ACL-Korea will host 2009 Asian Contemporary Music Festival in Tongyeong and Seoul. The Festival will be concurrent with the annual Asian Composers League Conference.

“The theme of the ACL festival is ‘TONG’. In Korean, ‘Tong’ means to connect, to understand. We’d like to ‘TONG’ across generations and continents, with an open mind and open communication, by introducing new trends and new media, by bringing together both music and people.

The festival brings attention to new works of music, which can combine intellect with music and culture from diverse philosophical, style, and regional backgrounds. Music should be something that can break down the wall between people and that can build bridges to enable free waves of communication to fly over the borders. Music should be what jumps over the limits of time and place with the help of media and new vocabulary."

Works by six New Zealand composers will be included in the programmes, along with an entry representing New Zealand in the ACL Young Composers Competition.

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More information will be posted on the Festival website

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