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Two composers win commisions at the inaugural Free Hand Festival 2019
Free Hand Festival 2019 on Wednesday, 14th August saw music and piano lovers from all walks of live from as far as Penang and Singapore, gather at UCSI Institute of Music Kuala Lumpur to soak themselves in a day of Malaysian art music, from the well-attended seminars in the day where composers took the public through their compositional processes, to fascinating insights into the world of playing new music to new audiences in Mei Yi Foo's talk 'Modern Playground'. The highlight of the festival was undoubtedly the 2013 BBC Music…
Award-winning pianist Foo Mei Yi performs original Malaysian works in KL, 14 August 2019
On 14 August, BBC Music Magazine's Best Newcomer award in 2013, London-based Malaysian pianist Foo Mei Yi will perform 9 Malaysian contemporary classical piano works at the Free Hand festival organised by the Malaysian Composers Collective and UCSI University's Institute of Music, Cheras, Kuala Lumpur, including the works of award-winning composers Adeline Wong and Tazul Tajuddin. The festival is the first of a regular series to encourage the composition of local piano works of high standard, that can be showcased by pianists at home…
Malaysian minimalism in the south, soundscapes in the West
Last weekend Malaysian music made its mark in Singapore and California, USA through the works of Adeline Wong and Ainolnaim Azizol respectively. Singapore art and music lovers got a closer look at the inner workings of Wong's new work for piano Herringbone last weekend, when she gave a presentation at the Marina Bay Sands' Minimalism Symposium at the ArtScience Museum's Expression Gallery. Organised as a programme of Minimalism: Space. Light. Object. at ArtScience Museum, the symposium aimed to discuss Minimalism as a cross-a…
Aswara to include Malaysian piano scores in their new exam board
Aswara is planning to propose a new and local music exam board - ASWARA Music Performance Diploma (AMPD). For this, they are going to start with the piano session first. According to the representative, "The objective of the AMPD exam gives the opportunity to musicians who wish to demonstrate advanced level of playing with good skill, knowledge and understanding of the music performed. In addition, musicians who take this exam can also widen their repertoire study not only in Western countries, but also the music composed in Asia coun…
Call for scores: 1st Malaysian Contemporary Piano Festival and Competition 2019
Previously FREE HAND FESTIVAL 2019 Malaysian Composers Collective (MCC) is collaborating with UCSI University, Kuala Lumpur to organise Free Hand, the 1st Malaysian Contemporary Piano Festival and Competition in August 2019. The festival celebrates Malaysia's great piano tradition and thriving compositional talent spanning several generation of composers, and invites all Malaysian composers to submit their best piano works for the competition. During the festival, the winning work(s) will be selected by a panel during the performanc…
Passing of Japanese composer Isao Matsushita felt throughout Asia Pacific
On September 16 Japan lost its veteran composer Isao Matsushita, who passed away at the age of 66. He was vice president of Tokyo University of the Arts, Professor of Performing Arts Center and President of the Japan federation of Composers (JFC). His departure was strongly felt throughout the Asia Pacific region. According to his biography, Matsushita obtained both his undergraduate and graduate degrees at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. Matsushita has participated in several music festivals, such as the "World …
Fusion and Transformation in Taiwan
On the morning of 15 August, an exciting conglomerate of composers, conductors and musicians gathered at the National Theatre and Concert Hall in Taipei to kick off the 35th “Asian Composers League Conference and Festival.” The honorable guests at the opening meeting included Tsung-Huang Hsiao, the Political Deputy Minister of Culture; and Yu-Pei Liao, the Chief Secretary of Hakka Affairs Council, a government institution that fully supports the event. Taipei National University of the Arts, Taipei Chinese Orchestra, National Symphony Orc…
S'pore Straits Times reviews Wong's Herringbone
Singapore's Straits Times reviews Yong Siew Toh Conservatory's concert ' The Modern Playground ', a violin-piano recital by visiting artists Foo Mei-Yi & Bartosz Woroch: A 90-minute concert of modern music for solo piano and solo violin on a Tuesday evening might not seem an enticing prospect for any except the most dedicated supporters of new music. Yet this one attracted a near-capacity audience. Possibly, they were there for the world premiere of a work by Singapore-based Malaysian composer Adeline Wong. If so, the…
MCC's Free Hand Anthology I has been released on Faber Music.
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