Concert Number Three

Classical musicians are trained playing and analyzing hundreds and thousand pieces of music by Western European composers. After 20 years of training, when Yeon-Kyung had a chance to study and perform a Korean art song, which is in her mother tongue she felt so freeing and connected. Singaporean soparano Janani Sridhar had the same experience to share and soon it became their concert project. This concert also featured a Singaporean pianist and composer, Nicholas Ho, a CCM doctorate student at the time. Nicholas and Janani worked together on a song set for the concert. Janani and Yeon-Kyung performed the new song set, Malay and Tamil songs, Korean art songs, and American Spirituals in Dayton, Cincinnati, and at Northern Kentucky University.

This concert, especially the song set of Ho/Sridhar was featured in major medium in Singapore. The first song, ‘Chicken Rice’ was an absolute hit between young Singaporeans and became a 150K-view TikTok reel.

@piano_nicholas

Chicken rice is one of Singapore’s National dishes. Now let’s hear it … as an art song for soprano and piano. EDIT: pt. 2 also in my profile! Featuring @jsopera as soprano and lyricist, and @ykdomusic as pianist! (part 2 incoming) ______ #pianist #pianoplayer #classicalpiano #opera #soprano #virtuoso #piano #artsong #chickenrice #singapore #hawkerfood

♬ original sound – Nicholas Ho • Pianist 🎹 – Nicholas Ho • Pianist 🎹

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