Ones to Watch Series: Concerto Prizewinner Showcase – Spades of Fate

“This is Fate, the fatal power that hinders one in the pursuit of happiness from gaining the goal… There is nothing to do but to submit.”
– Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
The concept of ‘fate’ pervades numerous cultures and appears in countless tales. Despite varied guises and names, at its core, ‘fate’ ultimately represents an inescapable force that presides over human lives; an elusive yet powerful shadow that humans battle, confront, or yield to. Through fortuities and misfortunes, we reckon with lives’ twists and turns.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Sergei Rachmaninoff shared a certain fixation on ‘fate’. While Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4 was the composer’s most rhetorically overt exploration on the topic, the Dies Irae (Day of Wrath) motif – and its existential subtext – permeates the ethos of numerous Rachmaninoff works, including his Piano Concerto No. 1 and Vocalise.
Perhaps artistic expression entices as an illusory chasm between ‘fate’ and ‘free will’; through art, we have the power to excavate various permutations, to suspend realities’ relentless trudging, to dig up our own endings. Come join us in this concert featuring the YST Orchestral Institute, as well as YST Concerto Competition prizewinner pianist Edenia Maureen (BMus4).
Supported by the Shaw Foundation Ones to Watch series.
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PROGRAMME

Orchestral Institute
with
Jason Lai, Conductor
Edenia Maureen (BMus4), Piano
SERGEI RACHMANINOFF
Vocalise, Op. 34, No. 14
Piano Concerto No. 1 in F# Minor, Op. 1 (1917 Final Version)
– INTERMISSION –
PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 36

Out of respect for the participants and other spectators, no children under 6 years of age will be allowed admission.

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