Phoon Yew Tien

Phoon Yew Tien (* 1952 in Singapore ) is a Singaporean composer .

Life

Phoon won the National Song Writing Competition from 1977 to 1979. He attended the Queensland Conservatorium of Music in Australia on a fellowship from the Singapore Symphony Orchestra . He won the Dulcie Robertson Prize for best composition in 1980, 1981 and 1983. In 1983 he was awarded the renowned ACL Yoshiro IRINO Memorial Prize . In 1996 and 1997 he also won the Composers and Authors Society of Singapore's Local Serious Music Award. His works were u. a. from the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, China Radio and Film Orchestra and Singapore Symphony Orchestra premiered. As the composer with the most CD recordings in Singapore, compositions a. a. with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Russian Philharmonic Orchestra, Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra, Shanghai Conservatory Symphony Orchestra and Kaohsiung City Chinese Orchestra.

He has worked with the choreographers Goh Lay Kuan, Yan Choong Lian, Lim Fei Shen, Som bte Said and Neila Sathyalingam (including a production for the Singapore Festival of Arts). Phoon's works have been performed in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Malaysia, Japan, Great Britain, New Zealand, Australia, the United States, France and Italy.

Phoon taught at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts and was head of the music faculty there from 1993 to 1996. He became an advisor to the National Arts Council in Singapore and in 1996 received the Cultural Medallion , the highest honor for the arts in Singapore. In 2000 he was commissioned by the Singapore government to rewrite the national anthem .

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