Malaysian Composers Collective

Sita's abduction re-imagined – a Singapore review

MCC - 3/08/2020

On 28 Feb 2020, Singapore music lovers were treated to a retelling of Adeline Wong’s 2007 piece ‘Empunya Yang beroleh Sita Dewi’ (He who possesses Sita Dewi). First commissioned by the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra at the time for a half-hour performance by the full orchestra with wayang kulit, Empunya Yang beroleh Sita Dewi added yet another modern commentary into the classic Ramayana. Wong later reworked the music into a 10-minute long condensation for string orchestra, and this new version was premiered by the Eastman Camerata at …

Ilysia Tan searches for 'perfection' at the 2022 ACL Festival New Zealand

MCC - 3/02/2020

With the regular Asian Composers League (ACL) festival rescheduled to 2022 in Christchurch, New Zealand, we profile Malaysia's young composer representative, this time from Penang, currently studying music at Singapore's Yong Siew Toh Conservatory. Tan's work made its debut officially on Malaysian shores as one of the pieces in MCC's Freehand Anthology I of 21st Century Malaysian piano works, and her propulsive “Drive” can be heard on the web player at the Freehand website . For her entry to ACL's Young Composers Comp…