Quek Ling Kiong is the first Principal Conductor of the Singapore Chinese Orchestra (SCO) to have been born and bred in Singapore. Widely hailed as the “People’s Conductor”, he has more than 25 years of professional musical experience under his belt. He assumed the role of Principal Conductor in 2023, after a decade as its Resident Conductor.

Sitting at the head of one of China’s leading orchestras, conductor Darrell Ang is fast becoming one of the most entrepreneurial and influential players in the musical landscape of China, as well as one of the foremost interpreters of contemporary Asian composers active on the global stage. In recognition of this, in 2022 he was engaged by the San Francisco Opera to conduct a 7-show production of Bright Sheng’s Dream of the Red Chamber, and led the Lunar New Year celebrations of both the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra in 2023.

Maestro Tsung Yeh began his tenure at the Singapore Chinese Orchestra (SCO) as Music Director in 2002. Under his leadership, SCO expanded its repertoire with ground-breaking works such as Marco Polo and Princess Blue — A Symphonic Epic (2002), and Admiral of the Seven Seas (2005) and Awaking (2008). In 2013, Tsung Yeh was awarded the Cultural Medallion; the highest accolade in the arts.

Hailed by The Straits Times as an “excellent young conductor”, Moses Gay’s first foray into conducting began at the age of 16, where he earned great praise from renowned Chinese conductor Ku Lap Man while conducting Phoon Yew Tien’s The Forge Ahead. Since then, he has developed into an outstanding musician, graduating with First Class Honours from the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts and obtaining a Master’s Degree in Orchestral Conducting at the China Conservatory of Music, both on full scholarship.

WANG Chenwei is the Composer-in-Residence of the Singapore Chinese Orchestra, adjunct faculty at the National Institute of Education (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) and the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, as well as a council member of the Singapore Chinese Music Federation. As the Head of Research and Education at The TENG Company, he is the main co-author of The TENG Guide to the Chinese Orchestra (2019), a 624-page book on instrumentation and orchestration.