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Endy Chow ToNick Win Best Original Film Song HKFAA22. Music Press Asia

Endy Chow, ToNick Win Best Original Film Song

The song “Origin of Time” has recently won Best Original Film Song at the 40th Hong Kong Film Awards. Written as a theme song for the film One Second Champion, the song is composed by Chiu Sin-hang aka ToNick, who also plays the role of director for the film. He composed and performed the song in a joint collaboration with Endy Chow [周國賢], with 作詞 as the lyricist. One Second Champion is a film about a single father who learns the lesson the hard way. When he became gifted with…

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Donnie Yen Nicholas Tse in Raging Fire Wins Best Film HKFAA22. Music Press Asia

‘Raging Fire’ Wins Best Film At Hong Kong Film Awards

Hong Kong (AP) — Action-packed police thriller “Raging Fire” won best film and three other awards at the Hong Kong Film Awards Sunday, beating out a crowd favorite film about late Cantopop singer Anita Mui. The 40th Hong Kong Film Awards took place Sunday, after it was postponed thrice from April following the city’s biggest COVID-19 outbreak. It was also…

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SpaceSpeakers Vietnam Air Partner. Music Press Asia

Vietnam Airlines Partner With SpaceSpeakers Group

Vietnam Airlines and SpaceSpeakers Group recently announced the launch of their new collaboration, a music video, on a flight from Ho Chi Minh City to Hanoi. On 11 July, the SpaceSpeakers artists — Touliver, SSOBIN, Binz, Rhymastic, SlimV and Kien Ung — premiered their new song “Hurry Up” to more than 300 passengers. On the “special flight”, the trio SOOBIN,…

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Mark Chia Piccolo Violino Magica Competition 2022. Music Press Asia

Piccolo Violino Magico Competition Awards 9-Year-Old Singaporean

Mark Chia, a 9-year-old participant from Singapore has been awarded joint second prize at the 2022 Piccolo Violino Magico Competition @piccoloviolino. Giancarlo Guarino conducts the Final Round of the competition with the FVG Orchestra as Mark performs the first movement of Bruch’s Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 26. He plays on the violin loaned to him by…

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Nippon Music Foundations Loans Timothy Chooi

Nippon Music Foundation Loans Timothy Chooi a Stradivarius Violin

Recipient of a 2022 Norman Benzaquen Career Advancement Grant at Juilliard’s commencement in May, violinist Timothy Chooi kicks off his summer season with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin playing the Sibelius Violin Concerto. He then travels to receive his “new” Stradivarius loaned to him by the Nippon Music Foundation. As a recipient of NMF’s Rare Instrument Project from the Government of…

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Christine Ay Tjoe to exhibit at ARTJOG 2022. Music Press Asia

Artist Christine Ay Tjoe To Exhibit At ARTJOG

Bandung-based artist Christine Ay Tjoe worked on an installation which was a special commission project this year to respond to the theme ARTJOG MMXXII: Arts in Common – Expanding Awareness. Over the past twenty years, Ay Tjoe has been known for his works that pay attention to the complexities of human life. This time she presents an interactive work inspired…

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Artjog 2022 National Museum Yogyakarta. Music Press Asia
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ARTJOG Returns To Yogyakarta

ARTJOG – 7 July to 4 September – returns to the Jogja National Museum with its offline format. This year, ARTJOG showcases the work of 61 individual and group artists covering a comprehensive educational program. Carrying the title Expanding Awareness, this year’s edition is the estuary of the ARTJOG arts-in-common series which has been held since 2019. It centers around…

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CCP Concert 75th Philippine FRANCE diplomatic relations 2022. Music Press Asia
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Concert Celebrates Philippine & France’s 75th Year Friendship

As part of the celebration of the 75th Anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between France and the Philippines, the French conductor, Michael Cousteau returns to the Philippines to direct the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra through a repertoire of French music at the CCP Main Theater on July 10. DATE/TIME: July 10, 2022 | 6:00 PM VENUE: Tanghalang Nicanor Abelardo…

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Praise Music International uses the TOUCH System for its piano course. Music Press Asia

Become A Pianist in 9 Months

The piano is a beautiful musical instrument. Expansive in its range of expression, its elegance and style could also be conveyed through the piano player. But how could such quality be applied to learning the piano even for a beginner? And what is the key to learning the piano, effectively? Between 1990 and 1995, Kuala Lumpur-based music educator Irene Choon…

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Rainforest World Music Festival. Artist performance. Music Press Asia

Going Green at the Land of the Hornbills

After a two-year hiatus, the Rainforest World Music Festival (RWMF) 2022 is returning to the Sarawak Cultural Village this weekend, June 17-19. Its 25th edition, according to the Sarawak Tourism Board (STB), is playing host to performers from China, Australia, India, Singapore, Indonesia, Canada, Estonia, Italy, Japan, Madagascar, the United States of America, and Vietnam. RWMF’s three-day event will also…

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