About the performances:
Sam Wu is a self-taught 18-year-old wunderkind whose award-winning chamber music compositions have been described as "warm, sincere, and characteristic of a compassionate 21st-century metropolitan youth." His chamber composition dolphin song is a lamentation on the recent extinction of Yangtze River "baiji" White Dolphins, played by the violin, the viola, the cello, the piano, the bamboo flute, and percussion. He is currently studying at Harvard University.
Qin Yi is a contemporary electronic music pioneer who has created Mirror Mind, a crossover experiment combining dramatic performance, live percussion, interactive multi-channel electronic music, and new-media visual arts. Mirror Mind explores the multilayered nature of human existence with a "pan-acoustic" narrative approach.
Zulan is an internationally recognized composer who created a special new music piece based on the prize-winning play Death and the Maiden, using music to describe the "Six Desires of a Human Being" — a Buddhist concept which describes the six sensory pleasures derived from the eyes, ears, nose, body, and mind.
Upper East Side, New York, NY