On 12 Dec, Resonance Quartet was at Hotel Intercontinental for Mavis and Chen Hao’s wedding dinner. To open the dinner banquet, we played the Theme from New York, New York as the waiters and waitresses streamed out from the kitchen one by one with dishes in their hands to serve the wedding guests.

Our first wedding gig for December brought us to the Swiss Club for Maria and Jengming’s wedding solemnisation and luncheon. We played a requested piece – Elvis Presley’s “Can’t Help Falling In Love”, arranged by our cellist Wen-Bin – as the couple walked down the spiral stairs from the level above us, to the converted dining area that overlooks lush greenery.

Merry Christmas from the Resonance Quartet! Here’s a little something from our guitarellist Wen-Bin!

HDB recently held a groundbreaking ceremony for the new Dawson estate on 27 Nov. CityNeon, the event organiser, engaged us to perform some pieces on stage for residents attending the event and to welcome Minister Mah Bow Tan who was gracing the event. We played the uplifting Por Una Cabeza for the Minister’s arrival before relocating to an adjacent area to play a second set for the lunch reception.

Grateful to Andrea from CityNeon for providing us with these pictures:

For our second gig of 13 Nov, we headed to Sentosa island to perform for Bjoern and Agnes’ wedding at Amara. We played for the march-in and solemnisation held in a lovely glass pavilion, and entertained the guests with a second set at the surrounding garden.

We started our first gig on 13 Nov at Les Amis for Adrian and Yen’s solemnisation and luncheon. The quartet was positioned at an open area on the second level of the restaurant, overlooking the diners on the first level. With a pretty chandelier above, an evocative painting at the side and a wine cellar behind us, the ambience was set for us to perform our repertoire for a classy and elegant wedding.

What really made our day was an SMS that Yen sent later that night:

Hi Jay, Adrian and I, including our guests were impressed by your performance. Thanks for spicing up the celebration. Please extend our appreciation to your team mates.

We’ve compiled together extracts of the video games music that we played for Halloween, at Outdoors Cafe,into 2 videos. Enjoy!

Hyperion Overture (Main theme from Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty)
Medley from Pokemon Yellow/Red/Blue
Premonition from Final Fantasy VIII
One Winged Angel from Final Fantasy VII

Tetris Medley
Christmas in the 13th Month from Ragnarok Online
A Mario Medley