Jennifer Tham
Jennifer Tham has spent the last 12 years with the SYC exploring and re-defining the choral idiom, earning a reputation for being provocative and forward-looking. Her training as a composer at the Simon Fraser University (Vancouver, Canada) has taught her to listen for all the sounds inside a sound, as well as to the logic and consequence of music. After graduating at the top of her class, she returned home to begin a career as a professional choir director.
She is also Artistic Director of the Young Musicians’ Society, a musical arts company and choral consultancy that has been running First Aid workshops for choirs and their conductors since 2002. She has given workshops and courses to conductors in Japan and Indonesia; and teaches choral conducting at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts.
She was Artistic Director of the Asia South Pacific Symposium on Choral Music and has served on international committees for the International Federation for Choral Music. Most recently she was an Open Sing Leader and Roundtable Speaker at Voices of the Baltics, a multicultural choral conference held in Tallinn (Estonia). She has been on competition juries in Germany, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, China and Indonesia; and has given workshops and short courses to conductors at home, in Japan, Indonesia and China. She was guest conductor for En Musique l’An Neuf 2008 (Strasbourg, France), bringing in the New Year with choral singing; and will be in Lithuania next August to teach at the Summer Academy for choir conductors. She also represents Singapore on the 62-nation Choir Olympic Council.
Jennifer Tham is an inaugural recipient of the Young Artist Award (Music), conferred by the National Arts Council, Singapore, and sits on their Arts Resource Panel.
She is also Artistic Director of the Young Musicians’ Society, a musical arts company and choral consultancy that has been running First Aid workshops for choirs and their conductors since 2002. She has given workshops and courses to conductors in Japan and Indonesia; and teaches choral conducting at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts.
She was Artistic Director of the Asia South Pacific Symposium on Choral Music and has served on international committees for the International Federation for Choral Music. Most recently she was an Open Sing Leader and Roundtable Speaker at Voices of the Baltics, a multicultural choral conference held in Tallinn (Estonia). She has been on competition juries in Germany, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, China and Indonesia; and has given workshops and short courses to conductors at home, in Japan, Indonesia and China. She was guest conductor for En Musique l’An Neuf 2008 (Strasbourg, France), bringing in the New Year with choral singing; and will be in Lithuania next August to teach at the Summer Academy for choir conductors. She also represents Singapore on the 62-nation Choir Olympic Council.
Jennifer Tham is an inaugural recipient of the Young Artist Award (Music), conferred by the National Arts Council, Singapore, and sits on their Arts Resource Panel.