'Multitudes' Residency III: Migrant Swift

Guzheng master Mindy Meng Wang and multi-award winning classical violist Katie Yap explore the daring act of migration and the mixing of cultures in their new work, Migrant Swift in concert at Tempo Rubato, Brunswick.

Katie has created four new works through collaborative composition with partners in crime Emily Sheppard (fiddle/voice), Donald Nicolson (harpsichord/electronics), Bowerbird Collective (violin and cello), and Mindy Meng Wang (guzheng), exploring themes of cultural identity, environmental storytelling and activism, and the physical joy of music-making.

Each work is based on one of Judith Wright’s bird poems, which her mother introduced to her, along with a love of birds themselves.