Dear Band Members, SYF arts presentation for us begins next week, and it is the biggest gathering and sharing session of the bands in our…
Score Analysis of Festival on Earth
Preface I previously wrote an article ‘Score Analysis of Sunny Island’ a few months before 2017 Singapore Youth Festival Arts Presentation (Secondary School Level), and…
Classics of Our Own: A Personal List – Part Two
Do Singaporean wind bands have a repertoire they can call their own? Do we have our own “classics”? Indeed we do, but we seem to…
A Major Step for Singapore Wind Symphony
In 2014, it was announced that the Singapore Wind Symphony (SWS) would join the list of recipients for the National Arts Council Major Grant, which…
What Does Your Future Hold?
It’s 2015, and another great year for our young local composers as Jinjun Lee‘s original work, ‘What Does the Future Hold?’, was selected as the…
Christmas with the Meads
As a recipient of the National Arts Council (NAC)‘s major grant, the Singapore Wind Symphony (SWS) embarked on another prestigious project featuring newlyweds Steven Mead…