Concert review: Chamber Music Festival’s successful return with Aoi Trio and pianist Ning An

Chang Tou Liang | 31 January 2024

After a hiatus of about 20 years, the Singapore Chamber Music Festival has returned with a flourish.

The week-long event, organised by re:Sound Collective, included music workshops and coaching sessions involving 28 local and overseas chamber groups and four evening concerts.
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“The evening’s highlight was Antonin Dvorak’s Piano Trio No. 3 In F Minor (Op.65) where thetrio’s strengths – perfect intonation, ensemble cohesion, concentration and passion – came tothe fore in four movements playing for almost 40 minutes. By now, all three instruments wereequal partners, the music’s Brahmsian gravity balanced by a folksy Slavonic rusticity. The trio’sMendelssohn encore delighted like a song without words.”
- on Festival Concert I: Aoi Trio

“An, along with fellow teaching colleagues Qian Zhou (violin), Zhang Manchin (viola) and Qin Li-Wei (cello), gave a tautly cohesive performance that did not stint on poetry and lyricism.”
- on Festival Concert II: Ning An and Friends