ABOUT
Singaporean pianist Abigail Sin’s musical journey has taken her to concert venues across the globe, from the Aram Khachaturian concert hall in Yerevan to Wigmore Hall in London. She is the co-founder of the More Than Music concert series, which has won acclaim for its engaging, innovative presentation of classical chamber music. In 2020, More Than Music recorded the complete Beethoven Violin Sonatas, along with educational outreach content.
Recent highlights include Mendelssohn’s Concerto in D minor for Violin, Piano and String Orchestra with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra for The Esplanade’s 20th Anniversary celebrations, and performed Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3 with the Resound Collective in the inaugural concert of the Dennis Lee Piano Series.
Abigail studied with Joan Havill at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and Prof Thomas Hecht at the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music, where she was awarded the Lee Kuan Yew Gold Medal as the top student of the cohort. She won the Guildhall School’s Ivan Sutton Chamber Music Award and Romantic Piano Prize, 1st prize at the Norah Sande Award, 3rd Prize, the Audience Prize and the Students’ Prize at the Lagny-sur-Marne International Piano Competition in France and The McCallum Prize for a pianist of promise at the Royal Over-Seas League Annual Music Competition. She was a finalist in the St Martin’s-in-the-Fields chamber music competition and Patron’s Award at the Royal Academy of Music. Abigail was selected for the Park Lane Group’s Diamond Jubilee concert season and was a quarterfinalist in the Honens International Piano Competition.
Abigail is an alumnus of the Verbier Festival Academy and Yellow Barn Festival. She has performed in the master classes of eminent musicians such as Leon Fleisher and Menahem Pressler. Her artistic outlook has also been shaped by performing new music and coachings with composers including Thomas Adès, Jörg Widmann and Brett Dean.
A recipient of the prestigious Lee Kuan Yew Scholarship, Abigail completed a PhD at the Royal Academy of Music, under the supervision of Dr Briony Cox-Williams and Prof Christopher Elton. In August 2018, Abigail joined the academic faculty of the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music. Recent research projects include her doctoral work on Charles Griffes, a multimedia collaboration confronting the Orientalist fantasy of Ravel’s Asie and pedagogical approaches to artistic research in undergraduate curriculum.