Parent-Child Workshop: Play and Sing!

Ellissa Sayampanathan is a choral practitioner and pedagogue who aspires to build good musicianship and a love for music in her choristers, moulding mind, heart, and voice. She works regularly with choral groups at the Singapore Symphony Children’s Choir, St. Margaret’s Primary School, and Methodist Girls’ School (Primary). She spends part of her life teaching music in Special Education classrooms, is Founder and Artistic Director of Chroma, a choral collective based in Singapore, and serves as Secretary of the Choral Directors’ Association (Singapore). Sayampanathan received her training at the University of Cambridge (MMus) and the Kodály Institute.

Gabriel Hoe is a People Musician—a person who enjoys interacting with others, through music. He loves being a collaborative performer and is grateful to be a part of many amazing groups in his career so far. Some notable ones include being the pianist for the Singapore Symphony Children's Choir (SSCC), Singapore Ballet (SB), duodentity (a Singaporean piano duo formed with Adriana Chiew) and the trumpet studio at the Yong Siew Toh (YST) Conservatory. He is also keyboardist for The TENG Ensemble.