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Tangram
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For this week’s contemporary music research collective seminar, we welcome Alex Ho and Sun Keting (Rockey), the co-directors of Tangram, an artist collective specialising in multidisciplinary and cross-cultural productions. Tangram projects have ranged from collaborations with Chinese sword dance and Chinese opera masters, programmes of music made for stones, ice blocks and plastic bags, and performance with live action painting and audience participation. Alex and Rockey will talk about how they develop new projects, the aims and work practices of the collective, and their cross-cultural, collaborative approach. Tangram are performing their current production, Nature Echo, in the York Concerts series on February 26 th , and Alex and Rockey will introduce that project, which includes new compositions by each of them.
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Alex Ho, co-founder and co-director of Tangram, is a British-Chinese composer whose music and stage works have been described as “menacing and poetic'' (The Guardian), ''important and impressive'' (Opera Today), and a ''fresh, different idea that captured the imagination'' (Scottish New Music Awards 2021). Winner of the UK Critics' Circle Young Artist Award 2021 for his ''compelling and individual'' works, Alex is a resident composer at Glyndebourne Opera (2023-26). Alex’s music theatre piece, Untold, premiered to critical acclaim at Concertgebouw Bruggeand O. Festival Rotterdam in Spring 2023 and won the FEDORA Opera Prize 2023 for a ''bold and moving creation''. Alex has had pieces performed/commissioned by the London Symphony Orchestra, Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Manchester Camerata, BBC Radio 3, Royal Philharmonic Society, Royal Opera House, Het Concertgebouw, National Opera Studio, Music Theatre Wales, London Sinfonietta, Riot Ensemble, VOCES8, and National Youth Choirs of Great Britain. Alex graduated from Oxford and Cambridge universities and completed a doctorate at the Royal College of Music with a full AHRC scholarship.
Sun Keting, co-director of Tangram, is a China-born, London-based composer, creative director, and researcher. Her compositions focus on performing arts and instrumental sound exploration, combining Eastern cultural, spiritual and philosophical elements. The Independent described her as “the Future Way to Go” and praised her “harmonic imagination, mastery of instrumentation” by Bachtrack. Keting’s music has graced stages globally, with pieces performed by the London Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Sinfonietta, National Youth Choir of Great Britain, Riot Ensemble, Ligeti Quartet and the BBC Singers. Notably, she composed for Birmingham Royal Ballet’s “Black Sabbath”. Having earned her B.A. from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music and an MMus from the Royal Academy of Music, Keting is pursuing a doctorate at the Royal Academy of Music.
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