Welcome to Myanmar Music Festival 2019!
Welcome to Myanmar Music Festival 2019!
It is with great pleasure that we announce the sixth edition of Myanmar Music Festival.
Since our inception in 2014, we have performed for more than 15,000 people through live performances around the country, working with talented musicians of all ages, as well as forming precious friendships and valuable partnerships with civil society, international organizations, governments, and businesses. Musicians have visited from USA, Republic of China, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, and Switzerland. The prestigious musicians from the Ministry of Culture of Myanmar joined us.
Throughout the year, this festival has shown us what people can achieve when we work together beyond our differences and focus on what we have in common. It has also shown us the transformational power of music.
This year’s vocal audition yielded over 80 applicants and the selection of 25 young adults from 9 different states and regions. We are aiming to represent all 15 states and regions represented in the near future. 8 Malaysian singers from Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) will join the Myanmar choir. Under the baton of MMF vocal director Yiling Chaing, the choir will learn new pieces of music newly written and arranged, some familiar, and some unknown. The choir will also participate in leadership workshops and encouraged to start a MMF Music Club in their communities initiating musical activities throughout the year, with support from mentors provided by Rotary and Rotaract Yangon.
This year, our festival launches with an all-Russian classical music program in partnership with the Embassy of the Russian Federation, featuring Artistic director and pianist, Kimball Gallagher, and Assistant Artistic Director and pianist Aung Moe Kyaw. In addition to an all-classical music concert, Myanmar Music Festival will also present an educational concert at the Khayay School, featuring the students of the Khayay School on the 21 violins donated to the school from the “Dear Violin” (親愛的琴) project launched in 2014 by Executive director, Kaiyin Huang’s organization Kairos Arts and artistic director Kimball Gallagher’s organization 88 International. Finally the music camp culminates in a concert at the City Hall of Yangon on June 16, 2017 at 5pm.
The Celebration Concert will showcase various choral works in different languages, and a variety of newly commissioned works by Malaysian, Japanese, Myanmar, and Taiwanese composers, which will feature musical collaborations with Myanmar traditional artists from the Ministry of Culture and the National University of Arts and Culture such as U Sein Kalar at the circle drum and U Myo Min Than at the flute to name a few, international classical musicians such as Vietnamese cellist Hong Anh Nguyen among others, as well as special guest artists Win Ko Khine and Ah Moon. We promise you an unparalleled and dazzling show of music and culture.
We hope that you will all enjoy MMF2019! Feel free to say hello to us when you see us! We look forward to meeting you all!
It is with great pleasure that we announce the sixth edition of Myanmar Music Festival.
Since our inception in 2014, we have performed for more than 15,000 people through live performances around the country, working with talented musicians of all ages, as well as forming precious friendships and valuable partnerships with civil society, international organizations, governments, and businesses. Musicians have visited from USA, Republic of China, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, and Switzerland. The prestigious musicians from the Ministry of Culture of Myanmar joined us.
Throughout the year, this festival has shown us what people can achieve when we work together beyond our differences and focus on what we have in common. It has also shown us the transformational power of music.
This year’s vocal audition yielded over 80 applicants and the selection of 25 young adults from 9 different states and regions. We are aiming to represent all 15 states and regions represented in the near future. 8 Malaysian singers from Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) will join the Myanmar choir. Under the baton of MMF vocal director Yiling Chaing, the choir will learn new pieces of music newly written and arranged, some familiar, and some unknown. The choir will also participate in leadership workshops and encouraged to start a MMF Music Club in their communities initiating musical activities throughout the year, with support from mentors provided by Rotary and Rotaract Yangon.
This year, our festival launches with an all-Russian classical music program in partnership with the Embassy of the Russian Federation, featuring Artistic director and pianist, Kimball Gallagher, and Assistant Artistic Director and pianist Aung Moe Kyaw. In addition to an all-classical music concert, Myanmar Music Festival will also present an educational concert at the Khayay School, featuring the students of the Khayay School on the 21 violins donated to the school from the “Dear Violin” (親愛的琴) project launched in 2014 by Executive director, Kaiyin Huang’s organization Kairos Arts and artistic director Kimball Gallagher’s organization 88 International. Finally the music camp culminates in a concert at the City Hall of Yangon on June 16, 2017 at 5pm.
The Celebration Concert will showcase various choral works in different languages, and a variety of newly commissioned works by Malaysian, Japanese, Myanmar, and Taiwanese composers, which will feature musical collaborations with Myanmar traditional artists from the Ministry of Culture and the National University of Arts and Culture such as U Sein Kalar at the circle drum and U Myo Min Than at the flute to name a few, international classical musicians such as Vietnamese cellist Hong Anh Nguyen among others, as well as special guest artists Win Ko Khine and Ah Moon. We promise you an unparalleled and dazzling show of music and culture.
We hope that you will all enjoy MMF2019! Feel free to say hello to us when you see us! We look forward to meeting you all!
Kimball Gallagher
Artistic Director |
Kaiyin Huang
Executive Director |
Erina Iwasaki
Associate Director |
Yiling Chaing
Vocal Director |
