By Nicholas Kim (Chairperson) and Isabelle Loh (Vice-Chairperson)

As of 2025, Chamber Ensemble and Piano Ensemble will be merging into one combined CCA: Chamber and Piano Ensemble. This article will take you through what each CCA used to be, as well as our combined direction moving forward. 

Piano Ensemble: Our Past 

Piano Ensemble may have been one of the most misunderstood CCAs. FAQs included: whether we all played on the same piano at once; whether we played individually; whether we had 10 pianos in a single room (though that would have been nice), to which our answers were all “No”. We used the piano in a unique way by playing pieces as duos, trios or even quartets, with members spread across one or two pianos. This is something our combined CCA will continue to explore, in addition to other new and exciting ventures we will introduce later.  

By Valerie Lim (Winds Section Leader), He Tingli (Quartermaster) and Lin Jiarui (Chairperson)

SOTA concert pictures courtesy of Aklen Chua and Ryan Poh, Raffles Photographic Society

The balmy embrace of Mongolian grasslands welcomes you. A fresh summer breeze lingers – at times a silk-lined glove, at times a chorus of frightful passion. You turn as Mongols race across wind-swept hills on horseback. 

At the next moment, the landscape fades into the celestial tranquillity of the Tibetan dawn, accompanied by a soft, quiet snow. At last, the first golden rays peek out behind jagged peaks; the sky bursts into a flaming palette of colours, as you bask in all its warmth and glory.

Welcome to a realm inaccessible to language; a realm where words fail, and music speaks.