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Shadowplay this February, and Fireflies in March - 2020 premieres
The first quarter of 2020 is seeing Malaysian composers busy at work, with several new pieces lined up, from two new premieres for chamber orchestra and a new piano work for print. Coming up is Adeline Wong's premiere of a string orchestra version of her 2010 piece 'Empunya Yang Beroleh Sita Dewi' (He Who Possesses Goddess Sita) by the Eastman Camerata in Singapore on 28 February. The piece was originally commissioned by the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra for a chamber orchestra and wayang kulit collaboration, that relates a…
MCC launches country's first ever piano anthology
The piano is one of Malaysia's most popular classical instruments, with tens of thousands learning the instrument every year. It is no surprise that piano compositions thus form the bedrock of the country's new music scene. MCC has, since 2015 and earlier, been planning to put some of these scores into an anthology as part of its mission to document the musical landscape of the country and to promote the performance of Malaysian works. Its plans finally came to fruition after its pioneering Free Hand Festival brought together the p…
Korea Calling: Submissions for the tripartite International Exchange Festival
With the success of Free Hand Festival 2019 last August and the publication of our piano anthology, MCC has been invited to be part of the International Exchange Contemporary Music Festival 2020, a 3-way collaboration between Malaysia (Malaysian Composers Collective), Korea (Contemporary Music Society in Seoul) and Singapore (Composers Society of Singapore). This festival aims to foster a healthy cultural exchange amongst composers and performers from the three countries and also aims to enhance friendship and understanding between Korean,…
From water to wind chimes: Sameul Cho and Lee Chie Tsang's Free Hand commissions
Young Malaysian composer Samuel Cho, who lives in Germany, is busy at work with his new commission for the upcoming UCSI Piano Festival 2020. The young pianist composer reports, "The commission work is coming along very nicely. The draft is finished and I'm in the notational process right now. I've already given it a title. It's called 'Tinatina'." Cho won the UCSI commission at Free Hand Festival 2019 last August with his work Vatni, which explores concepts of water and fluidity on the piano. This time around, …
Adeline Wong presents Malaysia's piano journey in Singapore
On October 26, MCC president Adeline Wong introduced participants at Yong Siew Toh Conservatory's symposium to the world of Malaysian piano music, captured in the new anthology of 21st Century Scores, Free Hand Anthology I. Her talk, Plotting Malaysia’s Musical Tapestry and The Free Hand Anthology, was part of the Singapore varsity's symposium 'TELLING STORIES - PERFORMERS(‘) PRESENT INTERNATIONAL ARTISTIC RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM from 23 - 26 October, 2019. According to the YST website , "Narratives – whether historical, pol…
Johan Othman's new theatre work Malam Takdir to open in Penang
Penang-based composer Johan Othman, who is planning his second opera after Conference of the Birds, has produced a theatre work in preparation in the Malay language. Malam Takdir is a one-act play inspired by the Mahabharata, and is based on a new liberetto for the upcoming opera, taking off a work Johan originally conceived several years back, at the time called The Killing of Meghnad. According to an interview in The Star, the work imagines a conversation between King Dhritarashtra who was born blind, and his advisor Sanjaya, who is gif…
Free Hand lectures at UiTM, Yong Siew Toh Conservatory
Following the Free Hand Festival 2019 , MCC will hold several talks on Malaysian music taking off from its recent events, in Singapore at the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music in October, and in Selangor in November. Plotting Malaysia’s Musical Tapestry and The Free Hand Anthology Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music, Singapore 26 Oct, 2019 Composer Adeline Wong introduces delegates to the world of contemporary Malaysian music and delves into the works performed recently at Free Hand Festival 2019, as well as the pieces selected …
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…
MCC's Free Hand Anthology I has been released on Faber Music.
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