Cong Wei is a Chinese composer and vocalist and participant of the 5th International Young Composers Academy Ticino. She is the recipient of the DAAD scholarship and China Scholarship Council. Her music has been performed in China and Europe by Beijing New Music Ensemble, Ensemble Wiener Collage, MAM. Manufaktur für aktuelle Musik, Ensemble for New Music Tallinn, China Youth Orchestra, Junge Philharmonie Würzburg and Suzhou Symphony Orchestra, among others. She holds a scholarship of the Akademie Musiktheater Heute 2021 - 2023.

Her new piece "A glimpse of the Fusang Tree" is going to be premiered by the Ictus Ensemble on the 29th of July. You can stream the concert through the link:

https://fb.me/e/1acFLDzWq

The idea of "A glimpse of the Fusang Tree" is inspired by the artifact bronze tree found in the archaeological site of Sanxingdui in Sichuan Province in the south of China. This bronze tree is strikingly similar to the description of the Fusang Tree (mulberry tree) in the Chinese classic text Shan Hai Jing (Classic of Mountains and Seas). I was fascinated by this coincidence, the mythology, and ancient civilization. In this piece, I seek a cosmic and dreamlike sonority with a latent strength. The musicians will also chant the three mantra words "Om, Ah, Hum" throughout the piece and bring the sound into its pilgrimage.

Cong Wei (China 1988): A Glimpse Of The Fusang Tree

Ali Latif Shushtari is a swiss-based Iranian composer and participant of the 5th International Young Composers Academy Ticino.

While studying Mathematics and Physics fulfilling both a Bachelor and a Master of Science degree, Ali Latif Shushtari educated himself in classical music and soon discovered his passion for music theory and composition which finally led him to change his academic focus. In September 2019, he was admitted directly to a Master’s degree program in Music Composition at Hochschule der Künste Bern. He currently specializes in composition with Xavier Dayer, Simon Steen-Andersen, and Dieter Ammann.

Ali Latif Shushtari (Iran - Switzerland 1990): Quartet

Heterogenous Reflections (2022) for six percussionists 

Percussions de Strasbourg 

Premiered on 2nd of July 2022 in LAC Lugano Arte e Cultura

Video recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KQpfp_BOps

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The piece aims to describe a diverse content within different sonic episodes. The musical roles are alternating between the performers in the framework of blurred and intense environments. The development and the combination of these different sonic environments result in continuous flux and energy, by creating multi layered textures. As heterogeneity and homogeneity are opposite words, it is logical that one complements the other by reflecting one another.

Heterogenous Reflections :: 2022

In Darkness Let Me Play - for Solo Archlute, Electronic tape, and Light
Composer: Ali Latif-Shushtari
Archlute: Sebastián Carrasco Mendoza
Premiered at HKB - 2023 Bern, Switzerland

In Darkness Let Me Play

String Quartet written for New Music on the Point 2023. Performed by JACK quartet.
Audio : Brian Riordan

Sérénité (string quartet)

Emotional Diversity · Intercontinental Ensemble · Aregnaz Martirosyan

Arc

℗ TRPTK

Released on: 2022-02-11

Engineer: Brendon Heinst
Producer: Brendon Heinst
Mixer: Ernst Spyckerelle
Music  Publisher: Copyright Control
Composer: Aregnaz Martirosyan

Emotional Diversity · Intercontinental Ensemble · Aregnaz Martirosyan

Raphael Belfiore (1995 — Switzerland): Abstractive Extensive Studies

for ensemble
International Contemporary Ensemble
Alexander Bauer, direttore

Alyssa Regent (1995 — France, USA): Émergence

Posht-e Hichestan (2015)
für Altflöte solo 
Helen Bledsoe

Posht-e Hichestan (2015)

Improvised performance with resonating metal plates and objects

Recorded in Zürich on the 13.12.19

solo performance (metal plates and objects), 2019

The Cold Trip II(2014/2015) from Bernhard Lang - For voice, piano and Laptop
* The Crow
* Stormy monday
* Deviant 

LAB51 (Voice. Johanna Vargas / Piano and Laptop. Magdalena Cerezo) 
Sound editor. Matthias Schneider (Digitalmasters)
2020

LAB51 plays The Cold Trip II (The Crow, Stormy monday and Deviant)

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Cong Wei (China 1988): A Glimpse Of The Fusang Tree

International Young Composer Academy Ticino

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