The Singapore Symphony Orchestra will make its Australian debut in February 2025 with concerts in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney. The tour marks the orchestra’s first overseas engagement since 2017. 

Led by its Music Director Hans Graf, the program features 17-year-old violin star Chloe Chua and the orchestra’s Sydney-born Principal Cellist Pei-Sian Ng performing Brahms’ final orchestral work, the 1887 Double Concerto for Violin and Cello. Singaporean composer Koh Cheng Jin’s shimmering evocation of the Singapore firefly, Luciola singapura, is also on the bill, alongside Tchaikovsky’s towering Fifth Symphony.

Singapore Symphony Orchestra

The Singapore Symphony Orchestra will tour Australia in February 2025 with its Music Director Hans Graf. Photo © Aloysius Lim

The orchestra’s 2025 season includes a collaboration between the Singapore and Melbourne Symphony Orchestras and Choruses for a performance of Carl Orff’s much-loved Carmina Burana, performed at Singapore’s Esplanade Concert Hall on 22 and 23 August.

Led by Chief Conductor Jaime Martín, the MSO and MSO Chorus will be joined by soprano Siobhan Stagg, tenor Andrew Goodwin and baritone Christopher Tonkin. The program also includes Fanfare for a City by Australian composer Maria Grenfell, Stravinsky’s The Firebird Suite and De Falla’s Three...