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MUSIC DIRECTOR
& CONDUCTOR
Yan
Yin Wing
Yan Yin Wing pursued his music studies between 1976 to 1978 in London
and obtained the Associate of the Royal College of Music (ARCM) in violin
teaching. During this period, he had studied conducting and was awarded a
scholarship to attend a Summer Conductors’ Course in 1978
organised by the Ernest Read Music Association.
Yan was awarded a grant from the Singapore Cultural Foundation in 1984
to pursue an Advanced Orchestra Conducting Course at the
renowned Sweelinck Conservatorium Amsterdam. During that year, he had also
attended an Orchestra Conducting Master Class at the International
Sommerakademie of the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria.
Yan has always been heavily involved in the promotion of classical
music and encouraging local talents in Singapore by bringing people from
all walks of life and of all ages to make music. Since 1989,
Yan has been the driving force behind Singapore’s sole community-based
Symphony Orchestra. Besides conducting, he also plans,
organises and directs its concert seasons in gathering sponsorship
support and musicians' participation. Yan has been dedicated to the cultivation of
young local talents and invites overseas musicians
and conductors to perform with the orchestra which has garnered the BHSO to great acclaim.
Between 1986 and 1994, Maestro Yan has represented Singapore and led its
delegations at the ASEAN Youth Music Workshops and Composers’
Workshops. A keen composer, one of Yan’s compositions
“SALUTE” was premiered at the National Tribute Dinner for Singapore's former
Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew. Another of his composition was performed in China by the
National Opera and Ballet Symphony Orchestra of Beijing besides having it performed in
Singapore and Malaysia. His other compositions include chamber works, overtures, an
operetta, songs, choruses and his first symphony "Harmony", which was premiered
in one of BHSO's concert seasons in November 2008.
One of Yan's significant community project included one with the Belgium Boys’
Choir in celebration of our 25th National Day performed with the Braddell Heights Symphony Chorus.
Other noteworthy events included the People's Association's 40th Anniversary
Celebration, Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong's Inauguration Dinner, Esplanade's Trial &
Orientation Concert and the Debutante Ball. Under its Music Director, the BHSO's stringed musicians
recorded its first CD album entitled "My Favourite Classics" in 2006.
Since the initiation of an exchange programme with the Korea Symphony
Orchestra (KSO) in 1999, Yan has been a regular guest conductor of the KSO in Seoul.
More recently, Yan has further initiated exchange programmes with
the Suginami Philharmonic Orchestra in Japan and the Penang Symphony Orchestra in Malaysia.
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