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kids’philharmonic@sg is a non-profit educational organisation based in
Singapore. It began with a pilot project organised by MusArt Edu Hut, a private
music school committed to the training of classical music in Singapore, and
performed unofficially as an ensemble for the first time in December 2011 at the
Esplanade Recital Hall. Following a full box-office success, it has since
developed into kids’philharmonic@sg, which made its inaugural debut at the
Singapore Conference Hall on September 9, 2012.
We believe strongly in the educational benefits of playing in an orchestra,
because this allows student musicians to work together in a group, developing
teamwork and leadership. In an instrumental section, all musicians have to play
exactly the same notes at the right time and right dynamics, creating a highly
disciplined environment.
Conductor
Quek Ling Kiong was recipient of the National
Arts Council’s
(NAC) Singapore Young Artist Award (2002) and
the NAC
Cultural Fellowship (2013). He studied at the
Shanghai Conservatory of Music under the NAC
Overseas Scholarship, as well as the Lee
Foundation and Singapore Hokkien Huay Kwan
scholarships. He learned Chinese percussion
from renowned master Li Min Xiong and Western
classical percussion from Xue Bao Lun. He also
explored various Chinese percussion arts with
masters such as Li Zhen Gui, An Zhi Shun and
Zhu Xiao Lin. After graduating from the
Conservatory in 1997, he joined the Singapore Chinese Orchestra (SCO) and
became its Percussion Principal.
Quek Ling Kiong learned conducting from Cultural Medallion recipient Tay Teow
Kiat and famed Chinese conductor Xia Fei
Yun. He attended the workshops and masterclasses of such luminaries as Tsung
Yeh, Kirk Trevor, Colin Metters and Harold Farberman as well as Johannes
Schlaefli, Marc Kissoczy, Oleg Proskumya and Leonid Korchmar.
Quek Ling Kiong’s career in professional conducting took off when he became
SCO’s first Conducting
Assistant in 2003. In 2004, he became SCO’s Assistant Conductor as well as the
Conductor for the Singapore Youth Chinese Orchestra (SYCO). In 2005, he
debuted with SCO at the opening concert of the 12th International Conference of
WASBE (World Association for Symphonic Band and
Ensembles). In 2006 and 2013, he led SYCO to perform at the Tainan
International Arts Festival and Hsinchu Chinese Music Festival in Taiwan
respectively.
Besides conducting orchestras in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, he has
conducted symphony orchestras in the Europe including Westbohmisches
Symphonieorchester in Marienbad, Karlovy Vary Symphony Orchestra and Berg
Komorni Orchestra of Prague. In September 2006, he was again awarded the
NAC overseas bursary and scholarship from the Hokkien Huay Kwan to pursue
Conducting Studies in Zurich, Switzerland. He obtained his Diploma in Advanced
Studies from
Zürcher Hochschule der Künste in 2007. Upon his return to SCO in 2008, he was
promoted to Associate Conductor. During his appointment as an Associate
Conductor, he introduced and choreographed many well-received SCO concerts
– SCO’s Mother’s Day Concert, Concerts for
Children, Community Series concerts, Outdoor Rhapsody, Caring Series
concerts, Lunchtime Concerts and SYCO Concerts. Quek Ling Kiong is currently
an adjunct teacher at the Singapore School Of The Arts and the Nanyang
Academy of Fine Arts.
Quek Ling Kiong was promoted to SCO’s Resident Conductor from 1 January
2013.
Arranger
Under the tutelage of composer Leong Yoon Pin
and Elaine Dobson, Phoon Yew Tien is
Singapore's most recorded classical music
composer. Phoon is not only well-grounded in
both Eastern and Western musical vocabularies,
his output covers the entire spectrum of chamber
music, songs, music for theatre and concert hall.
He has earned a fine reputation as a significant
composer, both in Singapore and in the
international arena.
For three consecutive years, 1977 to 1979, he won the Distinguished Prize in the
National Song Writing Competition - the prizes were awarded for the works Our
Song in 1977, Nanyang University (1978) and Song for Workers (1979). While
attending the Queensland Conservatorium of Music on a Singapore Symphony
Orchestra scholarship, Phoon was awarded the Dulcie Robertson Prize in
composition thrice (1980, 1981 and 1983), for best composition.
In 1984, Phoon won the prestigious Yoshiro Irino Memorial Prize for Composition,
awarded by the Asian Composers League, one of the highest awards to be given
to a young Asian composer. In 1996, 1997,2001 and 2004, he was also awarded
the top Local Serious Music Award by the Singapore Composer and Authors
Society (COMPASS).
On 14th April 2000, the Singapore Symphony Orchestra premiered his Variants
on an Ancient Tune as one of a series of new works commissioned for the 20th
anniversary of the orchestra. On 12th October 2000, the Beijing China Film
Orchestra performed works by Phoon Yew Tien in his solo composition concert
in Beijing Concert Hall. The concert was jointly presented by the government of
the People's Republic of China and the Singapore National Arts Council. He was
also commissioned by the Singapore National Arts Council to compose a large
scale work ( Confucius �C A Secular Cantata ) for the Singapore Arts Festival
2001.
Since 1987, Phoon's compositions and arrangements have been performed and
recorded by the orchestras such as the Singapore Symphony, the Russian
Philharmonic, Shanghai Philharmonic, Shanghai Music Conservatory
Symphony, , Shanghai Music Conservatory Chinese Orchestra, Singapore
Chinese Orchestra ,Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra and the Kaohsiung City
Chinese Orchestra of Taiwan.
Besides composing symphonic works,Chinese orchestra music and chamber
music,Phoon participated in almost all Singapore Arts Festivals since 1984.He
has collaborated with many Singapore artists including Kuo Pao Kun, Goh Lay
Kuan, Tan Swie Hian , Lim Fei Shen and Yan Choong Lian to Create music for
television (Grandpa‘s Meat Bone Tea),over 20 theatre productions (Evening
Climb, Lao Jiu, Kopi Tiam, The Oolah World, Family, The Spirits Play,
Descendent of the Eunuch Admiral, etc.), dance theatre (Nu Wa, Xi Fangping,
Tang Huang, The Homing Fish, etc.) and dances (Nuo Dance, Madhouse, Dao,
Qing Ming etc.).
Phoon's music successfully combines a Chinese idiom with contemporary
compositional techniques and styles. It is often transparent and spare in texture,
making effective and careful use of tone colour.
Phoon Yew Tien has been a Committee Member of the Advisory Council on
Culture and the Arts (1988), a member of the National Arts Council Resource
Panel, and Associate Conductor of theSingapore Chinese Orchestra. From 1993
to 1996, he was Head of Music at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, where he
lectured from 1984 to 1999.
In 2000, Phoon was appointed by the Singapore government to re-arrange the
National Anthem.
Phoon has been serving as an Arts Advisor to the National Arts Council (19982008). In 1996 he was awarded the Cultural Medallion by the Singapore
Government, the highest award given in the field of the arts in Singapore.
He has also been appointed by the Singapore Symphony Orchestra to be the
Composer in Residence for the year 2003.
In the year 2014, he has also been appointed by the Singapore Chinese
Orchestra to be the Composer in Residence.
Vocalist
Jocelyn Tang: Coloratura Soprano. Vice-Secretary of
the Musicians Society of Singapore. She obtained her
Master of Science from University of Manchester
(UK). Trinity Guildhall Level 6 Licentiate Diploma in
singing performance (LTCL) (Distinction). Performer's
Certificate in Singing from Trinity College London
(Merit)
In 2009, she joined Singapore Lyric Opera
Chorus and performed in Verdi's Opera "La
Traviata". In 2010 Aug, she attended master
classes by Rolando Nicolosi in Beijing to learn
Italian aria singing.
In 2010 May, she set up “IOI Music & Art Center”.
7/5/2011, she organized a “Memorial Concert of Armando Chin Yong”.
17/12/2011, She organized her “Jocelyn Tang and friends” Recital.
13/5/2012, she organized Concert “Our Beautiful Homeland” for Joo Chiat CC.
17/5/2012, she organized “Vocal Recital of Jocelyn Tang”
15/12/2013, she organized “A Treasured Night of Nanyang Songs 1939 –
2011” at Singapore Conference Hall
All her Concerts and performances were well acclaimed and highly appraised.
Emcee
徐惠民简介
出生年月：1952 年 12 月 20 日
籍贯：广东省丰顺县
出生地：新加坡
师承：姜昆
从艺简介：
10 余岁时便成了侯宝林相声迷，17 岁开始在电台写并说相声。 而后当了播音员，
更自编自演了数以百计相声小品。
１９８５年，参与筹备其所任职的电台主办的首届相声大奖赛，他的作品《添丁》
被姜昆、唐杰忠等预先评为一等奖，可惜受比赛章程所限未能得奖。
１９８９年为电台委派赴北京邀请马季等到新加坡演出。其作品得马季欣赏，为
其相声专辑题字。
２０００年受邀参加北京国际曲艺节，演出自编相声《漫游 中国》。
２００２年受邀出席为纪念侯宝林诞生８５周年而在北京举办的《侯宝林相声艺
术国际研讨会》，作《侯派三代对新加坡相声的影响》的发言。
２００５年受新加坡艺术理事会之邀，在艺术之家（前国会大厦）作专场演出。
２００７年正式拜中国相声艺术家姜昆为师，成为其在中国境外的第一个弟子。
２００９年１２月，新加坡城市频道电台为庆祝台庆主办了徐惠民作品专场演出，
全体播音员联袂呈献１２个大小段子。出版有单行本《徐惠民相声集》、《徐惠
民相声二集》，录音带《影视杂谈》、《五籍争光》、《播音趣谈》等。曾培训
一批少年儿童相声演员，为他们排演出版了ＶＣＤ《少年儿童相声小品》。
代表作：《添丁》、《漫游中国》、《节目审查》
人：未有。
职务：电台特约主持人、自由撰稿人、语文教师。
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