Intercultural Innovations

The Intercultural Innovations Project explores the boundaries and connections between western orchestral music and Chinese traditional music.

Six composers, three from Canada and three from China, created new works that combine western and Chinese instrumentation. Musicians from the B.C. Chinese Music Ensemble joins forces with with Nu:BC Collective to form a large intercultural orchestra that workshops and presents the new compositions.

The texts collected here documents the B.C. Chinese Music Association “Intercultural Innovations” Project.
The first part consists of six composers’ interviews. The interviews were conducted separately. The brief biographical information about each composer appearing after each talk was taken from the programme notes of the project’s concert.

The second part consists of the Round Table Discussions of five composers on the day of the project’s concert. The project regrets that one of he project’s composers could not attend the discussions due to health reasons.