If you live in Punggol and hear the faint sounds of a horse neighing, you're not hallucinating. It is likely Clarissa See, whose daily 90-minute erhu practice may fill the air with an uncanny mimicry ...

Clarissa See started watching Singapore Chinese Orchestra concerts at the age of six – and eventually picked up the erhu and gaohu. Her dream? To be an SCO musician.

"I like that's it's classical music with Chinese instruments involved. It's very good," Dmitry Shlykov, an audience member originally from Russia but now living in New York told China Daily.

Outside of the concert hall, ‘O Fortuna’ became the UK’s best-known piece of classical music in the early 2000s, when it was featured as the judges’ entrance music on The X Factor.