April 8: Conservatory Orchestra Series: Heroes' Lives and Loves details.
Addresses Esplanade, Theatres on the Bay 1 Esplanade Drive Transport- Nearby Stations: City Hall Telephone 6828 8377 Admission price $15.00
April 9: Two Great Concertos. Darrell Ang conducts BARTÓK's Concerto for Orchestra, written for the Boston Symphony under the commission of the great Sergei Koussevitzky, while sensational pianist Sergio Tiempo takes on Rachmaninov’s Third Piano Concerto. Esplanade, Theatres on the Bay 1 Esplanade Drive. Transport Nearby Stations: City Hall. Telephone 6828 8377 Admission price from $12.00 to $78.85
April 10: Music and Words (New Music Ensemble — Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music) — a rare showcase of modern music. With words, this concert, conducted by Singaporean Tony Makarome, features the Singapore premiere of Juhi Bansal's “The Lost Country of Sight” featuring soprano Khor Ai Ming, a rare performance of Morton Feldman's 1987 version of Samuel Beckett's radio drama “Words & Music” and Huang Ruo's chamber concerto Yueh Fei. Esplanade, Theatres on the Bay 1 Esplanade Drive. Telephone 6828 8377 Admission price $20.00 Open 7.30 p.m.
April 12: The Script in concert. A kind of tug-of-war between the stadium-rock strains of U2 and the bittersweet optimism of Coldplay, this Dublin trio’s latest album Science. Fort Canning Road (6332 1200) Price: from $98.00 to $110.00
April 15-16: Timbre Rock & Roots: Bob Dylan + John Legend + more to perform- Any rock fan worthy of the name has heard Blood on the Tracks, but now you can see Bob on the tracks: music history’s single most important and influential artist arriving in Singapore only to perform at the F1 circuit. Many more surprises along with legendary John Legend.Marina Promenade Admission price from $90.00 to $200.00. Opens at 6 p.m.
April 15: Belshazzar's Feast (SSO) Stravinsky's raw, gritty “Symphony of Psalms” and Walton's “Belshazzar's Feast,” with Milhaud's joyous “The Creation of the World” balancing an otherwise fairly serious program. Esplanade, Theatres on the Bay 1 Esplanade Drive. Telephone 6828 8377. Admission price from $12.00 to $78.75. Opens at 7:30 p.m.
April 17: Gilberto Gil is probably one of the few names still around that could live up to last month’s Os Mutantes dazzler, fellow tropicalismo pioneer and bona fide Brazilian superstar. Gilberto Gil arrives for what he calls his “simple concert.” Esplanade, Theatres on the Bay 1 Esplanade Drive. Telephone 6828 8377. Admission price from $48.00 to $108.00
April 18: The Virtuoso Liszt — A Liszt Bicentenary Recital By Kenneth Hamilton. Also includes the Singapore premieres of the “Berceuse,” and of the “Symphonic Elegy for Liszt” by Scottish composer Ronald Stevenson. Esplanade Recital Studio. Esplanade, Theatres on the Bay 1 Esplanade Drive. Telephone 6828 8377. Admission price $32.00. Opens at 7:30 p.m.
April 21: LANXESS SNYO CLASSIC “A Musical Chemistry'' Esplanade Concert Hall Address Esplanade, Theatres on the Bay 1 Esplanade Drive. Telephone 6828 8377. Admission price $9.00. Opens at 7:30 p.m.
April 23: Gala: Midori (SSO). An all-Russian gala with Rimsky-Korsakov's “Russian Easter Overture,” Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto played by Midori and a rarer airing of Rachmaninov's slavic Symphony No.3 — the composer's favorite. Esplanade, Theatres on the Bay 1 Esplanade Drive. Telephone 6828 8377. Admission price from $18.00 to $100.00. Opens at 7:30 p.m.
April 24: Sunday Night with Adam Gyorgy. Known for his Liszt, Hungarian pianist Adam Gyorgy performs an evening of popular music by his great predecessor, including the B-minor Sonata, La Campanella, Hungarian Rhapsody No.2, Rigoletto paraphrase and Chopin's first Ballade. Esplanade, Theatres on the Bay 1 Esplanade Drive. Telephone 6828 8377. Admission price from $18.00 to $188.00. Opens at 7:30 p.m.
April 28: Switchfoot live in concert. Feeding on Singapore’s ever-prevalent Christian rock fanbase – the youth congregations from New Creation and City Harvest Church alone would probably fill out most venues in Singapore. Rock Auditorium Address Suntec City Mall #03-063/065. 3 Temasek Boulevard Transport Nearby Stations: City Hall. Telephone 6333 8280. Admission price from $55.00 to $95.00 Opens at 7:30 p.m.
April 29: Poets Of Poland (SSO). The Singapore Symphony Orchestra essay Lutoslawski's technically challenging and thrilling Concerto for Orchestra, Finnish composer Magnus Lindberg's tone poem Parada and accompany British pianist Barry Douglas in Chopin's poetic second piano concerto. Esplanade Concert Hall. Esplanade, Theatres on the Bay 1 Esplanade Drive. Telephone 6828 8377. Admission price from $12.00 to $78.75. Opens at 7:30 p.m.
April 30: MJ Cole (UK) One of the most important figures in the 2Step-UK garage movement of the late- 1990s, responsible for such sound-defining tracks as ‘Sincere’, is now known for sets that tend towards London-style sounds of grime, UK funky, garage and shuffling, R&B-hued house. Zirca Mega Club Address Clarke Quay Blk C #01-02/03/04/05 3 River Valley Road. Opens at 10 p.m.
May 9: Avril Lavigne Live. Singapore Indoor Stadium. 2 Stadium Walk. Transport Nearby Stations: Kallang Bus Lines: 11, 16, 608. Telephone 6344 2660. Admission price from $95.00 to $175.00. Opens at 8 p.m.
