Youngest composer ever to be commissioned by SSO
SOTA Music alumna, Koh Cheng Jin of the 2014 graduating cohort, has earned the distinction of being the youngest composer ever to be commissioned by the Singapore Symphony Orchestra for the SSO 37th Anniversary Concert.
Cheng Jin blazes another new trail as the first Singaporean to study music composition at the Juilliard School in New York, under a full scholarship awarded by the Loke Cheng-Kim Foundation. Her musicianship knows no cultural boundaries, having won first prize at the 2014 National Chinese Music Competition in the Yangqin Open Category, and was subsequently featured as Yangqin soloist accompanied by the Singapore Chinese Orchestra in December 2014.