The eminent speakers shared their views on the growth and development of the music scene in Singapore, and the impact of Covid-19 on the sector, both present and the future.

Speaker
Emeritus Professor
Department of Physics
National University of Singapore
Bernard Tan is currently Emeritus Professor of Physics at NUS. He is a member of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra Council and was Chairman of the Musicians’ Guild, the Singapore Youth Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Music Makers and the Singapore Arts Festival Steering Committee, and served on the boards of the Singapore Symphonia Company and the Esplanade. His Guitar Concerto was premiered in 2013 by the SSO with Kevin Loh and his Cello Concerto was premiered in 2016 by the Braddell Heights Symphony Orchestra with Noella Yan.

Speaker
Chief Executive Officer,
Singapore Symphony Group

Moderator
Director, Asian Civilisations Museum & Peranakan Museum
Group Director of Museums, National Heritage Board
Kennie Ting is the Director of the Asian Civilisations Museum and the Peranakan Museum, and concurrently Group Director, Museums at the National Heritage Board (NHB) Singapore, overseeing national museums and festivals managed by the NHB. As Director of the Asian Civilisations Museum, he has overseen the shift in the museum’s curatorial approach from a geographical focus to a thematic, cross-cultural focus, and has helmed recent exhibitions on the Arts of Myanmar, Korea, Angkor and Java, on the material culture of cosmopolitan Asian Port Cities, and on contemporary Chinese Couture. He is interested in teh history of travel and the heritage of Asian port cities and is the author of the books, The Romance of the Grand Tour – 100 Years of Travel in South East Asia and Singapore 1819 – A Living Legacy.