The Conservatory Orchestra celebrates the National University of Singapore’s centennial with great orchestral masterpieces including Sibelius’ best known overture, Finlandia, Prokofiev’s elegant and high-spirited Classical Symphony and Jupiter, the most famous movement of Holst’s spectacular work, The Planets. Zhou Yi, first prize winner of the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory Concerto Competition 2005, takes centrestage with Gyula David’s passionate Viola Concerto.

It was a concert that was not to be missed. The Viola Concerto, as it promised, was a showcase of highly developed technicality and passion. The borrowed viola on which he performed, after all, was crafted in 1749! Zhou Yi received bouquets of flowers and reappeared on stage bowing round after round. Later, Holst's stirring "Venus" and ever-popular "Jupiter" gave me the chance to enjoy these pieces first-hand (in front of a real orchestra) for the first time in my life. It was such a contrast to the recordings I had heard on CD! The wonderful performance put up by the Orchestra received much applause. To end the night, Wagner's Ride of the Valkyrie was dedicated to NUS's centennial celebrations.

The Conservatory Orchestra celebrates the National University of Singapore’s centennial with great orchestral masterpieces including Sibelius’ best known overture, Finlandia, Prokofiev’s elegant and high-spirited Classical Symphony and Jupiter, the most famous movement of Holst’s spectacular work, The Planets. Zhou Yi, first prize winner of the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory Concerto Competition 2005, takes centrestage with Gyula David’s passionate Viola Concerto.

It was a concert that was not to be missed. The Viola Concerto, as it promised, was a showcase of highly developed technicality and passion. The borrowed viola on which he performed, after all, was crafted in 1749! Zhou Yi received bouquets of flowers and reappeared on stage bowing round after round. Later, Holst's stirring "Venus" and ever-popular "Jupiter" gave me the chance to enjoy these pieces first-hand (in front of a real orchestra) for the first time in my life. It was such a contrast to the recordings I had heard on CD! The wonderful performance put up by the Orchestra received much applause. To end the night, Wagner's Ride of the Valkyrie was dedicated to NUS's centennial celebrations.

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