Later this summer I’m taking the choir of Robinson College to Hong Kong, where we’ve been invited to give a concert alongside some of the brightest stars of Chinese music, including Yundi Li. I’ve been asked to write a piece which will end the concert and draw together the brilliant young pianist Niu Niu, the wonderful singer Yang Peiyi who delighted the world at the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony, two outstanding violinists from Robinson College, Catherine Myerscough and Guy Button, the college Choir, and the orchestra of the Hong Kong Academy of the Performing Arts. If this wasn’t enough of a mix, I’ll be setting words in Chinese, written by the distinguished and enormously successful novelist Louis Cha, famous for his best-selling martial arts novels. It’s looking like a hugely exciting trip, and the commission is certainly a challenge!
Peace, Harmony and Martial Arts
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Jeremy Thurlow is a composer, writer and pianist. His music has been performed by the BBC Philharmonic, Sequitur, the Fitzwilliam String Quartet, Endymion, the Kreutzer Quartet, the Schubert Ensemble, the BBC Singers, Matthew Schellhorn, Rolf Hind, among many others. His book on Dutilleux is published in French by Millénaire III, and he has also written and broadcast on Messiaen and numerous other twentieth-century composers. View all posts by Jeremy Thurlow
