Works by CSS Composers Premiered at 37th ACL Reviewed in Resonate Magazine

by | Mar 17, 2025 | News

For those that were not able to attend the 37th Asian Composers League Festival, where 6 works by CSS composers were premiered in February, Dr. Andrián Pertout has written a thorough review of the works performed.

“The closing concert of the ACL festival on Friday 7 February 2025 at the beautiful MUZA Kawasaki Symphony Hall opened with the world premiere of Chung Shih Hoh’s (Singapore) Distancing Echo for orchestra (2021), which in the composer’s own words attempts to express the “social conditions of separation and distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic.” It proved to be a highly rich harmonic work, rooted in a modernist musical language, with a beautiful expansive energy that connects thematically with the composer’s intention of continuously forming melodies “fragmented in time, register and colour.”

Read the full review here!

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