so this time i am premiering two works, one by kam kee yong, a singaporean composer, and another by ace for me. when i first heard kam kee yong's music, i was immediately drawn to it. it has beautiful impressionistic colours, and it celebrates, you know, characteristics of resilience, perseverance, joy. and i thought the timing was perfect to bring this to carnegie hall. what better way to usherin carnegie hall. what better way to usher in the new year than to bring music of a singaporean composer. and indeed, it is the chinese new year, as you say, the lunar new year, that we are celebrating here in asia. what is also interesting is you are very new york at a very politically charged time for the united states. so is this really a chance, do you think, to try to bring people together with your music?” certainly hope so. you know, when ipad the music from the western classics to the eastern music —— i paired, it is basically i wanted to... the soundscape might sound really different on the surface, but actually there are a lot of commonalities and similarity than we realise. and i hop

this is chinese rhapsody by singaporean composer kam kee yong which she will perform at carnegie this be performing at carnegie hall. i am so excited to be here, to play with, to collaborate with, my fellow musicians. it is incredible platform for any musicians. this incredible piece of music you are playing is called chinese rhapsody — that is what we heard earlier. tell us a little bit about it, and how unusual is that, that it was composed by a singaporean composer? well, i have been delving into the music of my roots more and more, and the idea of this concert was to present masterpieces of the west alongside contemporary composition. so this time i am premiering two works, one by kam kee yong, a singaporean composer, and another by yao chen, a chinese composer, who wrote a solo violin piece for me. when i first heard kam kee yong‘s music, i was immediately drawn to it. it has beautiful impressionistic colours, and it celebrates, you know, characteristics of resilience, perseverance, joy. and i thought the timing was perfect to bring this to carnegie hall. what better way to usher