Singapore AGO

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The Singapore Chapter is the Guild's first chapter in South-East Asia. It was approved by AGO Headquarters on 20 October 2003 and the Registry of Societies in Singapore on 23 December 2003. [more]

Recent

Sojourn in a Foreign Land

by Yeo Huan, Programme Director
6 August 2007

Organ-hopping in Brisbane, Australia: an account with copious pictures, and in compendious fashion. [more]

Forthcoming

PipeWorks 2008

Martin Rein (UK)

Thursday, 10 July 2008, 8 pm
Pre-concert talk on the music of Olivier Messiaen, 7.15 pm
Orchard Road Presbyterian Church, 3 Orchard Road [locate]
FREE ADMISSION

Martin Rein began his career with extensive studies in Choral Conducting and Sacred Music at the Berlin School of Music with Professor Martin Behrmann, one of Germany’s leading choral conductors. He completed his Bachelor of Music degree there in 1996. Between 1996 and 2001, he undertook further postgraduate studies at the Music Academy in Detmold, Germany from where he graduated in December 2000 with an Honours degree in Organ Performance and in June 2001 with a Master of Music, majoring in Choral and Orchestral conducting. [more]

Programme

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Toccata and Fugue in F (BWV540)

Johann Ludwig Krebs (1713-1780)
Two chorale preludes on Nun freut Euch liebe Christen g’mein (‘Rejoice ye all Christians’)
- Organ pleno
- a 2 claviers e pedale

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Sonata No. 1 in E flat major (BWV525)

Martin Rein
Improvisation on a given theme

Olivier Messiaen (1909-1992)
Le Banquet Celeste (‘The eternal Eucharist’); organ meditation to the Gospel of St John 6:5

Charles-Marie Widor (1844-1937)
Andante from Deuxieme Symphonie pour orgue

Marcel Dupre (1886-1971)
Resurrection (from Symphonie passion op. 23)

Pipes@Victoria 2008

Dong-ill Shin (USA/Korea)

Thursday, 2 October 2008, 7.30 pm
Pre-concert talk at 6.45 pm
Victoria Concert Hall, 11 Empress Place [locate]
Ticket details to be advised

“France’s Chartres International Organ Competition, probably the world’s most prestigious” (Dallas Morning News)

Dong-ill Shin
Grand Prix d'Interprétation
Chartres Competition 2006

“One of the leading organists of the world…a breathtaking experience.” (Summorsposten, Aalesund, Norway)

Born in 1974, organist Dong-ill Shin won first prize in the national competition for piano sponsored by the Korean Times at the age of ten. When he was eleven years old, he made his debut with The Pusan Philharmonic Orchestra playing Mozart’s Concerto in d minor No. 20. Attracted by J.S. Bach’s music and the orchestra-like colors produced by the organ, he began his studies with Dr Sun-woo Cho at the age of 14. Later at Yon-sei University in Seoul he studied with Dr Tong-soon Kwak and completed his Bachelor of Music degree in 1997. [more]

 

 

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