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ARTISTS CONFRONTING SOCIETY - A PANEL DISCUSSION AND PERFORMANCE

  • US China Music Institute Online Bard College Conservatory of Music Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 12504 (map)

ASIAN
AMERICAN
VOICES


Zoom Webinar Starting at 8pm EST

Panelists

Huang Ruo, composer
David Henry Hwang, playwright
Charlton Lee, violist
Jindong Cai, conductor
Takuma Itoh, composer
Jungyoon Wie, composer
Erberk Eryilmaz, composer
Vijay Iyer, composer

Zoom Link

bard.zoom.us/j/87308776994?pwd=NUhqbXJwUW5oRHhEZzFqODFFeVVtQT09

Passcode: 885849

YouTube Livestream Starting at 9:30pm EST

Performance

DEL SOL QUARTET
Huang Ruo, A Dust in Time, passacaglia for string quartet (2020)

Livestream Starts at 9:30pm EST


Festival composer-in-residence Huang Ruo, Tony award-winning playwright David Henry Hwang, violist Charlton Lee of the Del Sol Quartet, and artistic director of the China Now Music Festival, Jindong Cai, along with other guest artists, will discuss their experience as Asian American artists and reflect on how this particular moment in history has shaped their creative process and their views on the role of the artist in society.

Following the panel discussion, and in celebration of their October 15 CD release, the Del Sol Quartet will present their recording of Huang Ruo’s meditation on the pandemic, A Dust in Time.


About the Participants