When what shouldn’t happen in a classical music concert happens...

Altenberg Lieder | Alban Berg
(with use of extended piano techniques to mirror orchestral timbres) 

Chansons de Bilitis | Claude Debussy
(with visuals, staging and lighting)

Wesendonck Lieder | Richard Wagner
(With short dramatic recitations and piano improvisations)

…Can you take the heat?

Presenting an edgy classical music experience at Zouk, Singapore’s dance mecca, are two of Singapore’s most exciting musicians Jade Tan Shi Yu (Mezzo-Soprano, www.jadetanshiyu.com) and Churen Li (Piano, www.lichuren.com). Enjoy a cocktail mix of classic and offbeat performative elements with a straight shot of experimentalism, as we question the traditions of classical music performances.

P.S. Due to venue restrictions, this event is exclusively for above-18's. The price of the ticket includes entrance to Zouk Capital and concert-goers are warmly invited to stay on after the concert!

Churen: A prize-winner at national and international piano competitions, Singaporean pianist Churen Li was featured on Singapore Tatler's Generation-T List in 2018, a celebration of "50 of the brightest connectors, creative visionaries, influential innovators and disruptive talents in Singapore.” In 2015, she performed as the soloist in a tour of Macau and Hong Kong with the YSTCM Orchestra as part of the SG50 celebrations. Praised for her “extraordinary skill” in the South China Morning Post (Hong Kong), and the “epitome of poise and polish” in The Straits Times (Singapore) well as “a pianist who gives new spirit and breath of life to [her] bewitching performances” in the Ragusa Times (Sicily), twenty-two year old Singaporean pianist Churen Li is a Yamaha and Bösendorfer Artist. She holds degrees from Yale University and Yong Siew Toh Conservatory, and will be embarking on a Master of Philosophy in Music at Cambridge University this October. 

Jade: An acclaimed mezzo-soprano who sings with “nuance” and with “great ability in portraying emotion and meaning”, The Straits Times, Jade Tan Shi Yu was the Grand-prize winner of the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music’s Concerto Competition 2016 and Best Singaporean Artist in the Singapore Lyric Opera’s ASEAN Vocal Competition 2016. She was honored the title of President’s Young Performer in 2016. Jade is also the main producer of the first Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music Alumni Festival 2018, Voyage Festival. She made her operatic debut as Dorabella from Mozart’s Così fan tutte in the Hannover Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien, Germany and has since performed the roles of Giannetta in the Singapore Lyric Opera’s Production of L’Elisir d’amore (2017) and Zora in Serbian-born Ana Sokolovic’s Svadba(2018), a New Music opera composed in 2010 which won the prize of Outstanding New Musical/ Opera in the Dora Mavor Moore Awards.