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They say the cello is the instrument that most closely imitates the human voice. The sublime collaboration of the 10 cellists of Singapore Symphony Orchestra conjures an opera that explores the depths of imagination with Carl Vine’s Inner World, to the capacity of simplicity in Arvo Pärt’s Fratres, a work that exemplifies the composer’s own tintinnabuli style. The diverse set of works that display the cello’s versatility also includes Giovanni Sollima’s charged Violoncelles, vibrez!, while dynamic soprano Jeong Ae Ree joins the ensemble in Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos’ adventurous Bachianas Brasileiras.

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Jeong Ae Ree

Ng Pei-Sian was Commonwealth Musician of the Year in 2007, winner of the Gold Medal and First Prize at the 55th Royal Over-Seas League Music Competition held in London. He has performed concertos with the major Australian symphony orchestras, Singapore Symphony (SSO), Malaysian Philharmonic, Hong Kong Philharmonic, Estonian National Symphony, Oulu Symphony, Sinfonia ViVA, City of Southampton Orchestra, Philippine Philharmonic and the Orchestra of the Music Makers and performed around the world in venues including Royal Festival Hall, Wigmore Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Purcell Room, Konzerthaus (Berlin), Lincoln Centre and Carnegie Hall.
Born in Sydney in 1984, he began studies in Adelaide with Barbara Yelland and later with Janis Laurs at the Elder Conservatorium of Music before winning the prestigious Elder Overseas Scholarship to study at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. Ng Pei-Sian completed his studies under Ralph Kirshbaum during which he was awarded the RNCM Gold Medal, the highest prize given by the college.
Ng has had appearances in important music festivals including the Brighton, Edinburgh, Manchester International Cello Festival, Kronberg Academy, Mecklenburg-Vorpormmern Festival and Adelaide International Cello Festival. Ng performed Tan Dun's Crouching Tiger Cello Concerto with The Festival Orchestra under the baton of the Academy Award-winning composer and also performed with Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble, Cho-Liang Lin and Renaud Capuçon.
Recent highlights include a performance of Kalevi Aho’s Double Cello Concerto with his twin brother Ng Pei-Jee and the SSO and also the Asian premiere of John Tavener’s Flood of Beauty with the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory Orchestra under Jason Lai as part of Tapestry, A Sacred Music Festival. Recently, Pei Sian played alongside Yo-Yo Ma and the SSO performing the fresh and exciting double cello concerto Violoncelles Vibrez! by Giovanni Sollima.
Pei Sian is currently Principal Cellist of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra and a faculty member at the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music, Singapore. He performs on a 1764 Giovanni Antonio Marchi cello, Bologna.

Pei-Sian Ng (Ng Pei-Sian)

Born in Sichuan, China, Yu Jing started cello lessons at the age of eight under Wu Xuyu, a family friend. At age 10, she was accepted as a young talent student to the Shanghai Conservatory. Her cello professors were Xia Jinglu and Lin Yingrong. Yu Jing later went to Berlin to further her studies and completed her diploma and master’s degree (with distinction) at the Berlin University of the Arts under Markus Nyikos.
Yu Jing has been in the Singapore Symphony Orchestra since 1997 and is currently Associate Principal Cellist. She is also an active chamber music player. Between 2005-2010, she was a faculty member in Nanyang School of Fine Art and a cello tutor for the young talent programme cello teacher. 
In recent years, Yu Jing started writing children’s music stories. With her husband, <a href="https://www.sso.org.sg/about/singapore-symphony-orchestra/the-orchestra/jin-ta">SSO Principal Flute, Jin Ta</a>, she created a WeChat official account “小鲁仔长笛艺术”, in which she regularly shares her stories and illustrations and introduces young musicians.

Jing Yu (Yu Jing)

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)

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)

Singapore Symphony Orchestra cellist Song Woon Teng was born in Singapore and began his cello studies under the tutelage of H. Ilano, the former Associate Principal of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra. 
In 1989 Song won First Prize in the Cello Open Category at the Seventh National Music Competition. Thereafter, with a National Arts Council Bursary, he left Singapore to study at the Indiana University School of Music in Bloomington under Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi. There he received both his Bachelor and Masters degrees in Music. 
Since his return, Song has been active in the chamber music scene as well as teaching.

Woon Teng Song (Song Woon Teng)

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 North Yorkshire, England, into a musical family, Peter was surrounded and influenced by music from an early age.
Peter started the cello aged 7 and soon enjoyed success playing with a string quartet which included his older brother playing 1st violin. They reached the ‘National Chamber music Competition for Schools’ finals, three years in succession, culminating in performances in St. John’s, Smith Square. This inspired him to develop his playing further and he went to study with Sue Lowe and Anna Shuttleworth.
Peter went on to study with Anna Shuttleworth at the Royal College of Music an received lessons from Alexander Baillie and Amanda Truelove. Peter was awarded a First for his final recital performance and went on to study a PGDip at the RCM, supported by a Leverhulme postgraduate studentship, with Leonid Gorokhov as his teacher. During his time at the RCM, Peter won the Anna Shuttleworth Competition for Unaccompanied Cello and was presented with the Leo Stern award. He has played in masterclasses given by Steven Isserlis and William Pleeth.
Peter has worked with many orchestras, including trials in Britain and those abroad. This year he has worked regularly with the RTÉ (Raidió Teilifís Éireann) National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland and the Longborough Festival opera orchestra in England on productions of Tristan and Isolde and Rigoletto.
Peter has a diverse range of performing experience. He most recently performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company on the production of Hecuba. He has previously played cello for many productions such as White Devil and Shoemaker’s Holiday.
Peter is regularly asked to record solo cello for radio, film and television. Most recently Peter was asked by Academy-award winning film score composer Steven Price to record solo cello for a new project. As a solo cellist he has also recorded the music for the play This Isn't Romance which was broadcasted on BBC Radio 3. Peter has recorded solo cello on feature films. His last film, called ‘F’, was recorded at Abbey Road Studios and is on general release DVD. His solo cello playing can be heard on a BBC1 documentary called Caught in the Crossfire.
Peter is looking forward to playing regularly with the SSO this year!

Peter Wilson

A promising young cellist, Wu Dai Dai was born in China in 1989. Raised in a musical family she started the cello from the age of seven with her mother. In 2001, Daidai was enrolled into the Middle School of Xi’an Conservatory of Music. In 2007, she was enrolled into the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music, National University of Singapore, to study in the Cello Studio of Li-Wei Qin with the full scholarship.
As a soloist, Dai Dai has given many performances in China, north America and Australia and Europe. She has worked with orchestras such as Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra; Xi’an Conservatory of Music Symphony Orchestra; Adelaide Chamber Orchestra and Yong Siew Toh Conservatory Orchestra.
Dai Dai has won many prizes include the 2nd prize at the 21st Gisbonre International Music Competition in New Zealand; the 1st prize at the Conservatory Concerto Competition in Singapore and awarded the Royal Over-Seas League Singapore Music Scholarship in 2009. The 6th prize at the China National Youth Cello Competition in 2004. In 2003, she won the Special prize at the National Youth Arts Competition in China.
As a chamber music player, Dai Dai had actively participated in many performance, she has worked with many musicians, including Alasdair Beatson, Qian Zhou, Erich Huetter, Karal Bredenhorst, James Barralet, …etc. Dai Dai has played in many masterclasses such as Mischa Maisky, Wang Jian, Ralph Kirshbaum, Alexander Ivashkin, David Takeno, Gabor Takacs-Nagy and many others.
In 2002, Dai Dai took part in the 6th Morningside Music Bridge in Canada. In 2008, she was invited to join in the 1st Adelaide International Cello Festival in Australia. Also the Styrian Chambermusic Festival in Austria and Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland in 2010.

Dai Dai Wu (Wu Dai Dai)

Zhao Yu Er began playing the cello at the age of eight. Within three years, Yu Er was enrolled at the Central Conservatory in Beijing. 
After completing her Bachelor’s degree in 1984, she joined the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra before heading to America on a full scholarship to continue her studies at Northern Illinois University. She studied with Marc Johnson and was awarded a Master’s Degree in 1987.
She returned to Asia soon afterwards and joined the Singapore Symphony Orchestra in 1988. Outside music, Yu Er enjoys travelling and is a keen watch collector.

Yu Er Zhao (Zhao Yu Er)

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Five Perambulations

Fratres

Violoncelles, vibrez!

Inner World

Bachianas brasileiras No. 1, W246

I. Introduction

II. Preludio

Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5, W389-391

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Trevor Wilson	Five Perambulations
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Villa-Lobos	Bachianas brasileiras No. 1, W246
I. Introduction
II. Preludio
Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5, W389-391