Hello!

Some very exciting news!

The long awaited film footages of ‘Around China with a Movie Camera’ that I have been working with the BFI will be released next week! You can reserve a copy at Amazon.co.uk:

Around China with a Movie Camera – Amazon.co.uk

To celebrate this, I will be performing a live performance of this with 4 other very talented musicians on Thursday 21st July at the National Film Theatre in Southbank, London! Tickets were sold out in just over a week in the box office, and I’m so excited to be involved!
BFI Southbank – Around China with a Movie Camera Live Performance

The other exciting news is that I recently worked on the music for a new play which is currently performing at the Finsborough Theatre in London. It runs until Saturday 6th August. The Previews and press night are all sold out, so get your tickets now!

Shangri-La Finsborough Theatre

More events coming up soon! Thanks for all your support!

Bye for now!

Ruth

Hello!

I hope you all had a fab Christmas and New Year!

I have a few projects brewing under the belt right now. I can firstly say that I have completed my project and soundtrack with the BFI which is called ‘Around China with a Movie Camera’, which is a great collection of early silent films of China. Keep your eyes peeled for news of the cinema release of the film which should be later this year, hopefully with the odd live music performance from myself and gang!

Other news: I have just completed a very interesting short film which will be on festival release soon, and helped out on a series which stars Michael Roux Jr.!

More great things to follow in 2016 I’m sure!

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Hiya!

It has been a rather busy few months so my updates has been rather infrequent! Let me update on a few things that has been happening for 2015.

Firstly I composed and performed a piece for ‘Project New Moon’ in February in 3 venues in London: Rich Mix, The Albany in Deptford and at Trafalgar square for Chinese New Year celebrations. That was great fun, and I got to work with some Chinese instrumentalists along with a harpist, cellist & percussionist.

Then I went straight to Hong Kong in March as I’ve written a soundtrack for a contemporary dance piece for part of the Hong Kong Arts Festival 2015.

Since then I have been working hard on finishing a new score and soundtrack for the BFI (British Film Institute) on a new project called “Around China with a Movie Camera) featuring a large collections of old footages of China in the early 20th Century. This has been a rather personal for me, and it’s been an honour that I could be involved in presenting such historical documentary of my heritage. this is due to be released in late October.

I was also the musical director and re-arranger for a R&D project called ‘Turandot Reimagined’, which as the title suggests, re-imagine the story and music of Puccini’s iconic opera Turandot to be in a more authentic setting of the story of Yuen dynasty China consisting of Chinese instrumentation and elements of early Chinese opera. This was performed at the Tete a tete Festival in July 2015. The feedback was excellents, and I had the extra privilege of being interviewed by TV Channels from China and Chinese newspapers of the UK!

That’s it for now! I’m sure I’ll have more adventures to share later on!

Bye for now!

Hello!

It’s been a fascinating experience so far in Hong Kong. I’m learning so much about Chinese Instrumentation just by observing lots of rehearsals with HKCO. I’m also watching so many shows and meeting so many talented musicians and artists; I am so looking forward to hopefully work with some of them in the future. I’m having an amazing time here.

Hopefully more news to come soon! As soon as I’m back in the UK I’ll blog my experience in more details. Watch this space!

X

Ruth

Hi everyone!

Just a quick update the play I am currently work on music composition and music supervision, ‘The Last Days of Limehouse’ will be performing from Weds 16th July – Sun 3rd Aug (Wed-Sat 7.30pm, Sun 5pm) @ Limehouse Town Hall, 646 Commercial Road, London E14 7HA

The subject is about the original old Chinatown in Limehouse; I’ve been having alot of fun finding the old ‘Limehouse’ sounds and feel! So do venture into the good olde East End to watch this if you can!

Bye for now!

Ruth x

Hello!

For anyone who missed the first episode of ‘A very British Airline’, you can now watch it on BBC iplayer for the next couples of weeks. The series continue with Episode 2 on Monday 9th June @ 9pm on BBC 2.
I had alot of fun creating the music for this series, so I hope you enjoy it!

A Very British Airline – Episode 1 on BBC iplayer

Ruth x

Hello!

Just to let you all know that the 3 part documentary series I’ve worked on earlier this year will now be shown on BBC 2 Mondays from 2nd June, 9pm.

Happy viewing!

Ruth

Hi Everyone!

It has been a little while since I’ve put up any news. That’s mainly because I have been moving house to somewhere lovelier, with an upgraded studio! I’ll post some work-in-progress photos on twitter soon! I have also been learning how to play the ‘erhu’, which is a 2 string Chinese fiddle instrument.

I have still been working on proposals and developing new project ideas, some may happen soon so watch this space!

In the meantime, I have recently written some music for a promo vid for Aston Martin & Jaegar Lecoultre. Check it out!

Hope you like it, and you can also catch all my updates on my twitter account: @ruthchanmusic

Bye for now!

Ruth

Hello Lovelies!

It has been a while since I’ve blogged! I had been busy finishing off a TV doc series called ‘Changing Fortunes’ for BBC World which was broadcast in Feb & Mar 2013. An intense but rather fun project to work on!

I’m now working on initiating some new live projects for next year and 2015 as well as doing what I’ve been meaning to do for a long while, learn how to play the Erhu; a lovely 2 string Chinese fiddle instrument! I’ve also been exploring new genres and technology! So for now, I’m back to lurking in the shadows but look out soon for some exciting news…!

All my little adventures are also on my twitter: @ruthchanmusic

Bye for now!

Ruth