Name: Orchestral Institute: The Age of Becoming
Start: 2025-09-06T19:30:00+08:00
Location: Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music

Orchestral Institute: The Age of Becoming

Inspirational life-affirming music-making is at the heart of the YST Conservatory. Centred in one of the world’s most dynamic countries, YST is uniquely placed to offer a distinct and powerful contemporary Asian voice.The Conservatory brings together a world-class faculty and facility to nurture students in performance, composition, production and engagement. Through our undergraduate, graduate, continuing education and youth offerings, we connect dynamically with the surrounding musical ecosystem. We host a vibrant performance calendar with around 200 concerts annually, featuring students and faculty alongside international artists. Our community engagement programme has extensive local and global reach. Students are supported to find their own artistic pathways through exchanges, festivals, competitions and projects. More broadly, our international networks further enhance the educational experience and ensure our continued evolution.

Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music

Beethoven’s Eroica, de Falla’s flamenco spirit, and Goya’s art in motion – Jason Lai leads a vivid night with the YST Orchestral Institute.

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The YST Orchestral Institute under Principal Conductor Jason Lai traces the outlines of a world in flux — one in which artistic voices wrestle with power, beauty, loss, and human dignity. At the heart of this dialogue is Francisco Goya, whose work spans the elegance of 18th-century court portraiture to the dark, unflinching visions of conflict and suffering that defined his later years. Animated projections by YST alumna Stephanie Tan (BMus ‘21) bring Goya’s works to life in real time, offering a vivid counterpoint to the music and revealing the shared emotional terrain between sound and image. The evening opens with Manuel de Falla’s Interlude and Spanish Dance No. 1 from La Vida Breve, a work rooted in Andalusian culture and shaped by the flamenco pulse. Beneath its brilliance lies a story of love constrained by class and fate — a portrait of life’s intensity in the face of impermanence. The programme then turns to Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3, “Eroica”, a revolutionary work originally dedicated to Napoleon, then famously retracted. What remains is a deeply personal and expansive musical statement — not about a single hero, but about the human struggle to become one. Both Beethoven and Goya stood on the edge of Enlightenment ideals, where reason met rupture, and hope contended with disillusionment. Eroica bears the weight of ambition, collapse, and renewal. Through the lens of Goya’s art, beautifully reimagined by Tan with empathy and invention, this performance invites us to reflect on an age (and its heroes) that was not yet what it imagined itself to be. An age in flux – not so different from our own – still becoming. PROGRAMMEYST ORCHESTRAL INSTITUTEwithJASON LAI, conductor MANUEL DE FALLAInterlude and Spanish Dance No. 1,from La Vida Breve LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVENSymphony No. 3, Op. 55, “Eroica” Out of respect for the participants and other spectators, no children under 6 years of age will be allowed admission.Be the first to hear about our upcoming events! Join our mailing list <a href="http://bit.ly/ystmailinglist" title="http://bit.ly/ystmailinglist" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">here</a>.

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