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8 & 9 December 2018 Victoria Concert Hall
Singapore Symphony Orchestra Peter Moore, conductor/presenter
BIZET
March of the Toreadors
TCHAIKOVSKY
Waltz of the Flowers from The Nutcracker
GRIEG
In the Hall of the Mountain King
TOWNSEND
Cheerful Cha Cha
JOHN WILLIAMS
Theme from Jaws
Star Wars Imperial March
SOUSA
The Liberty Bell March
ROSSINI
William Tell Overture
OFFENBACH
Can-Can
BRAHMS
Hungarian Dance No. 5
S ing a p or e S y mp hon y Or c he s t r a
Hello! The Singapore Symphony Orchestra (SSO) was born in 1979 - that's almost 40 years ago when the orchestra first started playing music! Your mommy and daddy were kids just like you when the SSO was growing up. Our Music Director is Mr Lan Shui, he is our most important conductor. We have many musicians. Some play string instruments (like violin and cello), wind instruments (like flute and trumpet) and percussion (like drums and cymbals). At the orchestra, we want to make beautiful music that will touch your heart and make your life more colourful. The SSO usually plays in a concert hall like this one you’re sitting in. But we want to show everyone how beautiful classical music is, so sometimes we have concerts in schools near your home. Sometimes we even play in the Botanic Gardens - you can have a picnic while listening to the music! Our big concerts are held at the Esplanade Concert Hall - the giant durian at Marina Bay! That can fit 1,800 people. That's a big hall! But when we want to play small pieces of chamber music or when we play fun music for everybody or for families like yours, we will come back to the beautiful Victoria Concert Hall, our beloved Home of the SSO.
P e t e r Moor e conductor /presenter
Uncle Peter Moore is going to be your conductor today! Uncle Peter was born in London, England but later moved to Australia, quite near Singapore. Besides conducting, he is also a very skillful bassoon player. (What is a bassoon? Maybe you can ask him later!) Uncle Peter has played in and conducted many orchestras. Let's count them:
1 Scottish Chamber Orchestra, 2 West Australian Symphony Orchestra, 3 Ensemble Vasse, 4 Western Australian Ballet Company, 5 Australian Chamber Orchestra, 6 Tasmanian Symphony, 7 Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, 8 Faith Court Orchestra, 9 Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, 10 Australian Youth Orchestra, 11 Orchestra Victoria, 12 The Sydney Sinfonia, 13 Hong Kong Sinfonietta; and of course 14 Singapore Symphony Orchestra
Wow! Uncle Peter is also a Music Teacher. He teaches at the School of Music in the University of Western Australia. He also teaches kids like you in special concerts like the Babies' Proms. In fact, Uncle Peter has done so much for music that in the year 2000, the Australian Government gave him a very special medal called The Order of Australia. Thank you, Uncle Peter! For today's concert, Uncle Peter will teach you about the orchestra and all its instruments. He will also show you how the music works. We hope you have lots of fun with him! :)
SSO Mu sic i a n s Lan Shui Music Director Joshua Tan Associate Conductor Andrew Litton Principal Guest Conductor Choo Hoey Conductor Emeritus Eudenice Palaruan Choral Director Wong Lai Foon Choirmaster
VIOLA Zhang Manchin Principal Guan Qi Associate Principal Gu Bing Jie* Fixed Chair Marietta Ku Luo Biao Julia Park Shui Bing Tan Wee-Hsin Janice Tsai Wang Dandan Yang Shi Li CELLO Ng Pei-Sian Principal Yu Jing Associate Principal Guo Hao Fixed Chair Chan Wei Shing Song Woon Teng Wang Yan Wang Zihao* Wu Dai Dai Zhao Yu Er
FIRST VIOLIN Igor Yuzefovich° Concertmaster, The GK Goh Chair Lynnette Seah~ Co-Concertmaster Kong Zhao Hui* Associate Concertmaster Chan Yoong-Han Fixed Chair Cao Can* Chen Da Wei Duan Yu Ling Foo Say Ming Gu Wen Li Jin Li Cindy Lee Karen Tan William Tan Wei Zhe
DOUBLE BASS Guennadi Mouzyka Principal Yang Zheng Yi Associate Principal Karen Yeo Fixed Chair Olga Alexandrova Jacek Mirucki Wang Xu
SECOND VIOLIN Michael Loh Associate Principal Hai-Won Kwok Fixed Chair Nikolai Koval* Lee Shi Mei^ Chikako Sasaki* Margit Saur Shao Tao Tao Lillian Wang Wu Man Yun* Xu Jue Yi* Ye Lin* Yeo Teow Meng Yin Shu Zhan* Yoko Mano^ Zhang Si Jing* Zhao Tian
OBOE Rachel Walker Principal Pan Yun Associate Principal Carolyn Hollier Elaine Yeo
BASS CLARINET Tang Xiao Ping Assistant Principal BASSOON Wang Xiaoke Principal Liu Chang Associate Principal Christoph Wichert Zhao Ying Xue CONTRA BASSOON Zhao Ying Xue Assistant Principal HORN Han Chang Chou Principal Gao Jian Associate Principal Jamie Hersch Associate Principal Marc-Antoine Robillard Associate Principal Lewis Lim^ TRUMPET Jon Paul Dante Principal David Smith Associate Principal Lau Wen Rong Sergey Tyuteykin TROMBONE Allen Meek Principal Damian Patti Associate Principal Samuel Armstrong
FLUTE Jin Ta Principal Evgueni Brokmiller Associate Principal Roberto Alvarez Miao Shanshan
BASS TROMBONE Wang Wei Assistant Principal
PICCOLO Roberto Alvarez Assistant Principal
TIMPANI Christian Schiøler Principal Jonathan Fox Associate Principal
COR ANGLAIS Elaine Yeo Associate Principal
TUBA Hidehiro Fujita Principal
PERCUSSION Jonathan Fox Principal Mark Suter Associate Principal Lim Meng Keh Zhu Zheng Yi HARP Gulnara Mashurova Principal
CLARINET Ma Yue Principal Li Xin Associate Principal Liu Yoko Tang Xiao Ping
* With deep appreciation to the Rin Collection for their generous loan of string instruments ° Igor Yuzefovich plays an instrument generously loaned by Mr & Mrs G K Goh ~ Lynnette Seah performs on a J.B. Guadagnini of Milan, c. 1750, donated by the National Arts Council, Singapore, with the support of Far East Organization and Lee Foundation ^ Musician on temporary contract Musicians listed alphabetically by family name rotate their seats on a per programme basis.
Activity Sheet
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16 & 17 March 2019 Sat, 2pm & 4pm | Sun, 2pm Victoria Concert Hall Prepare to blast off on An Intergalactic Adventure with our intrepid star captain Alasdair Malloy! Join his cosmic crew on the Space Ship Orchestra as we depart Earth on a musical trek to the distant stars. We’ll visit faraway planets and join forces in heroic Star Wars. Go boldly where no concert has gone before! Joshua Tan, conductor Alasdair Malloy, presenter Tickets: $32, $25 Family bundle: $116, $90 Recommended for ages 4 and above. No admission for infants-in-arms. No admission without a ticket.
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