JUNO Award-winning composer Vivian Fung has a unique talent for combining idiosyncratic textures and styles into large-scale works, reflecting her multicultural background. Matthew Dotson talks with her about her upcoming opera and new string quartet projects with the Jasper Quartet.
MUSIC
String Quartet No. 1 mvmt 3 “pizzicato” (excerpt)
– Performed by the Jasper Quartet
String Quartet No. 3
– Performed by the Dover Quartet
Grover and Friends/Alarm – (excerpt)
– Music by Vivian Fung
Libretti by Royce Vavrek
Soprano | Xin Wang
Percussionist | Ryan Scott
Stage Manager | Claire Friedrich
String Quartet No. 4 “Insects and Machines”
– Performed by the American Quartet