Albert Tay (Artistic Director)

Award-winning artist Albert TAY is a multi-hyphenate composer, conductor, educator - a global citizen and “playaholic” for whom “work” is play! The thinker-innovator can be found guest-conducting, giving lectures, masterclasses, serving on international/national committees and adjudicating choral/singing competitions around the world. He is also a producer, a scrum master in app development and a commissioned composer-sound engineer producing music videos, film/game music, instrumental and choral music in styles ranging from classical to pop genres.

Albert is the founding director of the Kodaly Academy of Music (Singapore) (KAM), where he leads diverse and dynamic teams of artists, administrators, and volunteers from different countries. Together, they spearheaded the Asia Kodaly Symposium as well as provide multidisciplinary training and direction for choirs. As a result of sound processes and a values-based education, many of his choirs have won top awards and reviews in international and local festivals. He is Artistic Director of Schola Cantorum Singapore Ltd. a non-profit choir collective.  He has taught various classes ranging from conducting, solfege, musicianship, methodology/pedagogy and chorus/chamber choir at universities and various institutions.

Albert serves on the Advisory Committee of The International Young People’s Choral Music Education Alliance (CMEA) 国际青少年合唱教育联盟. He was awarded the professional title of Magister Chori and an honorary membership by the Association of Croatian Choral Directors. Albert is the first Singaporean musician to receive the Hungarian Gold Cross of Merit, a state decoration conferred by the President of Hungary in 2021 for his efforts in promoting classical music and the Kodaly Concept in Asia.

Reuben Lai (Director)

Reuben Lai is a graduate of Alexander Gibson Opera School at The Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (RSAMD). He was a recipient of the Chevron Texaco scholarship as well as the first Singaporean who is a Samling Scholar.

He has performed extensively in the UK, where he was previously based, and was also a member of the renowned Glyndebourne Festival Opera. In the UK, he was described by Opera magazine as a “first-rate tenor…” for his role in Prokofieff’s L’amour des trios oranges, and received praise for his role as Lenski and in the Chevalier de la Force in Francis Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites.

Since returning to Singapore, Reuben has sung with the major classical music companies including Singapore Lyric Opera, Opera Viva, New Opera Singapore, The Opera People, the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Braddell Heights Orchestra, and Red Dot Baroque amongst others.

In 2015 he co-founded L’arietta Productions with Akiko Otao and is also an adjunct at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA), Lasalle College of the Arts and the School of the Arts (SOTA).

Wynne Lee (Associate Artistic Director)

Wynne Lee graduated with a Master of Music Studies (Performing/Teaching) and Bachelor of Music from the University of Melbourne. Her teachers include distinguished pianists Igor Machlak, Olga Kharitinova, Yew Jia Lin, and the late Ong Swee Chuan. She studied singing under renowned vocalists Dr Julia Nafisi and Thomas Kuek, and conducting under the tutelage of the late Professor John Hopkins. She studied conducting in various conducting masterclasses, including with Professor Julian Su (Taipei), Neil Ferris (UK) and Margaret Pride (Australia). She also holds certificates in Kodály Music Education.

She served as the Assistant Conductor of the Yarra Ranges Children's Choir, and also as Assistant Conductor and Accompanist with the Australian Youth Choir in Melbourne. In the Dandenong Festival of Music & Art for Youth Competition, she was awarded Third Prize in the Pianoforte Accompanist category.

Wynne is an active choral conductor and with decades of experience as a collaborative pianist with top voice teachers and conductors. She is Associate Artistic Director of premiere non-profit choir collective Schola Cantorum Singapore Ltd., and directs choral programmes at Lighthouse School, Palm View Primary School, St. Andrew’s Secondary School and Yuhua Secondary School. She is also assistant conductor at Fairfield Methodist Secondary School and Tanglin Club Choir. Wynne developed the curricula for the Enhanced Methodist Music Appreciation (EMMA) and Methodist Music Odyssey (MMO) programmes with Methodist Preschool Services. She is currently music specialist with Maplebear Playworks Pte Ltd., and the choir director of Voices of Grace at Grace Methodist Church.

Wynne is passionate about uniting youths through quality choral education, and hopes that her choir members will develop and sustain a lifelong love for choral music. She is happily married with 4 wonderful children.