Yip Wing-sie, Music Director of the Hong Kong Sinfonietta, makes her conducting debut in Singapore with the Conservatory Orchestra. A highly respected and influential figure in Asia’s orchestral music scene, Yip Wing-sie is the Ong Teng Cheong Distinguished Visiting Professor in Music for 2005/2006. The orchestra celebrates the anniversaries of Mozart (b. 1756) and Shostakovich (b. 1906) with works by the two great masters and performs with the T’ang Quartet, the Conservatory’s Quartet-in-residence, in Vaughan Williams' awe-inspiring masterpiece, Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis.

This was my first concert I had attended that was conducted by a female conductor, Yip Wing-Sie. She was renowned worldwide and had conducted orchestras in Hong Kong and China before. The orchestra, as usual, came in full force for a brilliant night of musicality and performance.

I particularly liked the piece "Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis" by Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) because it is famed for intriguing people as to whether the music is of the new or old. Indeed, the sheer beauty and passion of the piece awed me and gave me a new insight as to how queer classical music can be. I definitely enjoyed this concert and look forward to the various concerts I will be attending during the upcoming vacation.

Yip Wing-sie, Music Director of the Hong Kong Sinfonietta, makes her conducting debut in Singapore with the Conservatory Orchestra. A highly respected and influential figure in Asia’s orchestral music scene, Yip Wing-sie is the Ong Teng Cheong Distinguished Visiting Professor in Music for 2005/2006. The orchestra celebrates the anniversaries of Mozart (b. 1756) and Shostakovich (b. 1906) with works by the two great masters and performs with the T’ang Quartet, the Conservatory’s Quartet-in-residence, in Vaughan Williams' awe-inspiring masterpiece, Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis.

This was my first concert I had attended that was conducted by a female conductor, Yip Wing-Sie. She was renowned worldwide and had conducted orchestras in Hong Kong and China before. The orchestra, as usual, came in full force for a brilliant night of musicality and performance.

I particularly liked the piece "Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis" by Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) because it is famed for intriguing people as to whether the music is of the new or old. Indeed, the sheer beauty and passion of the piece awed me and gave me a new insight as to how queer classical music can be. I definitely enjoyed this concert and look forward to the various concerts I will be attending during the upcoming vacation.

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