Upcoming event

The ASEAN Youth Ensemble (AYE) project is a partnership project between the Ministry of Culture, Thailand and the Princess Galyani Vadhana Institute of Music. Initiated in parallel to the International Symposium ‘Classical Music in ASEAN Context’ in 2014, AYE aims at promoting collaborations between young musicians in South East Asia through joint performances and also to encourage music experts and composers from each country to research ways in which to combine their respective musical traditions.

Visiting Artist Series: Beyond Borders
18 February • 7:30pmConservatory Orchestra Hall

FOO MEI YI, piano

PROGRAMME

CHOW JUN YAN
In the Absence of Silence (2019)

SAMUEL CHO
Vatni (2019)

HOH CHUNG SHIH
Reef Weave (2019)

CHEN ZHANGYI
Clima (2018)

AMERIC GOH
black or white or red (with a tinge of white and blue)? (2019)

JOYCE KOH
Piano Peals (2002)
la pierre magenta (2000)

CHIE TSANG LEE
Sympathetic [re]sonance (2015)

ADELINE WONG
Herringbone (2018)

ABOUT THE EVENT
Composers from both sides of the divide between Singapore and Malaysia explore commonalities and diversities in creative ideas and styles, going past physical, social and historical boundaries at this forum and concert. 

UK-based Malaysian pianist Mei Yi Foo will bring the two cultures together in a unique contemporary piano recital. The programme will feature works by YST faculty Chen Zhangyi, Chow Jun Yan, Adeline Wong together with composers from Composers Society of Singapore – Chung Shih Hoh, Joyce Koh, Americ Goh as well as Chie Tsang Lee and Samuel Cho from Malaysia.  

At the preceding forum, Mei Yi Foo and the composers will illuminate on their work and artistic approach, and offer insight into how the creative process can transcend all barriers tangible and intangible. This meeting of minds hopes to bring greater understanding into how art transcends the limitations life brings.

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Winner of the BBC Best Newcomer of the Year award, Mei Yi Foo dazzled critics and audiences at the BBC Music Magazine Awards 2013 with her ‘liberating’ and ‘virtuoso display’ (The Times). Her recent debut at the Lucerne Festival was voted ‘Highlight of the Year’ by SRF and she continues to captivate audiences across Europe, the Americas and Asia. Since winning the Maria Callas Grand Prix’08 in Athens, Mei Yi has transformed from ‘a pianist to watch’ (BBC Radio 3) to a ‘rising star’ (International Piano Magazine), and according to a recent review on The Arts Desk, David Nice writes, ‘her genius is now unquestionable’. Learn more about Foo Mei Yi here.

Participating the fifth edition of the Atlas Academy from 20 to 31 August 2014 at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam. My piece- ‘Re-sketch(es)’, a mixture of western and eastern musical instruments for duduk, shakuhachi, shō, sheng, gu zheng, erhu, and cello will performed by the Atlas ensemble during the workshop session (26th, 27th, & 30th). The piece suggests to seek the ‘liveness’, the ‘value’, and the ‘tradition’ of performance through the process of collaboration between composer, conductor, and the performance.

10th Thailand International Composition Festival (2014)

My viola solo piece, “Interfusion IV – Variegation in Color,” has been selected as one of six finalists in the 10th Thailand International Composition Festival (2014). This piece will be performed by Leah Gastler (Vicennium Void) during the festival (June 23rd-28th, 2014) at the College of Music, Mahidol University.