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Li-Chin Li & Mariel Roberts Musa duo:
Li-Chin Li is a Sheng soloist, composer, and interdisciplinary performer working between Taiwan and Europe. Trained in traditional Chinese music at Tainan National University of the Arts, she began her career as a Sheng performer with the renowned Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra—one of the most prestigious ensembles in the Chinese music world. However, she soon realized that a conventional institutional path did not align with her artistic vision. Recognized for her ability to integrate the Sheng across a wide range of art forms and musical genres, Li-Chin explores musicians' evolving roles and subjectivities in contemporary performance. Her practice often extends beyond sound, inviting audiences into immersive, unfamiliar experiences that transcend auditory perception. Actively engaged with the international contemporary music scene, she collaborates with composers from France, the United States, Taiwan, and beyond. She has performed with ensembles such as Ensemble Cairn (Paris), Ensemble LINEA (Strasbourg), Lapland Chamber Orchestra (Finland), and the National Chinese Orchestra of Taiwan, among others.
Li-Chin has been selected for numerous international residencies in experimental and interdisciplinary creation, including Foundation Royaumont, IRCAM, Cité internationale des arts–Paris, Centre National de la Danse (Pantin), La Symphonie de Ségries, the Asian Cultural Council (New York), Avaloch Farm Music Institute (U.S.), and more. She is currently part of the long-term research and creation project sheng! l'orgue à bouche (2019–2026), organized by TPMC and supported by institutions including DRAC Île-de-France, IReMus (CNRS–Sorbonne Université–Ministère de la Culture–BnF), and the MMC.
American cellist and composer Mariel Roberts Musa, "one of the leading solo performers in new music" (Bandcamp), is widely recognized not just for her virtuosic performances but also as a fearless explorer in her field. Her ravenous appetite for collaboration and experimentation as an interpreter, improviser, and composer has helped her create a body of work that bridges avant-garde, contemporary, classical, improvised, and traditional music. Roberts Musa is also widely recognized for her “technical and interpretive mastery” (I care if you listen).
Roberts Musa has appeared as a soloist and chamber musician across four continents, most notably as a member and co-director of the Wet Ink Ensemble (named “The Best Classical Music Ensemble of 2018” by The New York Times), as well as with the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), Mivos Quartet, Bang on a Can All-Stars, and Ensemble Signal. She performs regularly on significant stages for new music, such as the Lincoln Center Festival (NYC), Wien Modern (Austria), Lucerne Festival (Switzerland), Cervantino Festival (Mexico), Klang Festival (Denmark), Shanghai New Music Week (China), Darmstadt Internationalen Ferienkurse für Neue Musik (Germany), and Aldeburgh Music Festival (UK). Her close collaborators have spanned a wide range of genres and include some of the most important figures on the contemporary and experimental scene, such as George Lewis, Alex Mincek, M. Lamar, Patrick Higgins (Zs), Ingrid Laubrock, Jeffrey Mumford, Sam Pluta, Eric Wubbels, and Ambrose Akinmusire.
The duo will perform the program Migration: A Sonic Journey Across Borders and Selves Curated by Li-Chin Li, Mariel Roberts & Shiuan Chang, featuring new commissioned works by Mariel Roberts, Shiuan Chang, Tian Yu Zhou, Yifan Guo & Mu-Xuan Lin.
Glasspack is the collaborative project of Henry Birdsey (Tongue Depressor, Old Saw) and Ian McColm (Heart of the Ghost, Center). Comprised of bagpipes, computerized sound and an array of electronics, Glasspack reapproaches an historic instrument with a bevy of browser windows and the full weight of the semiconductor. Originally formed in 2022, Glasspack released their debut LP, Rarefied Airs, in 2025 on Stoned to Death Records. Their second full-length, Double for Horse Dancer, is due out in early 2026 from North Carolina imprint, Gateway Gardenia.Birdsey and McColm can be heard with a number of other ensembles and collaborators on releases from Dinzu Artifacts, XKatedral, Lobby Art Editions, Regional Bears, Three Lobed, No Quarter, and Ergot Records.
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