Concert: TPCC Presents: Zen Renaissance Featuring Ueno Koshuzan

Date/Time: 8 Sep 12, Sat, 7.30 pm

Venue: School of the Arts (SOTA) Concert Hall

Ticket Price: Standard - S$30; Concession - S$20

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The Philharmonic Chamber Choir (TPCC) returns to SOTA Concert Hall with another exciting collaboration – this time, with Japanese shakuhachi master, Ueno Koshuzan. The soulful shakuhachi is a Japanese end-blown flute. In medieval Japan, Zen Buddhist monks used the shakuhachi as a spiritual tool; their songs were considered meditation.

In the Western world, the Renaissance was a cultural movement that had a profound effect in European intellectual life, encompassing literature, philosophy, art, politics, science, religion and music. Here, increasingly freed from medieval constraints in range, rhythm, harmony, form and notation, music became a vehicle for personal expression. Both the secular and sacred music collided and influenced one another.

Along the delicate lines of the secular and the sacred, TPCC will be singing a range of Renaissance and Renaissance-inspired compositions. Ueno Koshuzan will weave the gossamer magic of the shakuhachi through the concert.

A unique and not-to-be-missed musical experience – come to the concert, close your eyes, open your ears and be mesmerised by the music from worlds apart, and yet universally intimate.

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