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The SSO Chamber Series begins with the introspective musical thoughts of Schubert and Brahms. Open your heart to the smiling melancholy and intimate passion of Schubert’s Rosamunde Quartet, and the ephemeral joy and meditative musings of Brahms’ Clarinet Trio.

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Karen Tan has been a member of the SSO since 1987. A graduate of the Royal College of Music in London under a SSO-PSA scholarship, her teachers include Hugh Bean and Jack Steadman. She has represented the SSO on several occasions, the first being in 1986 at the World Philharmonic in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Tan has also performed with the Kyushu Symphony and the Malaysia Philharmonic Orchestra.

Karen Tan

Xu Jueyi has performed regularly in China and Singapore as a soloist and chamber musician. In May 2008, she joined the Singapore Symphony Orchestra as a violinist. Jueyi was appointed concertmaster of the Pacific Music Festival Orchestra where she worked with Maestro Riccardo Muti and the concertmaster of Vienna Philharmonic in July 2007, and has been invited back to join their 2008 season. She won 2nd prize in the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory Concerto Competition in 2006.Her experience in international competitions includes participating in the 9th Jean Sibelius Violin Competition in Helsinki, Finland in 2005 and the 51st Niccolò Paganini Violin Competition in Genova, Italy in 2006.
Jueyi started violin practice when she was six, and at the age of eight became a pupil of renowned violin professor, Zhang Shi-xiang. From 1994 to 2003, she studied at the primary and middle schools affiliated to the Shanghai Conservatory of Music with Zheng Qing and Zheng Shi-sheng. From 2004 to 2008, she was a violin major student under full scholarship at Singapore's Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music, studying under Qian Zhou, Head of Strings Department and graduating with a Bachelor's Degree of Music (First Class Honours) in Violin Performance.
Jueyi has performed with a number of chamber orchestras and symphony orchestras and attended masterclasses with world-famous performers. In 2002, she performed with the Shanghai Conservatory of Music Youth Symphony Orchestra on a tour to the United States.
Jueyi plays on the 1706 "Ex-Tradolini" Stradivarius from the Rin Collection.

Jueyi Xu (Xu Jueyi)

Ye Lin started learning the violin at the age of five. She attended primary and middle schools attached to the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, where she studied with renowned violinists Professor Shi-Xiang Zhang and Fang Lei. Ye Lin made her solo debut with the Shanghai Opera Symphony Orchestra when she was 12.
Ye Lin was a prize winner in the 1998 China National Violin Competition, and in the 9th International Wieniawski Competition for Young Violinists in Lublin, Poland in 2003. A National Arts Council-Conservatory music scholar, Ye Lin graduated from the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music, National University of Singapore, where she studied violin performance with Professor Qian Zhou. At the conservatory, she became the first winner of the inaugural Yong Siew Toh Conservatory Concerto Competition in 2004. The following year, she won First Prize in the Violin Open Category of the Singapore National Piano and Violin Competition. In 2006, she was selected to study at the Peabody Institute at John Hopkins University as an exchange student where she studied with Victor Danchenko.
After joining the SSO in 2008, Ye Lin continues to be an active chamber musician. She performs frequently with her string quartet and piano trio at the Esplanade Recital Studio and the Victoria Concert Hall. Ye Lin has collaborated in chamber performances with pianist Albert Tiu, the Stradivari Quartet, and violinists Thomas Zehetmair, Peter Hanson, Alina Ibragimova, and others. Since 2003 she has been the acting concertmaster of the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory Orchestra.
Ye Lin plays on an 1862 Enrico Ceruti from the Rin collection.

Lin Ye (Ye Lin)

Gu Bing Jie is currently the Fixed Chair Violist with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra. She has toured all over the world performing in the most prestigious concert halls including Berlin’s Philharmonie Hall, London’s Royal Festival Hall, Munich’s Herkulessaal, Beijing’s National Centre for Performing Arts, Shanghai Oriental Concert Hall, and the Esplanade Concert Hall &amp; Victoria Concert Hall in Singapore, where the SSO is based. 
A graduate from the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music under Zhang Manchin, Gu Bing Jie was awarded Second Prize at the YST Concerto Competition. In June 2015, she was invited to join London’s Philharmonia Orchestra for an Asian tour under Russian conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy.
Gu plays on a viola by Luigi Santamaria, Rome 1948, generously on loan from the Rin Collection.

Bing Jie Gu (Gu Bing Jie)

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

Guo Hao is currently the Third Chair of the cello section in the Singapore Symphony Orchestra. His teachers include his brother, Guo Qu, as well as Yü Ming-Qing and renowned cellist Alexander Baillie. He is a graduate from the College of Arts in Bremen, Germany and Central Conservatory in Beijing, China.
Guo Hao has appeared as soloist with the Staatstheater Oldenburg, the Theater Nordhausen/Loh-Orchester Sondershausen and the Braddell Heights Symphony Orchestra. He has performed Kodály's Sonata for Cello Solo in the Marktoberdorf International Music Festival in Germany.
Guo Hao was Principal Cellist with the China Youth Symphony Orchestra, Guest Principal Cellist with the Staatstheater Oldenburg and was a member of the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra. He has participated in masterclasses with Anner Bylsma, Wolfgang Boettcher, Boris Pergamenschikow and George Faust.
He plays on the Matteo Goffriller of 1699 from the Rin Collection.

Hao Guo (Guo Hao)

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)

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)

Liu Jia

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Five Minuets with Six Trios, D. 89

String Quartet No. 13 in A minor, D. 804 "Rosamunde"

Clarinet Trio in A minor, Op. 114

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Rosamunde and the Nightingale

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Schubert	Five Minuets with Six Trios, D. 89
String Quartet No. 13 in A minor, D. 804 "Rosamunde"
Brahms	Clarinet Trio in A minor, Op. 114