Voyage: The Primitive

This event is part of Voyage – a festival of music curated and performed by YST alumni that seeks to present classical music in a vivid new light.

A queen and a soldier map out a course to reach their desires.

Both attain the same result: Death.
One was willing, but the other unknowing.

With 20th-century composers Britten and Stravinsky, we arrive at the final destination of the journey of life. For some, it is blissful relief from the sorrows of the living. For others, death finds them before life even seemed to have begun. Bear witness as each character treads its final lake into the darkness.

PRIMITIVE

BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Phaedra

TAN SHI YU, mezzo-soprano 
ADRIAN CHIANG, conductor 
CHANG TZU-EN, timpani 
TSURUTA AKARI, percussion 
CHEN YANG, percussion 
MERVYN LEE, harpsichord 
YANG SHUXIANG, violin 
ANDREW NG, violin
PLACIDA HO, violin 
JENNY YONG YUN JIE, violin 
MAY LOH,  viola 
DANISH LIM, viola 
CHRISTOPHER MUI, violoncello
MINJI SHIN, violoncello

IGOR STRAVINSKY
L’histoire du Soldat

ADRIAN CHIANG, conductor
ANDREW NG, violin 
MIAO KAI WEN, clarinet 
CHESTER KANG, bassoon 
EMERALD CHEE, bassoon 
LAU WEN RONG, cornet/trumpet 
DON KOW, trombone 
TSURUTA AKARI, percussion 
EDMUND CHENG, double bass