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The mercurial and expressive flavour of the French colour this varied programme. The sublime combination of flute, viola and harp weave impressionistic filligree and mist so charactertistic of Debussy, whose influence is also heard in the lilting rhythms and sultry Andalusian tones of Spanish composer Joaquín Turina's piano trio. The recital also looks back a century to the unduly neglected music of George Onslow, a 19th century French composer of English descent.

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Born in Shanghai, Chen Da Wei began studying the violin at the age of eight. He was a pupil of the great Tan Shu Zhen, professor at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. In his youth he was a prize-winner at the Shanghai Young Musicians Competition and went on to play with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra for eight years. In 1989 he joined the Singapore Symphony Orchestra as a first violinist.

Da Wei Chen (Chen Da Wei)

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)

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)

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. Pei-Sian completed his studies under Ralph Kirshbaum during which he was awarded the RNCM Gold Medal, the highest prize given by the college.
Pei-Sian 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. Pei-Sian 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 performs on a 2020 Paolo Vettori “David” cello, Florence.

Pei-Sian Ng (Ng Pei-Sian)

Born in Shanghai, Yang Zheng Yi started learning the violin at the age of four, and switched to the double bass when he was nine. He spent six years in the Middle School of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music under Cao Jian and was promptly offered a scholarship from ABRSM to study at the Royal College of Music in London under Neil Tarlton and Enno Senft. 
Before joining the SSO in July 2006, Zheng Yi worked with Philharmonia Orchestra (London), Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Hallé Orchestra (Manchester), London Symphony Orchestra, and was invited to join the international tours of the orchestras of UBS Verbier Music Festival, Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival and Pacific Music Festival. 
He is currently also an Academic Associate at the Republic Polytechnic in Singapore. Aside from playing music, Zheng Yi also enjoys making models of ships and tanks something he picked up when he was six years old.

Zheng Yi Yang (Yang Zheng Yi)

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)

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

Yao Xiao Yun

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Sonata for Flute, Viola and Harp

Piano Trio No. 1 in D major, Op. 35

String Quintet No. 26 in C minor, Op. 67

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Debussy	Sonata for Flute, Viola and Harp
Turina	Piano Trio No. 1 in D major, Op. 35
Onslow	String Quintet No. 26 in C minor, Op. 67