We will be performing Minuets, Gavottes, Chorales and Gigues arranged for one, two, three, and four violas, sharing pithy insights, and eating tasty sandwiches in honor of Bach’s 333rd birthday!

Take a break and join us for a “Bach’s Lunch” on your lunch hour (or half hour!) in downtown Ithaca! We will be performing movements from the Viola da Gamba and keyboard Sonatas, Violin and keyboard Sonatas, and selected organ works.

Local musicians are gathering to play their favourite Bach pieces including Orchestral Suite no 3, preludes and fugues, chorales and cantatas.

Singaporean Chun’en Ruth Lin is an active musician on both the French Horn and the Tenor Horn, and a passionate brass pedagogue. She has performed with local groups such as re:SOUND Collective, ADDO Chamber Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Music Makers, Windstars Ensemble, and Philharmonic Winds. With the Tenor Horn, she is Solo Horn of the Lion City Brass Band, which was established in 2015 to promote quality brass music in Singapore, and to contribute to the development of brass pedagogy and musicianship in Singapore and the region.

Her variety of performance experiences range from operas with the Kölner Symphoniker, to premiering new music for wind quintet at the Lange Nacht der Neuen Musik Düsseldorf, and performing on Parforce-Horns with the Detmolder Hornensemble. A keen chamber musician, her wind quintet was awarded the 3rd Prize in the Chamber Music Competition of the Society of Friends and Patrons of the Hochschule für Musik Detmold 2013. In addition are music projects as Solo Horn with the Youth Brass Band NRW (Nordrhein Westfalen state), culminating in the 3rd Prize in the first category of the 6th German Brass Band Championships.

As an educator, Ruth has taught for over a decade in various roles including Horn and Trumpet teacher at Jugendmusikkorps Avenwedde, – Stadt Gütersloh – e.V. under former Music Director Thiemo Kraas, brass teacher of the Instrumental Teaching Programme at United World College of Southeast Asia Dover Campus, and assistant instructor at the symphonic bands of Jurong Pioneer Junior College and Riverside Secondary School. She was also faculty member for Horn at the Wind Bands Association of Singapore’s (WBAS) Youth Band Festival 2016 and 2017.

Beginning with the Cornet and the Tenor Horn in her primary school brass band, she subsequently focused on the French Horn in secondary school. After majoring in it with a Bachelor of the Arts (Honours) at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts under the tutelage of Jamie Hersch, she continued at the Robert-Schumann-Hochschule Düsseldorf and at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold, where she received a Masters of Music, Instrumental Pedagogy. Horn mentors from this period including Kathleen Putnam, Norbert Stertz and Michael Höltzel, and masterclasses with Horn professors such as Erich Penzel, Johannes Hinterholzer and Wolfgang Gaag significantly shaped her development. Teachers who spurred her on in pedagogical studies include Wolfgang Rüdiger, Reinhild Spiekermann and Wilfried Hanslmeier. Her dreams of playing the Tenor Horn again were realized through summer camps by the Bayerische Brass Band Academy (3BA), and she continues to actively promote this less known brass instrument.

Classical music is the lifelong passion of Music & Makan’s founder, Beverly Hiong. After graduating with a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the London School of Economics, Beverly returned to her passion and pursued additional studies in cello performance at Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music (Singapore).
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Consequently, Beverly was selected to be a Sistema Fellow at the New England Conservatory (Boston), where she studied intensive group-based music education youth development programmes across the United States. Beverly also had the opportunity to teach music in a month long residency in El Sistema (a nation-wide music education programme) in Venezuela, and was privileged to experience the immense power that music had to connect and build communities.
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In 2012, based on her firm belief that classical music can be appreciated by everyone if it is presented in an engaging and relevant manner, Beverly founded Music and Makan to share her love for music with the wider public through innovative audience engagement techniques. She is a passionate advocate for Singapore’s brilliant classical musicians to be heard and understood by the wider public and continues to seek out and create opportunities for them to engage in a performance dialogue with new audiences – a stepping stone in her relentless pursuit of bringing communities together through the arts.