I met composer and pianist Anthony Cheung during our student days in New York. His dramatic and atmospheric music draws from a well of music ranging from the older Western classical repertoire, American and European recent classical music, jazz, Chinese traditional music, and more.

I’m happy to have several collaborations with him. In 2020, in the midst of pandemic lockdowns, I posted a video project I was involved in, featuring Asian musicians, for which I played Anthony’s piece Character Studies.

His new album All Roads includes that work and also his duo Elective Memory, which I play with his beautiful playing at the piano. Hope you’ll have a listen!

 

 

This summer at the Ojai Festival, we gave the world premiere of Anthony’s work “the echoing of tenses” . Along with violin and piano, the piece involves song (sung by AMOC’s Paul Appleby), spoken text, sampled recordings, electronics using six different microtonal tunings, and poetry by seven Asian-American poets. We’re very excited to perform “the echoing of tenses” this May 18th at the 92nd Street Y in New York.