Press and Reviews

“Emily Koh’s Implodex! (Singapore premiere) for six musicians opened the proceedings. Conducted by Setts co-founder Christoph Wichert, its configuration had strings (violin, viola and cello) placed onstage, complemented by offstage woodwinds (flute, oboe and clarinet).

With its title alluding to the origin of matter and anti-matter, fragments of sound passed around the hall, the concordant alternating with the discordant. Its climax was a solo cadenza from oboist Joost Flach, who went on to tear up pieces of paper, symbolic of a point of no return, before all the musical parts coalesced in a serene C major chord.”

"Food is important to Singaporeans. Hawker centers serve up local fare such as prawn noodles, char kway tiao, chicken rice, laksa, mee goreng and other dishes. It never fails to surprise me that if I make mention of the Redhill...

"The 35 selected candidates from 14 countries will perform a range of repertoire, including kilobyte, a commissioned work by Singaporean composer Emily Koh."

"The Singapore Symphony Orchestra (SSO) meanwhile, has scheduled for it's upcoming 2014/15 season a work from conservatory alumnus Chen Zhangyi, 30, and commissions from Emily Koh, 28, as well as Terrence Wong, 25, who has just completed his bachelor's degree in music...

"The final piece on the program, Emily Koh's synpunkt, for alto flute/piccolo, clarinet/bass clarinet and percussion, played out like an intense conversation between the players. Flutist Sue-Ellen Tcherepnin and clarinetist Katherine Matasy traded motifs back and...

"Two Singaporean works that received World Premieres were aggressively atonal... Emily Koh's bridging : isolation (2013) treated saxophone and violin like fraternal twins, each with its own voice that could be heard separately or together. In the latter, they bonded...

"The final student work of the evening was Emily Koh's cycrotations for percussion quartet, which I remember for it's haunting, ghostly and spacious quality."

"The second half of the concert showed the pianist at her best. Her keen sensitivity to the pianistic and harmonic idiom of Si fallor, Sum (2008) by Singapore composer Emily Koh made her reading cogent. The tricky running notes and leaping chords were tackled with...

"Her programme for the evening includes a 10-minute Si Fallor, Sum by 27-year-old United States-based Singaporean composer Emily Koh. She played a shorter version for her own graduation ceremony from the conservatory in 2010. 'It shows a different texture for the...

"On Wednesday, 27 Feb 2013, two highly accomplished musicians, composer Emily Koh and conductor Wong Kah Chun, were awarded the inaugural Paul Abisheganaden Grant for Artistic Excellence. Despite being only 26 years old, each of the talented artists have won awards...

"An awards ceremony honoured conductor Wong Kah Chun and contemporary classical composer Emily Koh, both 26, as the first two recipients of the grant, which recognises emerging young talents in the performing arts among students and alumni of the National University...

"The most adventurous work was Emily Koh's Freyja for flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano, which portrayed the changing seasonal foliage of New England. Autumn was vigourous and sprightly, giving way to the static austerity of winter before the augurs of spring...

"全音乐室内乐团是在去年12月发出消息, 他们向本地作曲人广邀室内与作品。他们总共收到10个试听版本，经由团员们选之后，最终决定呈现其中四溅作品，分别是陈美铃的《魔术师典范》，林莘洁的《黑暗中的光芒》，许佩珊的《女神》以及黄佳慨的《蓝鸟》。除了这四首曲子，乐团也将演奏驻团作曲李凱涵的《成长》。...

"Emily Koh, a second-year doctoral student, and Christian Gentry Ph.D. '12 were recently named Barlow Commission winners for 2012. The Barlow Endowment for Music sponsors significant new musical works that are not yet in progress. Koh, who played piano as a child but...

"Like many 7-year-olds, Emily Koh had no interest in taking piano lessons. It was her parents' idea, she says. But, despite her apathy, she stuck with it for years. Then, when she was 15, she traded the piano for a double bass. And in high school, she started to write...

When Emily koh, 25, decided she wanted to be a composer with the Singapore Lyric Opera, the road wasn't smooth. "Many (including my family, friends and teachers) were sceptical that one could make a living as a musician. The hardest challenge is convincing yourself...

Like many seven-year-olds, Emily Koh had no interest in taking piano lessons. It was her parents' idea, she says. Despite her apathy, she stuck with it for eight years. When she turned 15, she traded the piano for a double bass, and her life changed. Koh, who just...

Who: Composer Emily Koh, 25, whose original work, byte, is a set piece for the contenders in the ongoing National Piano and Violin Competition. The miennial music contest, which often kickstarts the careers of local classical musicians, ends this evening at the Yong...

"The evening award ceremony and concert also showcased four set-pieces chosen for the competition from local composers Eric Watson, Bernard Lee, Emily Koh and Denise Lee, demonstrating that the creative front was no less impressive."

"Of special interest are four pieces newly commissioned for this concert in celebration of the Choir's 5th anniversary. Emily Koh's A Painted Bus starts off sounding like the folksong The Water is Wide, but soon develops into her own optimistic style with overlapping...

"Currently pursuing her Master of Music degree in composition and music theory pedagogy at the Peabody Conservatory, Emily Koh is a valedictorian who studied composition with Ho Chee Kong and double bass with Guennadi Mouzyka. Emily will be composing her very own...

"A hundred years after the Paris premiere of The Firebird, TPO did some major commissioning of its own. Young Singaporean composer Emily Koh's 10-minute-long After Igor was the result. Scored for the same familiar forces as Firebird, Koh did not attempt to imitate or...

“许佩珊 24岁/美国皮博迪音乐学院硕士生 2003年，当许佩珊还是·淡马锡初级学院音乐特选课程的学生，便发表了她有生以来第一部音乐作品。她说：“老是演出别人的东西太没意思了，我渴望过自己的作品来发感情，表达自我。” 许佩珊曾为国大艺术节，鼎艺室内乐团，新加坡爱乐乐团写过作品，去年她获选代表新加坡参加亚太·现代音乐节，由亚洲节日乐团演出他的作品 “III. Als Leben"。今年的委约则有新加坡爱乐协会与新加坡舞蹈剧场的芭蕾舞音乐After Igor，以及给新加坡歌剧团儿童合唱团的合唱作品。...

"While Zozinn  had much to say about works by JiB master composers, including Steve Reich, Augusta Read Thomas, Olivier Pasquet and David Felder, he also devoted substantial space to works by this year's participants, including Daniel Bassin, Matthew Heap, Ashley...

"Emily Koh's beautifully eerie "circum perceptio", built in layers of delicate string, piano and woodwind timbres, was another highlight of the Signal program."

"The four works I saw certainly proved interesting, in some cases more for the words and action than the music. Most impressive to me was "Generations", a snapshot of four intersecting lives in a single family. Emily Koh's subtly spicy score produced some strong...

"Emily Koh's 'Generations,' with a libretto by Katherine Krueger, looks at women from four generations of one family."