An encounter with Hanni Liang | EUROtoday

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From making music on damaged devices to pianos on a busy highway within the Congo to nice moments within the Elbphilharmonie: Hanni Liang reveals what classical music could be in the present day. What drives them? The pianist, live performance designer and lecturer on the University of Music in Munich says that she herself comes from a “non-musician household,” which is why music has all the time performed a job in her life, however under no circumstances the standard one: “It takes one personal moment to establish a connection with the music.” In her work in addition to in her live shows, she tries to create exactly these moments and thus detach classical music from the locations and behaviors which might be historically related to it.

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