SSO back in the concert hall for digital productions with Hans Graf, Kahchun Wong and first-ever President's Young Performer marimba soloist
September and October sees the SSO’s digital season, SSOPlayOn! continue with four concerts to be streamed online via SISTIC Live, with highlights including Debussy and Wagner conducted by the brilliant young conductor Kahchun Wong, and the first-ever marimba soloist, Julia Tan, to star in the President’s Young Performers Concert. In addition, tickets are now on sale for Mozart & Stravinsky: Music on the Air, with the SSO’s new Chief Conductor Hans Graf, which will be streamed on Saturday 29 August at 8pm on SISTIC Live.
From 12 September 8pm, SSO first violinist Zhang Si Jing curates VCHpresents Intimate Moments 乐享时光: Zhang Si Jing and Friends. This concert, supported by Lianhe Zaobao, is presented in Mandarin and gives audiences a rare chance to experience a more intimate and informal musical performance. The programme includes chamber works by J. S. Bach, Paganini, Handel, Dvořák and Kelly Tang. Tickets for this concert on SISTIC Live start at the special school-holiday price of just $5 and are on sale now.
From 26 September 8pm, the Singapore Symphony Orchestra will be back at the Esplanade for a digital concert with the brilliant young conductor Kahchun Wong. The concert opens with Debussy’s mesmerising Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune (Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun) before the orchestra performs Wagner’s chamber masterpiece, the Siegfried Idyll. The programme is brought to an end by Shostakovich’s Chamber Symphony (an orchestral arrangement of the composer’s String Quartet No.8, created by Rudolf Barshai). The concert, on sale now, will be streamed on SISTIC Live, with tickets available from just $10.
Percussion takes centrestage on 10 October when 23-year-old marimba player Julia Tan is the star of this year’s President’s Young Performers Concert, streamed on SISTIC Live at 8pm. An award-winning graduate of the Mannes School of Music, New York, and recipient of the Best Graduate Award, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore, Julia will play the Marimba Concerto by prominent French composer-percussionist Emmanuel Séjourné. The programme, conducted by Joshua Tan, also includes Barber’s Adagio for Strings and Suk’s Serenade in E-flat major. Tickets go on sale at 10am on 10 September and will be available from just $10.
SSOPlayOn!’s final concert in October, from 8pm on Saturday 24th, celebrates the legacy of the great Baroque composer J. S. Bach. Darrell Ang conducts the composer’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G major, alongside Orchestral Suites Nos 1 & 3. This celebration of the Baroque will be available to watch online at SISTIC Live, and tickets – starting at just $10 – will go on sale at 10am on 10 September.
The SSO also announces the cancellation of the following live concerts:
- Symphonic Sorcery – The Music of Harry Potter (5 & 6 Sept)
- President's Young Performers Concert (11 Sept)
- A Little Mozart with Chloe Chua (25 & 26 Sept)
- The Music of Hans Zimmer (1 October)
- Chief Conductor Hans Graf (9 & 10 Oct)
- Hans Graf conducts Beethoven and Shostakovich (15 & 16 Oct)
- Royal Affairs – Kings & Queens of Opera (23 Oct)
- Ng Pei-Sian Plays Shostakovich (30 & 31 Oct).
Mozart & Stravinsky: Music on the Air (Online)
Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Hans Graf, Chief Conductor
Sat / 29 Aug 20 / 8.00pm
SISTIC Live [Online]
Mozart inspired an endless legacy of composers after him, including Stravinsky - who called himself “Mozart’s Continuer”. Join us in this online concert as we return to the Esplanade Concert Hall to play a plethora of pieces in neo-classical tradition. Be inspired by the muses of Apollo and enjoy the merriment of a Mozartian serenade.
FORMAT: SISTIC Live stream on 29 Aug. Concert begins at 8pm with countdown lobby open at 7.30pm. Viewable until 14 Sep, 10pm.
FeaturingSingapore Symphony Orchestra / Hans Graf, Chief Conductor
ProgrammeAdagio and Fugue in C minor, K.546 | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Mozart) |
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Apollo | Igor Stravinsky (Stravinsky) |
Octet | Igor Stravinsky (Stravinsky) |
Serenade in E-flat, K.375 | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Mozart) |
Intimate Moments 乐享时光: Zhang Si Jing & Friends (Online)
Zhang Si Jing, violin / Cindy Lee, violin/piano / Janice Tsai, viola / Wang Yan, cello / Zhang Heyang, presenter
Sat / 12 Sep 20 / 8.00pm
SISTIC Live [Online]
Intimate Moments is a chamber-scale affair co-hosted in Mandarin by a select musician of the Singapore Symphony family and Lianhe Zaobao Fukan Journalist Zhang Heyang.
By popular demand, SSO violinist Zhang Si Jing returns with another Intimate Moments recital. Join her on a musical journey from West to East, encompassing music from both sides of the world. This performance will be available on SISTIC Live from 12 - 26 Sep 2020.
This programme features conversations in Mandarin, with English subtitles.
FORMAT: SISTIC Live stream on 12 Sep. Concert begins at 8pm with countdown lobby open at 7.30pm. Viewable until 26 Sep 8pm.
《乐享时光》系列室内音乐会由新加坡交响乐团的一位特别演奏家和《联合早报》副刊记者张鹤杨联合主持呈献。
受观众的热情鼓舞，新加坡交响乐团小提琴演奏家张巳璟将再度呈献《乐享时光·从西至东》室内音乐会，以丰富的音乐和历史故事展开一场穿越时空的旅行。节目将于2020年9月12日至26日在SISTIC Live平台上播出。
播出方式：音乐会将于9月12日晚上8时在SISTIC Live平台播出，演出开始前半小时开放登录。9月26日晚上8时前可观看回放。
FeaturingZhang Si Jing, violin / Cindy Lee, violin/piano / Janice Tsai, viola / Wang Yan, cello / Zhang Heyang, presenter
ProgrammeLargo from Sonata No. 3 in C major, BWV 1005 | Johann Sebastian Bach (J.S. Bach) |
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Mosè-Fantasia | Niccolò Paganini (Paganini) |
Passacaglia for Violin and Viola | Handel-Halvorsen |
Terzetto in C, Op. 74 | Antonín Dvořák (Dvořák) |
Three Folk Dances | Kelly Tang |
Kahchun Wong Conducts Debussy, Wagner and Shostakovich (Online)
Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Kahchun Wong, conductor
Sat / 26 Sep 20 / 8.00pm
SISTIC Live [Online]
Debussy’s visionary evocation of a faun’s afternoon languor in the forest. Wagner’s intimate celebration of idyllic love; and the dark, driving anguish of Shostakovich’s Chamber Symphony. Three pieces that could hardly be more contrasting in their colours and moods, directed by the phenomenal Kahchun Wong.
FORMAT: SISTIC Live stream on 26 Sep. Concert begins at 8pm with countdown lobby open at 7.30pm. Viewable until 10 Oct 8pm.
FeaturingSingapore Symphony Orchestra / Kahchun Wong, conductor
ProgrammePrelude to the Afternoon of a Faun (arr. Sachs) | Claude Debussy (Debussy) |
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Siegfried Idyll | Richard Wagner (Wagner) |
Chamber Symphony, Op. 110a (String Quartet No. 8, arr. Barshai) | Dmitri Shostakovich (Shostakovich) |
President’s Young Performers Concert (Online)
Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Joshua Tan, Associate Conductor / Julia Tan, marimba
Sat / 10 Oct 20 / 8.00pm
SISTIC Live [Online]
The marimba takes centrestage at this year’s President’s Young Performers Concert with young Singaporean percussionist Julia Tan. An award-winning graduate of the Mannes School of Music, New York, and recipient of the Best Graduate Award, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore, she will play the Marimba Concerto by prominent French composer-percussionist Emmanuel Séjourné. Join the SSO and Associate Conductor Joshua Tan in this annual showcase of Singapore’s finest musical talent.
FORMAT: SISTIC Live stream on 10 Oct. Concert begins at 8pm with countdown lobby open at 7.30pm. Viewable until 24 Oct 8pm.
FeaturingSingapore Symphony Orchestra / Joshua Tan, Associate Conductor / Julia Tan, marimba
ProgrammeAdagio for Strings | Samuel Barber (Barber) |
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Concerto for Marimba and String Orchestra | Emmanuel Séjourné |
Serenade in E-flat major, Op. 6 | Josef Suk (Suk) |
Music for All Time - Celebrating Bach I (Online)
Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Darrell Ang, conductor
Sat / 24 Oct 20 / 8.00pm
SISTIC Live [Online]
Bach wrote some of the most famous music in all human history – from the dazzling Brandenburg Concertos to the pinnacles of the Baroque suite. Our celebration of the Master of Baroque begins with the splendour of strings in his Brandenburg Concerto No. 3, followed by two of his magnificent Orchestral Suites, home to his universally beloved “Air on the G String”, the epitome of music for all time.
FORMAT: SISTIC Live stream on 24 Oct. Concert begins at 8pm with countdown lobby open at 7.30pm. Viewable until 7 Nov 8pm.
FeaturingSingapore Symphony Orchestra / Darrell Ang, conductor
ProgrammeBrandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G major, BWV 1048 | Johann Sebastian Bach (J.S. Bach) |
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Orchestral Suite No. 1 in C major, BWV 1066 | Johann Sebastian Bach (J.S. Bach) |
Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major, BWV 1068 | Johann Sebastian Bach (J.S. Bach) |
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