The Singapore Symphony proudly champions homegrown artistic talents this SG60

Only a mere 50 years separate Brahms’s final symphony and Berg’s 1935 Violin Concerto. Poised between pensive mystery and surging beauty, Berg’s famous concerto “To the Memory of an Angel” has its unmistakable modernity plucked aside from time to time to reveal glimpses of heaven. Acclaimed violinist Leila Josefowicz plays this haunting work under the baton of popular South Korean conductor Han-Na Chang, who will also lead the SSO in Brahms’s monumental Symphony No. 4.

Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Han-Na Chang, conductor / Leila Josefowicz, violin

$100, $75, $55, $40, $30, $15

Fantasia – Disney’s animated classic and tribute to classical music comes to life on screen at the Esplanade Concert Hall. Let the Singapore Symphony Orchestra and conductor Joshua Tan take you back to the wholesome world of hand-drawn animated artistry invigorated by the unforgettable music of Beethoven, Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky, Bach and many more.

Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Joshua Tan, conductor

$108, $88, $68, $48, $28

The 8th SSO National Day Concert celebrates Singapore’s 60th birthday with a wide-ranging showcase of Singapore’s growing league of composers and musical artists. Displaying the brilliance of the phenomenal Singaporean saxophonist Lin Chien-Kwan and violinist Jonathan Ong, the programme features classics by Singaporean composers as well as new works, including an arrangement of songs by Charlie Lim and Dick Lee for voices and orchestra.

The SSO is raising funds through this concert to nurture homegrown talents and build stronger, more connected communities through the language of music. We would like to offer our heartfelt thanks for the support given to the following compositions listed below. To support this campaign, please visit this link to make donation.

This concert will be streamed live on the Singapore Symphony YouTube channel and mewatch.

In celebration of the Singapore Symphony Choruses' anniversaries. Learn more.

Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Singapore Symphony Chorus / Singapore Symphony Youth Choir / Singapore Symphony Children’s Choir / Members of the Singapore National Youth Orchestra / Joshua Tan, conductor / Ellissa Sayampanathan, Assistant Choral Conductor / Jonathan Ong, violin / Lin Chien-Kwan, saxophone / Ng Pei-Sian, cello³ / Charlie Lim, vocalist and electric guitarist³ / Syakirah Noble, vocalist³ / Lily Goh, deaf artist-performer / Priscilla Fong, host

$75, $55, $40, $30, $15

With spirits as high as her rising fame, Tchaikovsky’s glorious Violin Concerto is the next virtuoso vehicle of Singapore’s brightest violin star, Chloe Chua. Bernard Hermann’s score for Alfred Hitchcock’s 1958 classic Vertigo grips you from the onset, gradually transforming chilling fear into poignant resolution. Directed by SSO Associate Conductor Rodolfo Barráez, this programme also offers Hindemith’s Symphonic Metamorphosis, with no let-up from its arresting opening all through to its exhilarating conclusion worthy of grand cinema.

Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Rodolfo Barráez, Associate Conductor / Chloe Chua, violin

$100, $75, $55, $40, $30, $15

Called the Paganini and Caruso of the trumpet, Sergei Nakariakov’s superhuman skills with the instrument promises to blow you away on this unique occasion: performing the trumpet concerto by renowned pianist-conductor Mikhail Pletnev, under his baton. Pletnev’s own arrangement of Tchaikovsky’s luscious music for Swan Lake makes a graceful contrast to the bold-as-brass Festive Overture, a jubilant tribute to Shostakovich’s 50th anniversary this 2025.

Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Mikhail Pletnev, conductor / Sergei Nakariakov, trumpet

$100, $75, $55, $40, $30, $15

Embark on a cosmic musical journey with Luna the Young Spacefarer across the cosmos in search of harmony, friendship, and a way back home. Encounter curious aliens, mysterious planets and thrilling chases as kids learn about the orchestra in this fun introduction to classical music! This vibrant interstellar concert invites young audiences to learn about the instruments of the orchestra through storytelling, featuring Britten’s Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra.

• Features actors and visuals projected onscreen.
• This is a relaxed environment performance where rules are eased, allowing audiences to freely enter and exit the concert hall when needed. No modifications are made to the performance.
• Pre-concert activities will begin an hour before each show.

Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Lien Boon Hua, conductor and music consultant / Terrance Tan, director and scriptwriter / Tan Rui Shan, actor / Liew Ai Wen, actor / Zulfiqar Izzudin Bin Zainudin, actor / Petrina Dawn Tan, set and prop designer / Shawne Kho Yzelman, assistant set and prop designer / Tan Jia Hui, costume designer / Tan Yi Kai, lighting designer

$40, $30

Discover a day in the life of an SSCC chorister through our full-day programme of music-making, learning the basics of rhythm, solfeggio and choral techniques.

Nurture your child’s vocal brilliance with workshops conducted by the Singapore Symphony Children’s Choir (SSCC) conductors! Discover a day in the life of an SSCC chorister through our full-day programme of music-making, learning the basics of rhythm, solfeggio and choral techniques. Workshop participants will get to conclude their experience with an early evening concert at the iconic Victoria Concert Hall, featuring material learnt, and choristers of the Singapore Symphony Children’s Choir.

Do note that the repertoire may include some liturgical works.

Suitable for children aged 8 to 12 (born between 2013 and 2017). We welcome all including music beginners!

Learning Outcomes

• Choral technique and singing
• Music and movement in song
• Vocal music notation and solfeggi

Details

A programme that runs on 8 & 9 Sep, participants can select one day to attend.

• Date & Time: Mon & Tue, 8 & 9 Sep 2025, 9am-6pm
• Venue: Victoria Concert Hall
• Fee: $118 per participant

Perks

• Receive your own fun pack of learning and music materials
• Make friends and interact with SSCC choristers
• Conclude your participation in The SSCC Experience with a performance onstage at the Victoria Concert Hall

Registration opens on Mon, 2 Jun 2025 and will close on Sat, 30 Aug 2025. If you have any questions, please email choral@sso.org.sg.

$118 per participant

The SSO's popular Babies’ Proms returns this September 2025 with its well-established and familiar programme that has entertained generations of kids over the years. Discover the fun and fantastic world of the orchestra and its different instruments in this free-and-easy musical day out for parents and kids. Be ready to get up from your seats and move along to the music with your lively Babies’ Proms presenter, William Ledbetter “Uncle Bill”!

• The SSO Babies’ Proms programme is identical from year to year.
• This is a relaxed environment performance where rules are eased, allowing audiences to freely enter and exit the concert hall when needed. No modifications are made to the performance.
• Pre-concert activities will begin an hour before each show.

Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Leonard Tan, conductor / William Ledbetter, presenter

$45, $35

The Singapore Symphony’s 2025 President’s Young Performers Concert shines the spotlight on saxophonist Dante Tan, clarinetist Chua Jay Roon and multi-award-winning harpist Renee Yadav, three of Singapore’s finest young musicians showcasing their musical finesse in three masterworks from the 20th century. SSO Associate Conductor Rodolfo Barráez champions them from the podium before concluding the programme with Mendelssohn’s effervescent Italian Symphony.

Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Rodolfo Barráez, Associate Conductor / Dante Tan Yu Jie, saxophone / Chua Jay Roon, clarinet / Renee Yadav, harp

$75, $55, $40, $30, $15

A lazy summer’s frolic, a jester’s gambol with fate, and finally, peaceful Romantic serenity. This attractive programme of chamber music is a display of the versatile voices of the woodwind instrument family.

Chan Yoong-Han, violin / Sayuri Kuru, violin / Xu Jueyi, violin / Guan Qi, viola / Jamshid Saydikarimov, cello / Yang Zheng Yi, double bass / Jin Ta, flute / Rachel Walker, oboe / Ma Yue, clarinet / Li Xin, clarinet / Guo Siping, bassoon / Austin Larson, horn

$30, $20

Update: Please note that Yo-Yo Ma will perform Bach's Cello Suite No. 3 instead of Cello Suite No. 6.

Yo-Yo Ma – legendary cellist, global personality, Time 100 and Gramophone Hall of Fame honoree, United Nations Messenger of Peace, recipient of countless awards including 19 Grammies – makes his highly anticipated return to Singapore with this solo recital at the Esplanade.

Yo-Yo Ma, cello

$388, $288, $208, $158, $108, $68

Blazing with sunset longing and soul-searing ardour, Dvořák’s Cello Concerto is the masterpiece in this gala concert starring one of the world’s most beloved cellists, the legendary Yo-Yo Ma. Spanish conductor Juanjo Mena leads this programme beginning with Nielsen’s exuberant Symphony No. 4, so named for the composer’s goal to express the elemental will to live. Music is Life, and like it, it is Inextinguishable.

Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Juanjo Mena, conductor / Yo-Yo Ma, cello

$388, $288, $208, $158, $108, $68

The Singapore Symphony Children’s Choir (SSCC) offers training and performance opportunities to children by developing their vocal technique, music literacy and musicianship, with an aim to help fledgling singers achieve their fullest musical potential. Singing with the SSCC requires discipline and teamwork, which in turn fosters confidence, self-esteem, and helps develop important life skills. Besides our own concerts, the SSCC offers the extraordinary experience of performing monumental choral classics with the combined forces of the Singapore Symphony choruses and orchestra.

Please note that the SSCC repertoire may include some liturgical works.

Details

• Dates: Sun, 28 Sep 2025
• Time: Timeslots will be allocated upon registration
• Fee: $25 per participant

Recommended for children aged 8 to 14 (born between 2011 and 2017).

We welcome all with and without music background, though auditionees aged 11 (Child's age is determined by the year of birth, i.e. born in/before 2014) and above will require a minimum of ABRSM (or equivalent) Music Theory and/or Performance Grade 3 qualification.

What to expect

Auditionees can expect to go through their audition song, aural and musicianship assessments with SSCC's friendly panel. Children with music backgrounds may be asked to try additional musicianship exercises to ascertain their capability.

Registration opens on Mon, 2 Jun 2025 and closes on Sat, 20 Sep 2025. If you have any questions, please email choral@sso.org.sg.

Fee: $25 per participant

Filled to the brim with lively polkas and irresistible waltzes, Johann Strauss II’s Die Fledermaus (“The Bat”) is a tale of love affairs and lovers’ identities gone awry. From the same people who brought you 2024’s Figaro in a Pocket, come see this abridged 90-minute version of one of the most popular comic operettas of all time.

Maximilian Lawrie, as Gabriel von Eisenstein (tenor) / Flavia Stricker, as Rosalinde (soprano) / Sun Ting, as Adele (soprano) / Teng Xiang Ting, as Ida (soprano) / Jonathan Mark Macpherson, as Alfred (tenor) / Till von Orlowsky, as Dr Falke (baritone) / Damian Whiteley, as Frank (baritone) / Anna Koor, as Prince Orlofsky (mezzo-soprano) / Xiaoming Wang, violin and Guest Concertmaster / Musicians of the SSO

$50, $40, $30

Subtitled Ghosts, the Concerto for Orchestra by Scottish composer Sir James MacMillan (b. 1959) is a co-commission by orchestras across Great Britain, Sweden, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and the USA. Come witness this riveting showpiece in its Asian premiere by the SSO and Hans Graf. The veteran French pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard joins us to bring the kaleidoscopic frenzy of Bartók’s Second Piano Concerto, notorious for its hair-raising difficulty, before we set the stage for Prokofiev’s potent take on the loves lived and lives lost in Romeo & Juliet.

Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Hans Graf, Quantedge Music Director / Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano

$100, $75, $55, $40, $30, $15

Update: Please note that Michał Nesterowicz will conduct this concert in place of Rodolfo Barráez.

Relish beautiful Denmark through Nielsen’s choral tributes to love, life and springtime. Celebrating their anniversaries this season, three generations of the Singapore Symphony Choruses under the baton of Polish maestro Michał Nesterowicz will sing Nielsen’s Hymn of Love (Hymnus Amoris) and revel in Springtime in Funen (Fynsk Forår). Distinguished Austrian pianist Rudolf Buchbinder returns to Singapore to complete his cycle of Beethoven Piano Concertos with the composer’s magnificent Emperor Concerto.

In celebration of the Singapore Symphony Choruses' anniversaries. Learn more.

Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Singapore Symphony Chorus / Singapore Symphony Youth Choir / Singapore Symphony Children’s Choir / Michał Nesterowicz, conductor / Eudenice Palaruan, Choral Director / Wong Lai Foon, Choirmaster / Rudolf Buchbinder, piano / Frederikke Kampmann, soprano / Anders Kampmann, tenor / Steffen Bruun, baritone/bass / Yang Kai Wong, baritone

$100, $75, $55, $40, $30, $15

In a follow-up to his 2023 recital, the renowned Austrian pianist Rudolf Buchbinder plays Schubert’s sparkling Op. 90 Impromptus before embarking on two more of Beethoven’s most famous piano masterpieces, the stormy Tempest and the spirited Waldstein Sonatas.

Rudolf Buchbinder, piano

$80, $60, $45, $30, $20

The award-winning British-Australian organist Joseph Nolan has been hailed as “indisputably one of the world’s finest organists” (Limelight) “for his towering technique, vivid virtuosity, and inspired interpretive insight’’ (Gramophone). Step into the Victoria Concert Hall this October and hear him play haunting classics on the Klais Pipe Organ, including Bach’s famous “Toccata” (BWV565), Saint-Saëns’s Danse Macabre and selections from Boëllmann’s Suite Gothique. Light painter Lawrence Koh joins Nolan on stage to enlighten you with a live light painting depicting Reubke's Sonata on the 94th Psalm.

Joseph Nolan, organ / Lawrence Koh, Light painter

$30, $20

Put on your spookiest costume this Halloween and join our Master of Ghostly Revels, Alasdair Malloy in this fun-filled, goosebump-generating Halloween Spooktacular! Help us raise the spirits at the Victoria Concert Hall together with our ghostbusting conductor Rodolfo Barraéz, as we conjure our masquerade of wily witches, grinning ghouls and stumbling skeletons!

• This is a relaxed environment performance where rules are eased, allowing audiences to freely enter and exit the concert hall when needed. No modifications are made to the performance.
• Pre-concert activities will begin an hour before each show.

Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Rodolfo Barráez, Associate Conductor / Alasdair Malloy, presenter

$40, $30