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Pianist, composer and even a one-time concert conductor Candy Nga Weng Chio
and chamber pieces, as well as piano solos and even music for string quartets or local young pop groups. Currently, she says that she’s experimenting with electronic digital instruments (EDI), mixing electronic and classical music styles together. She’s also learning jazz, which she finds ‘somewhat difficult’. But she admits that she’ll ‘always come back to classical music’ as it is ‘fundamental to master if you want to fully understand and master other genres’. Anyone who wants to see Nga performing outside of a live venue can head to her YouTube channel, ‘MW Music’. Here, alongside violinist Michael Tou Long Meng, she showcases her versatility on piano and EDI, as well as highlighting other Macao classical talents. She says she loves writing music for the channel and admits that she sees herself as much as a composer as she is a performer, although she will continue her live piano concerts, such as with the MYSO. “Classical music is infinite and always evolving,” says Nga. “What seems new at the moment may become a classic decades later. Music is always worth analysing. There are always secret messages hidden between the notes. I will never give up on music. If I had a message for other young, talented musicians, it would be ‘don’t simply play – try to create new styles and forms of classical music while making sure you fully enjoy it!’”
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