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Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet is one of the most heartwarming treasures of our musical legacy, evoking a haven of rapturous beauty and serenity. Beethoven’s Piano Quartet No. 3 rings clearly of the influence and sparkle of Mozart, and it will only surprise you a little to learn that he wrote them when he was just 15, in 1785. Join the musicians of the SSO in these two gems of the late 18th century, there’s not a single note you won’t enjoy.
This concert was recorded at the Victoria Concert Hall on 6 November 2020.
FORMAT: SISTIC Live stream on 16 Apr 2021. Concert begins at 8pm with countdown lobby open at 7.30pm. Viewable until 30 Apr 2021, 8pm.

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Born in Beijing in 1960, Ma Yue obtained his Bachelor of Arts in Music from the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing in 1984, and his Artist Diploma from the Musikhochschule in Zurich, Switzerland.
He was Assistant Professor of Clarinet at the Central Conservatory of Music in 1984. At the same time, he was Principal Clarinetist of the China Youth Symphony Orchestra.
Between 1989 and 1990, Ma was Principal Clarinetist and Assistant Conductor at the University of Alabama Symphony Orchestra. He was also a member of the Alarida Octet and Second Clarinet with the Tuscaloosa Symphony. Before joining the Singapore Symphony Orchestra in 1993 as Principal Clarinetist, Ma was a freelancer with the Zurich Opera House Symphony Orchestra.
Amongst Ma’s achievements are First Prize in the Kiwanis Clarinet Competition in 1990, and Second Prize in the People’s Republic of China National Clarinet Competition in 1982 and 1983.

Yue Ma (Ma Yue)

Kong Xianlong, born into a musical family in Singapore in 1996, started violin lessons at the age of four with his grandfather. In 2007, he won the Second Prize in the Junior Category at the National Piano &amp; Violin Competition of Singapore and subsequently the First Prize in both Intermediate and Senior Category in 2009 and 2011. He also performed Sarasate’s Carmen Fantasy with the Singapore National Youth Orchestra in the Esplanade Concert Hall under the baton of Darrell Ang. In the following year, he won the First Prize in the senior category and the best Chinese work prize at the 2012 Hong Kong International Violin Competition.
His solo appearances include a collaboration with the China Philharmonic Orchestra, performing the Mozart Concertone for Two Violins in Beijing, April 2015. He was selected to join the Young Artist Programme at the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music, National University of Singapore, at the age of 15 during his studies in Dunman Secondary School. He has had lessons with world-renowned violinists such as Cho-Liang Lin, Tong Weidong, Wang Hong, David Takeno, Keng-Yuen Tseng, Kam Ning, Walter Verdehr, Boris Kuschnir, and Shlomo Mintz. He also performed in the President’s Young Performers Concert playing Mozart's Violin Concerto No. 5 with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra in 2018. Xianlong graduated from the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music in 2019, and has been under the tutelage of Qian Zhou since 2009.
Xianlong is currently a member of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra. He performs on a 1972 Bisiach, Leandro.

Xianlong Kong (Kong Xianlong)

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

Born in Sichuan, China, Zhao Tian began his violin lessons with his father when he was three years old.
He was admitted to the Sichuan Conservatory of Music to further his violin studies under Professor Hu Weimin at the age of 8. At the age of 18, he was awarded full scholarship to study at the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music at the National University of Singapore, where he studied with Professor Qian Zhou. In 2014, he has been selected as exchange student to the Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University. That same year, he received full scholarship from the Manhattan School of Music to pursue his double Master’s degree (in violin solo &amp; orchestral performance) with former concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic, Glenn Dicterow and world renowned violin professor, Lucie Robert. Prior to joining the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, he has worked with Baltimore Symphony Orchestra since 2016 and performed at the Proms in 2018.
An active chamber musician, Zhao Tian has participated in many music festivals including Aspen Music Festival, Texas Music Festival and those of the Music Academy of the West. He has collaborated in chamber music with many distinguished musicians and groups such as Glenn Dicterow, Gil Shaham, Pinchas Zukerman, Lucie Robert, David Takino, American String Quartet and Emerson String Quartet. Zhao Tian has appeared as soloist with the Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Orchestra and Penang Philharmonic, performing concertos by Bruch and Tchaikovsky.
He performs on a 1737 Camillus Camilli violin generously loaned from Mr William Tan.

Tian Zhao (Zhao Tian)

Born into a musical family, Luo Biao began studying the violin at the age of six under his father. He later attended the Middle School attached to the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, where he was selected and sponsored by Richard Ferrin to study the violin and viola at Chicago Musical College. 
He later went on to study with Heidi Castleman at the Cleveland Institute of Music. Luo Biao has worked with several orchestras including Toledo Symphony (as Principal Violist), Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra, Richmond Symphony and New World Symphony in Miami. 
In 1994 he won Second Prize (the highest prize awarded) in the American String Teachers Association National Solo Competition. Luo Biao's interests include swimming, spending time with friends, and computers.

Biao Luo (Luo Biao)

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)

Born in Tashkent city, Uzbekistan, Jamshid started learning the cello at the age of 7. In 2003, he entered Uspensky Specialized Music School, where he studied with Madina Galiulina for 12 years. In 2015, he entered Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music, National University of Singapore where he pursued his Bachelor's degree and studied with Ng Pei-Sian (Principal Cellist of SSO). In 2014, Jamshid won First Prize in the Knushevitsky International Cello Competition (Russia, Saratov).
He has had masterclasses with Jan Vogler, Alexander Buzlov, Qin Li-Wei, Ni Hai-Ye, Alexei Seleznyov, Tsutsumi Tsuyoshi, Vladimir Tonkha, Johan van Iersel, Jonathan Manson, Tillman Wick. Chamber masterclasses and collaborations with Gábor Takács-Nagy, London Haydn Quartet, Endellion Quartet, Amber Quartet, Takács Quartet, Alexander Sitkovetskiy, New Zealand Quartet, Shanghai quartet, The Juilliard String Quartet, and Shlomo Mintz.
As an orchestra musician Jamshid has been invited as a Guest Principal Cellist to the Sun Symphony Orchestra in Vietnam, Hanoi. He has performed in Uzbekistan, Russia, Ukraine, Austria, Switzerland, Korea, Singapore, Vietnam, France, Indonesia, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.
Jamshid performs on a 2020 Paolo Vettori cello, Firenze.

Jamshid Saydikarimov

Albert Tiu

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