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Some of Hong Kong's most noted chamber musicians get together for an evening of traditional repertoire, early music, and contemporary works highlighting Hong Kong composers. Featuring the music of Mozart, Bach, and Sibelius alongside works by HKUST composition faculty, the concert culminates in the premiere of a new work, commissioned from rising star Daniel Lo. REGISTER NOW!
  Program Jean Sibelius: Four Pieces for Violin and Piano, op. 115 Galison Lau: In Between Ilari Kaila: Cameo W. A. Mozart: Clarinet Quartet, op. 79 no. 1, I: Allegro moderato Timothy Page: Marsyas's Turn Bright Sheng: Angel Fire, mvts. I & III J. S. Bach: Inventions, selections for flute and clarinet Daniel Lo: Forking Paths   Bios   Angus Lee, flute Angus Lee is recognized as one of Hong Kong’s most exciting flutists, known for his detailed approach in performing contemporary music, as well as his often provocative interpretations of canonic works. He is currently a member of the Hong Kong New Music Ensemble, and has been a freelance musician with the Hong Kong Sinfonietta since 2011. Lee also regularly appears with the NOVA Ensemble, of which he is a founding member.  As part of the HKNME, Lee has worked with, among others, composers Toshio Hosokawa, Brett Dean, Shi-rui Zhu, Hing-yan Chan, Unsuk Chin, and most recently Du Yun, presenting the Asian premiere of some of the most significant works in recent times, such as opera Matsukaze (Hosokawa), Ghost Love (Chan), Angel’s Bone (Du), as well as ensemble works Carlo (Dean), Double Concerto, and Gougalon (Chin).    Claudia Ng, clarinet Claudia Ng is a clarinettist originally from Hong Kong. She began her studies at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts and participated in the RTHK Young Music Makers program in 2011. Claudia has been an active participant of orchestral and chamber music festivals, including the National Symphony Orchestra Summer Music Institute and Sarasota Music Festival. She was also a finalist in the International Clarinet Association Young Artist Competition in Rome 2013 and in Florida 2017. During her time in New York City, she was the principal clarinettist of the New York Youth Symphony and received the Director’s Award for Commitment and Achievement. In New Haven, she is a teaching artist at the Music In Schools Initiative, which nourishes cultural leadership and provides a structured music-making environment for their students.   Claudia received her Bachelor of Music degree from Manhattan School of Music, studying with Charles Neidich, and was a recipient of the First Initiative Hong Kong Scholarship. She is currently pursuing her Master of Music degree at the Yale School of Music, studying with David Shifrin.    Patrick Yim, violin Honolulu-born violinist Patrick T.S. Yim has performed throughout the world at venues including Carnegie Hall and David Geffen Hall (New York), Seoul Arts Center, Harpa Concert Hall (Reykjavík), Hong Kong City Hall, Severance Hall (Cleveland), Orchestra Hall (Chicago), Teatro alla Scala (Milan), and the Musikverein (Vienna).  Yim made his solo debut with the Honolulu Symphony, and in recent years has performed concerti of Bach, Brahms, Bruch, Lalo, Mozart, and Vivaldi. He has performed chamber music with members of the Juilliard, Emerson, St. Lawrence, Pacifica, and Ying Quartets, and of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, principal players from the Shanghai Symphony and Hong Kong Philharmonic, and musicians from the Cleveland Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic. Recent chamber music highlights include a performance in Carnegie Hall with members of the Emerson Quartet as part of the New Music for Strings Festival, a collaboration with world-renowned pipa virtuoso Wu Man in Lou Harrison’s Concerto for Pipa and String Orchestra led from the concertmaster chair, and a collaboration with Juilliard Quartet violinist Joel Smirnoff, involving the premieres of two newly commissioned works.    William Lane, viola William Lane performs as a soloist, orchestral and chamber musician in Australia, Asia, Europe and North America. He studied under Jan Sedivka, Bruno Giuranna and Garth Knox, as well as in Germany at the International Ensemble Modern Academy, and in Switzerland at the Lucerne Festival Academy under Pierre Boulez. He was a prizewinner of Valentino Bucchi Competition in Rome in 2005. Lane was Principal Viola of Ensemble Resonanz and a member of the Hong Kong Philharmonic; and has appeared as guest violist of Ensemble Modern and the Lucerne Festival Strings. Based in Hong Kong since 2008, he is Founder, Artistic Director and Violist of Hong Kong New Music Ensemble, Asia’s most active professional chamber ensemble dedicated to new music. In 2013 he was awarded the Award for Young Artist (Music) from the Hong Kong Arts Development Council.   Anna Kwan, cello Anna Kwan started learning the cello at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts at the age of 10. She received her bachelor’s degree from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and her Master of Music from Yale University. Anna has worked with members of the Vermeer, Emerson, Colorado, and Tokyo String Quartets. In 1992, she was chosen to be the only representative from Hong Kong to attend the Interlochen Arts Camp in Michigan, the USA with a full scholarship. She was principal cello of the Asian Youth Orchestra in 1995 and a member of the Jeunesses Musicales World Youth Orchestra, orchestra in residence of the Verbier Music Festival, Switzerland in 1996 and 1997. Anna also toured with the Yale Cellos, performing at the Manchester Cello Festival and Rencontre de Violoncelles in Beauvais, a CD of the concert was released for Calliope record label. Anna joined the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra in 2001. In 2006 she was invited by Maestro Myung-Whun Chung to perform as a member of the Asia Philharmonic Orchestra to perform in Seoul, Korea.    Rachel Cheung, piano Pianist Rachel Cheung is hailed as “a poet, but also a dramatist” displaying “the most sophisticated and compelling music-making” (The Dallas Morning News). She won over audiences and critics alike as a finalist at the 2017 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition with “stunningly imaginative” (Musical America) interpretations marked by “flights of both beauty and virtuosity” (Theater Jones) and was awarded the Audience Prize by online vote. A Young Steinway Artist, she continues to build a reputation for an elegant stage presence, giving sensitive and refined performances across three continents. Born and raised in Hong Kong, Rachel graduated with first class honors at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts under the tutelage of Eleanor Wong, and later studied with Peter Frankl at the Yale School of Music, where she was awarded the Elizabeth Parisot Prize for outstanding pianists. Additional competition honors include prizes at the Leeds, Chopin, Horowitz, Gina Bachauer, and Geneva International Piano Competitions. Her first concert DVD was released by VAIMUSIC in 2007, and her first CD, under the Alpha Omega Sound label of the Chopin Society of Hong Kong, was released in 2009. Her next recording project, a CD featuring the Chopin preludes, will be released by IMC Music. Rachel was awarded Artist of the Year (Music) by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council in 2019. Rachel is also an amateur photographer; she documents her travels with her analog camera, particularly enjoying the ability to capture the character and feeling of each moment. Read more

Join members of the Hong Kong Chamber Project following their concert the night before as they give a masterclass, featuring selected HKUST music students on stage. HKCP musicians will work with students currently in our chamber music class ensembles as they tackle classics of the repertoire and provide advice on interpretation and technique. The event is open to the public. Seats are available on a first-come-first-served basis. Social distancing measures will be in effect.    Register Here   THIS EVENT IS CURRENTLY ONLY OPEN TO HKUST STUDENTS AND STAFF. CHECK BACK LATER AS SOCIAL DISTANCING GUIDELINES CHANGE. Read more

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Based in Helsinki, Finland, defunensemble is one of Europe’s foremost contemporary classical groups devoted to electroacoustic repertoire. The Cosmopolis Festival is proud to host their Hong Kong debut, which will showcase an array of cutting-edge works that incorporate technology, including a piece by HKUST faculty, composer Timothy Page.  
Program Anna Meredith: Honeyed Words (2015) (vlc, el)
Philip Glass: Music in Contrary Motion (1969) (cl, synth, vcl, el)
Michel Van der Aa: Oog (1995) (vlc, el)
Sami Klemola: Peak (2014) (bcl, pno, vlc, el)
Steve Reich: New York Counterpoint (1984) (cl, el)
Tim Page: Toccata (2013) (cl, vlc, el)     Defunensemble Founded in 2009, defunensemble has established itself as one of the most important contemporary ensembles in Finland. Defunensemble gives premieres of electroacoustic repertoire both classic and current, and actively commissions new works incorporating the latest technologies. Artistic director Sami Klemola’s innovative concert concepts draw from different sub-genres of electroacoustic music, bringing new street credibility to the contemporary classical scene. The virtuoso musicians and sound designers of defunensemble are some of Finland’s most active figures in their fields, and the ensemble has been quickly gathering international renown. Defunensemble has performed over 100 concerts, appearing at every major festival in Finland and many beyond, including Musica Nova Helsinki (Finland), chiffren — kieler tage für neue musik (Germany), November Music (Netherlands), Loop Festival (Belgium), Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (UK), Re:new music, and Copenhagen Avantgarde Music Festival Klang (Denmark). The group has premiered works by Antti Auvinen, Hikari Kiyama, Ville Raasakka, Perttu Haapanen, Pink Twins, M. A. Numminen, Guðmundur Steinn Gunnarsson, Peter Ablinger, Christian Winther Christensen, and Gilbert Nouno, among others.

Hanna Kinnunen, flute
Mikko Raasakka, clarinet
Emil Holmström, piano
Markus Hohti, cello
Timo Kurkikangas, electronics
Anders Pohjola, electronics
Sami Klemola, Artistic Director
    Hanna Kinnunen – Flute Hanna Kinnunen studied the flute at the Sibelius Academy and also in Paris. She has worked as a full-time substitute flutist in many orchestras, including the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra (2003–2006, 2010–2013) and Tapiola Sinfonietta (2014). As a chamber musician she has appeared in numerous festivals in Finland and elsewhere in Europe, specializing in contemporary music. Contemporary music is the focus of her artistic doctoral studies at the Sibelius Academy as well. Between 2007–2010 Kinnunen worked as a departmental assistant in the Academy's DocMus unit. In addition to her career as a performer and a teacher she currently pursues studies of English philology at the university of Helsinki.     Mikko Raasakka – Clarinet Mikko Raasakka studied clarinet at the Conservatory of Besançon (France) and at the Sibelius Academy. In 2005 he was the first clarinetist to obtain a Doctor of Music degree from the Sibelius Academy. Mikko is especially known for his work with contemporary music. An active collaboration with composers has led him to premier dozens of new compositions for clarinet, including five concertos. In addition to all members of the clarinet family, Mikko plays the electric wind controller and the liru - an archaic Finnish folk clarinet. He is also a keen improviser and has participated in music theater productions.

As a clarinet soloist Mikko has performed with many Finnish orchestras including Sinfonia Lahti conducted by Osmo Vänskä. He has appeared as a recitalist/chamber musician in Finland, Denmark, Iceland, Estonia, Russia, Germany, France, Spain, Canada and the USA. Mikko’s CD recordings include Kai Nieminen´s Clarinet concerto with Sinfonia Finlandia and Patrick Gallois. He also makes regularly recordings for the Finnish Broadcasting Company. As an orchestral musician he has played with all professional orchestras in the Helsinki area. From 1997 to 2010 he worked as the principal clarinet with the Sinfonia Finlandia Jyväskylä. In addition to his artistic work Mikko is the author of a comprehensive guide on contemporary clarinet technique, Exploring the Clarinet, published 2010 by Fennica Gehrman. www.raasakka.net   Emil Holmström – Piano Emil Holmström studied piano in the Sibelius Academy with Erik T. Tawaststjerna and in Paris with Marie-Françoise Bucquet. He has also studied composition under Veli-Matti Puumala and Olli Väisälä. Holmström is a frequent performer of new music, having commissioned pieces from young composers and premiered dozens of works. He has worked as a recording artist for the Finnish Broadcasting Corporation, and made the premier recording of Puumala's Hommages Fugitifs. Holmström has performed as a soloist, chamber musician, and lied accompanist throughout Europe and the Americas, and has appeared in most Finnish contemporary music festivals. In Finland he has been a featured soloist with the Lahti Orchestra and in Sibelius Academy concert series, among others. The Finnish Cultural Foundation, Wihuri Foundation, Svenska Kulturfonden and Pro Musica have all supported his work.     Markus Hohti – Cello Markus Hohti is a cellist of great versatility – equally at home whether playing classical or baroque cello, performing at contemporary music concerts, chamber music festivals, and jazz clubs. He has recently developed an interest in electroacoustic music and cross-genre projects.

Having always been interested in diverse musical styles, Markus has developed a wide ranging repertoire and he performs actively as a soloist, chamber musician and with his own ensembles defunensemble, Uusinta Ensemble, Sid Hille Contemporary Collective, Finnish Baroque Orchestra and Ensemble Laboratorium. A keen interest in authentic performance practice has led Markus to found, together with violinist Antti Tikkanen and pianist Joonas Ahonen, the Rödberg Trio, who use authentic period instruments in their performances. His latest project is Bach from the Basement, a musical video diary where every week he’ll publish a performance of a different movement from one of Bach’s six solo cello suites. Markus has performed at major festivals and concert halls, including Kuhmo Chamber Music, Pekka Kuusisto’s Our Festival, Lucerne Festival, Salzburger Biennale, Tonhalle in Zurich and Berlin Filharmonie. He has premiered hundreds of new pieces and collaborated with renowned artists such as Ralf Gothoni, Cyprien Katsaris, Jaime Martin, Alasdair Beatson, Thomas Demenga, Rainer Schmidt and Gordan Nikolic.

Markus’ most memorable solo performances include Brian Ferneyhough’s legendary ‘Time and Motion Study 2′ at the Helsinki Festival and Sebastian Fagerlund’s ‘Stone on Stone’ as a soloist with Avanti! Chamber Orchestra conducted by Hannu Lintu. In 2011, the KLANG-concert series was born through Markus’ initiative at the Helsinki Music Centre. He is also a co-founder and co-director of Ristiveto Festival together with pianist Emil Holmström and violinist Eriikka Maalismaa.

A committed and experienced pedagogue, Markus has recently been appointed as a teacher at Tampere Music Academy.     Timo Kurkikangas – Electronics Timo Kurkikangas has established his renowned status amongst the contemporary music sound designers in Finland during the last 15 years. His studies at the Sibelius Academy have exposed him to Finnish composers and musicians and have kept him in the heart of the Finnish new music genre. In addition to assisting composers to realize electronic components in their new compositions, Kurkikangas has been working in Finland and abroad with numerous orchestras, contemporary music ensembles and festivals. These collaborations have resulted in hundreds of concerts ranging from small club events to surround sound systems in big concert halls, tens of sound designs and technical implementations of compositions and several recordings. Kurkikangas is a founding member of defunensemble.     Anders Pohjola – Electronics Anders Pohjola is a sound designer focusing on contemporary classical music. He works both as a recording engineer in the recording studio and as an audio engineer in electroacoustic music performances. Pohjola is also frequently involved in the preparation of new pieces and he is working especially with young Finnish composers. Pohjola graduated from the Sibelius Academy/University of the Arts Helsinki in 2014 with a master’s degree in music technology. He regularly performs with the defunensemble at festivals throughout Europe. Other collaborators are the Finnish ensembles the Avanti! Chamber Orchestra, Uusinta Ensemble, the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Helsinki Chamber Choir.     Sami Klemola – Artistic Director Sami Klemola, a Helsinki-based composer on the forefront of electroacoustic music, has studied composition and electronic music at the Sibelius Academy, the Amsterdam Conservatory, and IRCAM in Paris. He completed his Masters degree at the Sibelius Academy in 2007. Klemola's output includes solo works, chamber music, orchestral music, sound installations, and works that combine acoustic instruments and electronics. Klemola works as the artistic director for defunensemble.    

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Join members of the defunensemble (Finland) as they discuss their unique artistic contributions to electroacoustic music, and answer your questions following their concert streamed online directly to an HKUST audience. This event will be conducted online.       Register Here   About the artists Founded in 2009, defunensemble has established itself as one of the most important contemporary ensembles in Finland. Defunensemble gives premieres of electroacoustic repertoire both classic and current, and actively commissions new works incorporating the latest technologies. Artistic director Sami Klemola’s innovative concert concepts draw from different sub-genres of electroacoustic music, bringing new street credibility to the contemporary classical scene. The virtuoso musicians and sound designers of defunensemble are some of Finland’s most active figures in their fields, and the ensemble has been quickly gathering international renown.  Defunensemble has performed over 100 concerts, appearing at every major festival in Finland and many beyond, including Musica Nova Helsinki (Finland), chiffren — kieler tage für neue musik (Germany), November Music (Netherlands), Loop Festival (Belgium), Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (UK), Re:new music, and Copenhagen Avantgarde Music Festival Klang (Denmark). The group has premiered works by Antti Auvinen, Hikari Kiyama, Ville Raasakka, Perttu Haapanen, Pink Twins, M. A. Numminen, Guðmundur Steinn Gunnarsson, Peter Ablinger, Christian Winther Christensen, and Gilbert Nouno, among others.  Read more

[Event postponed due to Covid-19.] Violin virtuoso Patrick Yim from Honolulu, Hawaiʻi, returns to Cosmopolis for an evening of chamber music and solo repertoire, including the world premiere of a new work by Korean-American rising star composer Juri Seo. Yim is joined by Richard Bamping, the internationally acclaimed principal cellist of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, and award-winning Hong Kong pianist Colleen Lee. The concert will feature an exciting program of Romantic repertoire and contemporary music. Program Anne Leilehua Lanzilotti (b. 1983): koʻu inoa, for solo violin (Asian premiere) Edvard Grieg (1843–1907): Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 45 Juri Seo (b. 1981): One, for solo violin (world premiere) Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847): Piano Trio No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 66 Patrick Yim, violin
Richard Bamping, cello
Colleen Lee, piano Bios   Praised for his “superb performances” (Fanfare), Honolulu-born violinist Patrick Yim has performed throughout the world at venues including Carnegie Hall, David Geffen Hall, Seoul Arts Center, Harpa Concert Hall, Severance Hall, Orchestra Hall, Teatro alla Scala, and the Musikverein. Yim made his solo debut with the Honolulu Symphony. He has performed chamber music with members of the Juilliard, Emerson, St. Lawrence, Pacifica, and Ying Quartets, and musicians from the Cleveland Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, and on tour with the Cleveland Orchestra in the US and Europe.

Recent performances include a concert at Carnegie Hall with members of the Emerson Quartet, a collaboration with pipa virtuoso Wu Man in Lou Harrison’s Pipa Concerto, and a collaboration with Juilliard Quartet violinist Joel Smirnoff involving the premieres of two newly commissioned works. Yim has commissioned more than two dozen works and performed them around the world as part of international music festivals, including Seoul International Computer Music Festival and the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival.

His debut CD, Memory, features world premiere recordings of works by Yao Chen, Michael-Thomas Foumai, Austin Yip, Kai-Young Chan, and Chen Yi. His second CD featuring violin and piano music of contemporary American composers will be released on the Naxos label this upcoming July. He is a graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Music (BM, MM) and Stony Brook University (Doctor of Musical Arts).

He served as Professor of Violin at Hong Kong Baptist University between 2017–2021. He has also taught violin and chamber music at Stony Brook University, the Cleveland Institute of Music, Sulzbach-Rosenberg International Music Festival, Rushmore Music Festival, Flatirons Chamber Music Festival, Har Paw ChamberFest, and the Interlochen Arts Camp, in addition to masterclasses at MIT, the Royal Academy of Music Aarhus, University of Colorado, University of Oklahoma, University of Hawaii, Central Michigan University, and many universities in Hong Kong. He was on the jury for the Hong Kong International Young Musicians Competition (Kirill Troussov, Chairman).   Richard Bamping has held the title of Principal Cellist of the Hong Kong Philharmonic since 1993. His many solo appearances with the Philharmonic have been greeted with critical acclaim. He has also performed with many of the leading orchestras in Europe, including the Philharmonia, the Royal Philharmonic and the European Community Chamber Orchestras, and served for four years as Principal Cellist with the London Soloists’ Chamber Orchestra. In 1990, Leonard Bernstein chose Richard Bamping to play Principal Cello for the first Pacific Music Festival in Japan, where he also worked closely with Michael Tilson Thomas and Marin Alsop. As a freelance cellist based in London, Richard Bamping played in many chamber music ensembles performing across the United Kingdom, Europe and the US. In 2016, Richard performed Tan Dun’s concerto The Map in Taiwan and Shenzhen, under the baton of the composer. He has had a very broad musical education studying cello with Elizabeth Wilson, Raphael Wallfisch, Amedeo Baldovino, Ralph Kirschbaum, Paul Tortelier, David Geringas, Aldo Parisot, Janos Starker, Timothy Hugh and Steven Isserlis. In the field of chamber music, he has studied with the Amadeus, Alban Berg, Delme, Takacs, and Allegri string quartets, as well as with David Takeno, Eli Goren, Emmanuel Hurwitz, György Kurtag, and Peter Norris. Richard’s cello, dated 1674, was made in Cremona by Andrea Guarneri and is one of only eight surviving examples of his work.   Hong Kong pianist Colleen Lee achieved international recognition after winning 6th Prize at the 15th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition. She has performed extensively around the world in solo recitals, and with orchestras including the Warsaw, China, Israel and Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestras. She was the Artist Associate of Hong Kong Sinfonietta in the 2010/11 Season. Lee has appeared in major festivals including the Duszniki Festival in Poland; Musicus Fest in Espoo, Finland; and Shanghai New Music Week. She made her debut with the London Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Sir Simon Rattle in September 2019. She frequently appears at chamber music festivals, such as the Hong Kong International Chamber Music Festival and the Musicusfest in collaboration with renowned soloists and chamber groups. Her discography includes an all-Chopin album recorded on the Pleyel piano released by the Fryderyk Chopin Institute, and a complete Scarlatti Sonatas album by Naxos. She was also featured on the Hong Kong Sinfonietta DECCA album This is Classical Music 3. She is currently the Honorary Artist-in-Residence of the Education University of Hong Kong, as well as a member of the piano faculty at both the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts and the Hong Kong Baptist University.   Juri Seo (b. 1981) is a Korean-American composer and pianist based in New Jersey, where she works as Associate Professor of Music at Princeton University. She seeks to write music that encompasses extreme contrast through compositions that are unified and fluid, yet complex. She merges many of the fascinating aspects of music from the past century—in particular its expanded timbral palette and unorthodox approach to structure—with a deep love of functional tonality, counterpoint, and classical form. Her composition honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, Koussevitzky Commission from the Library of Congress, Goddard Lieberson Fellowship and Andrew Imbrie Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Copland House Residency Award, and the Otto Eckstein Fellowship from Tanglewood. She has received commissions from the Fromm Foundation, the Barlow Endowment, the Goethe Institut, and the Tanglewood Music Center. Her portrait albums Mostly Piano and Respiri were released by Innova Recordings. She holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where she studied with Reynold Tharp, having also attended the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Rome, and Yonsei University, Seoul. She has been a composition fellow at the Tanglewood, Bang on a Can, and SoundSCAPE festivals, the Wellesley Composers Conference, and the Atlantic Center for the Arts.   Anne Leilehua Lanzilotti (b. 1983) is a Kanaka Maoli musician from Honolulu, Hawaiʻi, dedicated to the arts of our time. A “leading composer-performer” (The New York Times), Lanzilotti’s “conceptually potent” work is characterized by explorations of timbre and an interest in translating everyday sounds to concert instruments using nontraditional techniques. Lanzilotti has composed words for ensembles such as the GRAMMY-winning Roomful of Teeth, Argus Quartet, and Chamber Music Hawaiʻi. Her works have been performed at international festivals such as Ars Electronica (Austria), Thailand International Composition Festival, and Dots+Loops in Australia. Lanzilotti is the recipient of a 2020 Native Launchpad Artist Award, a National Performance Network (NPN) Creation Fund Award, 2021 McKnight Visiting Composer Residency, and 2022 First Peoples Fund Artist in Business Leadership Fellow. As a recording artist, Lanzilotti has played on albums by artists such as Björk, Joan Osborne, Dai Fujikura, and David Lang. Lanzilotti’s upcoming solo performance projects include Wayfinder, a new viola concerto by Dai Fujikura inspired by Polynesian wayfinding. Read more

[Event postponed due to Covid-19.] An eclectic program of works for solo live performer and digital media showcases Shaw Auditorium’s state-of-the-art audiovisual system and promises cross-stimulation of the senses! The concert will include multi-instrumentalist JUNK!’s live performance on virtual reality instruments, as well as the world premiere of a new work by prize-winning Hong Kong composer and multimedia artist Samson Young, commissioned for the festival.  Program Samson Young  New Work (2022) for viola and electronics (world premiere - Cosmopolis Festival Commission) 10′ William Lane, viola Stylianos Dimou Momentum "I": death & escape (2019) for bass flute and electronics 9′ Angus Lee, bass flute Stylianos Dimou, electronics Tonia Ko Breath, Contained (2013/2016) for performer, bubble wrap, and electronics 5′ Timothy Page, bubble wrap and electronics Timothy Page Striate (2018/2022) for timpani-enhanced cello, objects, electronics, and video 13′ Chak Yin Pun, timpani-enhanced cello Natasha Barrett Dusks's Gate (2018) for 8-channel audio tape 12′ JUNK! JUNK!VR (2021) solo performance for virtual instruments and video 15′ Bios Multi-disciplinary artist Samson Young (b. 1979, Hong Kong) works in sound, performance, video, and installation. He graduated with a PhD in Music Composition from Princeton University in 2013. He was Hong Kong Sinfonietta’s Artist Associate from 2008 to 2009. In 2017, he represented Hong Kong at the 57th Venice Biennale. Other solo projects include the De Appel, Amsterdam; Kunsthalle Düsseldorf; Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh; SMART Museum, Chicago; Centre for Contemporary Chinese Art in Manchester; M+ Pavilion, Hong Kong; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; Ryosoku-in at Kenninji Temple, Kyoto; Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne; and Jameel Art Centre, Dubai, among others. Selected group exhibitions include Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Gropius Bau, Berlin; Performa 19, New York; Biennale of Sydney; Shanghai Biennale; National Museum of Art, Osaka; National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul; Ars Electronica, Linz; and documenta 14: documenta radio, among others. In 2020, he was awarded the inaugural Uli Sigg Prize.   William Lane performs as a soloist, orchestral and chamber musician in Australia, Asia, Europe and North America. He studied under Jan Sedivka, Bruno Giuranna and Garth Knox, as well as in Germany at the International Ensemble Modern Academy, and in Switzerland at the Lucerne Festival Academy under Pierre Boulez. He was a prizewinner of the Valentino Bucchi Competition in Rome in 2005. Lane was Principal Viola of Ensemble Resonanz and a member of the Hong Kong Philharmonic; and has appeared as guest violist of Ensemble Modern and the Lucerne Festival Strings. Based in Hong Kong since 2008, he is Founder, Artistic Director and Violist of Hong Kong New Music Ensemble, Asia’s most active professional chamber ensemble dedicated to new music. In 2013 he was awarded the Award for Young Artist (Music) from the Hong Kong Arts Development Council.   Stylianos Dimou is a Greek composer of acoustic, electroacoustic, and acousmatic music. Recipient of numerous International Awards and Grants, his music has been premiered and commissioned by Festivals and Institutions in Europe and the USA such as the Société des arts technologiques [SAT], impuls 2019, Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival 2019, IRCAM/manifeste, Gaudeamus Music Week, etc. His academic and artistic activities have been supported by organizations such as the Fulbright, IRCAM, Cité Internationale des Arts Paris, Herrenhaus Edenkoben, etc. His music has been premiered by renowned orchestras and ensembles such as the Ensemble InterContemporain, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, International Ensemble Modern Academy, the Arditti Quartet, Talea Ensemble, ICE ensemble, and others. Some of his awards include the Charles S. Miller Prize (2019) from Columbia University, Award for artistic excellence as a Promising young Composer from the European-wide Ulysses Network / IRCAM (2018-19), 1st Prize at the International Prize for Composition “Luigi Nono”, 3rd edition, 2nd Prize in the 24th Annual Martirano Award, etc. Dimou is an alumnus of the prestigious professional training program, Cursus, at IRCAM in Paris, and he holds a Doctoral Degree from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Columbia University. He is a Research Assistant Professor of Music in the Department of Music at Hong Kong Baptist University.   One of the most versatile musicians of his generation in Hong Kong, Angus Lee is a graduate of the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (2010–14) and the Royal Academy of Music in London (2014–16). Lee has appeared at numerous international music festivals, most notably the Lucerne Festival, where in 2013 he worked briefly with the Academy’s founder Pierre Boulez. Returning in 2015, he performed as soloist in Boulez’s 90th birthday celebration concert series, and reprised the performance in spring 2016 at the composer’s memorial concert. Lee retains a strong working relationship with the Lucerne Festival, having returned to perform on tour on multiple occasions. Since returning to Hong Kong in 2016, Lee has joined the Hong Kong New Music Ensemble, with which he has presented numerous regional and world premieres. Lee was appointed programme manager of the Ensemble since summer 2020. In 2020, Lee was conferred the Licentiate of the Royal Academy of Music, a specialised teaching degree offered by the Royal Academy of Music. Lee maintains a private studio at his residence.   Recipient of a 2018 Guggenheim Fellowship, Tonia Ko’s music has been lauded by The New York Times for its “captivating” details and “vivid orchestral palette.” She has been commissioned by leading soloists and ensembles, and performed at venues such as Walt Disney Concert Hall, Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center, and the Tanglewood Music Center, Aspen Music Festival, and the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival. Internationally, her work has been featured at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Royaumont Académie Voix Nouvelles, Shanghai Conservatory New Music Week, Young Composers Meeting at Apeldoorn, and Thailand International Composition Festival. Ko has received grants and awards from the Barlow Foundation, Fromm Music Foundation, Chamber Music America, American Academy of Arts and Letters, Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) as well as residencies at MacDowell Colony, The Copland House, and Djerassi Resident Artist Program. She served as the 2015-2017 Composer-in-Residence for Young Concert Artists. Ko was born in Hong Kong in 1988 and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii. She earned a B.M. with Highest Distinction from the Eastman School of Music and an M.M. from Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. She holds a D.M.A. from Cornell University, where she studied with Steven Stucky and Kevin Ernste. She was the 2018-19 Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Chicago’s Center for Contemporary Composition and was appointed Lecturer in Composition at Royal Holloway, University of London in 2020.   Chicago-born composer, musician, and performance artist Timothy Page creates works that revolve around play with style and context, body, physical materials, and space. Page holds degrees from the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland, where he established himself as a composer and studied with Veli-Matti Puumala; and the University of Chicago, where he completed his PhD with mentors Augusta Read Thomas and Anthony Cheung. In 2019 he was appointed Lecturer in Music and Digital Arts at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Page is a founder and co-director of Dayjob Collective – a Helsinki-based interdisciplinary ensemble investigating meeting points between contemporary music and performance art. His works have been performed around the globe by ensembles such as Ensemble Dal Niente (US), Third Coast Percussion (US), Eighth Blackbird (US), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra (FI), Avanti! (FI), Uusinta (FI), Defunensemble (FI), Dayjob Collective (FI), S.E.M. Ensemble (US/CZ), Caput (IS), and Cikada (NO).   Born and raised in Hong Kong, Chak-Yin Pun received his Diploma and Bachelor of Music Degree in cello from Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (HKAPA) in 2012 and 2015, under the tutelage of cellist Karey Kwok‐Chee Ho. In 2017, Pun completed his Master of Arts Degree in cello performance at Royal Academy of Music, where he was awarded the Mary Stuart Harding entrance award, under the tutelage of Professor David Strange. Pun currently teaches at the HKAPA Junior Music Programme. Pun has participated in masterclasses with cellists such as Professor Li Ji Wu, Bion Tsang, Professor Zhu Yi Bing, and Jens Peter Maintz. He has also participated in music festivals and projects such as Musicus Festival and the Modern Academy 2015. Pun has been awarded scholarships including the Breguet Trey Lee Scholarship in Pursuit of Musical Excellence, the Freemason's Lodge Scholarship, the First Initiative Foundation Music Scholarship, and the Breguet Trey Lee Performing Arts Scholarship. Highly active as a chamber musician, Pun participated in masterclasses with Vladimir Mendelssohn and Miami Quartet and is In 2021, Pun joined the Hong Kong New Music Ensemble (HKNME) as the group’s associate musician.   Internationally acclaimed electroacoustic composer and researcher Natasha Barrett creates acousmatic and live electroacoustic concert works, sound and multi-media installations, and interactive music. Since 2000 she has been highly active ambisonics, 3-D sound, and its contemporary music context. Barrett has received awards such as the Nordic Council Music Prize, (Nordic Countries), Giga-Hertz Award (Germany), Edvard Prize (Norway), Jury and public first prizes in Noroit-Leonce Petitot (France), Five prizes and the Euphonie D'Or in the Bourges International Electroacoustic Music Awards (France), prizes at Musica Nova (Prague), TEM - international composition competition (Italy), CIMESP (Brazil), Concours Scrime, (France), International Electroacoustic Competition Ciberart (Italy), two prizes in Concours Luigi Russolo (Italy), two prizes in the International Rostrum for electroacoustic music, and prizes in two Ars Electronica competitions (1998 and 2017). Active in performance, education and research, Barrett co-founded and now co-directs EAU (Electric Audio Unit - the Norwegian spatial-music performance ensemble) and 3DA (The Norwegian society for 3-D sound-art). She is currently professor of composition at the Norwegian Academy for Music, Oslo.   JUNK! is the alter-ego of Hong Kong-based, avant-garde multi-instrumentalist Glen Lloyd, who uses technology to push the boundaries of live performance. Glen has been experimenting with music technology since high school, using loopers, video game controllers, and other unconventional hardware to build live shows. When consumer virtual reality equipment became available, he took on the challenge of creating live music from inside a virtual space that could be simultaneously enjoyed by an audience. Glen has performed extensively as JUNK! in his native Australia, Japan, Vietnam, China, and Korea. Alongside his work as a musician, Glen runs a voiceover and music production business in Hong Kong.   Program notes Samson Young: new work (2022) for viola and electronics (world premiere, Cosmopolis Festival Commission) 10′ William Lane, viola   Stylianos Dimou: Momentum "I": death & escape (2019) for bass flute and electronics 9′ Angus Lee, bass flute   “momentum "I": death & escape” is a piece for bass flute and live electronics composed in 2019 and was commissioned by the 20th Weimarer Frühjahrstage für zeitgenössische Musik Weimar. The piece is developing a continuum of repetitive, rhythmic models which are in a constant counterpoint with counter-repetitive live-generated electronic sounds. The acoustic image of the live electronics is filtered by impulse responses, derived from the resonant parts of the bass flute. The ultimate goal is the creation of an electrified, electroacoustic experience that is characterized by acoustic hybridity and extends the sonic vocabulary of the bass flute. The piece was written for and is heartily dedicated to Carin Levine. -Stylianos Dimou   Tonia Ko: Breath,  Contained (2013/2016) for bubble wrap and electronics 5′ Timothy Page, bubble wrap and electronics   Breath, Contained is a structured improvisation with electronics, which allows musicians (of any sort) to engage with basic bubble wrap playing techniques. It features a text-based score with built-in flexibility for experimentation with the materials. It was first developed in 2013 as my first bubble wrap-related work, then later revised for Tenth Intervention’s Dorian Wallace in 2016.  -Tonia Ko     Timothy Page: Striate (2018/2022) for timpani-enhanced cello, objects, electronics, and video 13′ Chak Yin Pun, timpani-enhanced cello   Striate is an audio-visual exploration in instrumental hybridity. Amplified signal from the cello excites the membrane of a timpani, which acts as a variable resonator that the performer can adjust while playing. A series of images and actions on stage provides counterpoint to the sonic content, which focuses on the percussive potentials of the cello and the pitch content of the timpani sounds. Striate was a commission for Society of Electroacoustic Music Festival in 2018, and is dedicated, with gratitude, to cellist Tyler J. Borden, with whom I developed the work in close collaboration.  -Timothy Page   Natasha Barrett:  Dusk's Gate (2018) for 8-channel audio tape 12′   Dusk's Gait is partly narrative in form while projecting an overarching appreciation of the natural world: as dusk falls, a habitat of fictional creatures is let loose, celebrating moments of real nature that may easily expire. Although acousmatic sounds may appear abstract, they can be imbued with a sense of character through their gait - or literally the manner of moving, which can occur in space, in spectrum and in morphology. In Dusk's Gait, ambisonics spatialisation and custom-made sound analysis and transformation methods are used to create tangible spatial objects, each with a characteristic gait. Dusk's Gait is composed in 7th order 3D ambisonics. -Natasha Barrett   JUNK!:  JUNK!VR (2021) solo performance for virtual instruments and video 15′   JUNK!VR is the live, multimedia culmination of JUNK!’s meticulous work repurposing virtual reality equipment for use in musical performance. The one-man show puts the audience inside the virtual reality experience of the performer by projecting video of the “virtual instruments” that he plays on. JUNK!VR features a series of JUNK! originals and some reworkings of popular repertoire.   Read more

[Event postponed due to Covid-19.] Avant-garde multi-instrumentalist Glen Lloyd, a.k.a. JUNK!, works with HKUST’s music technology students on performing with virtual reality equipment. Students get to inhabit VR spaces, observed by the audience from the outside, in which they build and play virtual instruments. The event is open to the public. You can hear and see Glen’s own performance at the Cosmopolis Festival event Synesthesia: An Electroacoustic Music and Multimedia Concert.   Bio JUNK! is the alter-ego of Hong Kong-based, avant-garde multi-instrumentalist Glen Lloyd, who uses technology to push the boundaries of live performance. Glen has been experimenting with music technology since high school, using loopers, video game controllers, and other unconventional hardware to build live shows. When consumer virtual reality equipment became available, he took on the challenge of creating live music from inside a virtual space that could be simultaneously enjoyed by an audience. Glen has performed extensively as JUNK! in his native Australia, Japan, Vietnam, China, and Korea. Alongside his work as a musician, Glen runs a voiceover and music production business in Hong Kong. Read more

[Event postponed due to Covid-19.] Renowned Balinese composer-ethnomusicologist I Wayan Sudirana and his 20-piece ensemble Gamelan Yuganada will present Balinese Gamelan as a living, evolving tradition, performing a spectacular program of sacred classical pieces alongside premieres of new repertoire composed specifically for the Cosmopolis Festival. Due to Covid-19 restrictions, this event has been moved online. Program Classical Semara Pegulingan piece Neoclassical Pelegongan piece New work for New Gender (metallophone ensemble) New work for full Yuganada ensemble Gamelan Yuganada I Wayan Sudirana, composer and director Bios   Born in Ubud, Bali, I Wayan Sudirana is one of Indonesia’s most well-known composers. With an international profile as a performer and educator, he is also one of the most recognized professors at the Indonesian Institute for the Arts in Denpasar. After graduating from the Institute, Wayan Sudirana studied at the University of British Columbia in Canada, where he received his MA and PhD in Ethnomusicology. He was commissioned by the Canadian government to compose a piece combining Balinese gamelan, Japanese Taiko, and bagpipes, to be performed at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. He has collaborated with renowned composers and other artists, including Michael Tenzer (2003–2013), Andrew Clay McGraw (2006–2010), Peter Michael Steele and Joshep Sandino (2007), Gamelan X, and has performed at Carnegie Hall, New York. Sudirana has authored a book on the future of the Balinese sacred ensemble (2019) and released two albums featuring his own compositions (2019 and 2020). Gamelan Yuganada is a Balinese gamelan and performing arts ensemble that focuses on traditional and contemporary Balinese music and dance. The group strives to perform and teach at the highest levels of artistry, worthy of its growing international reputation, while remaining equally committed to the children, youths, elders, and master artists that are the heart of our community in Bali. Gamelan Yuganada has collaborated with Jack Morton World Wide to produce a major event for the International Meeting for IBM in 2017, 2018, and 2019. The group has also performed in Korea (World Samulnori Competition 2015), and Malaysia (Kaleidoscope Drumming Festival 2016; George Town Festival, and Taksu Production, 2019; Taksu Ubud with the Titimangsa Foundation, 2020). Gamelan Yuganada has recorded two CDs: New Music for Gamelan by the composer I Wayan Sudirana; and Geguntangan, for ancient Balinese-style vocal ensemble, both released in 2019.   Read more

[Event postponed due to Covid-19.] Online discussion between composers featured at this year’s festival, which will see a total of four world premieres and two Asian premieres, including music commissioned specifically for Cosmopolis. Participants include noted sound and installation artist Samson Young; Pulitzer-finalist Augusta Read Thomas; Princeton Composition Professor Juri Seo; joining HKUST’s composition faculty, Ilari Kaila and Timothy Page.  Bios Multi-disciplinary artist Samson Young (b. 1979, Hong Kong) works in sound, performance, video, and installation. He graduated with a PhD in Music Composition from Princeton University in 2013. He was Hong Kong Sinfonietta’s Artist Associate from 2008 to 2009. In 2017, he represented Hong Kong at the 57th Venice Biennale. Other solo projects include the De Appel, Amsterdam; Kunsthalle Düsseldorf; Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh; SMART Museum, Chicago; Centre for Contemporary Chinese Art in Manchester; M+ Pavilion, Hong Kong; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; Ryosoku-in at Kenninji Temple, Kyoto; Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne; and Jameel Art Centre, Dubai, among others. Selected group exhibitions include Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Gropius Bau, Berlin; Performa 19, New York; Biennale of Sydney; Shanghai Biennale; National Museum of Art, Osaka; National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul; Ars Electronica, Linz; and documenta 14: documenta radio, among others. In 2020, he was awarded the inaugural Uli Sigg Prize.   One of the most widely performed living composers in America today, Augusta Read Thomas (“a true virtuoso composer” —The New York Times) has won the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize, been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and was featured on a Grammy-winning CD by Chanticleer. In 2016, Thomas was named the Chicagoan of the Year. Championed by such luminaries as Barenboim, Rostropovich, Boulez, Eschenbach, Salonen, Maazel, Ozawa, and Knussen, she rose early to the top of her profession. The American Academy of Arts and Letters described Thomas as “one of the most recognizable and widely loved figures in American Music."

Recent and upcoming commissions include those from the Santa Fe Opera in collaboration with the San Francisco Opera and other opera companies, PEAK Performances at Montclair State University and the Martha Graham Dance Company, the Cathedral Choral Society of Washington D.C., the Indianapolis Symphony, Tanglewood, the Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra, Des Moines Symphony, Boston Symphony, Utah Symphony, Wigmore Hall in London, JACK quartet, Third Coast Percussion, Spektral Quartet, Chicago Philharmonic, Eugene Symphony, the Danish Chamber Players, Notre Dame University, Lorelei Vocal Ensemble, and the Fromm Foundation. Thomas is a University Professor of Composition in Music and the College at the University of Chicago. Thomas was the longest-serving Mead Composer-in-Residence with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for conductors Daniel Barenboim and Pierre Boulez (1997–2006). She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Letters.   Juri Seo (b. 1981) is a Korean-American composer and pianist based in New Jersey, where she works as Associate Professor of Music at Princeton University. She seeks to write music that encompasses extreme contrast through compositions that are unified and fluid, yet complex. She merges many of the fascinating aspects of music from the past century—in particular its expanded timbral palette and unorthodox approach to structure—with a deep love of functional tonality, counterpoint, and classical form. Her composition honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, Koussevitzky Commission from the Library of Congress, Goddard Lieberson Fellowship and Andrew Imbrie Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Copland House Residency Award, and the Otto Eckstein Fellowship from Tanglewood. She has received commissions from the Fromm Foundation, the Barlow Endowment, the Goethe Institut, and the Tanglewood Music Center. Her portrait albums Mostly Piano and Respiri were released by Innova Recordings. She holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where she studied with Reynold Tharp, having also attended the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Rome, and Yonsei University, Seoul. She has been a composition fellow at the Tanglewood, Bang on a Can, and SoundSCAPE festivals, the Wellesley Composers Conference, and the Atlantic Center for the Arts.   Ilari Kaila is a Finnish-American composer and pianist whose music has been described with words such as “haunting”, “intriguing”, “engaging … soulful” (The New York Times), “nearly unbearable beauty… A modern masterpiece” (The WholeNote), “melodically euphoric” (Rondo Classic), “hypnotic… trancelike… fascinatingly colorful” (New York Music Daily), “I kept coming back to it… the music is so beautiful, and I want to experience it again and again” (Orchestergraben—5 Best New Music Albums of 2020), “magnificent and glistening” (Amfion), “powerfully resonating” (Helsingin Sanomat), “haunting” (The New Yorker), and “Kaila brings with him an exciting message of rebirth built upon classical foundations” (Percorsi Musicali—Best of 2020). 

Most recently, Kaila has been featured at a MATA composer portrait concert in New York, and as the Composer-in-Residence of the Chelsea Music Festival in New York and Taipei. His music has been performed at the 2014 Metropolis Festival in Australia by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and Olli Mustonen; the 2014 Banff Centre Summer Arts Festival in Canada; the 2014 Music at the Anthology (MATA) Festival in New York City; and the New York International Fringe Festival 2014; among others. Other artists and ensembles Kaila has worked with include the Escher String Quartet, Tanglewood New Fromm Players, Uusinta Ensemble, Hong Kong New Music Ensemble, Albany Symphony Orchestra, Kuopio Symphony Orchestra, Joensuu Symphony Orchestra, Stony Brook Symphony Orchestra, and the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra’s chamber ensembles. An album of Kaila’s chamber music, recorded by the Aizuri Quartet and Adrienne Kim, was released on the Innova Recordings label in March 2020.   Chicago-born composer, musician, and performance artist Timothy Page creates works that revolve around play with style and context, body, physical materials, and space. Page holds degrees from the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland, where he established himself as a composer and studied with Veli-Matti Puumala; and the University of Chicago, where he completed his PhD with mentors Augusta Read Thomas and Anthony Cheung. In 2019 he was appointed Lecturer in Music and Digital Arts at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Page is a founder and co-director of Dayjob Collective – a Helsinki-based interdisciplinary ensemble investigating meeting points between contemporary music and performance art. His works have been performed around the globe by ensembles such as Ensemble Dal Niente (US), Third Coast Percussion (US), Eighth Blackbird (US), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra (FI), Avanti! (FI), Uusinta (FI), Defunensemble (FI), Dayjob Collective (FI), S.E.M. Ensemble (US/CZ), Caput (IS), and Cikada (NO). Read more

[Event postponed due to Covid-19.] Renowned Balinese composer-ethnomusicologist I Wayan Sudirana will lead a discussion on musical fundamentals of Balinese Gamelan, its cultural context, and his work as a composer and director of Gamelan Yuganada in contributing to the living, evolving Gamelan tradition.   Bio   Born in Ubud, Bali, I Wayan Sudirana is one of Indonesia’s most well-known composers. With an international profile as a performer and educator, he is also one of the most recognized professors at the Indonesian Institute for the Arts in Denpasar. After graduating from the Institute, Wayan Sudirana studied at the University of British Columbia in Canada, where he received his MA and PhD in Ethnomusicology. He was commissioned by the Canadian government to compose a piece combining Balinese gamelan, Japanese Taiko, and bagpipes, to be performed at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. He has collaborated with renowned composers and other artists, including Michael Tenzer (2003–2013), Andrew Clay McGraw (2006–2010), Peter Michael Steele and Joshep Sandino (2007), Gamelan X, and has performed at Carnegie Hall, New York. Sudirana has authored a book on the future of the Balinese sacred ensemble (2019) and released two albums featuring his own compositions (2019 and 2020). Read more