A Choir-ed Taste

Musicians’ Inc. 6 (MI6) is a group of six Singaporean choral conductors and music educators who have found in each other, a strong friendship through music-making. The group comprises Cherie Chai, Choy Siew Woon, Dawn Yin, Low Xu Hao, Terrence Toh and Yong Chee Foon, all of whom hail from different choral backgrounds and serve actively in Singapore’s education scene as conductors of several primary, secondary, pre-tertiary, tertiary and community choirs. The conductors often collaborate with each other and across schools, to create new learning experiences for young choristers, exploring a wide range of choral repertoire. They share a common dedication towards doing their part in maintaining a healthy and balanced choral ecosystem and are thankful for the privilege of guiding their students through their musical and personal journeys.

Esplanade’s Voices Festival Choir is an auditioned group of youth choristers aged 17 – 26, who have participated in a series of choral activities during each edition of the festival since 2022. Facilitated by Singaporean choral music educators MI6, the Voices Festival Choir engages yearly in a variety of rehearsal styles during the festival week, deepening their insight on choral music and its collaborative possibilities, before presenting a diversity of choral repertoire to audiences. Thus far, the Festival Choir has learnt from and shared the stage with a number of different choral artists, including The King’s Singers, Die Singphoniker, The Gesualdo Six, London Community Gospel Choir, The Idea of North and MI6 themselves. This year, The Esplanade celebrates the choir’s journey thus far, in a special feature concert at the Esplanade Concert Hall.