Concert: AKA A Cappella VII

Date/Time: 22, 23, 30 Sep 2012 (time varies, see below)

Venue: NUS University Cultural Centre

Ticket Price*:

• Opening Night (22 Sep, 7.30 pm): Cat 1: S$50; Cat 2: S$40; Cat 3: S$30
• O-Kai Showcase (23 Sep, 2.00 pm): Cat 1: $30; Cat 2: $25
• Maytree Showcase (23 Sep, 7.30 pm): Cat 1: $30; Cat 2: $25
• Suade Showcase (30 Sep, 7.30 pm): Cat 1: $30; Cat 2: $25

Note:

• 15% discount for Students with valid pass.  
• 15% discount for NSF with valid pass.  
• 15% discount for Senior Citizens aged 55 and above.
• 10% discount for OCBC Cardholders.  
• 10% discount for any AKA A Cappella VII shows for purchases above $250 in a single receipt. Not applicable with other promotions.

* prices exclude booking fee

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Proudly supported by the National Arts Council (NAC), the AKA A CAPPELLA (AKA) series is the largest and longest running a cappella extravaganza in Singapore, and has been showcasing the best a cappella groups in the local and international scene since its inception in 1996.

The biennial concert was last held in 2010 in Victoria Theatre Singapore and was hosted by Jake Moulton, vocal percussionist of top US a cappella group, The Housejacks from San Francisco.
The AKA A CAPPELLA series of concerts it is now in its 7th edition, and will be held in September this year at the NUS University Cultural Centre.

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List of Performers:

• Opening Night (22 Sep 12): Maytree (Korea) | O-Kai Singers (Taiwan) | Vocaluptuous | Key Elements | MICappella | Juz-B
• O-Kai Showcase (23 Sep 12, 2 pm): O-Kai Singers (Taiwan) | After Six
• Maytree Showcase (23 Sep 12, 7.30 pm): Maytree (Korea) | NUS Resonance
• Suade Showcase (30 Sep 12, 7.30 pm): Suade (Australia) | SMU Voix

You can get your tickets via Gatecrash here:

• Opening Night
• O-Kai Showcase
• Maytree Showcase
• Suade Showcase

There will also be workshops held in conjunction with the Festival. For more information, visit the organiser's website here.

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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You can get your tickets here.