Longy’s Divergent Studio presents a program of Lei Liang’s “inarguably gorgeous” (Washington Post) compositions, performed by festival participants hailing from all over the U.S., as well as New York City-based new music chamber group, loadbang. Liang’s music is a “colorful and dramatic fusion” of East and West (The American Academy of Arts and Letters, 2021). Addressing issues both civil and environmental, it is “deeply philosophical, yet sensual, evocative, yet abstract, and disciplined, yet spontaneous” (Yayoi Uno Everett, Linear Notes (Mode Records)).
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Divergent Studio • Divergent Guests: Lei Liang
Friday • June 16, 2023 | 8:00 pm 9:00 pm
Free – $20.00
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In only 6 years of existence and with loadbang as the ensemble-in-residence, Longy’s Divergent Studio has quickly become a major destination for student composers and performers of contemporary music from around the globe. Directed by trumpeter and conductor Andy Kozar, Divergent Studio has brought together hundreds of young performers and composers and welcomed many of the world’s most influential living composers as guest faculty including Pulitzer Prize winner Raven Chacon, Eve Beglarian, Angélica Negrón, Christian Wolff, Han Lash, Sebastian Currier, and Mark Applebaum, and in this year’s session will host Lei Liang, Alex Mincek, and Niloufar Nourbakhsh. These 10 days of Divergent Studio will consist of over 10 concerts, by the faculty and student performers alike and often side-by-side. All concerts are open to the public.
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