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 […]
Category archives: Outreach
NUS Open Day
YST STORIES NUS Open Day Academics Outreach Catch special performances by our first years, See Rui Yang (flute) and Nigel Foo (harp), at 1pm and 2.30pm! . In addition to a range of music modules available to NUS students, beginning this coming academic year, NUS students are able to read a new Minor in Music & […]
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 […]
A Collaboration In Laos
YST STORIES A Collaboration In Laos Outreach A group of YST students, led by Ho Qian Hui (BMus Year 3, Viola) recently participated in a collaborative project with the National Lao Music and Dance School (NLMDS). This collaboration, which was the brainchild of Qian Hui, came about during a South East Asian Directors of Music […]
YST Young Composers’ Academy 2018
YST STORIES YST Young Composers’ Academy 2018 Outreach YST Conservatory is pleased to announce the second annual YST Young Composers’ Academy from 20 January to 17 March 2018 in Singapore. The aim of the academy is to inspire a new generation of composers in Singapore by supporting talented, young musicians at the Secondary and JC […]
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 […]
