Good morning, Singapore!

During a richly filled residency at the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music SPECTRA works with composition students in various sessions and also presents their new music in concert. In addition, we coach Opus Novus, the contemporary music ensemble of the conservatory.
SPECTRA's pianist Lukas Huisman will give a lecture on his doctoral research: "Musical complexity and human limits: an investigation into the problematic composer-performer relationship in complex 20th-century piano literature." The new composition by Peter. I. Edwards - head of composition at the conservatory -, written for us, will be performed and recorded.
But we certainly aren't traveling alone. Works by Brewaeys, Van Parys, Rathé, Nuyts and Janssens are flying with us in business class and will have the focus in a second concert titled Four Legacies, built around four fascinating teacher-student relationships.
This way, SPECTRA continues – even internationally – to passionately, radically, and uncompromisingly pursue its 30-year-old mission: the development and care of the musical heritage created in and from Flanders. As Gustav Mahler beautifully said, “Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.”