Kok Tse Wei is Deputy CEO (Programmes & Production) at the Singapore Symphony Group (SSG), overseeing artistic planning and administration, orchestra operations and production, community engagement, choral programmes, the Singapore National Youth Orchestra, and ABRSM music exams in Singapore. He believes that the arts can transform lives and should be accessible to people from all walks of life.

Prior to that, he served as Director, Sector Development (Performing Arts) at the National Arts Council (NAC) in Singapore, where he led his teams to formulate and implement performing arts policies and programmes, including the gradual reopening of the performing arts sector during the COVID-19 pandemic. Over the course of more than a decade, Tse Wei has taken on a range of roles at the NAC, from PR to arts education and youth arts; published stories as a music journalist at The Straits Times in Singapore; and worked with arts organisations based in New York City such as Jazz at Lincoln Centre, the League of American Orchestras, and Spaceworks.

Tse Wei has a Bachelor’s degree in Journalism from the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and an MA in Arts Administration from Columbia University in New York City. He currently serves on the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music Governing Board at the National University of Singapore.