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Taking The Title At The Singapore Masters 2007 Golf Tournament

The third day of the Clariden Leu Singapore Masters 2007 golf tournament is over and with only one more day of action, it is anyone's guess who will take the title at Laguna this year.

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Liang, at Singapore Masters, Ties on Top With Lockerbie

Today at Singapore Masters China's top golfer Liang Wen-chong continued his chase for a maiden title when he was tied for the lead with England's Gary Lockerbie at the Clariden Leu Singapore Masters.

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Cisco Opens S$3 million Customer Briefing Center in Singapore

Cisco has established a state-of-the-art customer briefing center (CBC) in Singapore to showcase the latest innovations in Internet Protocol (IP) networking technology. The CBC also provides Cisco's Asia Pacific channel partners and customers with a live environment to test their solutions in multiple operating environments.

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Singapore Symphony Presents Music For Good Friday

Let the SSO and Maestro Lan Shui take you on a journey of exquisite music and reverent reflection on Good Friday (April 6), as they bring you Richard Wagner's sublime Good Friday Spell from his last stage creation, Parsifal, and Mendelssohn's inspirational Reformation Symphony.

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Piano Magnificence With Nicholas Angelich

The American-born pianist Nicholas Angelich will be in Singapore on March 31 to perform Schumann's magnificent Piano Concerto with the SSO. The up-and-coming pianist, who will turn 37 this year, began studying the piano with his mother at five and gave his first concert at seven. At 13 Angelich entered the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris where he studied with Aldo Ciccolini, Yvonne Loriod, Michel Beroff, and won the First Prize for piano and chamber music.

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Singapore Symphony Presents Simple Gifts

Revel in the gift of music at the Victoria Concert Hall on March 11 as musicians from the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, led by the exciting Maestro Lev Markiz, bring you a performance of some of the most enchanting repertoire ever written for the chamber ensemble.

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From Sheffield to Singapore, international Grid battles malaria

Malaria kills more than one million people each year, most of them young children living in Africa. Now physicists in the UK have shared their computers with biologists from countries including France and Korea in an effort to combat the disease.

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Singapore Symphony Orchestra Doubles Up

The violin and cello will both take centrestage at this Singapore Symphony Orchestra concert on March 24, where the orchestra will perform Brahms' Double Concerto, with soloists Qian Zhou and Li-wei Qin. The Double Concerto was Brahms' last work for orchestra, written partly as a peace offering to his friend, the violinist Joseph Joachim, with whom he had fallen out.

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Uzbek President Begins Singapore Visit

Uzbek President Islam Karimov has left Tashkent for a three-day state visit to Singapore that ends on January 26.

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Elgar Anniversary: Perchance To Dream

Her engaging personality and extraordinary musical vitality have made Isabelle van Keulen one of the most sought after and charismatic musicians of her generation. Come February 15, the Holland-born violinist will be in Singapore to perform Elgar's Violin Concerto with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra in a concert commemorating the 150th birth anniversary of the English composer.

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Singapore Symphony Presents Slavic Expressions

Bring the entire family for an intimate experience with instrumental music with musicians from the Singapore Symphony Orchestra at the Victoria Concert Hall on a Sunday evening. Opening the VCH Chamber Series on February 4, 2007 (Sunday), 5pm is an entirely Bohemian programme, "Slavic Expressions".

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Valentine's Day Soiree: Music And Fine Food

This year, the Singapore Symphony Orchestra Ladies' League invites you to celebrate Valentine's Day in the elegant setting of one of Singapore's grand private homes. Let the SSO musicians take you and your Valentine on a romantic musical journey and indulge in a specially prepared exquisite Valentine's cocktail at the same time.

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