Music Space: From Utrecht to Joo Chiat

Music Space 2011
From Utrecht to Joo Chiat – Jun Zubillaga-Pow & Katelijn Verstraete
Saturday 10 September 2011, 7:30pm
The Substation Theatre
Admission: $18 available from the box office. Contact Mish’aal 6337 7800 / boxoffice@substation.org
This is an InHouse event  

Jun Zubillaga-Pow will present a programme of solo recorder music by the seventeenth-century Dutch composer Jacob van Eyck (1590-1657). In between these virtuosic pieces, Katelijin Verstraete will recite Dutch poetry by Jacob Cats (1577-1660) and Joost van den Vondel (1587-1679) among other writers from the Dutch golden age. This was also a period when Singapur came under a rather lacklustre Dutch ruling. Jun and Katelijn will bring you back on a journey of Barock music recreating the ambience of how seventeenth-century Singapur would be like if Netherlandish arts had flourished before the arrival of Raffles.

Jun Zubillaga-Pow studied Music at the University of York and the University of Birmingham and is currently a research postgraduate at King’s College London under the NAC overseas arts bursary. Katelijn Verstraete holds Masters degrees in Sinology and Marketing Management. She co-founded and co-managed BizArt, an autonomous art space in Shanghai from 1999 till 2003. She is currently the Deputy Director of Cultural Exchange at the Asia-Europe Foundation and is based in Singapore.

Music Space 2011
Hommage à Kuo Pao Kun (1939-2002)
Curated by Jun Zubillaga-Pow

On 13 March 1991, the Substation was transformed by a visionary into a platform for the sonic arts. This became an avenue for those who trekked the unknown and geared themselves up for risky ventures. Music Space was such an auricular experience initiated by the very first artistic director of the Substation, and the ideals of borderless worlds among the classical, popular and experimental conflate within one spatial locus. This year, we musicians pay homage to the Cultural Medallion Kuo Pao Kun. The coming-together of musical genres for this series aim to revive the multicultural coherence of the Singaporean music scene.