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Call for scores: 15 Minutes of Fame

Call for scores: 15 Minutes of Fame

MCC - 6/06/2014

UPDATE: 15 Minutes of Fame - 15 one-minute piano works + 15 one-minute short films (15 Sep 2014) We have invited composers from Malaysia and ACL to compose a one-minute piano work for the project. The selected pieces will be performed by a Malaysian pianist and will go on to inspire Malaysian film artists to create a one-minute short film to the music soundtrack. MCC received entries from all over Asia, from Taiwan to New Zealand and beyond, a wonderful kaleidescope of varying musical views on the subject. Presently the pianists are reh…

Zen from the north: Johan Othman's second opera in progress

Zen from the north: Johan Othman's second opera in progress

MCC - 6/05/2014

As the curtain comes down on 2013, composers of Malaysian art music can look back with pride that it has indeed been a fruitful year of activity. Apart from the action-packed ACL festival, and Jessica Cho who is putting together a CD anthology of women Malaysian composers, up north in Penang Johan Othman for example is still busy penning away notes to score after premiering his wind octet in KL with the High Winds Ensemble led by oboist-conductor Joost Flach. And having just completed music to the play 'The Sandpit' at Penang Perfo…

Tracking our new music since 1995

Tracking our new music since 1995

MCC - 6/05/2014

Here is a roundup of selected premieres of Malaysian works at home and abroad. Since the mid-90s Malaysian works have been performed largely abroad, but from the 2000s onwards has increasingly been heard at home as well. Local works are becoming a part of the country's busy concert schedule, as well as abroad, such as the regular Asian Composers League festivals around the region. You can peruse scores and recordings of many of these works at MCC's digital library .  July 22, 2022, Kuala Lumpur Adeline Wong Jalinan (2021) | for …