All posts filed under: Music

Methodist Girls School Performs at SEA Games 2015!

Published by

Conducting the Methodist Girls School Choir has been a real privilege and fantastic learning experience for this young artist over the last decade… winning awards in competitions is icing on the cake, but to be honoured with the opportunity to contribute & perform at the 2015 SEA Games Opening Ceremony? PRICELESS! One of my favourite songs  (click on the following link), ‘Reach‘ showcases meaningful lyrics and the wonderful collaboration between Cultural Medallion winner Dick Lee and the MGS Choir. Thank you Dick Lee and Dr. Sydney Tan for the music, thank you MGS management, teachers, students, thank you partners-in-music, Jennifer Tham & Tham Pei Wen. You ladies are probably very proud of your alma mater and choir at this moment! Screenshots below are taken from a YouTube video of the SEA Games Opening Ceremony! Ok girls, very proud of all you… have a good rest. We get back to work soon yah! What a rush!! And what a surreal experience watching the girls I know on TV!!!

A Choral Tribute to Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew

Published by

Sparked by the passing of Minister Mentor Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, I wrote a new choral work that will be premiered by the Schola Cantorum Singapore’s auditioned mixed adult choir. The text is adapted from Epictetus: When death overtakes thee how wouldst thou be found? Enough if I can hold my hands to the heavens and say, “I’ve not neglected the talents thou gavest me as to understand thy Rule: I’ve laid nothing to thy charge: I’ve not murmured or repined.” For the life thou gavest me, I thank thee. More details to follow! Albert

Serendipity Are Made of These

Published by

Intellectuals like to think one’s destiny is determined by one’s choices… this wannabe intellectual is feeling (at least for today), that perhaps one’s choices are governed and led inexorably by destiny… Haec Dies: 1. A happy occasion where my old friend, seriously overachiever and talented NAFA classmate gets married! *congrats John!* 2. Two of my adult choirs pull off respectable public performances after having come a very loooong way: 2.1 The STAR Teachers’ Choir’s first public performance @ the Esplanade Library! The small chamber group of 13 (+1 conductor), completely self-led, made up of music teachers in-training and full-fledged music teachers. Do note though that many of them are learning singing for the first time, let alone conducting, leading warmups and organising themselves as a choir etc. I must say for such a group to sing music with 4-part divisi like today is not a walk in the woods!! GREAT JOB and kudos to the two conductors Rebecca Lau (Mayflower Primary School) and Allen Losey (Tampines Primary School)!!! *muacks* Above: The lovely, crazy teachers from …