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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 solo recitalist in New York, NY; Baltimore, MD; and Winter Park, FL. He also worked with Orlando Sings in 2024 for their performance of Bach’s B Minor Mass and Fauré’s Requiem 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 20th anniversary of the Esplanade. His compositions have been performed in Singapore, China, Finland, and the U.S. (with his cantata Dream A Granted Sky premiered in March 2024 and his chamber work A Transi for The Common Man premiered in May 2024 by The TENG Ensemble), 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: 13 May 2024; 208 words)