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“Exciting and refreshing” (Alan Cooper), “original and harmonically engaging” (The Flying Inkpot), and “luminous” (The Straits Times): Kenneth Tay is a Singaporean composer, conductor, and choral practitioner currently undertaking a PhD in Music Composition at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. His research examines the intersection of Western sacred music and Asian spirituality, exploring how these diverse traditions can converge in contemporary composition. He is supervised by Oliver Searle, Stuart MacRae and Zechariah Goh, and supported by the RCS Trust and Tan Kah Kee Foundation.
His compositions have been performed internationally by ensembles including The Marian Consort (2025), University of Delaware Chorale (2024), and the Arcadian Singers (2023). His music has also featured in the Singapore Choral Festival with Victoria Chorale (2025), BBC Radio 3 with the Echo Vocal Ensemble (2024), and the World Symposium on Choral Music in Istanbul reading sessions (2023). He was previously adjunct lecturer at Yale-NUS College and the Singapore Bible College’s School of Church Music, where he taught musicianship, composition, harmony, counterpoint, music history, and conducting.
He holds an MMus from the University of Aberdeen, where he studied composition under Phillip Cooke and Paul Mealor, and conducting with John Frederick Hudson. While completing his bachelor's in Political Science at the National University of Singapore, he studied harmony and counterpoint with Nirmali Fenn. He remains engaged in professional development through composition masterclasses, including those with Ēriks Ešenvalds, Giovanni Bonato, and James MacMillan.
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