Living music
Each SYC score is a story, a gesture, a system of beliefs. When we perform, they become a song, a dance, a landscape. We love what we do, wrestling with the complexities of contemporary choral music. There are songs for loving and giving, movements for living and dying, soundscapes and theatre works for wind, water and the magic of moonlight. We are the place for alternative voices.
Our music spans three continents, and three generations. For the next generation, we began a Living Music series for young composers to road-test new music. We are a safe space, inclusive and diverse.
An artisanal attention to detail makes the SYC the chosen voice of Singapore composers. We’re proud to be the composer’s choir, ever since that first commission, back in our Singapore Youth Choir days (1964 – 2003). Sixty+ commissions later, here is SYC sings:
Ivo ANTOGNINI
Life has... (2013)
Eric BANKS
Artifacts (2014)
Robert CASTEELS
Shadowcatcher op.52b (for rapper & choir) (2015)
Ryan CAYABYAB
Preghiera Semplice (2004)
Elaine CHAN
Temasek Medley (arr.) (1998)
CHEN Yi
Two Chinese Folksongs (arr.) (2003)
1. A single bamboo can easily bend
2. A horseherd's mountain song
Bob CHILCOTT
Didn't it rain (arr.)
Saunder CHOI
Brothers of the Sea (2016)
For Good (arr.) (2017)
Here Comes the Sun (arr.) (2021)
Babes CONDE
Bunga Sayang (arr.) (2000)
Hindi kita malimot (arr.) (2001)
Have yourself a merry little Christmas (arr.) (2004)
Steve DOBROGOSZ
Singapore Songs (2011)
1. Mocca Bonny May
2. Hola Halo
3. Haiku Luna Jah
Om mani padme hum (2012)
Lorenzo DONATI
tota pulchra (2011)
Americ GOH
Aeterna Lux, divinitas
i. Aeterna lux, divinitas (2006)
ii. Summum Parentum credimus (2008)
iii. O veritas (2010)
iv. Qui finis et exordium (2012)
v. Qui cuncta solus efficis (2012)
vi. Christum ragamus et Patrem (2012)
Singapura Permai (2012)
Zechariah GOH
Narcissus and Echo (2003)
The Happiness of Fish (2012)
Ngo Hiang, Five Spices from Singapore (2014)
Alberto GRAU
Hermana Lluvia / Sister Rain (2004)
Bo HANSSON
Ett tacksamhetsljud (2005)
William HAWLEY
This is the Garden (2015)
Eskil HEMBERG
Nursery Rhymes (2003)
HOH Chung Shih
Variations (on the brink) (1996)
A Frog Song (1997)
Birth and Death: Five Songs for Thich Nhat Hanh (2003)
Iskandar ISMAIL
Joget La La La (1989)
Aldo JOSON
Now that night has come (2019)
Emily KOH
homemade recipe: char kuay (2019)
Joyce KOH
Lè (choir & tibetan bowls) (1996)
Nona Sensilia (choir & electronics) (2000)
Charles LAZAROO
Multiplicity (1972)
Singapore Medley (arr.) (1972)
Dick LEE
Let there be peace on Earth (arr.) (1999)
Stephen LEEK
burrinjuck (2008)
LEONG Yoon Pin
When will the flower blossom (1982)
Si Nian / Nostalgia (1988)
Nightmare (1988)
Azure Sky (1998)
Yan Wu (1998)
Elliot LEVINE
Psalm 96 (1985)
LUM Chee Hoo
Five Childhood Thoughts (choir & prepared piano) (1998)
Corrado MARGUTTI
D'amore e d'ombre (2008)
1. O Notte
2. Fuggite, amanti
Ko MATSUSHITA
Aizu Bandaisan (arr.) (2004)
Itsuki No Komori Uta (Lullaby from Itsuki) (2004)
Ubi caritas (2014)
Vytautas MIŠKINIS
Time is Endless (2007)
When Thou Commandest (2009)
Jesu dulcis memoria (2011)
My Song (for triple mixed choir) (2013)
My Song (2015)
A Prayer in Spring (2014)
Annie NEPOMUCENO
Bengawan Solo (arr.) (2001)
Kay ganda ng ating musika (arr.) (2001)
Beauty and the Beast (arr.) (2006)
Al otro lado del rio (arr.) (2007)
Bunga Sayang (arr.) (2007)
Bohemian Rhapsody (arr.) (2006)
Both Sides Now (arr.) (2011)
Angel (arr.) (2012)
Waters of March (arr.) (2013)
Home (arr.) (2015)
John August PAMINTUAN
Nativitas (2013)
PHOON Yew Tien
Jasmine Flower (arr.) (1997)
Malay Folksong Medley (arr.) (1997)
Two Shanghai Songs (arr.) (1997)
1. Spring Morn
2. Street Moon
SHUI Jiang Tian
Water flowing in the brook (arr.) (2003)
Diana SOH
Vāk (2014)
O-PEH-SOM! (2016)
Branko STARK
Ave Maria (2011)
Kelly TANG
She's out of my life (setting) (2001)
A Synchrony of Psalms (2004)
Flying without Wings (arr.) (2005)
Sonnet 43 (2014)
Albert TAY
Prayer for Peace (2011)
Jennifer THAM
Curious & Curiouser (2021)
Rita UEDA
in the sound of a clock / tokei no oto nimo (2012)
1. Clocks
2. In the sound of a clock
yuki ya kon / come falling snow (2017)
Michael YUDISTIRA
The Rainbow Connection (arr.) (2019)
