Past concerts
The ROS Singers present three unique concerts each season, enriching Singapore's vibrant professional music scene.
Discover our past performances below!
2026 season
Music has a remarkable way of holding our memories: of home, culture, and the stories we carry with us.
In Our Memories, Our Songs, The ROS Singers present a heartfelt programme of folk songs and culturally significant music from Singapore and around the world. Familiar regional melodies such as Lok Sui Tien and Ikan Kekek sit alongside powerful contemporary works, including Jake Runestad’s moving Let My Love Be Heard.
The centrepiece of the evening is the world premiere of the choral song cycle Night Journeys by composer and ROS singer John Lee, a new choral song cycle setting poems by celebrated Singaporean poet Aaron Lee. Through these works, poetry and music come together to explore belonging, home, and the enduring human desire to create beauty.
The concert will also feature a special poetry reading and conversation with Aaron Lee and John Lee, offering audiences a rare opportunity to hear directly from the artists behind the work.
Join us for an evening where music and poetry meet, and where memories find their voice.
2025 season
The ROS Singers is thrilled to embark on our very first concert tour to Taiwan. We will be performing in a series of concerts and workshops, including at the stunning National Taichung Theatre, and recording our debut album of new, proudly Singaporean music. Audiences can look forward to a vibrant programme featuring Taiwan premieres, Singaporean folk songs and timeless Christmas classics as we share our distinctive choral sound with the world. If you’re in the area, get your tickets now!
The ROS Singers warmly invites you to a special pre-tour concert held in the serene and historic Armenian Church. This intimate performance offers Singapore audiences the first opportunity to hear the full programme the ensemble will present during its upcoming Taiwan tour.
The concert features a vibrant mix of repertoire, including Singaporean folk songs, beloved Christmas pieces and numerous works that will be receiving their Taiwan premieres. Presented in the unique acoustic setting of Singapore’s oldest Christian church, this preview showcases the ensemble's versatility, artistry and commitment to sharing Singaporean music with international audiences.
This one-evening-only event provides a rare chance to encounter the tour programme up close before it is brought to stages overseas, including the National Taichung Theatre.
Seats are limited due to the venue’s intimate setting. We encourage early booking to secure your place.
Don’t miss an evening of musical favourites with The ROS Singers—where soaring melodies and timeless classics come alive. Highlights include O mio babbino caro, Nella Fantasia, and songs from your favourite musicals like Wicked, Les Miserables, and The Little Mermaid.
Experience The ROS Singers in full force, while also hearing individual singers step forward in beloved arias and musical theatre numbers, showcasing their unique voices. Be part of history as we premiere Heaven’s Lion, a newly commissioned work by Eudenice Palaruan, written specially for this concert.
The programme also features the exceptional young talents of our ROS Young Artist Programme, performing alongside The ROS Singers.
Whether you’re a Classical lover or a musical theatre fan, this is an emotional evening you won’t want to miss.
Celebrate In Full Bloom with The ROS Singers as we mark our third anniversary with an unforgettable fundraising concert.
Enjoy an enchanting evening of music, featuring stunning solo performances and powerful choral numbers, with highlights including O mio babbino caro, Nella Fantasia, Pure Imagination, and songs from Wicked.
We are also honoured to present special guest performances by Cultural Medallion recipient Lynette Seah and jazz singer Reggie Pryor.
Don’t miss our much-anticipated auction, where your support will help us provide exceptional choral education for budding children and youth choristers in Singapore. Items for auction include commissioned pieces of music, artwork, coveted fine dining experiences and many more.
Join us and help nurture the next generation of choral talent!
Read the Straits Times review here:
Some items we sold at auction
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Watercolour Painting of The Arts House
Own this unique watercolour painting of The Arts House (ROS’s first ever concert venue) by our very own ROS singer John Lee (Tiong Bahru Artist)
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Private Dinner at Lynnette's Kitchen
Enjoy an intimate 10-person dinner with exquisite cuisine at Lynnette’s Kitchen - you may even catch a beautiful bonus violin solo by Lynnette Seah!
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Bespoke Portrait with Poetry
Commission a pair of her signature side-profile portraits by Singaporean contemporary painter Namiko Chan Takahashi, featuring an uplifting inscription by poet Aaron Lee.
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Personal Voice Lessons
Have a ROS Singer whose technique you admire? Enjoy an exclusive one-on-one voice coaching session with one of The ROS Singers, tailored to refine your vocal technique.
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Luxury Hotel Stay
Indulge in a stay at Hotel Como Metropolitan Orchard’s Emerald Room, valued at over $500 per night.
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Private Performance by The ROS Singers
The ROS Singers will perform at your personal function between mid-November and December 2025.
2024 season
Hailing from the success of our Christmas concerts in 2022 and 2023, The ROS Singers is proud to present once again, Christmas with ROS! In this holiday season, we hope to share with you the meaning and memories of Christmas through songs and personal stories. Let your voices join with ours in our sing-along sessions of your favourite carols!
Amidst familiar carols and songs from around the globe, don’t miss the opportunity to hear Benjamin Britten’s Hymn To The Virgin for double choir featuring the wonderful Raffles Singers. The esteemed Eudenice Palaruan’s Auld Lang Syne will also receive its world premiere.
We have been so proud of the young singers from our Young Artist Programme. This Christmas concert, we present yet again more young artists, who will receive special coaching to perform alongside The ROS Singers while our experienced guest community singers would be adding a richer sonority and texture.
So join us for a special night of celebration, community, nostalgia, and joy!
Raffles Singers Presents: AWAKENING
Join Raffles Singers, the ROS Singers, and KGBL Chamber Choir (Slovenia) on the AWAKENING journey into a new dawn. With world premieres and masterpieces, we celebrate contemporary cultural gems from Singapore, Slovenia and around the world, bringing forth the spirit of vivacity, creativity, and life. An evening that promises a tour de force performance!
KGBL Chamber Choir and Maestro Ambrož Čopi invite you to a special public workshop on Slovenian music and choral techniques. The symbiotic development of Slovenian choirs and choral repertoire, together with the obligatory choral music education in schools, resulted in the extraordinay achievement of Slovenian choral singing. Get upclose and personal with the celebrated Maestro and the award-winning choir to learn about the unique choral singing culture in Slovenia.
NONSENSICAL NOTES - Songs of Innocence by The ROS Singers
Get ready for a wild afternoon of fun with The ROS Singers as they perform whimsical songs from your childhood!
ROS is proud to present Nonsensical Notes, a fun-filled repertoire of childhood nursery rhymes with a twist! We will be performing Humpty Dumpty, Do-Re-Mi from the Sound of Music, Disney Medleys and many more! We will also be premiering refreshing arrangements of familiar folk tunes and our unique Xinyao (新谣).
Come join us in celebrating the innocence, joy and nostalgia associated with childhood through a captivating choral performance of cherished songs we grow up with, in this place we call home. Bring your whole family- young and old (yes, infants are welcome too!) down to Yong Siew Toh Conservatory Hall on 11 May at 3.30pm and sing-a-long to some of your favourite tunes!
Duration of concert is 70mins without intermission.
2023 season
Hailing from the success of our Christmas concerts in 2022, The ROS Singers is proud to present once again, Christmas with ROS II! In this holiday season, we hope to share with you the meaning and memories of Christmas through songs and personal stories. Let your voices join with ours in our sing-along sessions of your favourite carols!
Amidst familiar carols and songs from around the globe, Felix Mendelssohn’s 6 Motets, Op. 79, will serve as the virtuosic centrepiece while Kenneth Tay’s Rorate Coeli will enjoy a world premiere in this concert.
We have been so proud of the young singers from our Young Artist Programme. This Christmas concert, we present yet again more young artists, who will receive special coaching to perform alongside The ROS Singers while our experienced guest community singers would be adding a richer sonority and texture.
So join us for a special night of celebration, community, nostalgia, and joy!
Read the Straits Times review here:
“I felt a lump in my throat, hearing the younger kids blending their voices with the adults. I truly hope this experience was not lost on the young who joined these paragons of choral music on stage. I hope their parents will someday remind them of last night’s concert, ... that they stood on stage with these choral giants to pass the choral flame on to their generation.”
“I treasured three things in the recent ROS concert:
Enriching the local culture through folk songs.
Engaging the public in communal singing.
Encouraging young talents to hone their gifts in singing.
Terima kasih, director Toh Ban Sheng and the members of ROS.”
“Roots, a 90-minute concert by a cappella choir Resonance of Singapore (ROS) was a reminder of heritage, home and what we cherish most.
[...] the highlight were the Malay songs in Peribahasa (Proverbs) by Eudenice Palaruan, with vocal accompaniments employing gamelan scales and drones to electrifying effect”
Read the full Straits Times review here, or on Dr Chang’s website.
In our fifth ROS Singers in Concert series, we celebrate our cultural roots and traditions, in search of a deeper connection to home and identity. We will premiere 3 new commissions of folk song arrangements connected to our roots: Gelang Si Paku, Singapura, and Peribahasa. Other local folk songs will be featured, including the much loved Rasa Sayang, playful Ikan Kekek, the familiar Muolihua, and nostalgic Guxiang. These newly imagined folk songs will also be juxtaposed with songs from the West that sing about unbroken circles and continued lineages.
This concert will also feature singers from our Young Artist Programme. Expanding on last year's "Christmas with ROS" launch where our young talents sang beautifully, this season, more selected young singers, including other community singers, will learn from and perform alongside The ROS Singers in our own folk songs reimagined, reminding the younger generation of their cultural roots. Learn more about the Young Artist Programme here.
Come join us in this unique cultural celebration of Singapore!
Join us as we celebrate three legends in the history of song: William Byrd (1540-1623), Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), and The Beatles (active from 1960-1970). From the Renaissance, to the Romantic era, to ‘60s Rock and Roll, we bring you on a rich journey through music about life, love, and everything in between. This concert will feature classics like Byrd’s Ave verum corpus, Brahms’ Two Motets (Op. 74), and The Beatles’ Penny Lane and With a Little Help from My Friends.
2022 season
Merry Christmas! 2022 has been a year of many unusual memories, but ROS won’t let it pass without our musical gathering of yuletide cheer.
Celebrate Christmas with the ROS Singers in a programme of Christmas favourites, featuring Carol of the Bells, The 12 days of Christmas, John Rutter’s What Sweeter Music? and many, many more. Anchoring our programme is Poulenc’s monumental Quatre Motets pour un temps de Noel, a set of four exquisite miniatures which showcase scenes from the Nativity story.
We are incredibly excited this year to feature the ROS Young Artists for the first time. We were so impressed with the talent on display and have enjoyed working with them immensely. Don’t miss the opportunity to witness Singapore’s rising stars in concert!
We wish you Love, Joy and Peace on Earth, and hope to see you at Christmas with ROS.
“[ROS’s] singers filled the suitably reverberant Esplanade Recital Studio with a cathedral of rich sonority totally befitting the group’s name.”
The ROS Singers presents "Even the Sparrow...", an intimate concert that reminds us to enjoy the simple gift of life
What do sparrows think about? Do they, like us, worry about mortgages, exams, qualifications or politics? Join The ROS Singers for “Even the Sparrow…”, an intimate concert that reminds us to be like the sparrow - to take a deep breath, observe the beauty around us, and enjoy the simpler things in life.
A reimagining of our inaugural concert (A Romantic English Affair), our programme not only features crowd favourites by Stanford and Parry, but will also feature many new works, including a world premiere written specially for us by the world-renowned Slovenian composer Ambrož Čopi. We are privileged to be joined by Dr. Ryan Chow on the piano, collaborating with us on some of the choral works, as well as several songs for solo voice.
Join us also for a pre-concert talk at 7pm, to learn more about the repertoire we are presenting.
FROM THE STRAITS TIMES:
“Tonight's concert has established it as a group that performs at a high standard, with the promise of even better to come.”
Read the full review here.
FROM THE AUDIENCE:
“A MAGICAL EXPERIENCE”
“EXQUISITE EXECUTION”
“WONDERFUL BLEND”
“Enjoyed the EXUBERANTLY MISCHIEVOUS FINALE”
“AMAZING PERFORMANCE. WISH IT WERE LONGER!”
Join Singapore’s homegrown professional choral ensemble The ROS Singers in their inaugural concert, a night of exquisite Romantic British choral music.
Encompassing the gamut of human emotions, our programme ranges from Hubert Parry’s sombre Songs of Farewell to the plaintive Scottish folk song Loch Lomond, not forgetting the downright silly operatic parody Insalata Italiana. The programme also features music by Stanford, Vaughan Williams, Delius and more.