Fritz Quartet at PricewaterhouseCoopers Event

21 June 2007

This evening, the Fritz Quartet was invited to perform at the Retirement Dinner of Mr Phillip Tan from PricewaterhouseCoopers. Important guests included CEOs from various companies as well as a member of parliament. This event was held at the Garden Suite of The Oriental Singapore.

Beautiful!

Angie from PWC had generously arranged dinner for us, so it meant that we had energy to play later on in the evening! Thanks Angie. We also got a private room to ourselves to have our dinner. And it had a marvellous view too.

We were engaged for 2 sets, with the first set consisting of mostly classical tunes such as Schubert's Marche Militaire and Strauss' Blue Danube Waltz. For the second set, we played largely Chinese oldies, as requested.

For this event, we roped in Zhangyi, a close friend of the quartet, to guest play with us. Meanwhile, Bingling, our 2nd violinist, decided that she wanted to play the viola during our set break.

We were all rather amused.

Response to our evening's performance was good, and we are glad that we had made a difference to the evening. A big thank you to Angie Chua from PricewaterhouseCoopers for being a marvellous organiser, as well as the staff from The Oriental for rendering assistance.

"we enjoyed the music and will look out for more opportunities to work together again" --Compliments from Angie

The Fritz Quartet at Oriental Hotel

26 April 2006

Today, the Fritz Quartet was engaged to play for Singapore's very own Nanyang Technological University (NTU). We had 2 sets to play for, the cocktail reception and another dinner set.

This special function was held at the Oriental Hotel. We arrived slightly earlier to have a sound check. As the room was rather small, we decided to go without mics because we did not want to be intrusive to conversations held during dinner.

At 6.45pm sharp, we started the night off with familiar tunes such as Canon in D, Winter evening from Vivaldi's very famous "The Four Seasons" and we livened up the cocktail reception with The Overture from Rossini's "The Barber of Seville". This gathered applause from an appreciative audience who were looking at the posters on exhibition and one impressed guest even tapped me on the shoulder and went 'bravo'! I had just enough time to smile and say 'thank you' before I started on the crazy running notes of the piece! :)

We proceeded to the ballroom where we were engaged to play for another set. The smell of dinner was pleasing to our noses, I was starting to feel hungry! But this was not enough to deter us and we played our hearts out. We definitely loved our audience for the night, who put down their forks and spoons to applaud us after each piece.

It was certainly one memorable night for the Fritz Quartet!

The Fritz Quartet :)