About this Event
welcomes Goi Ywei Chern & Efe Yüksel for a varied programme including arrangements of Turkish folk music, video game music, reconstructed ancient pieces, and music composed by the performers.
All are welcome at this relaxed concert.
Example Programme:
Threading Chaos - Goi Ywei Chern
Duo for guitar and melodica - Efe Yüksel
Ja nus hons pris - Richard Coeur de Lion (arr. Goi)
Quand je bois du vin clairet - Anonymous (arr. Goi)
Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ, BWV 639 - JS Bach (arr. Goi)
Rebuilt Jedi Enclave from Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2
Soundtrack - Mark Griskey (arr. Goi)
Havada Bulut Yok - Traditional (arr. Yüksel)
İzmir Marşı - Traditional (arr. Yüksel)
Seikilos Epitaph - Seikilos (arr. Goi & Yüksel)
Goi Ywei Chern is a Singaporean composer and guitarist based in London. His music is evocative, intense, and mystical, often inspired by his interests in ancient history, mythology, and traditional music.
In 2025, his opera Medusa, composed with a libretto by Jess McNulty, premiered in the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London. His song Letter from Heaven, composed for the Composers & Poets Forum Showcase: A Leeds Songbook in collaboration with poet Yvonne Ugarte, who wrote the lyrics, was performed in the Leeds Lieder Festival in 2024. His compositions have been performed in Singapore, London, Leeds, Bangkok, and Ayrshire.
Goi has taken part in numerous performances and competitions, winning the 11th International Antonin Dvorak Composition Competition (Senior Category) in 2023 and the Leong Yoon Pin Composition Competition in 2016. He also participated in MusicFest Aberystwyth in 2019, and he was selected as one of eight composers to participate in The Cumnock Tryst International Summer-School for Composers 2024 under the guidance of Sir James MacMillan and Oscar Bettison, where his piece Charybdis for contrabass clarinet and string trio was performed on the Dumfries House estate.
In 2026, Goi performed as the soloist in Efe Yüksel's piece Confluences for guitar and chamber ensemble, and he performs as part of Duo Flore with flautist Jess McNulty. He is currently undertaking a DMus (Composition Route) in the Guildhall School of Music and Drama under the supervision of Professors Richard Baker, Matt Kaner, and Julian Anderson.
He previously studied in the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA) School of Music, receiving his Diploma in Music Performance in 2016 and NAFA-RCM Undergraduate degree (funded by the OCBC Local Undergraduate Scholarship) in 2019, and the Royal College of Music, where he achieved a Distinction in the Master of Music in Composition degree . He has studied the guitar under Manuel Cabrera II and Hunter Mah and composition under Dr Zechariah Goh, Professor Kenneth Hesketh, and Professor Alison Kay.
Efe Yüksel (1999) is a composer, electronic musician, and melodica performer from İzmir (Turkey), based in London. He is currently undertaking doctoral studies in the Guildhall School if Music, supervised by Julian Anderson and Aaron Einbond, looking into the structural organisation of inharmonic sonorities and formulating a personal theory of working with noise. His work involves exploring the physical capabilities of instruments and voices via close collaborations and the use of live electronic processing. Alongside composing he is also active as a melodica performer, with a particular focus on the bass melodica, writing and commissioning new works for the instrument.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Westminster Music Library, 35 Saint Martin's Street, London, United Kingdom
GBP 0.00
