The Philharmonic Winds

Timothy Reynish studied horn with Aubrey Brain and Frank Probyn. He was a music scholar at Cambridge, working under Raymond Leppard and Sir David Willcocks and held principal horn positions with the Northern Sinfonia, Sadler’s Wells Opera (now ENO) and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, At Birmingham in the seventies, he founded the Birmingham [...]

Music Director

Closely associated with the Philharmonic Winds since its inception, Leonard Tan was appointed music director in January 2008, following previous appointment as assistant conductor from 2003-2006. Leonard is also music director and resident conductor of several other ensembles, including the National University of Singapore Wind Symphony, Victoria Junior College, Nanyang Polytechnic, and Singapore Polytechnic [...]

John Boyd, one of the most dynamic wind conductors in the United States today, is equally at home with educational and professional organizations. He has guest conducted The U.S. Army Band twice, United States Army Field Band, and conducted/lectured three times at the Royal Northern College of Music at Manchester in the United Kingdom [...]

Zechariah studied piano under Ong Lip Tat, harmony from Phoon Yew Tien and counterpoint from Leong Yoon Pin while working on his Diploma of Music from the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts. In addition to receiving the Hiebert and Gunda Scholarship award to work on his Master of Piano from the University of Kansas, Zechariah [...]

Composer, conductor, educator and pianist Dr Robert Casteels believes that these roles are fundamentally interrelated in the kaleidoscope of activities that is music making.
Casteels has conducted more than 50 professional orchestras in 20 countries in a repertoire of 600 works ranging from the early classics to contemporary music, from symphonic to vocal and dance repertoire. [...]