Singaporean conductor Joshua Kangming Tan is a graduate of The Juilliard School and the Eastman School of Music. His awards and scholarships include the Bruno Walter Memorial Foundation Award, NAC-Shell Scholarship, SSO/MOE Scholarship, Charles Schiff Conducting Prize (Juilliard School) and the NAC Young Artist Award.

Joshua studied with James DePreist, Charles Dutoit, David Zinman and Kurt Masur and has worked with Michael Tilson Thomas, Ingo Metzmacher and George Manahan.

Orchestras he has conducted include the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Mariinsky Theater Orchestra, Beethoven Bonn Orchestra and Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra amongst others. 

Equally at home with both symphonic and operatic repertoire, he has conducted and served as cover conductor for La traviata, L’elisir d’amore, Tosca, Rigoletto, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, La Cenerentola, Der Fliegende Holländer, Lohengrin, Un Ballo in Maschera amongst others and with the Singapore Lyric Opera Carmen, Don Giovanni, Manon Lescaut, Madama Butterfly, La Traviata, Cosí fan Tutte and the recent Double Bill Operas: Pagliacci and Gianni Schicchi.

Soprano Zhang Jie graduated from the XingHai Conservatory of Music where she studied voice as her major. She was taught by Professor Li Ning and Professor Zhou Xiao Yin. In recent years, she has also continued her studies with Ms Nancy Yuen in Singapore. Zhang Jie actively performs in local concerts and competitions, receiving the second prize in the open category of the SLO-ASEAN Vocal Competition held in 2016. She also won awards in the Singapore Vocal Competition and the Singapore-Malaysia Vocal Competition in 2004.

Cherie Tse is a Singaporean Soprano who has completed her Bachelor’s degree from the Royal College of Music, London. She has won 1st prize in the NAFA Vocal Competition 2017, 2nd prize in the 7th Tan Ngiang Kaw/Tan Ngiang Ann Vocal Competition, and the Gold Award in the 5th Bangkok Opera Singing Competition.

Cherie has sung with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Singapore Lyric Opera, Ding Yi Music Company, Hallelujah Oratorio Society and many others. Cherie has sung the roles of the High Priestess in Verdi’s Aida, Sandman and Dew-fairy in Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel, Chloe from Offenbach’s Daphnis et Chloé, and the Girl in the world debut of Singaporean composer Chen Zhang Yi's chamber opera, Window Shopping. She was also the Soprano soloist in the premier of Dr Zechariah Goh’s Songs of the Dragon Kiln with Ding Yi Music Company. Cherie has also travelled to Austria, UK, Malaysia and Taiwan to perform.

Although a long-time opera lover, Chieko only discovered her passion for singing in recent years.

She began her vocal training with soprano Satsuki Nagatome and more recently she has begun working with acclaimed bass-baritone Huang Ronghai.

Chieko is a founder member of the opera outreach group Scherzo, with whom she has performed works from a repertoire spanning Baroque to 19th century, at the Esplanade library since 2014. She has also been invited on three occasions to perform at the Lycée Français de Singapour, in an Introduction to Opera programme aimed at primary school students.

Chieko has sung at the Singapore Tatler Ball at St Regis Hotel and performed the role of Suzy in OperaCoast’s production of Puccini’s La Rondine, at the English resort of Eastbourne. As a Singapore Lyric Opera chorus member, Chieko participated in Pagliacci (2015), Turandot (2016) and L’elisir D’amore (2017).

Last Summer Chieko won a position in Singapore Lyric Opera’s Leow Siak Fah Artist Programme and performed Carmen trio and quintet as Carmen in the SLO gala concert in November at the Esplanade concert hall.

Wei Ying is a soprano from Singapore. She recently attained her Bachelor of Music from Royal College of Music-NAFA with first class honors, as the Valedictorian of her cohort.

She has sung as Ciboulette in Offenbach’s Mesdames de la Halle (2017), Fanchette in Offenbach’s Le Mariage aux Lanternes (2016) and Xantippe in Offenbach’s Daphnis et Chloe (2016) and in the chorus of Humperdinck’s Hansel und Gretel (2015), Bizet’s Carmen (2016) and with The Philharmonic Chamber Choir in 2017. She has also participated in the summer program at the International Vocal Artists Academy of Payerbach in 2016 under Maestro Vladimir Chernov and Olga Toporkova. In 2017, she was the NAC Scholarship recipient for the 38th Kirishima International Music Festival, where she studied under Hungarian Soprano Andrea Rost. Wei Ying was the second prize winner of NAFA Vocal Competition in 2018.

During her studies, Wei Ying had the privilege of being taught and coached by Dr. Jessica Chen, Mr. William Lim and Mr. Nicholas Loh.

Jonathan first performed with the Singapore Lyric Opera (SLO) as Nemorino in Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore. In 2018, he sings the role of Ah Niu in Singapore Chinese Orchestra’s Liu San Jie, Ferrando in Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte with the Esplanade, Dvorak’s Stabat Mater with Braddell Heights Symphony Orchestra, Parpignol in Puccini’s La Boheme with Singapore Symphony Orchestra and The Messenger in Verdi’s Aida with SLO. 

Previous credits include Steuermann in Wagner’s Der Fliegende Holländer, Orpheus in Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld, Peppe in Donisetti’s Rita, Peter Quint in Britten’s Turn of the Screw, Hussar in Stravinsky’s Mavra, Astolf in Schubert’s Die Versworenen, Edoardo in Rossini’s La cambiale di matrimonio, Muley Graves in Ricky Ian Gordon’s Grapes of Warth, Laurie in Mark’s Adamo’s Little Women and Ferrando in Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte. Jonathan also performed as Re Gonzaga and L’araldo in Franco Faccio’s Amleto.

Martin was born in Singapore and graduated in Voice at the Conservatorio dall'Abaco di Verona. 

In 2013, he made his debut with the Maggio Fiorentino as Sleep and Corydon in Purcell's The Fairy Queen. His other operatic performances include Don Bartolo in Barber of Seville, First Soldier in Strauss' Salome, Bauer in Schoenberg's Gurrelieder, the title role in Viktor Ullmann's Der Kaiser von Atlantis, Silvio in Leoncavcallo's I Pagliacci, Marco in Gianni Schicchi, Don Alfonso in Cosi fan tutte, Ping in Turandot, the Holländer in Wagner's Der Fliegende Holländer as well as Dulcamara in Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore.

He has most recently performed as Amonasro in Verdi’s Aida, Papageno in Mozart's The Magic Flute, Alcindoro and Benoit in Puccini's La Boheme, and Klingsor in Wagner’s Parsifal, amongst others.

His concert performances include bass soloist for Bach's Magnificat and Saint John's Passion, Buxtenhude's Membri Jesu Nostri, Mozart's Coronation Mass, Mozart and Faure's Requiem and Mozart C minor Mass.

Terrence Toh is a Singaporean choral director and music educator. He holds a Master of Music from Boston University and has studied under Dr. André de Quadros, Dr. Owen Brian William and Dr. Diana R. Dansereau. Terrence’s research interest is in the transformative and empowering powers of music, music education and music-making.

In his international debut as a conductor, Terrence led his choirs to four gold awards at the 21st Century International Choral Festival in Genting, Malaysia. He also received the “Best Interpretation Award” and the "Most Promising Conductor Award” in the same festival. 

Choirs under his direction have won recognition and accolade locally and internationally. His choirs are regularly featured in Esplanade’s Limelight, a series that features the best school choirs in Singapore. He is also the founder of EVOKX, a community choir that engages the youths in raising funds and awareness for social causes. 
Terrence currently directs the choral programs at Anglican High School, CHIJ Katong Convent, Nanyang Junior College, Pasir Ris Secondary School, Pioneer Junior College and Singapore University of Technology and Design. He joined the Singapore Lyric Opera in 2015 as the Chorus Master for Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci (2015) and Puccini’s Turandot (2016).

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