JAVS Spring 2013

Example 5. Gilad Hochman, Akeda , mm. 90–102.

that his music is not linear and works to incorporate time jumps and flashbacks in this piece. “The sacri fice already took place even before the piece started, and because I chose the title.” 18 By selecting the title, Hochman is revisiting the pain evoked from this parable and the countless deaths of the world’s youth in war. Even if the parable did not actually take place, the pain evoked by the piece rings out through history, as governments come to the deci sion that war must take place and the people may be sacrificed.

With degrees covering Music Education, Music Theory Pedagogy, and Composition from Boston university, the Peabody Conservatory, and Duke university, George Lam has carved an intriguing niche as not only a composer, but producer, director, and documentarian, using his craft as a composer to help others find their voice and amplify it. His works have been premiered by ensembles ranging from the AM/PM Saxophone Quartet; Christ Church united Methodist of New york, New york; American Opera Projects (of Brooklyn, New york); the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble; and the Hong Kong Sinfonietta. Alongside Baltimore-based com poser Ruby Fulton, he co-founded and serves as Co Artistic Director of Rhymes with Opera, a non-prof it organization committed to performing new opera works in unorthodox performance spaces along the

George Tsz-Kwan Lam

Born in Hong Kong in 1981 and raised in Winthrop, Massachusetts, composer George Lam has been a musician comfortable wearing many hats.

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