Prof. John Winzenburg
Associate Dean of Research; Professor, Department of Music and Office of the Dean of Arts
Cross-Cultural; Hybridization and Hybridity in Chinese-Western
“Fusion Concertos”; Chinese Choral Music
Prof. Winzenburg is a professor at the Department of Music, as well as the Director of Cantoría Hong Kong. His research combines traditional, text-based scholarship and non-traditional creative practice as research in three main areas: 1) musical experimentation by Aaron Avshalomov in pre-1949 Shanghai, 2) hybridization and hybridity in Chinese-Western “fusion concertos,” and 3) cross-cultural choral music and choral theatre. He and the Cantoría have actively promoted Chinese choral music in dialogue with international repertoire at major venues and events, including BBC Radio 3, the National Centre for Performing Arts in Beijing, and the Hong Kong Arts Festival. His new CD “Quotation of Queries: Choral Encounters of Hong Kong, China, and the Distant West” with the Cantoría was released by PARMA/NAXOS in April 2020.
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