Celebrate the Spirit of Singapore this August with the SSO

Now in its sixth year, the SSO National Day Concert is the Singapore Symphony’s well-established annual showcase of Singaporean capability in every aspect of music. Join us to witness the world premieres of new music by Singaporean composers commissioned by the SSO, and hear us revive musical treasures from the repertory of Singapore’s pioneer composers.

The concert will be streamed live on the Singapore Symphony YouTube Channel.

Special fundraising seats have been set aside to support Shared Services for Charities (SSC) and the Singapore Symphony Orchestra. These seats are available for a donation of $500. 50% of the funds raised will support SSC programmes to help charities improve their governance. The remaining 50% will support the national orchestra in enriching our diverse communities via music. Donations will qualify for a 2.5 times tax deduction for Singapore tax residents.

To adopt these seats, please visit the giving.sg campaign page or email contact@sscharities.com. Donors can opt to attend the concert or donate the tickets to a children's charity. For more information on the SSC, please visit www.sscharities.com.

Ng Tianhui, conductor / Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Singapore Symphony Chorus / Singapore Symphony Youth Choir / Singapore Symphony Children’s Choir / Eudenice Palaruan, Choral Director / Wong Lai Foon, Choirmaster / Members of the Singapore National Youth Orchestra / Lily Goh, Deaf Artist-Performer / Adora Sarah, Host

$48, $38, $28, $15

The organ and electronics share a rich history that has galvanised generations of music-makers. Prepared to be jolted from your seat as young Singaporean organist talent Anne Maria Lim is joined by electronic music master Benjamin Ang of Cosmic Armchair and NUS Electronic Music Lab fame. Witness for yourself what the power of electronic music and the pipe organ can do to charge up the concert hall!

Anne Maria Lim, organ / Benjamin Ang, electronic music producer

$5

Paganini is a name associated with impossible feats on the violin, and what better way to show they are possible than in the hands of the very best such as Singapore’s brightest violin star, Chloe Chua? Esteemed Swiss maestro Mario Venzago leads this myriad display of instrumental and choral skill, the latter with the Singapore Symphony Chorus and Youth Choir as the magical sirènes in Debussy’s Nocturnes and explorers in Vaughan Williams’s paean vocalising Walt Whitman’s transcendent poetry.

Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Singapore Symphony Chorus / Singapore Symphony Youth Choir / Mario Venzago, conductor / Eudenice Palaruan, Choral Director / Wong Lai Foon, Choirmaster / Chloe Chua, violin/Artist-In-Residence

$88, $68, $48, $38, $28, $15

This September school holidays, the Singapore Symphony Orchestra presents the classic fairy tale of Little Red Riding Hood – except this time, Roald Dahl’s feisty Little Red is no pushover! Watch as the SSO and actors of Dandi Productions use clever lighting, music, bold costumes and lively theatre to show you how Little Red thwarts the Big Bad Wolf to save the day.

Features actors in costume performing with the orchestra. Recommended for ages 4 and above. No admission for infants-in-arms. No admission without a ticket.

Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Rodolfo Barráez, Associate Conductor / Dandi Productions

$35, $25

Scintillating with Romantic grandeur, Rachmaninoff’s popular Third Piano Concerto makes a sweeping display of pianistic virtuosity. First Prize (Senior Piano) winner of the National Piano and Violin Competition 2019 and Steinway Youth Piano Competition 2016, 22-year-old Hao Jia is the Singapore Symphony’s 2023 President’s Young Performer who takes the stage again with this imposing masterpiece. Mendelssohn’s popular Scottish Symphony makes up the second half of this concert directed by SSO Associate Conductor Rodolfo Barráez.

Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Rodolfo Barráez, Associate Conductor / Hao Jia, piano

$48, $38, $28, $15

Term has started and class is now in session! Sit down at your desks and be treated to a lecture by organist Phoon Yu and acclaimed Singaporean band Lorong Boys as they teach you all about the true meaning of music history, Singaporean style. From Bach to the Beatles, Strauss to friendly swans (!!), and even buying an organ off Taobao, there will be something for everyone to enjoy. Just remember to take notes for your mugging session later.

Phoon Yu, organ / Lorong Boys

$5

The full power of the modern orchestra was unleashed when German composer Richard Strauss revealed a range of instrumental colours and heroic bravura that the concert hall had never experienced before. Witness it for yourself as the Singapore Symphony Orchestra brings to life the merry misadventures of the prankster Till Eulenspiegel and the fantastic escapades of the would-be knight, Don Quixote, featuring SSO Principal Cello Ng Pei-Sian and Principal Viola Manchin Zhang.

Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Hans Graf, Music Director / Ng Pei-Sian, cello / Manchin Zhang, viola

$88, $68, $48, $38, $28, $15