Announcement

iSING! 2025 AUDITION
Click here to apply for auditions in Guangzhou and Beijing.

Application deadline April 22, 2025

Audition cities and dates: 
Guangzhou: May 29, 2025 
Beijing: June 10, 2025 

For more information please email info@isingfestival.org



Highlights

WORLD PREMIERE
Spring River Flowers by Moonlight 《春光花月夜》 A new addition of Tang Poem is added to the Echoes of Ancient Tang Poems concert program. Set in music by composer Mason Bates, commissioned by the Philadelphia Orchestra, Spring River Flowers by Moonlight 《春光花月夜》is featured in The Philadelphia Orchestra China Tour under the baton of Maestro Marin Alsop at the Beijing National Centre for the Performing Arts on November 2, 2024. The piece is also featured together with part of the Echoes of Ancient Tang Poems which was given by its North American Premiere with The Philadelphia Orchestra in 2023 in Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, and Lincoln Center, New York.
 
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE Spring River Flowers by Moonlight 《春光花月夜》Conducted by Naomi Woo at the Marion Anderson Hall, Philadelphia on January 10, 2025.
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Asia Tour
Echoes of Ancient Tang Poems Tour  (Macau, Wuhan) 
Eighteen iSINGers from nine countries (United States, China, Canada, Hungary, Romania, France, Italy, Mexico, Nicaragua)  gone through a month-long training hosted at the Tianjin Juilliard, learning 15 Tang Poems set in contemporary music composed by young composers from around the world. The Tang Poems concert performed with the Macau Orchestra, in Macau and Hubei Symphony Orchestra in Wuhan on September 14, 19, 2024 respectively. 

New York
iSING! at the Shelter Island Friends of Music
iSING! artists with opera bass and iSING! Artistic Director Hao Jiang Tian kick off the 2025 concert season for the Shelter Island Friends of Music, a premiere performing arts organization on February 16, 2025.