Voyage Festival: Kampung Spirit

We take a trip in our trains to the heartlands, right where the Kampung Spirit lies amidst the ever-changing urban landscape in Singapore.

This trip is aptly framed in the musical work 2025 by Tan Yuting, set in an MRT traversing the East-West Line. Upon alighting, experience a modern retelling of Chen Zhangyi’s piece Kampung Spirit. Introspective and ruminating, the two musical narratives come together to track the changing urban and social landscape of Singapore, and plot a speculative roadmap for the near and distant future.

PROGRAMME:

TAN YUTING
2025

DON KOW, trombone
DANIEL YIAU, bass clarinet
VINCENT TAN, euphonium
MICHELLINA CHAN, saxophone
BRENDON FERNANDEZ, narrator

CHEN ZHANG YI
Kampung Spirit

LIM JING JIE, director
KOH KAI JIE, conductor
WONG YONG EN, soprano
RACHEL LIM, soprano
BENJAMIN HARRIS, tenor
ALISON WONG, soprano
KEANE ONG, bass
CHEN CHING-YU, alto
ZOE HONG, mezzo-soprano
FRANCES LEE, piano
JOACHIM LIM, percussion
JOELLE CHIAM, violin
ALYSSA GOH, violin
MARTIN PEH, viola
YEIN SIM, cello
HIBIKI OTOMO, double bass