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Hong Kong International a cappella Festival Comes To A Close

The Hong Kong International a cappella Festival 2025, an annual signature event of The Hong Kong Federation of Youth Groups (HKFYG), has just concluded on a resounding note. The nine-day festival brought together 20 overseas and local vocal ensembles and attracted over 4,000 spectators in one of the world’s largest a cappella concerts. The two-day show held at the Queen Elizabeth Stadium…

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Hans Zimmer LIVE Concerts in Asia 2025

Award winning film composer Hans Zimmer has announced his Australia and Asia LIVE dates this 2025. With five dates announced for April 2025, the multiple Academy Award® and Grammy winner is bringing his smash-hit tour to Asia with new tour dates across China, Japan and…

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Michelle Mariposa wins MetOpera competition 2025 Music Press Asia
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Interview with Filipino Mezzo Soprano Michelle Mariposa

Pinay mezzo-soprano singer Michelle Mariposa was one of the 1,500 participants of the Metropolitan Opera’s Eric and Dominique Laffont Competition. The 30-year-old Filipino-Chinese singer from Quezon City wowed judges with her performance of Gioachino Rossini’s Semiramide, and Jules Massenet’s Werther and emerged…

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Wildlife Filmmaker Roger Webb on making 7-part documentry series ‘Asia’

Recently released, Sir David Attenborough presents Asia, a seven-part series dedicated to our planet’s greatest continent, revealing its most remarkable landscapes and animals. Filmed over the course of nearly four years, this is the first time that Asia has been…

Interview: Malaysia Director Amanda Nell Eu

Malay-language arthouse horror film Tiger Stripes made history by becoming the first Malaysian film to win the grand prize for best feature at the Cannes’ Critics’ Week, a sidebar for…

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Sxsw 2025 Innovation Awards Announced Winners Music Press Asia
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SXSW 2025 Awards New Innovation Creators

SXSW attendees gathered on the evening March 10 to celebrate the winners of the 2025 SXSW Innovation Awards, sponsored by LATAM Airlines. Hosted by three-time Grammy nominee SaulPaulSome, the Innovation Awards is an opportunity for some of the most creative projects across 11 categories to showcase their technological advancements to SXSW audiences. Longtime SXSW enthusiast Mark Cuban was introduced as…

HPC conference Supercomputing 2024 show lands in Atlanta this month

As the high-performance computing (HPC) community gathers in Atlanta for SC24, the world’s largest HPC conference, the event will feature presentations from thought leaders and experts in advanced computing. The Top500 list of fastest supercomputers in the world will be a highlight. The current list…

Nissan Formula E Team Take On Marelli as Latest Technical Partner

Nissan Formula E Team is delighted to confirm that Marelli has joined forces with the outfit as Technical Partner on an initial two-year agreement. With over 100 years of history as a global technology partner to the automotive and motorsport worlds, Marelli aims to co-create…

Spreadbeats: Where Music Meets Data Magic

Spotify has launched a new B2B campaign, ‘Spreadbeats,’ featuring a music video created and distributed entirely within a media plan spreadsheet. Aiming to make media plans as vibrant and energetic as Spotify’s brand and platform, the campaign follows a single cell—E7—and its evolution into a…

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Recommended Music Documentary of The Week: “The Last Repair Shop”

Recently made it onto the on-demand platform Disney+ is a portly but short 40-minute documentary. In a nondescript warehouse in the heart of Los Angeles, a dwindling handful of devoted craftspeople maintain over 80,000 student musical instruments, the largest remaining workshop in America of its kind. The documentary — directed by Ben Proudfoot and Kris Bowers — featured four unforgettable…

Al Andaluz Project Breathes New Life to Ancient Music of Al-Andalus

Recently selected by the monthly chart of the Transglobal World Music Chart, the album of Al Andaluz Project – The Songs of Iman Kandoussi – Traditional Arabic Andalusian is a breath of fresh air for our playlist here at Music Press Asia. The latest release,…

Music Of The Week: Ludovico Einaudi’s Endless Summer

It is hard to look away when our inboxes mentions the Italian pianist and composer, Ludovico Einaudi. This week, apart from the many music that came into the Music Press Asia’s office, we had the pleasure to re-listen Einaudi’s live recording of his performance at…

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Tokyo International Music Market 21st Edition Returns

Tokyo International Music Market (TIMM) is the leading event dedicated to promoting the global reach of Japanese music, serving as a nexus for music industry professionals from Japan and around the world. The 21st edition of TIMM will take place from November 5 to 7…

SXSW Australia Announced 2024 Keynote

Today, SXSW revealed its first keynotes for the second edition of the SXSW Sydney® 2024 Conference. New York Times best-selling…

Outlet Drift Taiwan band to perform at SXSW Australia 2024 Music Press Asia
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