Casting Call

It’s been a real busy time for me recently, my friends, sorry for the silence!

I’m currently working on my next commission for the ACS(Independent) String Orchestra, for an ACS Founder’s Day Premiere on 1 March 2010.

Entitled <Grow Old Along With Me>.

More pressing recently has been pre-production work of Wee Li Lin’s upcoming full-length feature film, <FOREVER> , for which I am scoring the music for.

Click here to read more about the film!

Regardless, here’s the catch: I am asking for ’student’ musicians to be part of this film!

Here’re the requirements:

• Between 13-16 years of age

• Girl/Boy

• Plays:

1. Violin,

2. Viola, or

3. Cello

to a relatively high standard. Email me at benlim007@gmail.com if you have friends, nieces/nephews, children, students that fit the bill!

Happy holidays in advance meantime, my friends! Take care while travelling and remember to get your vaccination against H1N1..

The Blue Mansion Gala!

What a fabulous 2 days it has been!

The TENG Ensemble played at the private launch of The Blue Mansion on 14th Oct 2009, a fundraising effort by AWARE.

We were one of the items auctioned of as well, haha!

We sure had fun playing there at GV Vivocity Goldclass, although the sound system could have been way way better.

Here’s a picture of us with Dana Lam, the chairperson of AWARE.

She totally ROCKSS!!

On the 15th Oct, the official gala premiere at GV Great World City!

It was great meeting up and bumping into friends, some of whom I have not met for a really long time.

Real happy to have bumped into Moe – I told him I’m going to get a Halloween costume from him soon! Visit his cool shop Moephosis for the best costumes man.

This is a picture of us with Ken, the scriptwriter for The Blue Mansion. What a wonderful one, at that!

Of course, being the launch of The Blue Mansion, you couldn’t have missed the stellar-studded cast – Tan Kheng Hua, Adrian Pang and dear Glen (whom we only managed to grab for a quick photo in the theatre before the screening began!).

The Blue Mansion premieres!

This coming Wednesday, The TENG Ensemble plays for the special premiere of our great friend Glen Goei’s new film, The Blue Mansion.

The film will be privately launched by AWARE, in GV Gold Class, Vivocity.

I can’t wait to watch it! Apart from the already intriguing ‘Who Dunnit’ genre that it set in, there’s also the music of great Australian composer, David Hirshfelder augmenting the film.

Drop on by the website to get a teaser and catch it in cinemas when it opens, my friends!

The Article!

And so we finally appeared on page 6 of the Lianhe Wanbao.
All I can say is, it’s a hilarious article. Oh well, what do you expect, it’s a tabloid!

I’ve only put up a portion here cos the article is too big to fit into my scanner!

Haha anyway I realised it makes me sound like a reaaaally bad driver. Hmm that’s what happens when you’re not careful with what you mention in passing to reporters!

To read the full article, you can visit omy.sg’s website here. I just realised they’ve uploaded some videos of our interview as well!

Go ahead and laugh at my Mandarin deficiency :p

Lianhe Wanbao Interviews

Following hot on the heels of our well-received OMY Singapore Blog Awards performance,

Lianhe Wanbao interviewed us for an article on TENG! Needless to say, we were thrilled.

The article will be out anytime now, since the F1 Fever is over (did you see Beyonce!?).

Pictures!

It was nice and relaxed throughout the TWO HOUR interview – omy.sg was also nice enough to do a video of us for their website!

omy Singapore Blog Awards!

The Singapore Blog Awards was a blast!

Thanks to all our friends who came down specially to support us – Glenn, Tommy, Peggy and all.

Less said, pictures first!

We were one of the main acts opening the evening, and Minister George Yeo was the guest of honour. He’s so cool – which minister actually has  a Facebook and Blog account?!

Chen Diya was also performing – what a great voice.

Singapore Blog Awards

The TENG Ensemble will be a featured partner at the Singapore Blog Awards 2009!

Come on by for a great evening of entertainment and rub shoulders with the blogging ‘who’s who’ community!

Date: Weds, 16th Sept 09

Venue: Supper Club, Odeon Towers

Time: 6.30pm – 9.30pm

Visit the omy.sg website here.

It promises to be a smashing great time and all of us at TENG can’t wait to groove too.

See you all folks!

Blast from the past

I was spring-cleaning my room over the weekend and I dug up an old DVD of a sheng concerto I performed with the Toa Payoh West CC Chinese Orchestra,

all the way back in June 2006! I cut a snippet of the last 2 movements. Here it is!

Really brought me down memory lane as I recall returning to Singapore from Central Conservatory, Beijing just a week before the performance.

A few months of hard slogging away there as I practiced and prepared for the piece!

I practiced so hard that the reeds were all overly moist and didnt have time to dry completely, hence you can hear some of my last few notes were stuck as the reeds couldn’t sound!

That was also the last time I performed on that particular sheng, which belonged to my teacher.

How time flies…

Revamps

It’s been awhile since I last wrote, work has sure been busy!

For starters, TENG recently had a photoshoot for our upcoming revamping of our website, which is (re)launching really soon.

Here’re rough pictures from the shoot!

Threshold World Premiere

THRESHOLD will be having it’s World Premiere at the ‘6th Singapore Short Cuts’.

Date: 15th August 2009 (Saturday)
Time: 2 p.m.
Venue: Gallery Theatre, National Museum of Singapore
Rating: R21 (Passed with no cuts)

My original soundtrack for the film, performed by the Oxley String Quartet, is featured as well. Read on for director Loo Zihan’s thoughts!

“It is a privilege and an honor for the film to be screened along with Tanjong Rhu (Boo Junfeng), Dirty Bitch (Sun Koh), Sex, Violence and Trauma (Brian Gothong Tan).

This screening is the first of 4 screenings over the next fortnight, which showcases the diversity and best of local short films within this past year. It is co-curated by Warren Sin and Low Beng Kheng, and is co-presented by the National Museum of Singapore and The Substation.