Special Projects
As a concert organiser, conductor and pianist, Robert Casteels has received commissions to organise and perform special programmes for corporate and private functions.
The following is a selection of special events which Robert Casteels has organised:
• "Asia folktales and Legends”, a special concert with the National University of Singapore’s guitar orchestra in 2010. A poet wanders, muses and invites the listener down Asia ‘s memory lane with guitar music from Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and The Philippines
• "Music and Birds", a jazz event conceived for the grand finale of the 150th Anniversary of Singapore's Botanic Gardens and performed on the Shaw Foundation Symphony Stage in 2009
• "Food, Plants and Music", a collaboration with installation artists Christine Dupuis, Thorsten Baensch and Bob Verschueren in Kuala Lumpur and Singapore in 2007
• “Music and Architecture", a collaboration with sonic artist Baudouin Oosterlynck and 120 students from the National University of Singapore, Department of Architecture in 2006
• “I’mPULSE”, the first Asia-Europe music camp, for the Asia Europe Foundation in Manila (Philippines) in 2005
• "Poème symphonique for 100 metronomes by Ligeti", concert in collaboration with the Singapore community for the first anniversary of the Old Parliament Arts House in 2005
• “The Magic of Music in Movies”, a film-cum-concert festival in collaboration with film director Marion Hänsel, the Singapore Symphony Orchestra and the National University of Singapore Centre for the Arts in 2004
• “Spirit of Wood”, a fundraising dinner introducing the Spirit of Wood exhibition which celebrates the continuity of a living art where visitors learn the origins, history and art of traditional woodcarving from the Northeast Coastal States of the Malay Peninsula, showcasing two compositions by Robert Casteels
• "Mozart - Varèse",