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[Future City]
Concert by Composer Gene Coleman (USA)

Presented by The Hong Kong New Music Ensemble and Videotage



Date: November 12, 2009 (Thursday)
Time: 8:00pm
Venue: Unit 13, Cattle Depot Artist Village, 63 Ma Tau Kok Road, To Kwa Wan, Kln, HK
Artists: Gene Coleman
Ticket: $100 at the door only ($50 concession ticket for students)

Hong Kong premiere performances of: Andolangen for video, Future City for ensemble, Hyper Sensory Dream (World Premiere) for ensemble with live video score November 12, 2009- This Future City Concert features works by Gene Coleman, one of the USA’s leading interdisciplinary composers. This concert features performances by Coleman himself on clarinet and members of the Hong Kong New Music Ensemble, one of Hong Kong’s leading chamber music ensembles. All works will be presented with video.

About the artist

Gene Coleman is a composer, musician and artistic director. He has created over 40 works for various instrumentations, often-using complex notations and improvisation in the same score. Radical use of the instrument's sound producing possibilities makes Coleman, both as a composer and as a performer, a musician who seeks a greater synthesis between what is called sound (or noise) and what is called music. Gene Coleman studied painting, music and filmmaking at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago from 1979 to 1984. Since 2001 his work has focused on globalization and music’s relationship with architecture and video. In Asia, he has worked in Japan and Taiwan. This will be his first major collaboration in Hong Kong.

The Hong Kong New Music Ensemble is a chamber ensemble, formed in 2008 with some of the best local and international instrumentalists living in Hong Kong. The HKNME presents the best new music in Hong Kong by local Hong Kong composers, Asian composers and also by important international figures. It intends to foster interesting interdisciplinary collaborations, and to present the highest quality contemporary music to Hong Kong audiences on a regular basis. The ensemble is of a flexible instrumentation, from chamber music configuration to the size of a small chamber orchestra.

For more information on Future City, please call William Lane on (852) 6802.6458 or visit http://www.hknme.org

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