of easy-listening classics and familiar tunes of home.
For those who cannot make it in person, join us instead on Thursday 22 July, 12.30pm online on the SSO’s Facebook page for a video premiere of the concert.

Synopsis

 Singapore Symphony String Quartet

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.

Wei Shing Chan (Chan Wei Shing)

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Nocturne

Canon

Libertango

Home for String Quartet

Three Folk Dances – Rasa Sayang, Bengawan Solo, Di Tanjong Katong

Bunga Sayang for String Quartet

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Admission is free but registration is required. Registration opens on 9 Jul, 10am.


Nocturne	Borodin
Canon	Pachelbel
Libertango	Piazzolla
Home for String Quartet	Dick Lee
Three Folk Dances – Rasa Sayang, Bengawan Solo, Di Tanjong Katong	Kelly Tang
Bunga Sayang for String Quartet	Dick Lee

SSO Lunchtime Concert (Jul 2021)

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