
Chamber Week – Sounding Now
March 22, 2025 • 3:00pm
Conservatory Concert Hall
Held as part of Chamber Music Week 2025, Sounding Now is a festival of contemporary music that brings together divergent contemporary practices – composition, electronic music, installation, and improvisation – with the goal of connecting listeners and practitioners alike to explore the ways their shared interests intersect.
Experience an afternoon of exciting premieres written by YST Composition majors and performed by local expert new music performers. The concert will feature YST Artist Faculty Jonathan Shin (piano) and Martin Jaggi (cello), Julien Beneteau (clarinet) and the b-l duo.
PROGRAMME
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ONG PING DIN
gamut for bass clarinet, cello, and electronics
MARTIN JAGGI, cello
JULIEN BÉNÉTEAU, bass clarinet
XIAO WEN
Dream.U for solo cello
LEE YI XUAN
Cello-gen for solo cello
MARTIN JAGGI, cello
ESTENE CHEONG
Precipitation for solo piano with mechanical keyboard, vibrating device, and electronics
I. RAIN
II. SNOW
III. HAIL
LEE YI XUAN
……..AHHHHhhhh!!! for keyboard and string piano
XIAO WEN
mind(ful) for keyboard and string piano
ONG PING DIN
kd for MIDI keyboard duo
B-L DUO
BERTRAM WEE, piano/keyboard
LYNETTE YEO, piano/keyboard
– Intermission –
TJAN YI XUAN
movements of the mind
I. searching
II. dreaming
III. brainrot
CHAN HAO LI
haiku variations
I. monochrome, filtered
II. rice, with sugar and mala
III. same-same, but different
JOEL TAN
Three More Piano Miniatures
ANGELINE VALENCIA
seconds
Miniatures for Piano
I. serene
II. upheaval(s)
III. at sixes and sevens
XAVIER HUI
piano pieces ii
I. emergence
II. turbulence
III. transcendence
ALICIA DIVA CHANDRA
fishbowl
JONATHAN SHIN, piano
ABOUT CHAMBER MUSIC WEEK
Chamber Music Week 2025 brings together top local and international artists and ensembles for a week-long celebration of chamber music.
Look forward to chamber masterclasses and performances by acclaimed violist Su Zhen, Spectra Ensemble, tenor Mark Tucker, violinist Zhang Jia, pianist Daniel de Borah, YST contemporary music ensemble OpusNovus, YST Ensemble-in-Residence Red Dot Baroque, and the YST Voice and Composition Departments. The festival will also feature YST’s annual contemporary music festival Sounding Now and Song Festival: The Voices of England & France — expanding the chamber music experience beyond classical and instrumental traditions.
Don’t miss this invaluable opportunity to learn from acclaimed chamber musicians, while fully immersing in the world of chamber music!
TICKETING INFORMATION
Admission is free with registration via yst.eventbrite.com.
Out of respect for the participants and other spectators, no children under 6 years of age will be allowed admission.
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