Baroque and Beyond
Sun, 18 Jan 2026
4:00pm
Victoria Concert Hall
Featuring
re:Sound
Koh Jia Hwei, organ
Isaac Koh, chamber organ
Tickets from $20
SYNOPSIS
re:Sound joins this instalment of the SSO Organ Series, Baroque and Beyond, taking you from the familiar hymns and heights of Bach and Corelli to the majestic Organ Concerto No. 2 by Josef Rheinberger (1839–1901).
PROGRAMME
J.S. Bach
Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 582
Corelli
Concerto grosso in G minor, Op. 6, No. 8 “Christmas Concerto”
Rheinberger
Organ Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 177
About the SSO Organ Series
The Singapore Symphony Organ Series brings organists from around the world in a magnificent range of music, from traditional organ soliloquys to transcriptions of orchestral showpieces, contemporary compositions for the King of Instruments as well as collaborations with other instruments.
SOLOISTS
Koh Jia Hwei, MMus, MA (Organ), BMus (Hons), GRAD RNCM
Jia Hwei majored in piano at the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM) in Manchester, UK, where her tutors were Jeremy Young and Carole Presland. She graduated with her BMus(Hons), and subsequently MMus in 2003. At the RNCM, she won the Bach Recital Prize, Rawsthorne Prize for chamber music, and the Prix Scarbo.
Jia Hwei started learning the organ in 2013 with Dr. Evelyn Lim. She went on to pursue a Master’s degree in organ at the Royal Academy of Music (London, UK), where she was a student of Susan Landale and Gerard Brooks between 2017-2019. During her time at the Academy, she was the recipient of the Joyce Rhoda Danzelman Award, Gwen & Eric Windo Organ Award, and 2019 Organology Prize. She served as organ and choral scholar at St. Michael’s and All Angels in Croydon (London) between 2017-2018, and was organist at St. Mary’s in Acton 2018-2019 (London).
She is now based in Singapore and plays regularly for the Victoria Concert Hall Organ Series. She continues to work as soloist, chamber, and orchestral musician with local orchestras and ensembles, such as the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Singapore National Youth Orchestra, re:Sound, re:mix, Red Dot Baroque, and the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music.
Isaac Koh, Organist
Isaac Koh began organ studies with Dr Evelyn Lim in December 2020. Before which, he completed his DipABRSM and LRSM in piano performance in 2016 and 2018 respectively. He has participated in organ festivals in Haarlem (2022) and Alkmaar (2023) where he studied under Wolfgang Zerer, Vincent Thevenaz, Bernhard Haas, Frank van Wijk and Pieter van Dijk.
Isaac has also attended masterclasses with Daniel Moult (2022, 2023) and Adam Brakel (2025) at the Victoria Concert Hall (VCH). Apart from participating in events organized by the Singapore Chapter of the American Guild of Organists and serving in various churches, he is a regular organ registrant at the VCH.