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.

Chng Hak-Peng is a Fellow of the Ministry of Culture, Community, and Youth’s Culture Academy, which champions the development of the next generation of Singapore’s cultural leaders in the public and private sectors.  In professional practice, he is a strategy and leadership advisor to companies going through acquisitions, mergers, and transformation. He has more than 20 years of hands-on leadership and management experience across Asia and the United States of America.

From 2015 to 2022, Hak-Peng served for eight years as Chief Executive Officer of the Singapore Symphony Group, the country’s flagship classical music organization that manages the full-time professional national orchestra, several amateur orchestral and choral ensembles, as well as the Singapore market for the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music. During his time, he focused on the development of the international brand of the orchestra, as well as nationwide community, youth, and education programmes.

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.