Russia:Today (2020) returns to the stage after two years as part of the INTO THE OPEN festival at the Kühlhaus, Berlin, with EXAUDI conducted by James Weeks performing the landmark score.
The Once and Future (2021) finally returns to the stage, this time in its European premiere, with new staging by Giorgio Biancorosso, and performances by Anandi Bhattacharya and the Berliner Philharmoniker musicians, conducted by Stanley Dodds.
I will join Myriam Achard (Chief New Media and Partnerships & PR, PHI) and Rujing Stacy Huang (HKU) for a panel discussion on the growing influence of AI on cultural management- an event titled “Can AI Be Us?”, as part of the HKAAA Cultural Leadership Summit.
I demonstrate some of my recent projects integrating art and technology, specifically holography and extended cinema, at the Education University of Hong Kong as part of Prof Mette Hjort’s “Visualising Culture” course.
An artist’s talk and presentation of my works merging art and technology at Kazakhstan’s leading music conservatory.
Quatuor Arod will give the Italian premiere of my String Quartet no. 2 (2024) at this historic venue in Italy’s Renaissance capital.
The conclusion of Russian Film Day will take shape in a discussion between myself and one of the world’s leading ‘new’ scholars on Russia, Jade McGlynn.
The centrepiece of Russian Film Day at the JdP will be the screening of the film version of Russia: Today (2020), with cinematography by Alexandra Karelian and music recorded by Argentum Ensemble, conducted by Aivis Greters.
The opening lecture of a conference/focus on Russia: Today (2020) as part of Russian Film Day at the JdP Music Building at the University of Oxford. I will chart a course through some of my most controversial vocal and operatic works, leading to the composition of Russia: Today.
A lecture-discussion titled “Hyper-Real Extended Reality Performance: the future of musical expression through technology”, covering recent and future projects merging arts and technology, particularly projective ‘performance’ as seen with ARIA 空氣頌 (2020) and Os dias mais longos e os mais curtos (2022), hosted by the Research Office of Hong Kong Baptist University.