Njo Kong Kie
Stratford: Composer of Cymbeline. Second season. Picnic and ping pong enthusiast. Composer of music for dance, drama and music theatre. Compositions: Soundtrack for Infinity (Volcano); The Year of the Cello (Theatre Passe Muraille); chamber operas knotty together, La Señorita Mundo (SummerWorks); concert-theatre Picnic in the Cemetery (Ansan Street Arts Festival, Canadian Stage); song-cycle I swallowed a moon made of iron (Canadian Stage, PuSh and OzAsia festivals); music theatre Mr. Shi and His Lover (Toronto Theatre Critics Award: Best New Musical. Tarragon Theatre, National Arts Centre, Cervantino Festival, Thousand Cranes Festival); opera short film Death Mask (VIFF, Inside Out, Berlinale). Music director: La La La Human Steps, Stratford (I Am William). His works have been used in dance productions nationally and abroad. In development: New works with Douglas Rodger, Liza Balkan and Evalyn Parry. Online: musicpicnic.com, @musicpicnicTO.
