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  Aubrey Suwito LIVE with National Symphony Orchestra at newly renovated Istana Budaya

  There is something rather beautiful about watching a composer step into the light. For years, Aubrey Suwito has been the man behind the…

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  Books That Make Us Listen, Look and Think Differently

  From music and performance to contemporary art and cultural identity, our Reading Room gathers books that help us understand the creative currents moving…

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  Yuki Nakahashi Wins 36th Yasushi Akutagawa Suntory Award

  Suntory Hall has once again placed contemporary Japanese composition at the centre of Tokyo’s classical music scene, with composer Yuki Nakahashi receiving the…

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  September Album Feature: Global Tranquility by Putumayo

  Ten artists. Ten musical perspectives. One gentle invitation to slow down. There is a particular luxury in music that does not ask you…

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  Frida Kahlo Returns to the Stage: Gabriela Lena Frank’s Met Opera Comes to Hong Kong

  The Metropolitan Opera’s acclaimed production arrives in Hong Kong this December. Frida Kahlo has long existed beyond the canvas. Her distinctive self-portraits, indigenous-inspired…

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  Loboc Children’s Choir Opens ASEAN Film Festival 2026 in Hong Kong

  The Philippines’ internationally recognised Loboc Children’s Choir brings music to the opening of Hong Kong’s ASEAN Film Festival, where cinema becomes a meeting…

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  Reclaiming the Sounds of the Hengchun Peninsula: An Interview with Suying Yu, Curator of the Hear Here World Music Festival

  The breeze on the Hengchun Peninsula is always filled with the sounds of the sea and the yueqin. In the town of Hengchun…

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  If Music Is an Industry, Musicians Need Jobs

  A New Zealand Composer-in-Residence programme offers one building block for a Music City, and a useful question for Asia: what does a city…

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  #DanceYourFolkOut: Taiwan’s Southernmost Music Festival Brings Eight Countries, Five Continents to Hengchun This October

  Live Music / Southeast Asia / Taiwan / Hengchun Mark your calendars: Pingtung County’s Hear Here World Music Festival returns October 9-10 to…

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  From Singapore to the West End, Nathania Ong Comes Home to Sing the Musicals

  There is something rather satisfying about coming home after conquering a stage on the other side of the world. For Singaporean songstress Nathania…