{"id":100,"date":"2018-06-18T16:47:34","date_gmt":"2018-06-18T08:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/singaporesaxophonesymposium.com\/2018\/?page_id=100"},"modified":"2018-06-18T18:54:14","modified_gmt":"2018-06-18T10:54:14","slug":"xin-saxophone-quartet","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/singaporesaxophonesymposium.com\/2018\/performers\/xin-saxophone-quartet\/","title":{"rendered":"Xin Saxophone Quartet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-101\" src=\"http:\/\/singaporesaxophonesymposium.com\/2018\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Xin-Saxophone-Quartet-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/singaporesaxophonesymposium.com\/2018\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Xin-Saxophone-Quartet-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/singaporesaxophonesymposium.com\/2018\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Xin-Saxophone-Quartet-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/singaporesaxophonesymposium.com\/2018\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Xin-Saxophone-Quartet-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/singaporesaxophonesymposium.com\/2018\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Xin-Saxophone-Quartet-800x600.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Xin Saxophone Quartet<\/h2>\n<p>A highly versatile chamber group, Xin\u00a0Saxophone Quartet (XSQ) is one of\u00a0Singapore\u2019s leading professional saxophone quartets. Founded in 2016, the quartet&#8217;s name plays on the Chinese character for &#8220;Heart&#8221; and also the first character in Singapore\u2019s Chinese name. It is the quartet&#8217;s motto to represent Singapore by always performing with sincerity from the heart; an additional reason for the name is because its members all love to perform new music, commissioning Singaporean composers to write music for us; Xin also means new in Chinese. As advocates for new music, the quartet has a resident composer, Jay Ong, who has written two beautifully crafted works to this date &#8211; <em>Enclosures<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Sea Scenes.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Xin Saxophone Quartet comprises\u00a0of Singaporean\u00a0musicians from different walks of life. Michellina Chan graduated with a Bachelor of Music with First Class Honours from the University of Melbourne, Melbourne Conservatorium of Music; Alexis Seah graduated with a Bachelor of Music with Honours from the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts in collaboration with Royal College of Music; Yi Xiang Ang is a regular with the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) Band as well as regular soloist with The Philharmonic Winds; and Samuel Phua, a recent graduate of the Singapore School of the Arts, is the first local saxophonist to perform as a soloist with the prestigious Singapore Symphony Orchestra.<\/p>\n<p>The Xin Saxophone Quartet debuted at the 6<sup>th<\/sup> Singapore Saxophone Symposium in 2016 as guest artists, performing the fifth movement of David Maslanka\u2019s <em>Recitation Book<\/em>, an extremely upbeat and exciting piece which was very well received by the public. The quartet had its first completely sold-out recital in December 2016 titled <em>Back to Basics<\/em>, where they premiered Jay Ong\u2019s\u00a0<em>Enclosures<\/em>\u00a0for Saxophone Quartet. In 2017, the quartet was invited by The Philharmonic Winds to perform the groovy <em>Histoire du Tango<\/em> by Astor Piazzolla arranged for saxophone quartet, at their concert titled <em>A Music Tapestry<\/em>. Shortly after, the quartet was invited to perform at the Esplanade Concourse as part of their Cool Classics series.<\/p>\n<h3>Performers<\/h3>\n<p>Soprano saxophone: Michellina Chan<br \/>\nAlto saxophone: Alexis Seah<br \/>\nTenor saxophone: Jay Ong<br \/>\nBaritone saxophone: Yixiang Ang<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xin Saxophone Quartet A highly versatile chamber group, Xin\u00a0Saxophone Quartet (XSQ) is one of\u00a0Singapore\u2019s leading professional saxophone quartets. Founded in 2016, the quartet&#8217;s name plays on the Chinese character for &#8220;Heart&#8221; and also the first character in Singapore\u2019s Chinese name. It is the quartet&#8217;s motto to represent Singapore by always performing with sincerity from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":25,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/singaporesaxophonesymposium.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/100"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/singaporesaxophonesymposium.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/singaporesaxophonesymposium.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singaporesaxophonesymposium.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singaporesaxophonesymposium.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/singaporesaxophonesymposium.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139,"href":"https:\/\/singaporesaxophonesymposium.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/100\/revisions\/139"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singaporesaxophonesymposium.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/singaporesaxophonesymposium.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}