Interview by Magnus Lindberg before the world premiere with the New York Philharmonic.
Naxos releases “Verge/Tremors of a Memory Chord” - Lei Liang’s fourth solo album. New York Public Radio WQXR Q2 named it “Album of the Week,” calling it “remarkable…the performances are, without exception, stellar. But they’d have to be: Lei Liang’s scores seem to demand one delicately constructed gesture after another. Passionately, but precisely, these interpreters make a powerful case for Lei Liang as a composer with the ears and the ingenuity to construct a boundless, and boundlessly thrilling, new music.” Read the full review here.
ARTINFO’s Clare Pennington interviews Lei Liang. Read the full article here.
Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum presented Lei Liang’s portrait concert. Read Schott Music “Work of the Week,” and the review of the concert in Boston Classical Review.
Lei Liang was Composer-in-Residence at The Art of Migration Festival at the University of California, Davis, January 29 - February 3, 2013. Read a review in Sequenza21.
Lei Liang was Guest Composer at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, China, in December 2012.
Lei Liang was Guest Composer at Japan’s premiere music school, Toho Gakuen, Tokyo, in September 2012.
New York’s Classical Music Radio WQXR interviews Lei Liang as part of its “China in New York Festival.” Listen here.
American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers’ critically acclaimed Audio Portrait features Lei Liang. Listen here.
American Music Center’s NewMusicBox interviews Lei Liang. Listen here.
The New York Philharmonic interviews Lei Liang about his compositional process. Listen here.