SMU first-year undergraduate, Yeo Ying Hao, a cellist and president of The Orchestra of the Music Makers is thrilled that the orchestra will be playing overseas for the first time. Started in 2008, the orchestra has gone from an ensemble with no professional ambitions to receiving glowing reviews in international music magazines such as Gramophone and a landmark invitation to play at two noted summer festivals in south-west England this week. The 106-strong ensemble will leave for the Cheltenham Music Festival and Lichfield Festival on Wednesday. Organisers confirmed that this was the first time a Singapore ensemble had been invited to either festival.
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The Straits Times
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