Sin is an alumnus of the prestigious Verbier Festival Academy and Yellow Barn Festival. As a chamber musician, Sin won the Guildhall School’s Ivan Sutton Chamber Music Award and was a finalist in the St Martin’s-in-the-Fields chamber music competition and the Royal Academy of Music’s Patrons Award. She won top prizes at the Lagny-sur-Marne International Piano Competition (France), the Norah Sande Award (UK), the Royal Over-Seas League Competition (UK), and was a quarter-finalist in the Honens International Piano Competition (Canada). Sin studied with Prof Thomas Hecht at the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music, National University of Singapore, and Joan Havill at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where she won the Guildhall School’s Romantic Piano Prize. In 2020, More Than Music recorded the complete Beethoven violin sonatas, along with educational outreach content. She is the co-founder of the More Than Music concert series, which won acclaim for its engaging, innovative presentation of classical chamber music. He has made appearances at the Singapore International Festival of Arts, Gdańsk Music Festival and International Mozartiana Festival, and has participated in masterclasses with distinguished conductors at prominent festivals such as in Lucerne, Pärnu, Tanglewood, Seoul and Colorado.Ĭurrently based in Singapore, Lien holds conducting and performance degrees from Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and Eastman School of Music, where he was awarded the Walter Hagen Conducting Prize for his outstanding achievements.Ībigail Sin is a prize-winning Singaporean pianist who has performed in venues across Asia, Europe and North America as a concerto soloist, collaborative musician, and solo recitalist.
Highlights of Lien’s recent seasons include debuts with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Hong Kong Sinfonietta, Jakarta Simfonia Orchestra, NFM Wrocław Philharmonic, Polish Baltic Philharmonic, Kraków Philharmonic and Transylvania State Philharmonic Orchestra and has led productions of operas by Britten, Rossini, Mozart and Salieri in Singapore. He was selected to be on the 2019/20 Peter Eötvös Foundation Mentoring Program and served as assistant conductor to the Richard-Strauss-Festival 2018 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. He is on faculty at the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music in Singapore and leads its contemporary music ensemble, OpusNovus. Lien Boon Hua is the artistic director of Wayfarer Sinfonietta, and former assistant conductor of the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice. Jonathan Shin & Phoon Yu – Illuminations - Symphony for Organ, Chorus, and Orchestra (2022)** It is inspired by the history and architecture of Esplanade, and how the centre literally and metaphorically shines a light on its artists, audiences and surroundings.Ī programme of In New Light – A Season of Commissions, in celebration of Esplanade’s 20th anniversary.įelix Mendelssohn – Concerto for Piano, Violin & Orchestra in D minor, MWV O4 (1823)* The SSO is joined by the Singapore Symphony Chorus, Youth Choir, and Children’s Choir in this work specially commissioned for the occasion. Prominent young pianist Abigail Sin and violinist Loh Jun Hong, both chamber music icons, perform Mendelssohn’s Concerto for Violin, Piano and Orchestra, before the highlight of the evening- Illuminations-an original composition by prolific composer-pianist Jonathan Shin and composer-organist Phoon Yu. This concert proudly showcases the leading lights of the new generation of Singaporean classical music talent. The Singapore Symphony Orchestra (SSO) and choruses come together for an evening of classical music to commemorate Esplanade’s 20th anniversary.Īward-winning Singaporean conductor Lien Boon Hua leads the SSO for the first time at the Esplanade Concert Hall.
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