Mutien Festival

Mutien Festival, SJI’s Performing Arts Festival, celebrates the talents of the school's Performing Arts CCA groups.

Presenting a wide and diverse programme, the Mutien Festival curates timeless works from near and far that resonate with familiarity on the one hand, and yet challenge and provoke on the other.

From poignant piping of the traditional Paddy's Epic Journey from the British Isles to the Classical Guitar Ensemble arrangement of Freddy Mercury's  timeless 1978 classic Can't stop me now, Mutien Festival promises a spectacle that not only spans periods, genres, and styles, but also fuses and transforms them in novel re-settings.

The SJI Vocal Ensemble's masterful rendition of Josu Elberdin's modern song setting in ancient Euskara -- the last surviving pre-Indo-European language of Europe (Basque ethnicity) -- Izar Ederrak (Beautiful Stars, 2016), is one such example.

Another is the localised adaptation of Nigel Williams' staging of the William Golding Lord of the Flies (1954) novel by SJI's Drama director, Ella Zhang.

Rivaling this in contemporality, and perhaps just as close to home, is the 2025 Symphonic Band work Winds of Yong Peng by Malaysian composer Yeo Chow Shern, an alumnus of NUS' Yong Siew Conservatory of Music.

Thank you for being part of SJI's Mutien Festival 2026!