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Kirill Kozlovski’s new album Shostakovich in Context has been in the Finnish media these past couple of weeks: in addition to this review on the Finnish Broadcasting Company YLE Radio 1’s Uudet levyt program, and the accompanying article New Finnish music in an interesting context (both in Finnish), in an episode titled Conversations of pairs, the Välilevyjä program played an interesting medley that juxtaposed my 2004 piano suite Toccata with the works of Shostakovich, both from Kirill’s CD as well as from Olli Mustonen’s beautiful 1999 recording of preludes and fugues by Shostakovich and Bach.

This week kicked off Intimacy of Creativity 2017 — the first of two festival weeks this year — here at HKUST. The IC2017 Contemporary Song Festival features Michael Barrett and his ensemble of singers from the New York Festival of Song, alongside other guest artists, performing the works of Guest Composer Judith Weir and Artistic Director Bright Sheng, as well as three young composer fellows. Above, a picture from one of our open discussions, recorded in front of an audience at RTHK Radio’s Studio One earlier today.