Dr Mohamed Shahril Bin Mohamed Salleh – Artistic Director
Shahril Salleh (Dr.) is a social scientist researching the cultural formation of the arts in Singapore, with a focus on how agency is imagined and enacted within the confines of the state. He is passionate about advocating for cultural workers as well as championing community music-making in Singapore. Shahril is the founder and Artistic Director of Vox Camerata.
Tan Tiag Yi – Programme Manager
Tan Tiag Yi is a composer, violinist, and arts administrator. He completed his Bachelor of Arts in Music with First Class Honours at St Anne’s College, University of Oxford in 2021, where he studied composition with Professor Martyn Harry, violin with Caroline Balding and orchestration with Dr. John Traill. A St Anne’s Camerata scholar, he performed actively in termly concerts with St Anne’s Camerata and other musical groups while at university. As a composer, he has participated in reading sessions with oboists Peter Veale and Veda Lin, trombonist Dirk Amrein, pianist Jurg Henneberger, bassoonist Christoph Wichert, soprano Alice Privett, as well as the Singapore Chinese Orchestra Young Composers’ Workshop 2018. Most recently, he was awarded First Prize at the 2021 Benslow Young Composers’ Competition (19-25 years category). World premieres include pieces written for the Atlantic Music Festival (2019), the Southeastern Ensemble for Today’s and Tomorrow’s Sounds (2016), pianist Jongah Yoon and flutist Dr Cheryl Lim (2017), and ADDO Chamber Orchestra (2017). His piece And then the bell tolls… (2018) for clavichord was recorded by Dr. David Bohn as part of the Daniel Blitz Clavichord project and is available on YouTube. Some of his other interests include photography, reading and racket sports.
Hidhir Razak – Communication Manager
Hidhir is a writer, poet, and tenor with Vox Camerata. He has a Masters in English and Creative Writing from Nanyang Technological University and his works have appeared in anthologies and other publications. He has even gone viral once or twice. He currently works for a learning and development consultancy and likes cats and mee soto.
Kevin Chen – Organization Development Manager
Kevin Chen is an Associate Research Fellow in the US Programme at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University. He was formerly a Research Analyst under the ASEAN programme at the Asia Competitiveness Institute. Kevin obtained an MSc in International Relations at RSIS, and his research interests include infrastructure investments in ASEAN and Southeast Asia’s response to Great Power competition. An avid participant in school choirs since his primary school day, Kevin likes to sing and volunteers as Vox Camerata’s Organization Development Manager in his spare time.
Sun Boxi – Music Director (Community Choir)
Sun Boxi is a Masters (by Research) student under the Department of Chinese Studies, National University of Singapore. His current research interests lie in Singaporean choral music-making, as well as military history.
Musically, he has over a decade of experience singing in local and overseas choirs, and has been leading the Vox Camerata Community Choir since 2020. As an aspiring scholar-practitioner, Boxi seeks to make music that incorporates academic rigour and cultural awareness, contributing towards informed and captivating musical experiences.
Ong Lin Wei – Assistant Conductor (Community Choir)
Lin Wei is a composition student from NAFA. He has learnt composition and piano from Dr John Sharpley since he was 15 years old. To further enhance his compositional technique, he has decided to take up composition in Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts under Dr Zechariah Goh after his national service. Currently, he is mentored by Dr Shahril Salleh in Vox Camerata as an assistant conductor while also performing as a violinist in BHSO and MPPO.
His works contain a wide variety of genres from ethnic music to pop music to classical music. One of them is a brass quintet piece describing the city of Chiayi from a third person’s view. This piece has been played by a brass quintet formed by students from National Chiayi University. He has also composed a cadenza of Bohme’s Trumpet Concerto for his friend’s trumpet recital. His arrangements also include a wind band arrangement of Mozart Serenade K 361 3rd movement commissioned by his teacher, Dr Zechariah Goh.
As a composer, he has a keen interest in music varying from Hokkien pop songs to ethnic music from all over the world. In particular, he enjoys listening to Japanese gagaku, Javanese gamelan and Arab music. Some composers he has looked into include Toru Takemitsu, Takashi Yoshimatsu and recently, Tyzen Hsiao from Taiwan.
Besides composition, he has learnt the violin and piano, which greatly enhanced the way he viewed music as a performer. Other than composition, he enjoys reading about history and exercising in the gym.
His goal as a musician is to understand music in deeper layers and get to connect with more musicians around the world. He would like to have the chance to explore different sounds that he is unfamiliar with so that he can improve his craft.
Tok Jun Hui – Section Leader/Répartiteur
Currently studying composition under Dr Zechariah Goh in the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA), set to graduate with a Diploma in Music in 2025. As a lover of gorgeously satisfying melodies and wonderfully memorable harmonies, they both feature prominently in his compositions, with hints of his classical music background peeking through the seams. He sees composition as a medium for me to share his feelings and thoughts on the world, as well as to bring listeners into his world. His influences include classical music, especially of the romantic period and 20th century with composers like Chopin and Ravel, along with more current things like Japanese pop and jazz.
He has had his compositions performed only in NAFA as of right now, and has a few compositions he wrote prior to NAFA uploaded on major streaming sites like Spotify and Apple Music.
As a pianist, he has obtained a distinction for ARSM in 2022 after studying for 12 years under his teacher Mr Tan Hsuan. In his time at NAFA, he has accompanied mainly students majoring in wind instruments, some notable pieces being Brahms’ first Clarinet Sonata and Phillipe Gaubert’s Fantasie for Clarinet and Piano. Other than being a pianist, he also has choral experience, performing along with the NAFA Chorus in 2024 and Vox Camerata in Musica Intimae 2023.
Jovis Chan – Marketing Executive
Jovis is a graduate of Singapore Polytechnic Diploma in Infocomm Security Management. He is passionate about programming, pentesting and all cybersecurity aspects. He also loves music and plays the drums, ukelele, piano and the guitar.
He is currently the web designer and is working with the executive team to explore automation and AI integration.
Samantha Wee – Assistant Conductor (On Sabbatical)
Samantha’s journey in choral music began in primary school, when she joined her school choir. Since then, she has sung in numerous choirs, a cappella groups, and musicals. These experiences have also given her numerous opportunities to pick up new skills, such as beatboxing and arranging music. Samantha currently sings with The Graduate Singers, a semi-professional choral ensemble. In her free time, she also enjoys reading and going on nature walks.
Lim Han Quan – Associate Conductor (On Sabbatical)
With music that has been described as ‘a sound world that was ethereal and otherworldly’ and ‘imbued with a spiritual heft to move mountains’ (Chang Tou Liang, The Straits Times), Singaporean Lim Han Quan fuses the classical, contemporary and popular music traditions in his multi-faceted career as a composer, arranger and performer.
Han Quan first started his music education in Yamaha where he took music appreciation classes and specialised in composition, before embarking on formal composition studies under esteemed composer Dr Zechariah Goh at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts. Under his dedicated tutelage, Han Quan graduated with a Diploma with Distinction (and the Best Graduate Award) in 2017, and first class honours from the joint NAFA-RCM Bachelor of Music (Honours) degree in 2022.
Recent composing accolades include the Honourable Mention Award at the 6th International Choral Composition Competition 2021 based in Tokyo, Japan for his choral work Beauty and Song, and the winner of the 2022 Leong Yoon Pin Composition Competition for his chamber work appear and disappear: jigen wo koeru tabi. His electone work sonic focus was featured in the Yamaha International Highlights Concert 2022.
An avid performer, Han Quan is a 6-time winner of the Yamaha Electone Festival in Singapore, and has represented Singapore in many electone festivals around the Asia-Pacific region with arrangements and compositions. He also recently clinched the 1st prize of the Senior section at the Yamaha Electone Festival Grand Finals in Osaka in December 2022.
Apart from music, Han Quan also completed a Graduate Diploma in Applied Positive Psychology in 2020 from The School Of Positive Psychology (Singapore). He strongly believes that music can be used to touch people’s hearts, and hopes to be able to integrate knowledge gained from both fields to better the lives of as many people as possible.
Han Quan is currently a Teaching Assistant at the School of Music of NAFA, and also an Associate Conductor of the Vox Camerata Community Choir.
