Kenneth Tay

Composer, Conductor, Educator

Kenneth Tay

Composer, Conductor, Educator

Featured

Ave Gloriosa Virginum (2026)

SATB divisi with handbells

Miserere Mei, Deus (2025)

SATB divisi with handheld percussion

Duo Seraphim (2024)

SATB divisi a cappella

The Lamb (2022)
SATB a cappella

偶雨 A Chance Shower (2022)
SATB divisi with rainstick percussion

ABOUT

Kenneth Tay is a Singaporean composer quickly gaining international recognition with regular performances across Asia, Europe, and North America. He completed his PhD in music composition jointly at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and University of St Andrews, and focuses on the choral medium through composing, conducting, teaching, research, singing, music production and recording.

Reviews

Having [Kenneth’s] piece as the concert opener drove home an important message – that young Singaporean composers are well on their way towards creating music worthy of being presented alongside other international works.

…exciting and refreshing… its stabbing choral rhythms and later a smooth rich passage with deep resonant basses were distinctly novel and certainly made me sit up and listen.

… an original and harmonically engaging arrangement of [a] perennial favourite…

a sweet and gently lilting setting of Ave Regina Caelorum… it builds pleasingly to allow the choir to produce a full sound…