News: Concerts and Performances

 

Shoreham Church, July 1, 2006

 

September 2008

Premiere of Sextet for Piano and Strings by the Landon Ensemble

The Cello Factory, Waterloo, London

 

July 22 2008 

Performance of Three Tang Dynasty Pieces on ancient harp by Tomoko Sugawara,  9:30-10:30 at the 10th World Harp Congress in Amsterdam. 

 

June 17 2008

Solo electric qin performance, 7:00

St. Paul's Church, Riverside, CT 

 

April 15 2008 

Performance of Three Tang Dynasty Pieces on ancient harp by Tomoko Sugawara.  at 4:30 - 6:30 in McCormick Hall 101 of Princeton University.  Sponsored by the Tang Center, the Music Department, and the East Asian Studies program.

 

April 12-May 2008

Exhibition of riverrun, a collaboration with Susan Haire

Hammond Museum, North Salem, New York

April 12 at 3:00: Concert of music for qin and konghou

 

April 11 2008

6-9 pm: Concert of music for qin and konghou

Wisteriahurst Museum, Holyoke, MA 

 

February 22 2008

Premiere of Pozhen Yue Concerto, with Cheng Yu playing 5-stringed pipa and Chinese chamber orchestra

British Museum, London

 

December 5-12 2007

Exhibition of La vita nuova, a collaboration with Susan Haire

The Cello Factory, Waterloo, London

 

November 28 2007 

Performance of Three Tang Dynasty Pieces on ancient harp by Tomoko Sugawara. 

7:00 - 9:00 University of Pennsylvania Center for East Asian Studies

 

October 15 2007

Preview of Dante's  La vita nuova, a play by Alison Atkins produced by Rebus Touring Arts

Stowe Festival, Roxburgh Theatre, Stowe School, Buckingham, England

 

September 28 2007

Solo qin performance at Autumn Moon Festival, 6:30-7:30

New York Chinese Scholar's Garden at Staten Island Botanical Garden 

 

March 27, 2007

Wang Zhaojun for five-stringed pipa performed by Cheng Yu

Taiwan National Orchestra 

Taipei, Taiwan

 

February 15, 2007

The Ancient Asian Harp Reborn: Performance of Three Tang Dynasty Pieces on ancient harp by Tomoko Sugawara.  301 Philosophy Hall, Columbia University; starts at 6:00.

 

February 11, 2007

New York Qin Society: Festival of Ancient Chinese Music, Greenwich House, New York:

Presentation of paper, Contemporary Performance of Tang Melodies

Performance of Three Tang Dynasty Pieces on ancient harp by Tomoko Sugawara

Solo qin performances

 

November 12, 2006

Presentation of electric qin techniques and performance at the London Youlan Qin Society

 

October 18, 2006

Presentation of electric qin techniques at "The Week of Qin Culture" (Beijing, China)

 

September 16, 2006

Solo qin concert, Diamond Hill United Methodist Church, 521 East Putnam Avenue, Cos Cob, CT. Will present silk and metal-string qin, as well as electric qin.

 

September 2, 2006

Thousand Buddha Offering, Godstow, Redding, CT: Solo qin performance

 

July 27, 2006

Hammond Museum Asian Arts Festival: Performance with Yip Ming-mei

 

July 11, 2006

O Sacrum Convivium at Adirondack Festival of American Music

 

July 1, 2006

Qin for SPIRIT (Shoreham Church, Shoreham, Kent, England): Recital of pieces for Susan Haire's exhibition

 

June 4, 2006

New York Qin Society: Music from the Spiritual Mists of China

 

April 4, 2006

Serenade (flute, voice, guitar, qin) at Hudson River Museum

 

February 5, 2006

New York Chinese Scholar's Garden: New Year's qin recital with Yip Ming-mei

 

October 5-9, 2005

CHIME conference, Amsterdam: Performance of Four Yuefu Songs with Cheng Yu

'Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ', Amsterdam: Qin performance

 

September 24-25, 2005

New York CultureFest: Performance with Hou Guizhi

 

July 17, 2005

Hammond Museum Asian Arts Festival: Performance with Hou Guizhi

 

February 25, 2005

Guildhall School, London: Wind Chimes, with Cheng Yu and her 5-stringed pipa

 

February 16, 2005

SOAS, London: Wind Chimes, with Cheng Yu and her 5-stringed pipa

 

May 16, 2004

New York Chinese Scholar's Garden: Solo qin recital

 

 

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The Installation

A single room creates the environment. When the visitor walks in, a complex but unified sound will meet her, and an equally complex but unified palette of colors will cover the walls. As she walks from one painting to the next, the discrete shapes of the paintings will emerge, as will new sounds, new music.

The Paintings

Water itself is an important tool in the making of Haire’s work. The paint is put down wet on wet and the paintings are put under running water before the paint is dry. Haire fully exploits the fluid qualities of paint, mirroring the characteristics of water in nature. The work, focusing on the power of water, will contribute to the creation of a distinct atmosphere within the gallery space. The paintings will be hung in front of the walls, in the manner of Chinese scrolls; however, they will be suspended somewhat away from the walls, both leaving space for loudspeakers behind them and also giving them a disembodied, ethereal character. Some paintings will be hung in groups, while others will stand solitary.

The Music

The visual experience will have its counterpart in the central musical theme, a melody played on a Chinese classical instrument, the qin, as well as a restored harp from the Tang dynasty (618-907), the konghou. The music is based on two melodies from that time, Qin River Birds and River Waters. The arrangement of this ancient music will be completely new. As the visitor walks around the installation, separate loudspeakers will project separate aspects of the music at the locations of individual paintings and groups of paintings. Some of it will be recorded music, including qin and konghou music, some will be electronically manipulated instrumental and natural sounds, and some will be purely electronic. Sometimes a musical idea will travel around the room, bouncing from one painting to another. All will be facets of a single musical work.