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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。

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To meet and hear our talented violinist in a unique heart-to-heart setting.

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Zhang Si Jing started her violin studies in Shanghai at a tender age of 5 before she moved to Japan. After graduating from the Tokyo National University of Music and Arts, she furthered her violin studies at the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM) in the UK, where she excelled in her studies and won several prizes, including the prestigious Paganini Prize and the Dianne Bolton Prize. She was also a proud recipient of Norman George Violin Scholarship and Haden Freeman Bursary. During her solo studies, she performed 12 caprices from Paganini’s 24 caprices and Saint-Saëns/Ysaÿe: Caprice d'après l'étude en forme de valse in a recital named “Caprices Night” and performed Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 1 with RNCM Orchestra.
Zhang has participated in festivals such as the Pacific Music Festival, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, and has performed with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Halle Orchestra, Manchester Camerata, Opera North Orchestra, Russian National Orchestra and Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra. She has toured with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and has performed at the BBC Proms.
In 2007 Zhang won a place with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra (SSO) while pursuing a Postgraduate Diploma in performance at the RNCM, where she graduated with Distinction. She is grateful to her violin mentors Shouyi Yuan, Noriko Kitagaki, Yoko Seto, Takaya Urakawa, Teiko Maehashi and Yuri Torchinsky.

Si Jing Zhang (Zhang Si Jing)

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 Taiwan, Janice Tsai began piano lessons at age five and violin lessons at age nine. At the age of sixteen she was accepted at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music with violin professor Peter Zhang Shi Xiang, and subsequently won scholarships for the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts on both violin and viola studying with Barry Wilde and Jeremy Williams, respectively. Janice was awarded another scholarship to study at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music – University of Sydney, where she was awarded a Masters of Music degree under the guidance of viola pedagogue Winifred Durie.
Throughout her study and beyond, Janice has had the opportunity to work with and participate in masterclasses with some renowned musicians: Ruggiero Ricci, Cho-Liang Lin, Nigel Kennedy, William Percell, Sylvia Rosenberg, Malcolm Bilson, James Dunham, Yo-Yo Ma, Andrew Marriner and Lynn Harrell. Her love for travelling and making music has taken Janice to music festivals across the United Kingdom, Spain, Austria, France, Australia, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Malaysia.
Janice has performed across Europe, Australia and Asia, with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Hong Kong Academy Symphony Orchestra, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra and the Singapore Symphony Orchestra. In addition, she lectures in Viola at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts and regularly collaborates with re: mix Singapore, the Singapore Lyric Opera and has held violin and viola recitals in Shanghai, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Australia.

Janice Tsai

Born in Beijing, Wang Yan attended the primary school affiliated with the Central Conservatory of Music (Beijing) at age 10. She went on to attend the affiliated middle and high schools before graduating in 1981 and being admitted to the Conservatory itself.
She graduated from the Central Conservatory of Music with honours in 1985. In the same year, she was named Principal Cello of the China Broadcasting Symphony Orchestra. She joined the Singapore Symphony Orchestra in 1994. 
Alongside her performances with SSO, Wang Yan was also a member of the Jade Quartet and Feng Trio for about 20 years, with whom she performed at many important State occasions. 
She has also worked as a part-time radio DJ on Singapore’s UFM 100.3, hosting a programme of classical music and interviews with musicians. 
Highlights of her career with the SSO include being one of a select group of SSO musicians to take part in an exchange programme with the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra in 2013, and performing with the world-famous Borodin Quartet in October 2018. 
The Straits Times has said she displays “playing of exceptional beauty and a tone to die for.”

Yan Wang (Wang Yan)

Zhang Heyang

Featuring

Largo from Sonata No. 3 in C major, BWV 1005

Mosè-Fantasia

Passacaglia for Violin and Viola

Terzetto in C, Op. 74

Three Folk Dances

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J.S. Bach	Largo from Sonata No. 3 in C major, BWV 1005
Paganini	Mosè-Fantasia
Handel-Halvorsen	Passacaglia for Violin and Viola
Dvořák	Terzetto in C, Op. 74
Kelly Tang	Three Folk Dances

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