Online Panel Discussion – Asian American Voices: Artists Confronting Society

Bringing together some of the major voices in the 2021 China Now Music Festival. Featured composer Huang Ruo, Tony award –winning playwright David Henry Hwang, artistic director of the China Now Music Festival Jindong Cai, violist Charlton Lee of the Del Sol Quartet, and others will discuss their experience as Asian American artists and reflect on how this particular moment in history has shaped their creative process and their views on the role of the artist in society. Following the panel discussion, the Del Sol Quartet will offer an excerpt of their new recording of Huang Ruo’s meditation on the pandemic, A Dust in Time. Part of the US-China Music Institute of the Bard College Conservatory of Music.