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Conservatory Orchestra Series: Coriolan Overture & Dvořák’s Symphony No. 8
Yong Siew Toh Conservatory Orchestra
9 Mar | 7.30pm | Conservatory Concert Hall, Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music
$16 (excludes SISTIC booking fee)
Festival concessions are not applicable for this concert. 
Led by Principal Conductor Jason Lai, Yong Siew Toh (YST) Conservatory Orchestra makes its first appearance in NUS Arts Festival’s line up of in-conjunction events. The Orchestra will perform Beethoven’s well-known Coriolan Overture and Dvořák’s Symphony No. 8 and will present the prizewinner of the YST Conservatory’s Concerto Competition, Zhang Yiliang, performing Ferdinand David’s Concertino for Trombone, Op.4. |
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Introspection | Reflection
NUS Guitar Ensemble
24 Mar | 7.30pm | Conservatory Concert Hall, Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music | $16
Festival concessions are not applicable for this concert.
For tickets, email nusguitarensemble@gmail.com or call Stephen at 9891 3312
“In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.”
- Albert Camus, Algerian-born French author, philosopher, journalist, and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1957
We learn about the world by reflection. A careful examination of the facts from the environment would tell us the truth. But is there more than the factual truth?
Sometimes, understanding is achieved without observation. It is through a process of introspection, a philosophical and personal examination of one’s inner self, where we also discover things that cannot be substantiated by external evidence.
In this concert, GENUS explores the different forms and faces of introspection and reflection. From the musings on the disastrous Japan tsunami in the Michinoku Guitar Concerto to the self-awareness of original composition Impatience, GENUS takes a musical turn away from the world to find our unique understanding of ourselves. |
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Varsity Voices 2013: Signatures *Selling Fast*
The NUSChoir
26 Mar | 7.30pm | Esplanade Concert Hall | $25, $22 & $20 (excludes SISTIC booking fee)
Festival concessions apply.
The NUSChoir has come a long way since its inception 33 years ago. Under the masterful baton of Prof Nelson Kwei, they received the recent accolade of triple category champions in the Choir of the World Competition 2012 in Wales, United Kingdom.
Varsity Voices 2013: Signatures will showcase the signature work from most internationally acclaimed choral composers living today. Delight your senses with the combination of textured melody and narration from the Renaissance in Whitacre’s Leonardo Dreams of His Flying Machine, a vivid depiction of Leonardo da Vinci’s attempt to fly, and Paul Mealor’s Ubi Caritas, a story of love and servitude, which was performed for The Royal Wedding. Be transported through the bareness of the desert with Alberto Grau’s Kasar Mie La Gaji and experience the traditional folksong sung by the locals while soaking in the onsen (Japanese for hot springs) with Ko Matsushita’s Yukamuri-Uta.
Varsity Voices 2013: Signatures will also feature guest choir, Junges Vokalensemble Hannover, a multiaward mixed choir from Germany.
For more information, please visit www.nuschoir.org
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Reminiscence 三月天 《溯》
NUS Chinese Orchestra
29 Mar | 7.30pm | SCO Concert Hall | $26, $22 & $18 (excludes SISTIC booking fee)
Concession for Senior Citizens, NSF and Students for Category 3 tickets at $16.
Join the NUS Chinese Orchestra and their Resident Conductor Lum Yan Sing as they celebrate 40 years of music making. Exemplifying their love for music, the Orchestra takes on the themes of beauty, love and passion as they reminisce on the bittersweet tales from Chinese folklore.
Young violinist Yang Shu Xiang, currently a graduate student at the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music, joins the Orchestra in the classic Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto. Other pieces includes Yang Qin concerto Di Nü Hua Rhapsody 《帝女花狂想曲》 and Jiu Tian Xuan Nü 《九天玄女》. The Orchestra will commemorate its 40th anniversary with the local premiere of Cultural Medallion recipient, Phoon Yew Tien’s Spring of Taishan 《泰山的春天》, as well as renowned Hong Kong Composer Chen Neng Chi's guzheng concerto, Xi Shi 《西施》. |
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InTempo 2013
NUS Wind Symphony
31 Mar | 5pm | SCO Concert Hall | $15
Festival concessions not applicable for this concert.
For tickets, please email nus.wind.symphony@gmail.com
Initiated in 1974, InTempo is undoubtedly the longest-running band concert series in Singapore. Throughout its rich history, it has offered performances of local premieres such as Symphony No. 3: Planet Earth by Johan de Meij, and has collaborated with awardwinning musicians like Lim Yan to present a wind band adaptation of Yellow River Concerto.
InTempo is performed each year by the NUS Wind Symphony. The Wind Symphony is currently under the charge of the distinguished Associate Professor Ho Hwee Long, a founding figure in Singapore’s wind band movement.
This year's InTempo will feature exciting highlights such as Give Us This Day by David Maslanka and Olympica by Jan Van Der Roost. Join us for this musical banquet of variety: a true feast for your ears! |
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Your Voice is Mine
19 Jan to 21 Apr 2013, NUS Museum
Presenting six cutting edge contemporary artists from Japan, Your Voice Is Mine unravels the artistic and curatorial economies of 'transcultural collaboration' - a bewildering concept - that calls upon its audiences to realize the problematics of this emergent term in global contemporary art circles operating with varied degrees of resistance and conformity.
Your Voice Is Mine features works by artists Makiko Koie, Fuyuki Yamakawa, Shun Sasa, Takayuki Yamamoto, SHIMURAbros (Yuka and Kentaro) and Motohiro Tomii, created through their encounter and research on Singapore’s social and cultural histories.
This exhibition is co-organised by The Japan Foundation and NUS Museum.
There will be a guided tour for this exhibition on Fri, 15 Mar at 6pm.
Image: Makiko Koie, From the series G, Kr-1, 2008, C print mounted on Plexiglas, 73 x 100 cm, Artist Collection
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Textures, Tones and Timbres: Art of Chong FahCheong
1 Feb to 28 Apr 2013, NUS Museum
This exhibition presents the recent works of sculptor Chong FahCheong. While the artist’s public artworks are characterized by the figurative and shared social memory, this collection of recent works explores his continuing fascination for materials and their potentials.
Chong's formal approach intertwines personal experiences, both concrete and intuitive, and sense of place; the compositions are informed by journeying, layered with notions of home and impermanency. It is a "process of rambling", finding ways of making sense, constantly negotiating the natural environment and urban sprawl, interacting with materials and encountering a variety of sensations and experiences.
Accomplished mainly in stone and wood, and on occasions made from bronze, the works are simultaneously familiar and abstract, providing glimpses of everyday objects and communicating Chong’s reflections on life.
There will be a guided tour for this exhibition on Thu, 14 Mar at 6pm.
Details from sculptures of Chong FahCheong
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