Gala: Sun Yingdi & Chelsea Chen Keyboard Extravaganza

Conductor: Tsung Yeh
Piano: Sun Yingdi
Organ: Chelsea Chen

“The Yellow River Concerto, brought together various technical devices from Romantic piano concertos by Liszt, Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky and Grieg into one orgiastic whole, had Chinese pianist Sun Yingdi, who spared no effort in thundering out its outsized cadenzas, cascading arpeggios and stampeding octaves.”

– THE STRAITS TIMES, 17 August 2015

A Journey Around Singapore / Arrangement by Eric Watson
Piano and Orchestra: Battle Typhoon / Liu Shikun, orchestration by Lo Leung Fai
Organ and Orchestra: Movements 1 & 4 from Symphony No. 2 / Kuan Nai-chung
Dong Village / Zhu Lin
Yellow River Piano Concerto / Adapted from Xian Xinghai’s “Yellow River Cantata”, arranged by the Central Chinese Orchestra, orchestration by Liu Wen Jin

SCO’s season opening gala will kickstart with two internationally-renowned keyboard classical stars. Award-winner pianist Sun Yingdi, who won the gold medal at the 7th International Franz Liszt Piano Competition, will perform two famous Chinese piano works – Against Typhoon, a masterpiece orchestrated by Lo Leung Fai from Liu Shikun’s piano solo work and Yellow River Piano Concerto. American-Taiwanese organist Chelsea Chen will debut with SCO and will perform Kuan Nai-chung Symphony No. 2. Don’t miss this chance to watch Esplanade Concert Hall’s pipe organ, the biggest in Singapore, in action!