PAST CONCERTS
Chloe Chua
27 & 28 Jul 2023
CHLOE CHUA AND HE ZIYU
Venue: Esplanade Concert Hall, Singapore
Time: 7:30pm
Ticket prices: $88, $68, $48, $38, $28, $15
Our Mozart Violin Concerto cycle with SSO Artist-In-Residence Chloe Chua is supplemented with this performance of the Sinfonia Concertante, where she is joined by another youthful augur of musical brilliance, He Ziyu. SSO Music Director Hans Graf ramps up the stakes as the Singapore Symphony Orchestra chronicles Richard Strauss’s groundbreaking orchestral spectacle, Ein Heldenleben under his baton. An eye-opening experience from start to finish!
2 Sep 2023
CHLOE CHUA PLAYS PAGANINI
Venue: Esplanade Concert Hall, Singapore
Time: 7:30pm
Ticket prices: $88, $68, $48, $38, $28, $15
Paganini is a name associated with impossible feats on the violin, and what better way to show they are possible than in the hands of the very best such as Singapore’s brightest violin star, Chloe Chua? Esteemed Swiss maestro Mario Venzago leads this myriad display of instrumental and choral skill, the latter with the Singapore Symphony Chorus and Youth Choir as the magical sirènes in Debussy’s Nocturnes and explorers in Vaughan Williams’s paean vocalising Walt Whitman’s transcendent poetry.
10 & 11 Nov 2023
BUTTERFLY LOVERS VIOLIN CONCERTO
Venue: Victoria Concert Hall, Singapore
Time: 7:30pm
Ticket prices: $88, $68, $48, $38, $28, $15
The exquisite Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto is one of the most popular works of its kind from the 20th century, inspired by the eponymous Chinese legend. Singapore Symphony Artist-In-Residence Chloe Chua will transport you to scenic China with its rapturous music, sweeping you up in the tale of the star-crossed lovers, Liang Shanbo (梁山伯) and Zhu Yingtai (祝英台). Conducted by SSO Associate Conductor Rodolfo Barráez, the concert begins with the soulful warmth of Sunshine Over Tashkurgan (also featuring Chloe Chua) and ends with the sunlit exaltation of Beethoven’s spirited Eighth Symphony.
5 & 6 Jan 2024
CHLOE AND ISAAC GO BAROQUE
Venue: Victoria Concert Hall, Singapore
Time: 7:30pm
Ticket prices: $30, $20
A treasure trove of rare Baroque gems is unveiled by two of Singapore’s finest young musicians. Chloe Chua, Artist-In-Residence of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra joins organist Isaac Lee in this multi-faceted recital of music for violin and organ. Expect virtuoso displays of both technical finesse and soulful emotion.
2 & 3 Mar 2023
BRUCH VIOLIN CONCERTO AND MAHLER 5
Venue: Esplanade Concert Hall, Singapore
Chloe Chua enters Romantic musical territory with the Singapore Symphony this season with Bruch’s Violin Concerto No. 1, music of impassioned melody and searing energy. Join SSO's Artist-In-Residence as she performs this popular work with acclaimed Dutch-Maltese maestro Lawrence Renes. Mahler’s Symphony No. 5, with the fin de siècle beauty of its famous Adagietto, makes this an unmissable programme.
31 Mar & 1 Apr 2023
CHLOE CHUA PLAYS MOZART 3
Venue: Victoria Concert Hall, Singapore
Sunshine and joy return as our Artist-In-Residence Chloe Chua’s Mozart cycle continues with the immensely popular Violin Concerto No. 3, framed by the Romantic ardour of Schumann. In his Fourth Symphony, Schumann sought to write a continuous symphonic drama without any breaks – witness his heroic spirit, tender musings and ultimate triumph as shaped by the Singapore Symphony Orchestra with our Music Director Hans Graf.
12 & 13 Jan 2023
CHLOE CHUA PLAYS MOZART 4
Venue: Victoria Concert Hall, Singapore
Witness Chloe Chua’s new take on Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 4, over five years since her prize-winning performance in 2017 at the Zhuhai Mozart Competition, when she was 10. This instalment of Chloe's Mozart recording cycle with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, where she is Artist-In-Residence, also features Bizet’s only Symphony, written when he was a 17-year-old student at the Paris Conservatoire, and Debussy’s dreamy Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun.
23 Dec 2022
KIDS' PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Venue: Victoria Concert Hall, Singapore
Kids' Philharmonic Orchestra's 10 Year Anniversary Concert is both a celebration and reflection. KPO has fostered and brought together some of the most talented young musicians in Singapore over the past decade. The orchestra has made several international tours and exchanges in order to spread the message of how enthusiastic Singapore's youth are about classical music.
Nathanael Koh is the young composition student of one of Singapore's most prominent pioneer composers: Phoon Yew Tien. In addition to featuring new Singaporean music, the Kids' Philharmonic will be bringing on 3 of Singapore's youngest and most eminent classical performers: Chloe Chua, Toby Tan, and Liu Jiaqi in a performance of Beethoven's Triple Concerto for Violin, Cello, Piano and Orchestra.
27 Jul 2022
Temasek Foundation Hans Graf Inaugural Concert (Sneak Preview), featuring Chloe Chua
Venue: Esplanade Concert Hall, Singapore
Witness the artistry of our conductor Hans Graf in this special preview of his Inaugural Concert as the SSO’s new Music Director. Maestro Graf leads the SSO in this multi-faceted programme of Straussian tone poetry and Mozartian purity, with Singapore’s favourite young violin virtuoso, Chloe Chua. This free preview is open to all students aged 7 and above. Tickets are required and registration opens on Mon, 27 Jun, 10am on www.sso.org.sg.
28 & 29 Jul 2022
Temasek Foundation Hans Graf Inaugural Concert, featuring Chloe Chua
Venue: Esplanade Concert Hall, Singapore
Watch the livestream free on YouTube
The Inaugural Concert of Hans Graf as the new Music Director of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra marks a new height in the SSO’s musical evolution under his baton. Aside from the heroic adventures of Don Juan and the magisterial beauty of Brahms’s Second Symphony, our maestro will lead the SSO in accompanying Singapore’s brightest violin star and SSO Artist-In-Residence 2022/23 Chloe Chua in Mozart’s delightful Violin Concerto No. 5. A night that promises to become an indelible chapter in the history of the SSO.
07 Aug 2022
Copenhagen Summer Festival
Venue: Charlottenborg Palace, Copenhagen, Denmark
Opening Concert for the Copenhagen Summer Festival.
23 & 24 Apr 2022
Venue: Esplanade Concert Hall
The musical poetry of spring, summer, autumn and winter comes to life with Chloe Chua, Singapore’s brightest violin star. Accompanied by the SSO, Chloe will perform this evergreen favourite as well as the 12th concerto from Pietro Locatelli’s The Art of the Violin, nicknamed “The Harmonic Labyrinth” – for good reason!
12 May 2019
Venue: Shaw Foundation Symphony Stage, Singapore Botanic Gardens
Programme: Fantasy on Bizet's Carmen, Pablo Sarasate
Conductor: Joshua Tan
Orchestra: Singapore Symphony Orchestra
13 Jan 2019
Venue: Victoria Concert Hall
Join Chloe Chua in her guest appearance with Singapore's premier chamber orchestra, the re:SOUND, in Vivaldi's "Winter" from The Four Seasons.
07 Dec 2018
Venue: XMU Sciences and Arts Concert Hall, Xiamen China
Programme: Mendelssohn Violin Concerto
Conductor: Zhang Zhenshan
Orchestra: Xiamen Philharmonic Orchestra
25 & 26 Jul 2024
BRAHMS Double Concerto for Violin & Cello
with Ng Pei-Sian/Hans Graf/Singapore Symphony Orchestra
BEETHOVEN'S ODE TO JOY
Venue: Esplanade Concert Hall, Singapore
Time: 7:30pm
Ticket prices: $38 - $168
Joy, bright spark of divinity. Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony is classical music’s most beloved celebration of the human spirit – a splendid ode to equality, freedom and fellowship powered by Romantic fervour and Beethoven’s triumphant struggle against the limits of mind and body. Experience it at the Singapore Symphony’s 2024/25 season opening concert with SSO Music Director Hans Graf – we open with Brahms’s Double Concerto featuring Singapore’s violin star Chloe Chua and SSO Principal Cellist Ng Pei-Sian.