Singapore International Violin Competition - 10 to 21 January 2015

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The Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music are proud to be hosts to the inaugural Singapore International Violin Competition (SIVC) happening between 10 to 21 January 2015. Some of the world’s top young violinists will battle it out for prizes of $100,000 cash, exclusive artist representation, a recording contract with Naxos and performance opportunities with the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Three Singaporean violinists will be featured in the finals. Check out their official website to find out who these local-born prodigies are!

http://www.singaporeviolincompetition.com

'Bridging Frontiers' by the Metropolitan Festival Orchestra - 21 June 2014 (Sat)

The Metropolitan Festival Orchestra goes on a second outing this coming Saturday with Bridging Frontiers, featuring two concertos on the programme: a Chinese-influenced piece for erhu duo by composer Liu Xi-Jin and Richard Strauss's Horn Concerto no.1. Personally speaking, the latter is a favourite of mine, as it is required playing for every horn player in the music college that I attended, so I'm looking forward to hearing it live again in a professional setting. Here's more information:

Singapore Youth Steinway Piano Competition

This year's edition of the Singapore Steinway Youth Piano Competition includes a first ever voting category. Watch these young contestants' performance and, after a simple registration, vote for your favourite contestant. Contestants with the highest wotes win the 'Most Popular Pianist' award and gets to attend a complimentary masterclass at Steinway Gallery. Voting runs till 17 May 2014.

http://www.steinway-gallery.com.sg/voting.php

Recruitment for 2nd Steinway Youth Competition

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Registration for the 2nd Steinway Youth Piano Competition is still open till 20 January 2014. If you are or know someone 17 and below who knows his or her way around a keyboard, here's your chance to take your playing to an international level. Click on the link below to sign-up:

http://www.steinway-gallery.com.sg/steinway-youth-competition

Here's a trailer for the competition:

Adam Gyorgy's Piano Masterclass at Steinway Gallery

Hungarian pianist Adam Gyorgy is a young virtuoso at only 31 but that hasn't stopped him from teaching students whenever his touring schedule allows. Budding local pianist Wang Congyu credits him as an important mentor. I got to spend a nice Saturday morning observing him mentor three young pianists at the Steinway Gallery at Palais Renaissance.

Gramophone Hall of Fame 2013

Gramophone is getting your thoughts on who to induct into their Hall of Fame this year. You get 10 votes out of a huge list of conductors, instrumentalists and of course, singers! Don't bother searching out for Callas though because she has already been inducted eons ago. My votes went to Mackerras, Caballe, Tito Gobbi and Renee Fleming among others. You can chip in your own two cents here:

http://surveys.haymarket.com/s3/HallofFame2013

SLO Art Exhibition in Support of Voice Scholarship - 15 - 18 Nov 2012

Here's more info:

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Dear Friends

The Old Parliament House , Intercultural Theatre Institute and Singapore Lyric Opera has a joint project, Artworks, to raise funds so that needy students are able to have the opportunity to learn singing as in the case of SLO where we offer 10 singing scholarships to young children to join our Children’s Choir and have one of the best times of their lives ; OPH for their BT Budding Arts Fund and ITI for their acting students.

We are hoping to raise more money from the remaining paintings at Affordable Art Fair, happening from 15 to 18 November 2012, which kindly gave Artworks a booth to sell these reminding paintings. Unsold paintings by the end of December 2012 will be returned back to BT Arts Fund/OPH.

Look forward to your support and if you know of friends who collects paintings or interested in their bit for charity, we appreciate your kindness.

Ms Ng Siew Eng
General Manager
Singapore Lyric Opera Limited

SNYO and Lara St. John - 5 Pairs of Tickets to Giveaway

OK check out the spiel for this concert, cos LANXESS SNYO CLASSIC is kindly giving away 5 pairs of tickets to readers of  The Mad Scene!

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LANXESS SNYO CLASSIC 2011 “A Musical Chemistry”

Thursday, 21 April 2011

7.30pm

The Esplanade Concert Hall

LANXESS SNYO CLASSIC presents A Musical Chemistry, a one-night only concert by the Singapore National Youth Orchestra (SNYO). Under the baton of guest conductor, Maestro Alexander Polishchuk from the St Petersburg House of Music, the orchestra will perform Wagner’s Overture to Die Meistersinger Von Nürnberg and César Franck’s Symphony in D minor. Performing as guest soloist will be the critically acclaimed Canadian violin virtuoso Lara St John. She will be performing, together with the SNYO, Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35. The concert will also feature the world premiere of Darrell Ang’s composition, Fanfare for a Frazzled Earth.

The LANXESS SNYO CLASSIC is a 3-year mentorship and cultural exchange programme created by LANXESS, a leading global specialty chemicals company, in support of Singapore youth’s passion for music and to make classical music accessible to everyone.

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Can't wait to attend? All you have to do is send an email to themadscene@gmail.com with the following details:

Subject title: LANXESS SNYO CLASSIC Concert

Body text: Your name and telephone number.

First five readers to write in will receive a pair of tickets each. Winners will be notified during the coming week. LANXESS SNYO CLASSIC and The Mad Scene reserves the right to amend the rules and regulations if necessary. So WRITE IN NOW FOR YOUR FREE TICKETS!!!

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UPDATE: Congratulations to our five winners! Andrew Xiao, Karen Siah, Faizah Jamal, Ed Cruz and Wiepke van Aaken have each won a pair of tickets to LANXESS SNYO Classic's concert with Lara St. John on 21 April 2011. More details will be emailed to you shortly.

Win a Pair of SLO Tickets!!!

The Singapore Lyric Opera has generously sponsored a pair of tickets for their upcoming 20th Anniversary Gala (26 Nov, Friday) to readers of The Mad Scene. All you have to do, dear readers, is to send an email to themadscene@gmail.com, in not more than 3 paragraphs, your favourite SLO moment in their 20 year history. All entries will be posted in the comments section below (unlike the previous Wordpress program, Blogger does not allow for hidden email address hence the extra manual step.) Best entry as decided by The Mad Scene and the SLO wins the prize. You may use an alias but please provide your real name and mobile number.  You have till midnight of this coming Monday (22 November 2010) to make your contribution, so put on your creative writing cap now. Good luck!

Find out more about the SLO Anniversary Gala here.