january 2019

OMM Goes to the Movies III

Conducted by Seow Yibin

Follow Conductor Seow Yibin and the Orchestra of the Music Makers on a spellbinding musical trek to Middle Earth in a galaxy far, far away with music from Star Wars, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, and Star Trek. Also relive the most epic adventures of your favourite heroes, mutants, and dragons through the original scores to X-Men, The Avengers, Mulan, How to Train Your Dragon, The Incredibles and many more.

• JONATHAN SHIN - The Night Bazaar

• BERNARD HERMANN - Psycho: Suite for Strings

• JOHN WILLIAMS - Jaws: Theme; Out to Sea; Shark Cage Fugue

• HOWARD SHORE - Return of the King: The White Tree

• MICHAEL GIACCHINO - Themes from Star Trek (2009), Into Darkness and Beyond

• JOHN OTTMAN - X-Men Apocalypse: End Credits

• ALAN SILVESTRI - The Avengers: Main Theme

• JERRY GOLDSMITH - Mulan: Suite

• JOHN POWELL - Suite from How To Train Your Dragon

• JOHN WILLIAMS - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone: Hedwig’s Theme

• JOHN WILLIAMS - Star Wars – The Last Jedi: The Rebellion is Reborn

• GEORGE S. CLINTON - Shagadelic Suite: The Music of Austin Powers

• JOHN BARRY - Goldfinger

• MICHAEL GIACCHINO - The Incredibles: Suite

MARch 2019

Concerto I Solisti (VIII)

Conducted by Seow Yibin

OMM’s close partnership with the School of the Arts continues in 2019 with the 8th installment of Concerti I Solisti, featuring the winners of the SOTA Concerto Competition.

• RICHARD STRAUSS - Don Juan

• LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN - Piano Concerto No. 5 “Emperor”, First Movement

• GIOVANNI BATTISTA PERGOLESI - "Stizzoso mio stizzoso" from La Serva Padrona

• EDVARD GRIEG - "Solveig's Song" from Peer Gynt

• WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART - "Via, resti servita" from The Marriage of Figaro

• JACQUES OFFENBACH - "Belle nuit ô nuit d'amour" from Tales of Hoffmann

• GEORGE GERSHWIN - Piano Concerto in F, First Movement

june 2019

Igor • Bruch and Bruckner

Three years after Phantasia, OMM once again shares the stage with Igor in Bruch’s well-loved First Violin Concerto and makes its first foray into Bruckner’s monumental symphonies with the Seventh Symphony with Music Director Tzelaw Chan. Opening this Viennese evening is a new work by founding OMM musician Lee Jinjun.

• LEE JINJUN - The Red Longkang

• MAX BRUCH - Violin Concerto No. 1

• ANTON BRUCKNER - Symphony No. 7

july 2019

SPH Gift of Music @ Paragon

Conducted by Seow Yibin

OMM returns to SPH’s Gift of Music Series once again at the Paragon Atrium with a mix of recognisable tunes and operatic classics.

• RICHARD WAGNER - Prelude to Act 3 of Lohengrin

• WILLIAM WALTON - Crown Imperial

• MODEST MUSSORGSKY - (orch. Maurice Ravel) Pictures at an Exhibition (selections) Promenade 1, Gnomus, Bydlo, Ballet of the Chicks in their Shells, Samuel Goldenberg and Schmuyle, The Hut on Fowl’s Legs (Baba Yaga), The Great Gate of Kiev

• RICHARD WAGNER - Ride of the Valkyries

• JOHN WILLIAMS - Raiders March (from Indiana Jones)

August 2019

Zarathustra!

Conducted by Lü Shao-Chia

Easily recognisable by anyone, Also Sprach Zarathustra opens with a brilliant fanfare that has been immortalised in pop culture by Stanley Kubrick’s "2001: A Space Odyssey". Additionally, watch the proceedings that illustrate the biblical story of Babylon’s downfall in Walton’s Belshazzar’s Feast.

• RICHARD STRAUSS - Also Sprach Zarathustra

• WILLIAM WALTON - Belshazzar’s Feast, featuring Peter Sidhom and the Symphonia Choralis

January 2020

Die Walküre (The Valkyrie)

Directed by Edith Podesta

The second opera in the epic Wagner Ring Cycle, Die Walküre depicts two young lovers, a magic sword, a cursed ring of power, the King of Gods and a band of Valkyries in a dramatic clash between good and evil.

• RICHARD WAGNER - Die Walküre, featuring Bryan Register, Lee Bisset, Daniel Sumegi, Warwick Fyfe, Alwyn Mellor, Caitlin Hulcup, Taryn Fiebig, Janani Sridhar, Antoinette Halloran, Sharon Prero, Jade Tan, Cassandra Seidemann, Fiona Campbell, Dominica Matthews (Singapore Premiere)