S h o r t B i o g r a p h y
As an organist and composer Phoon Yu is active both in Singapore and in the United States. In Singapore, he has performed in Victoria Concert Hall, the Esplanade, and St. Andrew’s Cathedral, while in the U.S., he has performed as a soloist in New York, NY; Lloyd Harbor, NY; Scarsdale, NY; and Baltimore, MD. He also worked with Orlando Sings in 2024 for their performance of Bach’s B Minor Mass in Orlando, FL. His début album, SEVEN – Organ Music of Singapore, was released by Centaur Records in April 2022, while in November 2022 he performed alongside his co-composer Jonathan Shin for Illuminations, a work for orchestra, choruses, organ, and piano commissioned for the 20thanniversary of the Esplanade. His compositions have been performed in Singapore, China, Finland, and the U.S., while his Three Organ Anthems were published and released by Muziksea in 2020. Previously a doctoral candidate at Juilliard under Paul Jacobs (where he won the French prize for his dissertation), Phoon Yu is currently the Parish Organist at All Saints Episcopal Church in Winter Park, FL.
(Updated: 14 March 2024)
