Concert Preview | Singapore Chamber Music Festival 2024: Yang Shuxiang ‘Everything is Chamber Music’
By Aileen Tang | 11 January 2024
This year’s Singapore Chamber Music Festival (SCMF) includes, for the first time, the Chamber Music Academy (CMA), which provides expert coaching and performance opportunities for selected amateur chamber groups of all ages and abilities. In this 2nd of a 3-part series on SCMF, Aileen Tang chats with one of the coaches for CMA, Singaporean violinist Yang Shuxiang.
The Flying Inkpot: You’ve performed a whole range of genres, from solo to orchestra. What draws you to chamber music?
Yang Shuxiang: Over the years, I’ve come to realise that EVERYTHING is chamber music. Sonatas – chamber music with piano; concerti – chamber music with orchestra (the opposition and interaction between soloist and orchestra makes the music); symphonies – giant string quartet with extra bells and whistles; solo Bach – yes, you’re playing an entire string quartet score by and with yourself!
Chamber music makes a good musician. ‘Nuff said.
