Music Director

Mr Sim Boon Yew PBM

Mr Sim Boon Yew is currently the Music Director of Keat Hong Chinese Orchestra. Mr Sim is a renowned Chinese Orchestra practitioner in Singapore. He showed his love towards chinese orchestra music by actively participating and promoting it in community cultural events. In 2001, he was conferred the Public Service Award by His Excellency ,the President of Singapore.Trained in music conducting and traditional philharmonic music composition at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, by the tutelage of Professor Xia Fei Yun and Professor Hu Deng Tiao .He is now a professional musician with the Singapore Chinese Orchestra, playing the zhong hu and also the resident music arranger . He is also the Music Director of Keat Hong Chinese Orchestra, one of the most outstanding amateur Chinese orchestras in Singapore and also the conductor of many secondary schools .

He led the Keat Hong Chinese Orchestra overseas in its numerous public performances in China, Thailand, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Australia, and aroused overwhelming support from local audiences. He has chaired talks on Chinese Music, judged in national music competition and also conducted several Chinese orchestras in various cities of Malaysia.Under the baton of Mr Sim , the plucking ensemble of the orchestra had won the First prize in the Ensemble Caterory and the Best Performer Award in the National Music Competition for four consecutive years since 1987.

Besides being a professional performer on stage, Mr Sim is also a composer and is well known for his composition and re-arrangements in Chinese Orchestra music .Mr Sim has composed and arranged more than a hundred pieces of music works. Music pieces with various local ethinic flavour include Chan Mali Chan ,Munnaeru Vaaliba and Suriram. Other works include the Magnificent Sheares Bridge and a Qing Ming Festival Memorial and Ceremony. Suriram was selected as a representative piece of Singapore by SCO during their concert tour to the China and Taiwan in 2000. His works are popular and very frequently played by professional orchestras, amateur orchestra and school orchestra, locally and abroad.