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| Pianist, Composer & Theatre Director An-Ting Chang |
Pianist-Composer An-Ting Chang releases her first original piano album, "Songs From My Room" which documents, through her compositions, the complex feelings of the pandemic times from her room in London Old Street.
An-Ting is a concert pianist, composer, theatre director and currently the Artistic Director of Chinese Arts Now (CAN) which supports a wide variety of Chinese diasporic artists.
An-Ting's digital production, CAN X Two Temple Place Digital Exhibition and Immersive Performance, won Arts Council England's Digital Culture Award (Storytelling) in January 2022. An-Ting is the director and composer for the production.
During Lockdown, An-Ting put her feelings into her music in her room in London Old Street. The pieces she created on the piano were like a diary where she kept track of the pandemic time. Starting from 'London Night' in March 2020, where it was the first time An-Ting felt about a quiet and calm London. The feeling of bing in the 'Plague Time' became strong in April.
In May 2020, An-Ting starts to entertain herself by playing the piano with many ping pong balls inside and thus creating a fun rag-time piece 'Ping Pong Dance'. (youtube.com/watch?v=cecpC16RPq0)
'Last June' came out of An-Ting's fingers when the situation did not get any better after three-month lockdown, rising the feelings from BlackLivesMatter. The future of the world is like an enigma, not knowing where to go. In July, first released from the lockdown, An-Ting dances on 'Hoxton Street', followed by 'Past Time' when she broke up with her ex-boyfriend in August 2020.
An-Ting composed "Purple Dream" in September 2020, when the new lockdown was about to begin. The on/off isolation of the lockdowns was removing the certainties of our old lives and leaving us physically restricted. Yet the retreat from normality allowed space for new dreams and magic to flourish. A space in the quiet, away from the world and along with it, a new feeling of freedom.
About An-Ting Chang
An-Ting has performed regularly as a concert pianist at venues such as Southbank Centre, LSO St Luke's, King's Place, Newbury Spring Festival, Deal Festival, Cheltenham Town Hall, and the Akademie der Kuhste (Academy of Arts), Berlin .
She also has a broad background which includes a unique mix of science and art with a degree in Chemistry form National Taiwan University and MMus and PhD in performance from the Royal Academy of Music and is about to curate the next Chinese Arts Now (CAN) Festival in February 2023.
She released her classical piano albums"Water Image" in 2015 and "Carnival of the Animals" in 2021, which feature her transcription of Camille Saint-Saëns' "Carnival of the Animals" She is currently working on her digital production HomeX, originally commissioned by British Council Hong Kong and will be premiered in February 2023.
An-Ting, Songs From My Room, piano solo performed and composed by An-Ting 安婷Track 1 London Night
Track 5 Hoxton Street
Track 7 Purple Dream
Track 10 Midnight Whisper
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