Asia is consistently producing some of contemporary culture’s most fascinating music, often straddling the two aesthetics of the European postwar and classical Asian music. It thus gives the Ensemble Sospeso much pleasure to collaborate with Seattle’s Bryan Ohno Gallery in setting the entire series
Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido by the nineteenth century woodcut master
Ando Hiroshige to contemporary masterworks for solo cello by
Mayuzumi and Ung.
Hugh Livingston, cello, has given over one hundred performances of new works, with many premieres; he has explored new areas of electroacoustic music, and is particularly engaged in the adaptation of classical Asian musics to the Western practice. Mr. Livingston, currently a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University, won the Music of Japan Today competition for interpretation of Asian music; the recording
Strings and Machines, featuring newly commissioned works for solo cello and electronics, will be released in summer 1999, and a CD of Asian solo cello music is forthcoming.
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hugh livingston
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