Electric Fields: Aiyun Huang

Electric Fields: Aiyun Huang

E-fest 2021: Electric Fields – gestural sonic expansions

AIYUN HUANG (Toronto)
(32 minutes; performance and talk)

Using gesture as the connecting tissue and active ingredient integrating percussion and technology, Aiyun will take you on a journey exploring how gesture is used to trigger sound, enact dance choreography and tell a story about a little man who lives inside the bass drum!

Program:

Windward by David Bithell (2018)
Iron Bird by Mari Kimura (2021, Canadian Premiere)
Aphasia by Mark Applebaum (2009)

Aiyun Huang enjoys a musical life as soloist, chamber musician, researcher, teacher, and producer. Globally recognized since winning the 2002 First Prize and Audience Prize of the Geneva International Music Competition. She is a champion of existing repertoire and a prominent voice in the collaborative creation of new works. Huang has commissioned and premiered over two hundred works as a soloist and chamber musician. The Globe and Mail critic Robert Everett-Green describes Huang’s playing as “engrossing to hear and to watch” and her choice of repertoire as capable of “renovating our habits of listening.”

Born in Taiwan, Aiyun holds a DMA degree from the University of California, San Diego. Between 2004 and 2006, she was appointed as Faculty Fellow at UCSD. Between 2006 and 2017, she led the percussion program and held the position of William Dawson Scholar at McGill University. She currently holds the position of Associate Professor of Music at the University of Toronto where she heads the percussion area and directs the percussion ensemble and TaPIR lab. She also serves as the Artistic Director for soundSCAPE Festival in Cesena, Italy.