OpusNovus pays tribute to Pierre Boulez (1925–2016), the visionary French composer and conductor who shaped contemporary music. The programme opens and closes with Boulez’s crystalline miniatures, the shimmering Dérive 1 and the elegiac Mémoriale, featuring our new Head of Winds, Associate Professor Eric Lamb. Between these pillars, works by composers from Boulez’s constellation chart a …
YST faculty present songs by Nielsen, Kodály and Sibelius, culminating in Janáček’s The Diary of One Who Vanished.
YST Concerto Competition Prizewinner and Singapore Symphony’s 2025 President’s Young Performer clarinetist Chua Jay Roon (BMus4) takes the stage alongside the YST Orchestral Institute with Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto—a work of luminous lyricism and delicate expression that highlights the clarinet’s poetic voice. We then follow with Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5, a sweeping exploration of intensity, triumph …
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