{"id":116,"date":"2018-06-18T18:17:18","date_gmt":"2018-06-18T10:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/singaporesaxophonesymposium.com\/2018\/?page_id=116"},"modified":"2018-08-04T18:50:44","modified_gmt":"2018-08-04T10:50:44","slug":"recital-by-xin-saxophone-quartet","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/singaporesaxophonesymposium.com\/2018\/programme\/recital-by-xin-saxophone-quartet\/","title":{"rendered":"Recital by Xin Saxophone Quartet"},"content":{"rendered":"<article class=\"post-entry text-left\">\n<div class=\"entry-main\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<h2>Recital by Xin Saxophone Quartet<\/h2>\n<p>Saturday, 11 August 2018, 3pm &#8211; 3.30pm<br \/>\nLee Foundation Theatre<\/p>\n<p>Jay Ong: <em>Transit Sketches II<\/em> for saxophone quartet (Asian Premiere)<\/p>\n<p>Zechariah Goh: <em>Homage<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Daniel Yiau: <em>Sax Drive!<\/em> (Asian Premiere)<\/p>\n<p>Alexander Oon: <em>The Serpent<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Michellina Chan, soprano saxophone<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Alexis Seah<\/strong><strong>, alto saxophone<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Jay Ong, tenor saxophone<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Yixiang Ang, baritone saxophone<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>One of the very few leading professional saxophone quartets in Singapore, Xin Saxophone Quartet will be featuring two Asian Premieres of Singaporean works. As fervent advocates for new music, the quartet has once again looked to their resident composer, Jay Ong, for a third piece for saxophone quartet entitled <em>Transit Sketches II<\/em> which has been inspired by the sounds heard on Singapore&#8217;s public transport. The quartet will also be performing the popular <em>Homage<\/em> for saxophone quartet by Dr. Zechariah Goh (Head of Composition at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts in Singapore) and <em>The Serpent<\/em> by Alexander Oon (Winner of the Peru Embassy Tumi Award in 2016).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recital by Xin Saxophone Quartet Saturday, 11 August 2018, 3pm &#8211; 3.30pm Lee Foundation Theatre Jay Ong: Transit Sketches II for saxophone quartet (Asian Premiere) Zechariah Goh: Homage Daniel Yiau: Sax Drive! (Asian Premiere) Alexander Oon: The Serpent Michellina Chan, soprano saxophone Alexis Seah, alto saxophone Jay Ong, tenor saxophone Yixiang Ang, baritone saxophone &nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":27,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/singaporesaxophonesymposium.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/116"}],"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=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/singaporesaxophonesymposium.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211,"href":"https:\/\/singaporesaxophonesymposium.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/116\/revisions\/211"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singaporesaxophonesymposium.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/singaporesaxophonesymposium.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}