SCHEDULE
April 1-5, 2025
Paradigmatic Revolutions Music Festival & Conference, University of Alberta
Paradigmatic Revolutions is a five day intercultural music festival and conference that investigates developments in music composition across the Asian continent over the past 30 years. This project uses a collaborative research-creation approach to its inquiries, inviting both musicians (composers, performers) and scholars to participate, share research and creative work as a way to expand understanding about creativity and composition rooted in Asia-Centric perspectives.
Guest Ensembles: Pan Project Ensemble, CAMP Ensemble
Guest Composer: Jia Guoping, Beijing Central Conservatory of Music
Guest Scholars: Frederick Lau (Chinese university of Hong Kong), Mingyeong Son (Seoul National University)
Events include: 2 concerts of intercultural compositions, a 2 day conference, intercultural experimentation workshops, composition masterclasses and composer-scholar-performer roundtables.
More information and call for papers here: https://panproject.wixsite.com/paradigmatic-revolut
March 13-17, 2025
Pan Project Ensemble Collaborates with CAMP Ensemble, Tampa, FL
Pan Project Ensemble and CAMP ensemble will be collaborating to present intercultural music concerts and events as part of the CAMPground25 New Music Festival including:
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a concert of Intercultural mixed-Instrument works selected from CAMP's 2025 call for scores and a premiere of a CAMP-commissioned work for Western & East Asian Instruments by composer Chichun Chi-sun Li written for CAMP and Pan Project.
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a concert of intercultural wedding music created by performers and composers from CAMP Ensemble and Pan Project, derived from intercultural experimentation of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Finnish, Turkish and Western music cultures.
November 2024
Release of Pan Project Ensemble "Borderless Flows" on Neuma Records
Pan Project Ensemble's second album exploring cross-Asian (China, Korea, Japan, India, Persia) continental intercultural musical connections through improvisation, composition and experimentalism. This album was an outcome of a 2021 SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council) Connection Grant funded Music Festival and Conference titled Borderless Flows: Improvisatory Interactions across Asia, Africa and Beyond"
November 2024
Water Rhythm, for guqin, saenghwang, shakuhachi, live elec & found objects released on Pan Project's Borderless Flows album, Neuma Records.
March 2024
Performance of Twelve Landscape Views II. guqin, percussion & electronics
CAMP24 International Music Festival, Tampa, FL
September 2023
CAMP Podcast Interview
Interview for CAMP (Contemporary Art Music Project) podcast series.
Feb. 8, 2023, 7pm
Variation & Virtuosity | Korean-Chinese Intercultural Improvisation
Jocelyn Clark, gayageum; Seung-Kyun Shin, janggu; Jeff Roberts, guqin
Convocation Hall, University of Alberta
Sept. 14-17, 2022
Borderless Flows: Improvisatory Interactions Across Asia, Africa and Beyond
Director of a SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council) funded festival and conference on intercultural improvisation and composition featuring Pan Project Ensemble and Aga Khan Master Musicians
Sept. 14
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Inter-ensemble Collaborations: Pan Project & Aga Khan Master Musicians
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Intercultural Improvisation Workshops Led by Hankus Netsky, Pan Project and AKMM
Sept. 15
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Inter-ensemble Collaborations: Pan Project & Aga Khan Master Musicians
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Intercultural Improvisation Workshops Led by Hankus Netsky, Pan Project and AKMM
Sept. 16
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Borderless Flows Conference Day 1: Intercultural Improvisation, Performer roundtable discussion on intercultural Improvisation, Silk Road and Indian Ocean Panels)
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Concert: "...rivers flow to endless seas..." Pan Project & AKMM, Convocation Hall, U Alberta
*Premiere of "Water Rhythm" for guqin, saenghwang, janggu & live electronics
Sept. 17
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Borderless Flows Conference Day 2 (East Asia and Beyond & Trans-saharan Panels)
*paper given: "(Re)discovering East Asian Historical-Intercultural Connections Through Creation: Improvising on Chinese guqin using Korean gayageum and geomungo techniques"
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Concert: "...mountains fall to endless plains..." Pan Project & AKMM, University of Alberta Botanic Garden, Aga Khan Garden, Diwan Pavilion
June 26-July 14, 2022
June 13-17, 2022
PAN Project Ensemble | Ensemble in Residence, University of Alberta
October 2021
