Singapore Symphony Orchestra
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Singapore
Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...
although it has also toured widely in Asia, Europe and the United States. The orchestra records under the BIS label and released the first recording of the complete cycle of Alexander Tcherepnin
Alexander Tcherepnin
Alexander Nikolayevich Tcherepnin was a Russian-born composer and pianist. His father, Nikolai Tcherepnin and his son, Ivan Tcherepnin were also composers, as are two of his grandsons, Sergei and Stefan. His son Serge was involved in the roots of electronic music and instruments...
's six piano concertos and four symphonies.
The SSO was first established in 1979 and its current Musical Director is Lan Shui
Lan Shui
Lan Shui is a Chinese-American conductor and currently holds the post as Music Director of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Principal Conductor of Copenhagen Philharmonic and Principal Guest Conductor of Denmark's Aalborg Symphony.-Early life and career:...
. Its first Director and Resident Conductor, Choo Hoey
Choo Hoey
Choo Hoey is a Singaporean musician and conductor. His father, Choo Seng, was an immigrant from Chaozhou and his mother from Nanjing...
, stepped down in 1997 and now holds the position of the SSO's Conductor Emeritus.