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What: Lunchtime Concert Series - Featuring Chong Kee Yong
Who: Chong Kee Yong
When: Tue 23 Feb 2010, 1pm
Where: The Singapore Airlines Theatre, Basement 1, LASALLE College of the Arts
Type: Concert
Admission: Free
This Lunchtime concert features the compositions of Chong Kee Yong, one of the Malaysia's leading contemporary music composer, is one of the most exciting voices today. Few composers can manage to fashion a truly individual sound from the experimental techniques of today, and Chong belongs to this special class who can turn a melange of exquisite timbres into a compelling piece of music with his own fingerprints, music that composer Peter Eötvös describes as “imaginative and poetic” and composer Jonathan Harvey comment his music as “very inventive and artistically pure”.
His style is highly experimental and innovative, yet deeply spiritual and lyrical in its own way. Chong’s musical language is enriched by his own Chinese, as well as the multicultural Malaysian, heritage; for example there are traces of Beijing Opera and Gamelan in Monodrama (2004) and hints of kabuki and Asian funeral rituals in his symphonic work Tearless Moon (2006).
The Lunchtime Concert Series is a fortnightly performance presented by School of Contemporary Music (SoCM), Faculty of Performing Arts.
