Interviews

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Musical Gesture and Musical Sound: An Interview with Eric Whitacre
Composer and conductor Eric Whitacre (b. 1970) has an international following and makes appearances around the world (and on the internet) conducting choirs and bringing the modern choral sound to people who didn’t know they liked choral music.
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Wandering off the Map: An Interview with Richard Causton
British composer Richard Causton takes an international view of contemporary music: his UK studies were at the University of York and the Royal College of Music, but it was his time in Italy that has most affected his work. He
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Composing as Curating: In Touch with Listenpony
London’s contemporary music scene is unique. A perfect storm of engaged audiences, an urban landscape full of unusual venues and limited funding awarded only to the most creative has led to a surge of small organisations taking the music they
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Curtains of Light and Sound: A Talk with Composer Joyce Tang Wai-Chung
Composer Joyce Tang spoke with us last week and we were delighted to meet a composer with a background in electro-acoustic music and musicology. Joyce did master’s degrees in both composition and electro-acoustic music at Hong Kong Baptist University and
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What Will We Play in 300 years?
An Interview with Composer Bun-Ching Lam
Macau-born composer Bun-Ching Lam spoke with us the other day and the conversation ranged from the rise of Asia as a music power to the advantages to being a 21st century composer.
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The Note, The Silence, and Variations
A Talk with Andrea Morricone
We caught up with Andrea Morricone, the pianist, composer, and conductor, while he was in Hong Kong in May for a Charity “Concert for Cause” and had a wonderful afternoon reviewing everything from the wonders of Mozart’s Little G minor
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In touch with John Rutter
Choral Music (A Song in Season) Royal Philharmonic, John Rutter Look to the day Most Glorious Lord of Life I am with you always John Rutter is one of the most successful and frequently performed composers of his generation. Many
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