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Call for scores - Free Hand Festival 2022 - deadline 14 February
UPDATED: The deadline for submission has been extended till 14 Februrary, 2022. The Malaysian Composers Collective (MCC) is proud to partner with UCSI Institute of Music for the 2nd Free Hand Contemporary Composers Piano Festival 2022. During the festival, two composers will be selected to receive a commission to write a new piano work which will be the set piece for Senior and Young Artist Categories for the UCSI University International Piano Festival & Competition in 2022. This festival/competition is opened to all Malaysians both loca…
International Piano magazine calls Free Hand Anthology 'fascinating and substantial'
Last September, the leading magazine for the piano world'International Piano' published a wonderful review of the Free Hand Anthology Vol 1 that MCC published at the end of 2019 after the first ever Free Hand Festival 2019, the delay in the review owing to the difficulies during the pandemic of 2020 and 2021. The magazine called the first ever compilation of Malaysian 21st Century piano works "a fascinating and substantial selection of music for today that deserves international attention." Here is the full article below. A…
Composing for trombone - a free virtual workshop on Jan 22
Award-winning bass trombonist Lance Low will be conducting a composition sharing session on 22 January 2022, 7:30pm to 9pm MYT. This workshop, supported by the Malaysian Composers Collective (MCC), is tailored for composers who are interested in writing for trombones or low brass. Free registration and limited spaces are available - register now at bit.ly/lance-composharing Composing for the Trombone 22 Jan, 7:30pm MYT Free Zoom Video Conferencing 90 mins The session will cover: Demonstrations on the technical aspects of the instrument (sound…
MPO review: Modernism and romanticism
The final part of the MPO’s Malaysian composers chamber series, which saw nine works premiered throughout the month of November 2021, was a showcase of the rich diversity of styles of our composers, from the young voices of the adventurous Ainolnaim Azizol and Ilysia Tan, to the well-established gorgeousness of Vivian Chua. First up is Ilysia Tan, a final year student at Yong Siew Toh Convervatory in Singapore, a highly promising young composer who is quickly developing her musical voice, as shown by her piece Addiction to Perfection for stri…
MPO review: Sonic feasts and gorgeous lyricism
The second part of the MPO’s Malaysian composers chamber series, which saw nine works premiered throughout the month of November 2021, was a sonic feast that has some pretty unusual sounds put together in various ways by the individual styles of the composers here. The series starts with Caeleb Tee’s work for strings, Hymn of the Remnants. The piece is a beautiful, somber hymn full of aching and longing, with its long arching lyricism and strange harmonies that are at once familiar yet estranged and full of unresolved yearning. Tee explains, “…
MPO review: Gripping moods, ethereal moments and mysterious yearnings
On 5 th Nov, 2021 the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra premiered three Malaysian works as part of its Malaysian composers chamber series made in collaboration with MCC. The series would see nine works premiered throughout the month of November. The first work premiered was Jessica Cho’s Edge of Lunacy, which deals with the dark subject of mental illness. Writes Cho, “This piece depicts the moods of one who is descending into madness. Mental illness is a frightening condition, where one has confused thoughts and extremely high and low mood…
Premiering at MPO all November 2021 - Malaysian chamber works
Premiering all through this month are brand new Malaysian chamber works performed by the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra. The works will be aired on MPO TV, after the initial concert planned for March earlier this year was unable to take place due to the pandemic lockdown. The project is a collaboration between MCC and MPO, with a call for scores at the end of last year in which nine composers participated. You can enjoy new works by Jessica Cho, Tai Yun Ming and Rayner Naili (5 Nov), Caeleb Tee, Raja Alif and Samuel Cho (12 Nov) and Ilysia T…
Reliving Malaysia's pioneering orchestral music on MPO TV
When the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra embarked on its groundbreaking Forum series for local composers way back in the early 2000s, it marked a turning point, indeed a real renaissance, for Malaysian new music. The Forum 1 and 2 literally gave rise to a whole new generation of serious composers who have since made their mark around the world, and which was the critical catalyst for the formation of the Malaysian Composers Collective starting with the core of the Forum composers, way back in 2007. Two decades later the works premiered by th…
MCC's Free Hand Anthology I has been released on Faber Music.
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