SYC Ensemble Singers

03/03/2026

Ever wondered about how singers make sense of new choral music? Spots are filling for Living Music: Singers’ Edition – a rare chance to step inside our rehearsal room and see how contemporary choral works come to life, note by note, marking by marking.

Come into our process:
Fri, 1 May 2026 | 2:30–6pm
📍 Aliwal Arts Centre

Register your interest by Sun, 8 Mar 2026 via the link/QR. Successful applicants will be notified by email.

🧩🎶Creating new choral music is a collaborative act — shaped by composer, conductor, and singers alike. What emerges on stage is collective, living, and never exactly the same twice.

At the Living Music: Singers’ Edition, we open up our rehearsal room and share how we work with contemporary choral repertoire — uncovering the ideas, emotions, and intent behind the notes and markings on the page. Whether you’re curious about new music or keen to experience how singers navigate unfamiliar sound worlds, this session is an invitation into our process.

Join us on Friday, 1 May 2026 from 2:30-6pm at Aliwal Arts Centre. Register your interest by Sunday, 8 March 2026 by scanning the QR code below or clicking this link: https://bit.ly/livingmusicsyc. Successful applicants will be notified by email.

Jennifer Tham

24/02/2026

Our Assistant Conductor Nicolette Foo recently represented Singapore at the 46th Annual Conductors’ Symposium, organised by our friends at Vancouver Chamber Choir with their Artistic Director Kari Turunen. A chemist by training, Nicolette made the leap into choral conducting and was one of just five young conductors selected for this international programme.

At the , we believe in championing new music and nurturing artistry from all backgrounds. Nicolette’s journey reflects that commitment — engaging with fresh repertoire, new perspectives, and global collaborations to expand our collective musical horizons.

We are proud to see her carrying that spirit onto the international stage, and we look forward to the new ideas and inspirations she will bring back to our music-making. 🌏🎶

Congratulations, Nicolette!

08/02/2026

🧩🎶Creating new choral music is a collaborative act — shaped by composer, conductor, and singers alike. What emerges on stage is collective, living, and never exactly the same twice.

At the Living Music: Singers’ Edition, we open up our rehearsal room and share how we work with contemporary choral repertoire — uncovering the ideas, emotions, and intent behind the notes and markings on the page. Whether you’re curious about new music or keen to experience how singers navigate unfamiliar sound worlds, this session is an invitation into our process.

Join us on Friday, 1 May 2026 from 2:30-6pm at Aliwal Arts Centre. Register your interest by Sunday, 8 March 2026 by scanning the QR code below or clicking this link: https://bit.ly/livingmusicsyc. Successful applicants will be notified by email.

Jennifer Tham

18/01/2026

🎶 New year. New music. 🎶

Cheers to a new season as we continue to push and reimagine the boundaries of what choral music can be. Mark your calendars with the following programme:

🎤Living Music: Singers’ Edition (Fri, 1 May)
An open workshop for singers keen to explore how we rehearse and interpret new repertoire

🎼 Singapore Composers Festival (Sun, 7 Jun)
A showcase of works by composers from the Composers Society of Singapore's Young Composers Forum where we are this year’s ensemble-in-residence

❤️ The Heart's Reflection (Sat, 15 Aug)
A concert with guest conductor Kari Turunen, Artistic Director of the Vancouver Chamber Choir

Watch this space for more information.

01/12/2025

Nearly a decade ago, the SYC Ensemble Singers commissioned For Good by (Saunder Choi) — a piece that has travelled with us across stages and borders.

With Wicked: For Good now in the spotlight, we wanted to share this recording from eight years ago, a reminder that the people we meet and the music we make together can leave us changed for the better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xN8uk_mkAFI



Jennifer Tham

For Good (Wicked)music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartzarranged by Saunder Choiperformed by the SYC Ensemble Singers (Singapore)Jennifer Tham, conductorEsplana...

19/09/2025

We are excited to be the Ensemble in Residence for the Composer Society of Singapore’s Young Composer Forum 2025.

As an extension of our Living Music series, this role continues our commitment to giving young composers a space to road-test new music with a live choir. Since our founding in 1964, we have built an international reputation as a composer’s choir, commissioning over 60 works and championing the voices of today’s composers.

Last weekend, we kicked off the Young Composer Forum 2025, welcoming the young composers, mentors, sponsors and friends from the Composer Society of Singapore to observe one of our weekly rehearsals. It was then followed by a screening of our past commissions, along with a lively Q&A session with our Artistic Director, Jennifer Tham, and the choir, discussing the intricacies and practicalities of composing for the human voice.

We look forward to receiving the composers’ first sketches of their music early next year and working with them to bring these to life together!

16/09/2025

We’re still buzzing from the energy of the body electric, our legacy-memory project, and deeply grateful for this thoughtful review that captured the programming arc from our 60th anniversary concert last year.

“Their sense of purpose in championing choral works of living composers and serving as a collective for innovation remains unwavering, and undeniably successful.” - Composers' Society of Singapore.

Thank you for seeing into our hearts, for celebrating the music of our unapologetic selves.

Read the full review here:�🔗 https://cssingapore.org/index.php/2025/09/13/css-reviews-syc-ensemble-singers-the-body-electric-by-tan-zheng-rui/

Contributed by Tan Zheng Rui

12/08/2025

𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒐𝒅𝒚 𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒄 was featured in Lianhe Zaobao 联合早报! In the interview, co-composers Jennifer Tham, Americ Goh and Diana Soh discuss how this new work brings together music and movement to explore how voices and the bodies that carry them remember, transmit, and transform sound.

🤔 Curious to hear more about the creation process? Join us for a special performance which will be followed by an artist talk on Friday, 15 August 2025 at Esplanade Recital Studio: ticketing.sistic.com.sg/sistic/electric0825pl.

🎟️ Tickets are also still available for our official concert on Saturday, 16 August 2025, also at Esplanade Recital Studio: sistic.com.sg/events/electric0825.

📰 Read the full article from Lianhe Zaobao here: https://www.zaobao.com.sg/lifestyle/culture/story20250806-7267450.

继2024年庆祝建团60周年，本地SYC合唱团将以一场全新加坡作品的音乐会庆祝SG60，并再次回应其一贯关注的核心命题：如何在合唱的舞台上为多元声音与当代表达提供空间？

10/08/2025

🇸🇬 With Singapore celebrating SG60 this weekend, we are proud to stage the work of local composers Joyce Beetuan Koh and Hoh Chung Shih at our upcoming concert on Saturday, 16 August 2025 at Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay. Earlier this week, Joyce and Chung Shih stopped by to help us shape the performance of their respective pieces – “Nona Sensilia” with BL Duo on electronic keyboard and “Variations (on the brink)” – both of which were also past commissions by the choir.

🎶 Join us for an evening of nonsense alliteration and playful chromatics at 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒐𝒅𝒚 𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒄: https://www.sistic.com.sg/events/electric0825.

08/08/2025

Our favourite sounds part 2. Will you...come share your favourite sounds with us? Join us at 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒐𝒅𝒚 𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒄 on Saturday, 16 August 2025, 8pm at Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay.
🎟 Grab your tickets now: sistic.com.sg/events/electric0825

30/07/2025

What happens when three SYC musicians — one the choir’s long-time Artistic Director, the other two alumni based in France and Singapore — compose together over Zoom? You get 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒐𝒅𝒚 𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒄: a striking new choral theatre work about how individual voices come together in song.

Created across time zones and shaped by decades of shared history, its eight episodes are both a tribute to the ’ 60 years and a bold step into new territory. Fragments of past commissions resurface and in a fitting nod to the work's digital origins, the audience will be invited to take part in the performance through an AI-powered, real-time experience that will turn your words into sound.

Join us on Saturday, 16 August 2025 at Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay.

🎟 Grab your tickets now: sistic.com.sg/events/electric0825