Voyage Festival 2018

FESTIVAL

21 – 26 AUGUST 2018 YST CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC

“...eh, go where ah?”

The simplest of questions can at times be the hardest to answer.

Boldly curated for the adventurous audience, Voyage Festival is a week-long music festival of European classical, contemporary and experimental music. In unravelling new artistic pathways, we experiment with cross-disciplinary performances and redefine concert conventions.

We invite you to venture into worlds beyond your comfort zones alongside our performers: alumni of the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music in NUS, as we take classical music beyond its traditions.

Don't think so much– just go lah!

This festival would not have been possible without our performers: Graduation years are stated next to the names, B. Mus unless otherwise indicated.

Violin Alan Choo (’12) Aziel Verner (’19) Brenda Koh (’17) Chikako Sasaki (’15) David Loke (’15) Eliza Basoff (’19) Gabriel Lee (’15) Loh Jun Hong (’09) Placida Ho (’16) Yang Shuxiang (GD ‘13) Yong Yun Jie Jenny (’13) Viola Danish Lim (’21) Ho Qian Hui (’19) May Loh (’18) Violoncello Christopher Mui (’17) James Ng (’13) Minji Shin (’18) Ryan Sim (’13) Shernise Khor* Trinh Ha Linh (’13) Wang Zihao (’15) Double Bass Dahlia Nazir Neniel (’19) Edmund Song (’20) Tony Makarome (Faculty)

Flute Alvin Chan* Marcus Tay (’11) Rachel Ho (’18) Rit Xu Kai Xiang (’15) Oboe Bernice Lee (’16) Howard Ng (’11) Clarinet Miao Kai Wen (’16) Bassoon Emerald Chee (’17) Trumpet Lau Wen Rong (’15) Trombone Don Kow (’16) Guitar Daniel Wong (’17) Erhu Phang Kok Jun (’15) Pipa Gildon Choo*

Piano Abigail Sin (GD’14) April Foo (’18) Azariah Tan (’11) Khoo Hui Ling (’10) Li Churen (’15) Lin Hengyue (’14) Wang Ji (’15) Yong Sue Yi (’08)

Composition Chen Zhangyi (’09) Emily Koh (’09) Huang Ding Chao (’18) Jonathan Shin (’15) Joshua Cerdenia (’14) Lee Jinjun (’16) Syafiqah Adha’ Sallehin (’13) Tan Yuting (’16) Wynne Fung (’13)

Harpsichord Chin Ying Han (’11) Mervyn Lee (’20)

Composition/Organ Phoon Yu (’15)

Harp Charity Kiew (’16) Laura Peh*

Conductors Adrian Chiang (M. Mus ‘16) Ngiam Xing Hao (’18)

Percussion Akari Tsuruta (’10) Chang Tzu-En (’15) Chen Yang (’16) Joachim Theodore Lim (’14)

Choreography Peter Gn*

Voice Jade Tan Shi Yu (’17) Jingyun Ng (’18) Keane Ong (’16) Rachel Lim (’18)

Ensembles Bossa Celli Dark Horse Jazz Band Lorong Boys Open Score Project* Red Dot Baroque

Acting & Direction Isaac Chong*

Dance Joanna Tan*

* guest performers

Special thanks to:

PRODUCERS Jade Tan Shi Yu (B. Mus Voice, ‘17) Mervin Wong (B. Mus Viola, ‘18) VISUAL DESIGN Main Graphic Designer Emilea Teo (B. Mus Recording Arts, ‘20) Multimedia Visual Content Mervin Wong Jade Tan Shi Yu Phoon Yu (B. Mus Composition, ‘15) MARKETING & ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT Emilea Teo Ding Jian Han (B. Mus Composition, ’19) Priscilla Fong (B. Mus Voice, ‘21) Jingjie Lim (B. Mus Voice, ‘20) Ng Jingyun (B. Mus Voice, ‘18)

TECHNICAL PRODUCTION Production Planner Mervin Wong Lighting Engineer Aw Wei Zheng (B. Mus Recording Arts, ‘19) PANEL DISCUSSION Curator Stasha Wong (B. Mus Recording Arts, ‘18) Moderators Stasha Wong Jade Tan Shi Yu FESTIVAL INSTALLATION Huang Ding Chao (B. Mus Composition, ‘18) Mick Lim (B. Mus Composition, ‘18) Kristie Sim (External Artist)

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Voyage Festival is an alumni-student venture that strives to break barriers and forge new pathways for the classical music scene in Singapore. Your generous support will enable us to continue such initiatives in advancing the local arts industry.

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Celebrating 15 Years: Peabody - YST Gala Concert 21 August, Tuesday, 7:30pm | Conservatory Concert Hall

The Bistro 23 August, Thursday, 7:30pm | YST A Tempo Café

The Song 25 August, Saturday, 3:00pm | Conservatory Orchestra Hall

2018 marks 15 years of collaboration between the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music and the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, USA. This period has seen wonderful partnership on initiatives including the Joint Degree Programme and student exchanges between both schools.

Kopi break - Don’t say bojio!

Once upon a time, in a faraway land, there was a person. This person never moved, but instead watched through the mind’s eye vignettes of the lives of others playing at rapid speed; fantasies, dramas, epic sagas woven into a multiverse of stories…

Join us as we celebrate this special milestone with a gala concert featuring alumni and faculty from YST and Peabody.

Come by the café and savour the music of old and new composers freshly brewed with a cuppa to match. Our musicians will treat you to spiced-up Baroque music and a delicate, mellow modern take on the themes of faith and commitment to complete your lounge experience.

Immerse yourself in a journey of music inspired by stories and poetry.

There is no single path, because each free-spirited stroll finds its own perfect track.

Where will your mind’s cinema take you? Come and find out for yourself!

Featuring works by Bach, D. Scarlatti, Rota, Higgins, Larsen and Theemptybluesky.

Featuring works by Liszt, Fauré, Debussy, Saint-Saëns, and Mendelssohn.

Featuring works by Brahms, Dvořák, Ravel, and YST alumni Wynne Fung and Tan Yuting.

And Beyond 26 August, Sunday, 3:00pm Conservatory Orchestra Hall The end of an odyssey– a step into a whole new world? To the fresh and wide-eyed voyager, who is a stranger to time and familiarity, the destination appears daunting, too abstruse and enigmatic.

Befriend the formerly alien and get cosy with shifting perceptions of what once was and now is another. The end of this festival bravely opens the entrance to abstract worlds created by contemporary composers of today.

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Featuring works by Anderson, Horovitz, and local composers Violette Truong, Chen Zhangyi, Syafiqah 'Adha Sallehin.

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The Pulse 22 August, Wednesday, 7:30pm Conservatory Orchestra Hall

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A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Some elegant, some tentative. Others– sprightly, and still others ponderous. Which step will you take?

Join in the whirl of journeys and dances; groove to the eclectic rhythms of Piazzolla, Dorati, Veldhuis, and Pervazov; jive to Bach’s music and swing to the beats of Saxony and Spain.

There are seats– you will not need them; we’ll whisk you away!

The Gallery 24 August, Friday, 7:30pm | Conservatory Orchestra Hall

Life After YST 24 August, Friday, 2pm

The glistening leaves at dawn, the rush in a train station; every encounter is peppered with sights, sounds and smells that penetrate the senses.

What lies ahead? An inevitable question that all music students come to confront. We trace the pathways of our alumni to understand how they grappled with similar growing pains and emerged with renewed passion.

Here’s your chance: plunge into our multidisciplinary experiment of tantalising colours and images intertwined with sounds and music, as we present music by Franck, Debussy, Poulenc and Moscheles. Round up the evening with an Asian twist to jazz music by our very own Dark Horse Jazz Band!

Navigating the Singaporean Creative Landscape of Today – A Musician’s Perspective 25 August, Saturday, 5:30pm From arts entrepreneurship and cultural policy to music education and performance, we sit down with prominent members of the Singaporean creative landscape to elucidate challenges pertinent to young musical professionals and others invested in the future of the creative scene.

The Primitive 25 August, Saturday, 7:30pm | Conservatory Orchestra Hall A queen and a soldier map out a course to reach their desires.

Both attain the same result: Death. One was willing, but the other unknowing.

With 20th-century composers Britten and Stravinsky, we arrive at the final destination of the journey of life. For some, it is blissful relief from the sorrows of the living. For others, death finds them before life even seemed to have begun. Bear witness as each character treads its final lake into the darkness.