BALDWIN GIANG, ENSEMBLE GARAGE & FRIENDS

Post-globalization identity and hybridity in urban environments have shaped the personal background of Baldwin Giang, composer and pianist-in-residence at Mahler & LeWitt Studios. 

‍Scenes from the Post-Diaspora explores these themes and develops them in a multi-movement multimediaopera where Giang's music, masterfully interpreted by the German Ensemble Garage together with artists from from Taiwan, Vietnam, the Netherlands and Italy, is accompanied from by footage made in urban environments that have marked the composer's personal journey. 

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"For the movement set to Rome"- Giang comments-"I am working with Italian video artist Andrea Bancone. We are interested in how  queerness and migration intersect with the palimpsestic nature of Roman city life: just as Rome is built on many layers of history, which are often submerged but can emerge in ruptures of historical time in unexpected places in the city,  queerness is largely invisible but is made visible during opportune flashes and clandestine encounters. Immigrants also rise and fall in the social imaginary of contemporary Rome. I am interested to how this constellation of ideas can suggest new approaches to the revelation and layering of musical material, the unfolding of musical time, and to a nonlinear perspective on the future." 

Baldwin Giang is an internationally renowned composer, pianist, interdisciplinary creator and educator whose music engages the energies of the audience and artist community and creates concert experiences that are opportunities for wonder and collective judgment. He won the Samuel Barber Rome Prize and is a resident at the American Academy in Rome for 2023/2024.

CREDIT

Ensemble Garage

Carlos Cordeiro clarinet/bass clarinet

Malgorzata Walentynowicz piano/keyboard

Yuka Ohta percussion

Steffen Ahrens guitar

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with

Laura Faoro flute

Rada Ocharova violin

Jacob Schafer violin

Emlyn Stam purple

James Morley cello

Yun-han Su pipa

‍EliasPeter Brown director.

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music Baldwin Giang

#感謝國藝會贊助本次計畫

#Supported by National Culture and Arts Foundation

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