Very excited to share that David and I are funded by the Canada Council to tour in China this May/June. This has been a longtime dream and deeply personal project for me to pay tribute to my immigrant parents and return to visit their hometowns in Hunan and Harbin. Thank you to the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing for inviting us. We will be featuring Alice Ping Yee Ho’s “Four Impressions of China”, Fuhong Shi’s “The Reed”, and premiering a new commission by Wendy Lee.
Read MoreLooking forward to being back at public work again. From hospitals to libraries to cafes to concert stages - all profoundly humbling, necessary work. Even in these uncertain times, with so many issues that seem larger than us, it is still precisely the right time to do what we do as artists, musicians - to plant tiny seeds of kindness, resilience, camaraderie. To “want to start again”. That’s the theme, of this year, of last, of every year we continue to relearn how to survive the pendulum of hope and despair. How to grow. Marching in circles, it seems. But not quite. There is a movement, a change, tiny variations. And we will reveal it. Listen.
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