Jahl icon

Healing Arts is a global campaign by the Jameel Arts & Health Lab in collaboration with the World Health Organization

NUSSO x OI scaled

Healing Arts Opening Concert

Monday, 8 December 2025 | 7.30 - 9.30pm YST Conservatory of Music, Concert Hall

Celebrate the power of music in an inspiring evening that blends classical masterpieces and contemporary works, exploring themes of resilience and renewal.

Get Tickets

Featuring Chen Zhangyi's LILY, the YST Orchestral Institute, pianist Azariah Tan, Arts Fission, Beautiful Minds and The TENG Ensemble.

Join us for the Opening Concert of Healing Arts Singapore—the first country-level Healing Arts activation in Asia. The Opening Concert celebrates the transformative power of music through an inspiring evening of performances, featuring Chen Zhangyi's LILY, the YST Orchestral Institute, pianist Azariah Tan, Arts Fission, Beautiful Mind Charity and The TENG Ensemble. Blending classical masterpieces with contemporary creations, the programme takes you on a musical journey through themes of resilience and renewal—uniting musicians, dancers, and audiences in a shared experience of art as healing.

PROGRAMME

CHEN ZHANGYI
LILY
I. Prelude

Excerpts from Scene 2
X. A New Song (Dialogue)
XI. Song of Eurydice - I’ll Follow Your Voice (Duet)

XII. Do You Remember Me? (Recitative/Arioso)

WONG SU SUN as SINGER/LILY, soprano
JONATHAN CHARLES TAY as SON, tenor

 

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 5 ("Emperor")
- Allegro

AZARIAH TAN, piano
YST ORCHESTRAL INSTITUTE
with
JASON LAI, conductor

 

– Intermission –

 

ARTS FISSION
SEEDING THE FLOOR — performing mindfulness of everyday 

 

A Medley of Classical Tunes
MUSICIANS FROM THE BEAUTIFUL MIND CHARITY AND YST CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC

LUO MANG, violinist
QUAH RENAA, clarinetist
ANGEL LAWRENCE GABRIEL VILLAR, flutist
ROYCE TAN KAY WOON, cellist
KANG JI YEON, pianist
NG EE-JUN, violin
WU ZUHUI, cello
SIMEON YAP SHENG KIAT, flute
DOMINIC KOH, clarinet

 

CHOW JUNYI
Journey

PHOON YU
A Transi for the Common Man

CHOW JUNYI
The Little White Boat

THE TENG ENSEMBLE
YST ORCHESTRAL INSTITUTE

Performers

Chen Zhangyi Resized

Chen Zhang Yi

Associate Professor | Composer | Violinist, Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music, National University of Singapore

Jonathan Tay resized

Jonathan Tay

Tenor Opera Singer | Vocal Teacher

Wong Su Sun resized

Wong Su Sun

Soprano; Lecturer, University of the Arts Singapore (LaSalle College of the Arts) and United World College South-East-Asia