Held annually at NAFA, the Singapore Saxophone Symposium seeks to foster and encourage interest and passion for music and the saxophone.
The 11th edition will feature Arno Bornkamp, Professor of Saxophone at the Conservatory of Amsterdam, as well as Singaporean saxophonists Michellina Chan, Luo Tianze and Leslie Wong, over a weekend of performances, masterclasses and one-to-one saxophone lessons.
For the seventh time at the symposium, a composition workshop on writing idiomatically and skilfully for the saxophone will be conducted by Zechariah Goh, Americ Goh, Michael Sidney Timpson and Chihchun Chi-sun Lee. The H2 Quartet from the United States will record students' compositions for saxophone quartet, while Michellina Chan, Danielle Ong, Luo Tianze and Tan Yun Qu will record students' compositions for solo saxophone.