Name: ThePixelAge Pte Ltd
Price range: $

In the evenings when our thoughts turn to the end of day, the fuss and flurry of life dissolve to the sound of music. The sound of three flutes and a bassoon float over the Grassfield in the Summer Nights, written by our Principal Flute Jin Ta, while the beguiling combination of flute, viola and harp by way of Debussy promises enchantment and contemplation. Finally, be recharged by the unmistakable wit and vigour of Beethoven.
FORMAT: This will be a live concert held at the Victoria Concert Hall.

Synopsis

Chan Yoong-Han is currently the Fixed Chair first violinist in the Singapore Symphony Orchestra. A graduate of Rice University and the University of Massachussetts in Amherst, his principal teachers include Chan Yong Shing, Beryl Kimber, Sergiu Luca, Charles Treger, David Cerone, Kurt Sassmannshaus and Dorothy Delay. 
Yoong-Han has performed solo with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Szeged Symphony of Hungary, Singapore Chinese Orchestra, Singapore Youth Orchestra, Orchestra of the Music Makers, SAF Chinese Orchestra and Braddell Heights Symphony in concertos by Dvořák, Lalo, Berg, John Williams, Mozart, Martinů, Lutosławski, Wieniawski and Sibelius, appearing with conductors including Lan Shui, Lim Yau, Erwin Acel, Matthias Bamert, Anthony Inglis, Han Zhong Jie, Darrell Ang and Joshua Tan. He was invited to perform as soloist in the 2003 SSO President’s Young Performers Concert as well as the 1999 President’s Charity Concert. 
As concertmaster he has led the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, the Singapore Festival Orchestra (SFO), The Metropolitan Festival Orchestra (MFO), Orchestra of the Music-Makers (OMM) and The Philharmonic Orchestra (TPO). As part of Singapore’s Golden Jubilee celebrations in 2015, Yoong-Han was concertmaster of the MFO for the Sing50 concert in the National Stadium, as well as concertmaster of the OMM in its performance of Mahler’s Eighth Symphony and Singapore’s premiere of Wagner’s Die Walküre in 2020.
Yoong-Han has participated and performed in the Aspen Music Festival, Singapore Arts Festival, Adelaide Bach Festival, The Singapore Encore (Brussels), Cascade Head Music Festival and SSO Chamber Series amongst others. As a chamber musician he has collaborated and performed with Christian Blackshaw, Cho-Liang Lin, William Bennett, Claude Delangle, Dennis Lee, Chiao-Ying Chang, T’ang Quartet, Borodin Quartet, the Choir of King’s College (Cambridge), the Singapore Dance Theatre, Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble. Yoong-Han is also a violist in the Take5 Piano Quintet Series since 2007. 
In Singapore Yoong-Han is the recipient of the 2000 Shell-NAC Arts Scholarship and the 2004 NAC Young Artist Award. He is also a member of the Board of re:SOUND Collective. Yoong-Han has taught in the University of Massachusetts and Amherst College, and has been teaching in the School of the Arts Singapore since 2008. Yoong-Han performs on a David Tecchler, Fecit Roma An. D. 1700, courtesy of Mr G K Goh. 
Besides making music, Yoong-Han enjoys sharing life with his wife and two children.

Yoong-Han Chan (Chan Yoong-Han)

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 plays a 1904 Matthias Albani violin generously loaned by Mr and Mrs Rin Kei Mei.

Tian Zhao (Zhao Tian)

Guan Qi began learning composition and the violin from his father at age 9. In 1978, he enrolled in the Yunnan Arts Academy. While at the Academy, Guan Qi won the second prize in the regional qualifiers of the China International Violin Competition. Upon graduation in 1983, he continued teaching violin in the Academy while serving concurrently as the Academy’s orchestra conductor.
In 1985, Guan Qi entered the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing and started learning the viola. He was accepted by the eminent Professor Lin Yao Ji as his only viola student. Guan Qi’s other principal teachers included Si Tu Hua Cheng, Sui Ke Qiang, and Wang Zheng Shan. He also participated in masterclasses by Csaba Erdélyi, Bruno Pasquier and Pinchas Zukerman. Guan Qi joined the China Youth Symphony Orchestra in 1986 and was appointed Principal Violist after the youth orchestra's tour to 13 European countries.
Guan Qi joined the Singapore Symphony Orchestra in 1988 before being appointed Principal Violist of the Macau Chamber Orchestra in 1995. He returned to Singapore Symphony Orchestra in 1997 as Associate Principal Violist. Guan Qi has been invited to participate in the world's top Chinese Musicians Festival Orchestra. He has also been guest Principal Violist with the Sydney Opera House Orchestra, Asia Pacific Festival Symphony Orchestra, Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra, Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra, Xiamen Symphony Orchestra and Yunnan "Nie Er"Symphony Orchestra.
Guan Qi has also appeared extensively as a chamber musician throughout the world. In the 1992 Pacific Music Festival, he was featured with the principal musicians from the Vienna Philharmonic in a performance. As a founding member of both the “Jade” Quartet and "Cheng" Quartet, Guan Qi has given numerous Singapore premieres of works, which include the first three string quartets by Béla Bartók. 
As a soloist, Guan Qi has performed with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra and the Macao Chamber Orchestra in works by Mozart, Handel and Bach, appearing with conductors such as Matthias Bamert and Michael Charry.
Guan Qi has been invited to conduct masterclasses in Beijing, Shanghai, Macao, Guangzhou, Kunming and Singapore. He has also been teaching at the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music since 2014.

Qi Guan (Guan Qi)

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)

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)

Flutist, educator and composer, Jin Ta has been in the Singapore Symphony Orchestra (SSO) as Principal Flute since 1998. 
In 1991, after completing his studies at the Central Music Conservatory (Beijing) with Professor Zhu Tong De, he entered the University of Michigan on a full-scholarship.
In 1995, he studied with Professor Fenwick Smith at the New England Conservatory of Music and was selected as an Artist Diploma candidate in 1997. During the eight years he spent in the US, Jin Ta won numerous flute competitions including the Silver Prize in the National Flute Talk Competition and NFA Young Artist Competition (1995), First Prize in the James Pappoutsakis Memorial Flute Competition (1996), Israel Haifa International Flute Competition (2001), among many others.
Besides performing with the SSO, Jin Ta is dedicated to teaching. He has taught at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA) and LaSalle College of the Arts. He is also a founding faculty member of the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music (National University of Singapore). His students are now working in many professional orchestras in China, Taiwan and Korea. Jin Ta is also a self-taught composer and has published a number of works such as his First Flute Sonata, and Second Sonata, “Mongol”. He frequently gives talks and masterclasses in China, Taiwan, Thailand and South Korea.
During the COVID-19 circuit breaker period, he and his wife <a href="https://www.sso.org.sg/about/singapore-symphony-orchestra/the-orchestra/yu-jing">Yu Jing (SSO Associate Principal Cello)</a> created a flute education WeChat channel “Lumino’s art of flute” (小 鲁仔长笛艺术). This channel focusses on contributing free online flute lessons for both college level students and young flutists, and musical stories for children.

Ta Jin (Jin Ta)

Miao Shanshan started learning the flute under Professor Wang Yongxin of the Central Conservatory of Music. In 2000, she won the Third Prize and the Chinese Works Award in the Second National Flute Competition in China. During her studies in Austria, she was awarded her Bachelor’s &amp; Master’s Degrees with honours at the University Mozarteum Salzburg. She has taught flute since 2006 and has been invited to perform solo and in chamber music concerts. In 2010, she won the Salzburg Government Art Foundation Award and performed as part of the Salzburg International Festival Series. In 2011, her thesis “Instrumente im Vergleich der Kulturen, die europaeische Querfloete und die chinesische Bambusfloete” was published by Verlag Dr Mueller in Germany. She joined the Singapore Symphony Orchestra in 2014.

Shanshan Miao (Miao Shanshan)

Russian flutist Evgueni Brokmiller was a student of the legendary Professor of the Moscow State Conservatory, Yuri Dolzhikov.
Evgueni got his first music lessons from his parents. In 1977, he was accepted by the prestigious Central Music School of Moscow Conservatory, where besides the flute, he also studied piano and composition.
Evgueni Brokmiller's career was launched at the age of seventeen when he won first prize in the all-Soviet Union Woodwind Competition in 1987. A scholarship from the International Charity Foundation "New Names" followed in 1991. In 1992, he won the International flute competition in Scheveningen (The Netherlands).
Despite his youth, Evgueni gave concerts as a soloist at many renowned concert halls such as the Grand Hall of the Moscow State Conservatory, St. Petersburg Philharmonic Hall and the "Unesco Hall" in Paris. His concerts were broadcast for radio and television, and he has recorded on the Melodia and Forlane labels.
As a soloist, he has played with many orchestras including the State Cinematography Symphony Orchestra (USSR), Noordhollands Philharmonic Orchestra, Moscow Chamber Orchestra, Chamber Ensemble with Yuri Bashment, and the Singapore Symphony Orchestra.
In 1991 to 1993, Evgueni was the Principal Flutist for the State Symphony Orchestra in Russia. He was also the Guest Principal Flutist for the Moscow Radio Orchestra, Orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre and the London Philharmonic Orchestra. As a chamber musician, Evgueni Brokmiller has collaborated with prominent musicians including Sviatoslav Richter, Yuri Bashmet and Yo-Yo Ma.
Evgueni studied conducting at the Moscow State Conservatory with Professor Leonid Nikolaev and at the St. Petersburg Conservatory with Professor Alexander Titov.
Evgueni Brokmiller has been the Associate Principal Flutist of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra since 1993 and is active in Singapore as a soloist, orchestral musician, chamber musician and teacher.

Evgueni Brokmiller

The Austrian bassoonist joined the Singapore Symphony Orchestra in 2008. He is a graduate of the Conservatory Vienna where he studied performance with Michael Werba (Principal Bassoon, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra) and education. Various masterclasses complemented his education.
During his university years Christoph Wichert was able to gain experience in various ensembles of the Viennese concert life such as with the Wiener Kammerorchester. He is also a founding member of the Feuerhaus Kammerorchester. As a substitute player at the State Opera of Vienna and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, he was able to work, tour and record under conductors such as Zubin Mehta, Seiji Ozawa, Mariss Jansons, Riccardo Muti and Nikolaus Harnoncourt. He has performed as a soloist in various recitals and with orchestras playing concertos by Mozart, Weber, Pauer and Hartl.
Before moving to Singapore, Christoph Wichert was working as solo bassoonist with the Orchester der Vereinigten Bühnen in Wien for their productions and at the music school of Tulln teaching bassoon, music theory and guiding the symphonic wind band. In Tulln, he was able to successfully prepare some of his students for studies at music universities and started a composition workshop together with his colleague Cordula Bösze.
Being an active chamber musician with Ensemble QuinTonic, a devoted teacher and through his intense engagement in contemporary music, Christoph Wichert is always trying to widen his musical horizon.

Christoph Wichert

Gulnara Mashurova was born in Almaty, Kazakhstan. She started piano studies at the age of six and by age nine was chosen to study harp at the Pre Moscow Conservatory with Natalia Sibor. From 1991 to 1993 she studied with Vera Dulova at the Moscow Conservatory. Gulnara received a Bachelor and Master's degree in Harp Performance from the Juilliard School as a Jerome Green full scholarship recipient studying under Nancy Allen, Principal Harpist of the New York Philharmonic. She received her second Master’s in Orchestra Performance with a full scholarship from the Manhattan School of Music studying under Deborah Hoffman, former Principal Harpist of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra.
Gulnara was a regular substitute with the New York Philharmonic both in live performances and recordings and has toured extensively with the Orchestra. She has performed with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Concertgebouw Orchestra, Sospeso Contemporary Ensemble, Absolute Ensemble, Stamford Symphony, Empire State Opera and Silkroad, the organization founded by Yo-Yo Ma.
Gulnara can be heard on recordings with the New York Philharmonic, Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Silkroad, NHK Japan and the Absolute Ensemble.
She has appeared as a soloist with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, the Flagstaff Symphony and the Thailand Philharmonic. In 2006 and 2007, Gulnara travelled to her native Kazakhstan to promote harp repertoire by performing concertos, recitals and chamber music.
In 1994 she was a finalist in the World International Harp Competition in Wales, Cardiff. She has participated in the Pacific Music Festival, Norfolk Music Festival, Spoleto Festival, USA and Spoleto Festival, Italy.
In 2003, Gulnara joined the Singapore Symphony Orchestra as Principal Harpist and is on the faculty of the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music.
Gulnara performs on a Lyon and Healy Style 23 harp.
Gulnara currently lives in Singapore with her husband and son and is a Swiss Citizen.

Gulnara Mashurova

Featuring

Grassfield in the Summer Night for Three Flutes and Bassoon 夏夜的草坪 (World Premiere)

Sonata for Flute, Viola and Harp

String Quintet in C major, Op. 29

Programme

Programme Brochure

Ticket prices: $30, $45, $60^ 
^before booking fees: $0.50 for tickets $10 and below, $1 for tickets $10.01 to $20, $3 for tickets $20.01 to $40, $4 for tickets above $40.

Sounds for a Summer Evening

Synopsis

Featuring

Programme

Programme Brochure

Tickets

Recommended For You

Recommended For You

Recommended For You

Recommended For You

Recommended For You

Recommended For You

Sunday Afternoon Fancies

Unboxing the Organ with Dr Phoon Yu and the Lorong Boys

Smetana, Mozart and Barber


Jin Ta	Grassfield in the Summer Night for Three Flutes and Bassoon 夏夜的草坪 (World Premiere)
Debussy	Sonata for Flute, Viola and Harp
Beethoven	String Quintet in C major, Op. 29