Striving for a Singaporean identity in the global musical world: Where are we now? What are the efforts that Singaporean musicians and artitsts have made to integrate local and western cutures? How successful are we so far? What are the major challenges? I will explore these questions here.  …

As a Germany-Fan living in Singapore who is also interested in classical music, I was of course very excited to know that a Wagnerian opera was going to be staged in Singapore for the first time. On Thursday (27th October) in Victoria Concert Hall, I was lucky enough to be one who witnessed…

This is a home-grown Singaporean orchestra… Not an orchestra that I join, but really a dream team for me. As a young market on the global cultural scene, Singapore faces challenges in defining its own identity, especially when it comes to classical music, which has…