Embodied Madrigals as Events: From the Renaissance, to the Renaissance of Performers as Interpreters
by Magdelena Ho-yan Tang
all photos © Atta Wang
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Magdelena Ho-yan Tang is an active choral director and researcher based in Hong Kong. Tang is committed to music projects that promotes social intervention and reinforcement. Her project, The Sound, focuses on community-based music programmes of high artistic value to reinforce the historical and cultural link between music and the public. Founded in 2019, recent collaborators include Haw Par Music, EDiversity, iDiscover, and the Hong Kong Institute of architectural Conservationists (HKICON). Tang is currently a PhD candidate at the Department of Music, University of Hong Kong under scholarships. Her academic works are presented at international conferences in Baku, Azerbaijan and Hong Kong. Her research interests include Hong Kong’s choral music, politics of identity, and the philosophy of voices and embodiment, co-supervised by Daniel Chua and Jose Neglia.
