Tuesday 19 November 2019 2:00pm to 4:00pm
Recital Room, Faculty of Music
About
Raymond Yiu is a Hong-Kong born, London-based composer, jazz pianist, conductor and writer on music. Raymond originally trained as an engineer, before turning to composition. His ‘hugely impressive’ (The Guardian) Symphony was premiered during the Proms in 2015 by Andrew Watts, BBC Symphony Orchetra and Edward Gardner. Several subsequent collaborations with the orchestra have followed – most recently Xocolatl in July 2019 as part of the 10th Music in Summer Air Festival in Shanghai.