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after recording session with mridangam player Venkat and singer Kanchana Rajesh, Pavane studio, Singapore, 2011 after recording session with the Ensemble Khan Bogd from Mongolia, Pavane studio, Singapore, 2011 Didier Ballenghien and Gopal Raj recording Chiaroscuro, Pavane studio, Singapore, November 2010 conducting Misa Flamenca with the Singapore Youth Choir Ensemble Singers, Chijmes Hall, Singapore, October 2010 with choreographer and dancer Antonio Vargas, Chijmes Hall, Singapore, October 2010 playing on the iPads during the premiere of Simple-X, Yong Siew Toh Conservatory, Singapore, September 2010 musicians deambulating on stage during the premiere of Simple-X, Yong Siew Toh Conservatory, Singapore, September 2010 adressing the audience with electro-acoustician Seah Huan Yuh during the premiere of Simple-X, Yong Siew Toh Conservatory, Singapore, September 2010 Branderschrofen Gipfel, auf dem Tafelberg, Germany, June 2010 Dennis Sim premiering Holler across the Holler, Esplanade, Singapore, April 2010 with fellow composers Kelly Tang, Ho Chee Kong, Goh Toh Chai and Wong Kah Chun for Ten Years Phil Winds, April 2010 conducting the NUS Guitar orchestra and NUS choir, March 2010 with composer and mridangam soloist Balraj Gopal for the premiere of his Satyagraha, NUS University Cultural Centre Hall, Singapore, March 2010 mijn orgel, Singapoer, februari 2010 150th Anniversary of the Botanic Gardens, Singapore, December 2009 with vocal cast of 'Belle Epoque', Singapore, December 2009 (photographer Anne Valuy) living in the mountains, Akhajulyah, Northern Thailand, July 2009 trekking with Singapore's Nature Society, Taman Negara, Malaysia, June 2009 accompanying soprano Christina Maragkaki in 'pOpera', the Esplanade, Singapore, June 2009 Gruppenbild with the Genus and Pforzheim guitar orchestras, with Mr and Mrs Lim Soo Ping, Mr Alex Abisheganaden, Ms Yeow Ju Li, Mr Gopal Raj, Dr Artur Merkel and Mr Adam Vollmer conducting the NUS and Pforzheim guitar orchestras, NUS University Cultural Centre Hall, Singapore, June 2009 playing the piano, National University of Singapore Alumni House, March 2009 enjoying a pre-concert talk on the music of Pierre Boulez, NUS Alumni House, March 2009 dans la neige, Bois de la Cambre, Bruxelles, janvier 2009 Gaetan Casteels et Isabel Vila i Vivas, Rixensart, janvier 2009 on the summit of Mount Kinabalu, East Malaysia, October 2008 sailing in the Riau Straits, Indonesia, July 2008 avec le Capitaine Alain Tcheng, Nongsa, Indonesia 2008 with choreographer Filomar Tario for 'Message of Peace', a ballet by Eduardo Ramos-Gomez' ballet, on top of the Swissotel The Stamford, Singapore, April 2008 with Bob Verschueren, Christine Dupuis and Thorsten Baensch for 'Food, Plants and Music', the Arts House at the Old Parliament, Singapore, December 2007 premiering 'Taman Suara' with oboist Joost Flach and pianistShane Thio, Kuala lumpur, December 2007 (photographer Lucien De Prycker) with HE Frank van de Craen, then Ambassador of Belgium, Yang Mulia Tengku Nasariah, Director Galeri Petronas and installation artist Bob Verschueren, Kuala Lumpur, 2007 (photographer Lucien de Prycker) playing chamber music with violinist Andrea Oey and cellist Yu Qing, Residence of the Ambassador of Belgium, Singapore, April 2007 vier op 'n rij, Roosbeek, december 2006 with Baudouin Oosterlynck for 'Music and Architecture', National University of Singapore, November 2006 with 120 architecture students of the National University of Singapore for 'Sound Journey', August 2006 Arts for the Hearts, with CEO Prof Tan Ser Kiat, Singapore General Hospital, January 2006 conducting the National University of Singapore Centennial Orchestra in the Botanic Gardens, Singapore, August 2005 performance of 'Hui Rao' at the Esplanade, July 2005 at the World Music Contest with The Philharmonic Winds, Kerkrade, The Netherlands, July 2005 Nicolas Casteels, mon filleul, Ceroux-Mousty, juillet 2005 Apres la dive bouteille,serait-ce "in Vino Veritas"?, mariage de Stephane et Aurelie Casteels, Ceroux-Mousty, Belgique, juillet 2005 Henri Casteels, Rik van Stanie van den Rode, le veterinaire, Ceroux-Mousty, Belgique, juillet 2005, "les bons comptes font les bons amis", avec Rainier Casteels, Ceroux-Mousty, Belgique, juillet 2005 recording the Centennial Symphony, National University of Singapore Cultural Centre, June 2005 appreciating the audience's response in the concert hall of Esplanade, Singapore, June 2005 'Five Years of Music Making with The Philharmonic Winds', in the concert hall of the Esplanade, Singapore, June 2005 back stage with Leonard Tan, Adrian Cheong and Kok Tse Wei, June 2005 conducting the Philharmonic Winds for '5 Years of Music', Esplanade Concert Hall, Singapore, June 2005 with The Philharmonic Winds', Marine Parade, Singapore, June 2005 Ligeti's 'One Hundred Metronomes' inside The Arts House, Singapore, March 2005 Ligeti's 'One Hundred Metronomes' in front of of The Arts House, Singapore, March 2005 with young composers and performers from Europe and Asia for the ASEF 1st Music Camp 'I'MPULSE', Manilla, The Philippines, February 2005 curtain calls after a performance of Bizet's opera 'Carmen', Dewan Sri Pinang, Malaysia, December 2004 Singapore National Youth Orchestra with Seow Yit Kin at the Victoria Concert Hall, Singapore, December 2004 with Prof Edwin Thumboo, then Director NUS Centre of the Arts, film director Marion Hansel, Pascale Fabre, then Director Alliance francaise de Singapour, HE Philippe Kridelka, then Ambassador of Belgium, Alliance Francaise de with composers Brendon Broadstock and Andrian Pertout, Melbourne, April 2004 First performance of Kreisleriana, Esplanade main concert hall, July 2004 op vertrek naar Parijs, voor het gerestaureerd treinstation van Tienen, Belgie, februari 2004 met mijn moeder op het besneeuwde Monseigneur Ladeuze plein, Leuven, Belgie, februari 2004 Kale bomen op sneeuwtapijt, Kapellen, Belgie, februari 2004 Mijn Ouders, juli 2003 first Post-SARS public concert in Singapore with the Singapore National Orchestra Youth Orchestra and Tedd Joselson, Victoria Concert Hall, Singapore, May 2003 with soloist pianist Tedd Joselson, May 2003 le Temps des Cerises, Kapellen,Belgique, avril 2003 premiering Andrian Pertout's 'Renascence' with the University of Melbourne's orchestra, Wilson Hall, Melbourne, Australia, March 2003 meeting former Prime Minister of Malaysia Dato' Seri Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad after conducting a performance of Puccini's opera 'Madama Butterfly', Petaling jaya, Malaysia, December 2002 accompanying solo violinist See Ian Ike in Saint-Saens' 3rd violin concerto with the Singapore National Youth Orchestra, Singapore, December 2002 conducting the Singapore Armed Forces Music and Drama Company Chinese Orchestra in the Victoria Concert Hall, Singapore, November 2002 with yangqin soloist Qu Jian Qing and composer Phoon Yew Tien, Singapore Conference Hall, September 2002 Richard Adams, Lum Yan Sing and Leonard Tan conducting the premiere of Sonata Profana, National University of Singapore Cultural Centre, September 2002 performance of 'Hui Rao', National University of Singapore Cultural Centre, September 2002 op reis met mijn ouders, boven op de Shwe San Daw, Myanmar, februari 2002 with HE Mr Kunihiko Makita, then Ambassador of Japan, soloist saxophonist Shin-ichiro Hikosaka and Dr Brian Howard, then President of LASALLE College, Victoria Concert Hall, December 2001 taking a bow after Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra with the Queensland Conservatory's Orchestra, Brisbane, Australia receiving the prestigious Plantin Prize 2001 from HE Mr Camille Paulus, Governor of Antwerp, Belgium, May 2001 taking a bow with soprano Oda Vilrokx, Residence of the Ambassador of The Netherlands, HE Johan Wilbrenninck, Singapore, 2000 'A Captain from Castille', original caricature by John Harrison, Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Brisbane, 2000 actors, dancers and musicians of my production 'No Face' production, Studio Theatre LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts, Singapore, December 1999 my composition entitled 'scymboals', a love debate in the form of a ritualised mahjong game, Studio Theatre LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts, Singapore, December 1999 with NUS Winds in Zuerich, Zwitserland, July 1999 performing 'Bee Kayem age 9', a new gamelan composition choreographed by Tammy Wong, Wellington, New Zealand, March 1999 with Rahayu Supanggah and Joyce Teo, Wellington, New Zealand, March 1999 with the Lasalle Gamelan Ensemble and Adam Collis, Eric Watson, Joyce Teo and Mona Lim as well as fellow gamelan players, Wellington, New Zealand, March 1999 premiering "Soliloquy', a composition for grand piano and prepared/de-tuned piano, Studio Theatre LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts, Singapore, February 1999 researching and composing for the 'Berlayar' cycle, Mountbatten campus in room M106, Singapore, 1998 conducting a concert entirely devoted to new pieces by Singaporean composers entitled 'New Voices', Cultural Hall, LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts, Singapore, May 1998 conducting the National University of Singapore Choir on place Plummereau in Tours, France, May 1998 presenting the full score of my first composition for gamelan to (respectively from right to left) Bro McNally, President Emeritus and Dr Brian Howard, President of LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts, Mountbatten campus, April 1997 Head of Music at LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts, Mountbatten campus, Singapore, April 1997 with dhalang Pak Midiyanto, Cultural Hall, LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts, Singapore, February 1997 dinner with (from left to right) Roland Kluttig, Peter Eötvös and Robert Platz, Baden Baden, October 1996 accompanying art song recital by Dutch soprano Diewke Aalbers, Earl Lu Gallery, Singapore, 1996 'Fais voile vers le Soleil', 5 by 2.5 m mural painting by Robert Casteels, Forest, Belgium, May 1995 rehearsing Bernstein's 'Songfest' with the Conservatory Orchestra, Brussels Royal Conservatory, Belgium, March 1993 Quatre freres, Rixensart, Belgique, mai 1992 conducting the Orchestra of the University of Gent with trumpet soloist Rik Ghesquiere, Bijloke Abbey, Ghent, Belgium, March 1990 Janos Ferencsik International Conducting Competition, Budapest, Hungary, 1989 rehearsing Mozart's 'Marriage of Figaro' with the Nederlands Radio Orkest, Hilversum, The Netherlands, August 1986 with Maestro Leonard Bernstein, New York, 1985 (photographer Peter Schaaf) performing Liszt's 'Jeu d' eau a la Villa d' Este', Tienen, Belgium, June 1983

Composer, conductor in Singapore with specialty in fusion music

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