YST Piano Academy Draws Budding Pianists

YST STORIES YST Piano Academy Draws Budding Pianists Academics Outreach The 2018 YST Piano Academy invited 12 outstanding young piano talents to Singapore for a three-day workshop focused on the preparation of conservatory-level piano auditions. The intensive training course was open to prospective students ages 16 to 18 of all nationalities. Indeed, Academy participants from […]

Advocating Social & Artistic Responsibility For Singaporean Musicians

YST STORIES Advocating Social & Artistic Responsibility For Singaporean Musicians Outreach This article is part of YST’s Artistic Citizens series.   Third year Recording Arts and Science student Sulwyn Lok is the proud conductor and president of the Victoria Chinese Orchestra (VACO), a non-profit organization he co-founded with friends in 2014. Sulwyn believes that “musicians […]

Celebrating Children’s Day

YST STORIES Celebrating Children’s Day Outreach This article is part of YST’s Artistic Citizens series. Inspiring a love for music and the arts for the next generation of Singaporeans, six YST students curated an engaging music program for children with and without disabilities, aged 5-10, presented as the concluding celebration for a 3 week-long Inclusive […]

Engaging Pakistani Communities With Music And Hope

YST STORIES Engaging Pakistani Communities With Music And Hope Outreach This article is part of YST’s Artistic Citizens series. From 6 – 13 October this year, alumnus Lee Wai Teng (BMus ’16, Clarinet) embarked on a series of community projects with impoverished Pakistani children. Her projects were in collaboration with Starfish Pakistan, a nonprofit that […]

Bringing Light Into Patients’ Lives Through Music

YST STORIES Bringing Light Into Patients’ Lives Through Music Outreach Catch Year 4 students violinist Andrew Ng and pianist Nguyen Le Binh Anh at a lunchtime concert at the Alexandra Hospital Auditorium on 7 November at 12.30pm! This article is part of YST’s Artistic Citizens series.   YST provides community engagement opportunities for students to develop […]

Artistic Citizens: A Year In Review

YST STORIES Artistic Citizens: A Year In Review Outreach It has been an exciting year for community engagement at YST. In addition to a commitment for musical excellence, students are exploring what it means to be an ‘artistic citizen’ in Singapore, by creating opportunities for themselves to acquire a broad range of skills, including conducting, teaching […]

Singapore International Violin Competition – Applications Open

YST STORIES Singapore International Violin Competition – Applications Open Outreach The Singapore International Violin Competition (SIVC), the landmark cultural initiative for Singapore and South-East Asia launched in 2014/2015, returns in 2018 and expects a pool of world-class talent to be gracing Singapore’s concert hall stages. In its inaugural year the Competition welcomed 35 competitors between […]