Kelly Tang
Kelly Tang - Overture No.1 for Wind Band - Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Tan
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Performed by the Metropopitan Festival Orchestra, conducted by Chan Tze Law
Premiere 24th June 2023, Esplanade Concert Hall
Commissioned by Foundation for the Arts and Social Enterprise
Composer - Kelly Tang
Performed by Re:Mix String Orchestra
Soloist - Foo Say Ming
Composer - Kelly Tang
Performed by Jennifer Tham and the SYC Ensemble Singers
Based on a poem by William Wordsworth
"Behold her, single in the field,
Yon solitary Highland Lass!
Reaping and singing by herself;
Stop here, or gently pass!
Alone she cuts and binds the grain,
And sings a melancholy strain;
O listen! for the Vale profound
Is overflowing with the sound.
No Nightingale did ever chaunt
More welcome notes to weary bands
Of travellers in some shady haunt,
Among Arabian sands:
A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard
In spring-time from the Cuckoo-bird,
Breaking the silence of the seas
Among the farthest Hebrides.
Will no one tell me what she sings?—
Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow
For old, unhappy, far-off things,
And battles long ago:
Or is it some more humble lay,
Familiar matter of to-day?
Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain,
That has been, and may be again?
Whate'er the theme, the Maiden sang
As if her song could have no ending;
I saw her singing at her work,
And o'er the sickle bending;—
I listened, motionless and still;
And, as I mounted up the hill,
The music in my heart I bore,
Long after it was heard no more."
composer - Kelly Tang
performed by T'ang Quartet
director - Ng Khee Jin
recorded in Yellow Box Studio 2006
Geylang Methodist School (GEMS) Choir
Conductor: Ho Lian Ian
Pianist: Winnie Tsin
Engineer: Stephen Loh, Lyrical Moments Production
Singapore Symphony Orchestra
Conductor - Lan Shui
Victoria Concert Hall, 16 July 2014
Composer: Kelly Tang,
Singapore Symphony Orchestra,
Conductor: Ng Tian Hui,
SSO National Day Concert - 13 August 2023,
Esplanade Concert Hall,
Supported by the National Arts Council Cultural Medallion Fund, the five movements ~ 𝘋𝘢𝘺𝘣𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘬, 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘧𝘧𝘪𝘤, 𝘙𝘶𝘯𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴, 𝘛𝘩𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘮 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘏𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘥𝘢𝘺 ~ reflect contrasting aspects of life in Singapore.
Minnesota Orchestra,
Composer: Kelly Tang,
Conductor: Junping Qian,
Lunar New Year Concert, February 6th 2022,
Orchestra Hall, Minneapolis
"Sketches Of Singapore” is based on four songs:
1. Stand Up For Singapore,
2. Rasa Sayang,
3. Where I Belong,
4. Di-Tanjong Katong.
Kseniia Vokhmianina, solo piano
In Memoriam: Mr. Lee Kuan Yew (1923 - 2015)
#SG50
Composer: Kelly Tang
Lyricist: Aaron Lee
Junyuan Primary School Choir
Conductor: Darius Lim
From the 2017 album "Stories We Sing"
Singapore Teachers' Academy for the aRts
Composer: Kelly Tang
Lyricist: Aaron Lee
Junyuan Primary School Choir
Conductor: Darius Lim
From the 2017 album "Stories We Sing"
Singapore Teachers' Academy for the aRts
Composer: Kelly Tang
Harp: Bianca Beng
Soprano: Tessa Tang
Alto: Natasha Da Costa
Lee Kuan Yew Awards Ceremony & Banquet
Ritz Carlton Ballroom - 11 July 2016
Philharmonic Youth Winds, conductor: Adrian Chiang
Singapore International Band Festival 2018
Esplanade Concert Hall, 29 July 2018
Composer: Kelly Tang
Singapore Symphony Childrens' Choir,
Conductor - Wong Lai Foon; Pianist - Gabriel Hoe
Based on a poem by Robert Louis Stevenson
World Premiere - The Incursion Trio
Siew Yi Li (violin)
Juan Lin (cello)
Beatrice Lin (piano)
Esplanade Recital Studio, 26th April 2018
Kseniia Vokhmianina - piano
Choreography - Ng Teck Voon
Performed by SOTA Year 3 Dance Cohort
Rehearsal - 9th November 2016
SOTA Big Dance Studio
Kseniia Vokhmianina - piano
Choreography - Ng Teck Voon
Performed by SOTA Year 3 Dance Cohort
Full Dress Rehearsal - 10th November 2016
SOTA Drama Theatre
Pang Rae Yue - piano
National Gallery of Singapore, December 2016
Singapore Youth Festival 2010 Set Work
Tanjong Katong Girls' School Choir
Conductor: Lim Ai Hooi - Pianist: Lim Yan
Based on a poem by Robert Louis Stevenson
Concerto for Jazz Piano & Orchestra -
Composer: Kelly Tang -
Drums: Tamagoh, Bass: Christy Smith -
Orchestra of the Music Makers, Dir. Chan Tze Law -
Concertmaster: Huan Yuh Seah -
OMMProm: Jazz - Esplanade Concert Hall, 7 March 2015.
"Montage" was commissioned for Singapore Chinese Orchestra's Season Opening Gala in 2010. It has been performed on tour by Jeremy Monteiro and the SCO at Shanghai Concert Hall, Zijin Grand Theatre (Nanjing) and Suzhou Culture and Arts Centre in 2014 , as well as Dewan Filharmonic KL in 2015.
Contemporary Motet on a Theme by Westlife
SYC Ensemble Singers
Tatlo Choral Festival - January 2011
Cultural Center of the Philippines
Singapore Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Lim Yau
Victoria Concert Hall, 11th Dec 2005
Orchestra Collective - Ignatius Wang
Singapore Conference Hall - 28th December 2015
ACJC Alumni Choir - dir. Valarie Wilson
Based on a poem by Wallace Stevens
From the album "Prayers & Poems"
Recorded August to October 2015
Yong Siew Toh Conservatory Concert Hall
Commissioned in 2008 for the opening of the ACJC Centre of Performing Arts
ACJC Alumni Choir - dir. Valarie Wilson
From the album "Prayers & Poems"
Recorded August to October 2015
Yong Siew Toh Conservatory Concert Hall
Commissioned in 2013 in commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the Choral Excellence Programme
The ACJC Alumni Choir - Valarie Wilson
Recorded at Yong Siew Toh Conservatory Concert Hall
August to October 2015
Singapore Symphony Orchestra - Lim Yau
World Premiere - May 1st, 2004
Esplanade Concert Hall
Singapore Symphony Orchestra - Jason Lai
Victoria Junior College Theatre
August 3rd, 2014
Performed by Orchestra Collective, Boon Hua Lien
Esplanade Concert Hall, 10th August 2014
"Three Portraits" was commissioned in commemoration of 50 Years Of Military Music Services in Singapore in 2008. It was jointly premiered by SAF Central Band with "The President's Own" United States Marine Band at the Esplanade Concert Hall on 19th November 2008.
SSO's Tribute to President S R Nathan -
Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Lim Yau -
Esplanade Concert Hall, 2nd October 2011 -
Philharmonic Winds 10th Anniversary Commission
Conductor: Zechariah Goh
Esplanade Concert Hall, 10 April 2010
Bianca Beng - Harp
Tessa Tang - Soprano
Natasha Da Costa - Alto
Recorded at SOTA 8th July 2016
Orchestration - Kelly Tang
Singers: Tessa Tang, Natasha Da Costa, Zachary Sebastian
Singapore Symphony Orchestra - Lan Shui
Recorded at Victoria Concert Hall
Commissioned in 2000 by Ministry of Information, Communication & the Arts
ACJC Alumni Choir - Valarie Wilson
Based on a poem by W.B. Yeats
From the album "Prayers & Poems"
Available at Amazon.com
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Performed by Re:Mix String Ensemble,
Director: Zen Yeo - birdmandog films,
"Singapore Through The Glass",
Esplanade Concert Hall - 26 April 2015
"Sketches of Singapore" by Kelly Tang
Original tune & lyrics by Tanya Chua
Singapore Symphony Orchestra - Jason Lai
Young Siew Toh Conservatory Concert Hall
2nd August 2014
Movement IV (Finale) - "Sketches of Singapore"
Based on a traditional Singaporean folk song
Singapore Symphony Orchestra - Jason Lai
Young Siew Toh Conservatory Concert Hall
2nd August 2014
Orchestration by Kelly Tang.
Re: mix String Orchestra - conductor: Foo Say Ming.
Esplanade Recital Studio - 1st July 2012.
- Lim Yan, piano -
Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Lim Yau -
Esplanade Concert Hall, 11 Feb 2010
Singapore Symphony Orchestra -
Piano solo: Lim Yan, Conductor: Lim Yau,
Esplanade Concert Hall, 11th February 2010
Artsylum String Quartet:
1st violin - Ng Wei Ping, 2nd violin - Chia Jit Min,
Viola - Christoven Tan, Cello - Elizabeth Tan -
Esplanade Recital Studio, 2nd September 2011,
Singapore Symphony Orchestra
Okko Kamu, Conductor
Esplanade Concert Hall, February 23rd 2008
Solo Piano: Kseniia Vokhmianina
Lee Shi Mei (violin 1), Ronan Lim (violin 2)
Jonathan Lee (viola), James Ng ('cello)
Damien Kee (contrabass)
SOTA Concert Hall - 22nd April 2016
"Elegy" is the 2nd movement of "Concerto in Three Movements", commissioned in celebration of Singapore's 50th Anniversary - premiered by Lang Lang and the Metropolitan Festival Orchestra on 7th August 2015
Photo credits: Anubhav Mishra
Composer: Kelly Tang
Singapore National Youth Orchestra
Conductor: Darrell Ang
Berlin Konzerthaus, 7th August 2012
2012 Young Euro Classic in Berlin.
Piece:
Composer: Kelly Tang
Conductor: Darrell Ang
Orchestration by Kelly Tang -
Re:mix String Orchestra, dir. Foo Say Ming
Esplanade Recital Studio, 1st July 2012
Concerto for Jazz Piano & Orchestra -
Composer: Kelly Tang -
Drums: Tamagoh, Bass: Christy Smith -
Orchestra of the Music Makers, Dir. Chan Tze Law -
Concertmaster: Huan Yuh Seah -
OMMProm: Jazz - Esplanade Concert Hall, 7 March 2015.
"Montage" was commissioned for Singapore Chinese Orchestra's Season Opening Gala in 2010. It has been performed on tour by Jeremy Monteiro and the SCO at Shanghai Concert Hall, Zijin Grand Theatre (Nanjing) and Suzhou Culture and Arts Centre in 2014 , as well as Dewan Filharmonic KL in 2015.
Movement II from "Concerto for Jazz Piano & Orchestra" -
Composer: Kelly Tang -
Soprano Saxophone: Samuel Phua -
Drums: Tamagoh, Bass: Christy Smith -
Orchestra of the Music Makers, Dir. TzeLaw Chan
Concert Master: Huan Yuh Seah -
OMMProm: Jazz - Esplanade Concert Hall, 7 March 2015
Composer - Kelly Tang
Harp - Bianca Beng
Soprano 1 - Rachel Wong
Soprano 2 - Tessa Tang
Recorded at SOTA Orchestral Rehearsal Studio on 16th May 2016
The Daffodils was originally commissioned in 2006 as the choral set work for the Singapore Youth Festival Central Adjudication of Choirs.
Based on a poem by William Wordsworth
Composer: Kelly Tang
Anglo Chinese Junior College Choir
Conductor: Valarie Wilson
Esplanade Concert Hall, 30th May 2006
"One must have a mind of winter
To regard the frost and the boughs
Of the pine-trees crusted with snow;
And have been cold a long time
To behold the junipers shagged with ice,
The spruces rough in the distant glitter
Of the January sun; and not to think
Of any misery in the sound of the wind,
In the sound of a few leaves,
Which is the sound of the land
Full of the same wind
That is blowing in the same bare place
For the listener, who listens in the snow,
And, nothing himself, beholds
Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is."
Wallace Stevens


