Tuesday, 14 March 2023 YST Steven Baxter Studio, 4pm FREE Visiting Artist Gordon Hunt conducts a masterclass with YST oboe students. PROGRAMME MARINA DRANISHNIKOVA Poeme for oboe and piano NESTOR SOLORZANO, oboe MATTHEW MAK, piano RICHARD STRAUSS Oboe Concerto, TrV...
Tay Kai Tze is a musician based in Singapore. He regularly performs and records as Principal Oboist with the Metropolitan Festival Orchestra, the ReSound Chamber Orchestra, the Singapore Lyric Opera Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Music Makers, the Philharmonic Wind...
Quek Jun Rui (b. 2001) began playing the oboe at the age of 10 under the tutelage of Simon Lee and Elaine Yeo. He was an oboist with the Singapore National Youth Orchestra (SNYO) since 2013, and was appointed Principal Oboe in 2017. As a soloist, he made his debut...
Every band member will have to go through the process of being sorted into different sections at the very beginning of their ensemble music-making journey. Most students will have an instrument in mind before they even know name of the instrument or the sounds they...
Victor Tam is the Founder and Chairman of the Hong Kong Wind Philharmonia, Hong Kong Chamber Wind Philharmonia, Hong Kong Youth Wind Philharmonia and the Hong Kong Junior Wind Philharmonia. After graduating from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts in 1992, Mr...
Evolved from a few casual bassoonist meetings, the 2017 edition of the Double Reeds Day (DRD) returns with a bigger and more exciting program. “DRD is a place and time where double reeders come together and meet other double reeders. This to me is the most...
The Band Post speaks to Emerald Chee, who runs the Singapore Double Reeders group on Facebook, whose aim is to publicize double reed events that take place in, around or near Singapore. Its key event, the Double Reed Day (DRD) has been happening every year since...
The Singapore Youth Chamber Winds (SYCW), under the baton of Professor Emeritus Rodney Winther, will be presenting its inaugural concert on 5 June! The SYCW is made up of youth musicians selected from an audition held earlier this year, who are going through a...
The mystery of oboe reeds has been a baffling subject to the oboists and non-oboists alike. Among many issues, choosing oboe reeds is one of the most frustrating issues. They are costly, they are volatile, and they are easily damaged. During purchase, reeds have many...
