SYC Ensemble Singers
SINGAPORE
The SYC Ensemble Singers is a theatre of voices whose mission is to expand the choral space for composers and audience through the performance and curation of music of our place and time. More than 60 commissions and gifts have been given voice by the choir since 2004, a growing collection of chants, polyphonic songs and experimental soundscapes.
Music is one of humanity’s most profound ways of forging connection.
With Kari Turunen, the SYC Ensemble Singers bring earlier music and contemporary choral music from Finland and North America into conversation with one another.
Palestrina, Brahms, Clemens non Papa and Wilbye sing alongside Rautavaara and Kostiainen, Elder, Runestad and Hawley, grappling with love, faith, hope, grief and freedom across time and culture.
A newly commissioned work by Alex Freeman (USA/Finland)—aptly titled Do you hear me?—carries this musical dialogue firmly into the Now.
My voice goes after what my eyes cannot reach,
With the twirl of my tongue I encompass worlds and volumes of worlds.
—Walt Whitman, Song of myself (1892)
At the Singapore Composers' Festival 2026, we gave voice to seven new works, flooding the Practice Space of 54 Waterloo with the music of our brave new world. Ever curious about the vibrations of text-image-sound and navigating these as a theatre of voices, we shed light on sounds unstruck and braved questions of outer and inner spaces. To Anvay Mathur, Thomas Rettig, Bae Jun Soo, Ding Jian Han, Estene Cheong, Alicia Joyce de Silva and Danny Imson—thank you for the living, breathing, terrifyingly new, music.
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