Season 2022

In Memoriam - A Tribute to Adrian Tan

Braddell Heights Symphony Orchestra (BHSO) and The Joy Chorale (TJC) performed a special concert in memory of our late-Music Director, Adrian Tan – at the Esplanade Concert Hall, on 11 September 2022. #BHSOinmemoriam Watch this tribute video, which was showcased at the concert, and brought about some tears from musicians and audience alike.

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Featuring short stories of our memories of Adrian, and photos from members of BHSO and TJC and friends of Adrian. You are welcome to add your own tribute too!

Sunday, 11 September 2022
7:30PM  
Esplanade Concert Hall

Taiwanese conductor Apo Hsu returns to lead Braddell Heights Symphony Orchestra as it pays tribute to its late Music Director, Adrian Tan. The concert opens with Beethoven’s iconic and monumental Fifth Symphony. The programme also includes the world-premiere of a work, dedicated to Adrian, by local composers Low Shao Suan and Low Shao Ying, the Andante from Brahms’ second piano concerto with soloist Albert Tiu, and Dick Lee’s evergreen “Home”, featuring The Joy Chorale.

Programme

Beethoven 
Symphony No. 5, Op. 67

Brahms
Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat major, Op. 83
III. Andante

Elgar
Enigma Variations, Op. 36, Variation IX (Adagio) “Nimrod”

Low Shao Suan & Low Shao Ying
Song for Adrian (In memory of Adrian Tan)

Mohd Rasull
May You Achieve Happiness (Fantasy on “Semoga Bahagia”, original tune by Zubir Said)

Dick Lee arr. Kelly Tang
Home (with The Joy Chorale)

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Tampines 3065 Festival

Saturday 4 June 2022, 6pm – 7pm
Our Tampines Hub, Outdoor Field

Programme

Kelly Tang – 3 Folk Dances
Pietro Mascgani – Intermezzo from “Cavalleria Rusticana”
John Williams – Selections from Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Johann Strauss – The Blue Danube
Deng Yu Sian – Longing for Spring Breeze
Dick Lee – We Will Get There
Giuseppe Verdi – La Forza del Destino Overture

Beautiful Sunday - New Beginnings

Sunday, 3 April 2022
2 – 3pm
Esplanade Concert Hall

Sibelius       Andante Festivo
Holst           St Paul’s Suite
Vivaldi         Spring and Autumn from The Four Seasons
Kelly Tang  The Moon Represents my Heart and Shanghai Jazz

The Braddell Heights Symphony Orchestra takes to the stage once again in The Esplanade’s Beautiful Sunday Series!

The orchestra hoped to continue the realisation of our vision and role as music-makers for the community, albeit during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

This concert marks the beginning of a new year of music-making for Braddell Heights Symphony Orchestra. It is also the opening of a new chapter in BHSO’s life as it ventures forth without the guiding force (and baton) of its late Music Director, Adrian Tan. His musicians miss him, his absence is still tangible, and we hope we did him proud and honoured his memory with this performance.