Lora Chow
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120 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard Jun 2025
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Yeah, yeah, that's very true. And I feel that I focus more on my heart because my mindset has changed. I focus more on like the spiritual growth actually over the last couple of years. And I realized that a lot of things, if we believe that it will happen, it will actually happen. And I guess starting Virtuoso Fiesta in 2023 was like a dream came true for me and Ruda.
And we realized that dreams can come true and there are a lot of supporting community that can help us realize our dreams. And that's why I think I should follow my heart.
so your music venture what's the name of it again and what does it mean any special meaning virtual also fiesta virtual also means musicians or artists who are very skilled highly skilled and fiesta means party and festive atmosphere so we want to make music at the highest artistic excellence, at the highest standard, but also at the same time fun and accessible and open to the community.
What's your core mission there? So my key mission is to promote music that are very high standard, but in innovative ways. For example, through writing new music that are more accessible to the public and that address social issues and inspire changes. Because I feel that music has a very strong power to move people across any cultures,
to people with any background and it does soothe the soul and also inspire new thinking and motivates harmony and peace. So our mission is really to promote this power of music to the broader community And in innovative ways because we think that it's time to make changes. We need young people, young forces to make concerts fun instead of being super formal and serious.
We want people to listen to music just for their enjoyment.
Definitely. So we produce concerts and events that involve music, including corporate events and also wellness events or any types of organization if they want to have live music performance in their events. Our company would help facilitate that. We have a network of very world-class musicians, some from the Yale School of Music, but also from all the other prestigious music schools.
So we curate programs for different events, and we also produce our own concerts and masterclasses. We bring world-class people to Hong Kong to share their knowledge on music. Say, for example, last year we brought in a soprano from the Metropolitan Opera. And she was so generous in sharing her knowledge in bel canto singing. She spent 18 years singing leading roles with The Met.
So there was such a wealth of knowledge that she shared with audience in Hong Kong. And we just brought in last month a professor from Yale. Michael Friedman, who is my favorite professor at Yale who taught music analysis and theory. And he came to Hong Kong to talk about romantic music, how people could listen to romantic music if they are new to it.
And it was really meaningful because I felt like he really helped the audience to connect to the music at a deeper level. So coming up, we'll continue to have concerts like that and also masterclasses. For people who would like to support, we have our website, virtuosofiester.org. We have online donation. Our business model basically relies a lot on patronage, sponsorship, and ticketing.
And of course, like from corporates and other organizations who would like to have live music in their events. And then all this money we just invest in producing great music and great events. And we have videos on YouTube that people can view and comment and share. And of course, I also have my personal website and also music on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music.
I have an album coming up in April that I would love to have a bigger audience.
Thank you so much. Thank you for your support. Yeah, I'm very happy to receive any types of commission, some scoring for TV or any podcast or any type of media. I'm happy to score music. And it's actually really fulfilling to write music that tells story. And I've been trained in film scoring. I've written opera. And it's all about the storytelling because music brings emotions.
And even without any lyrics or words, you can feel the story of the music. It's a very powerful universal language.
I guess like any type of artist, The craft and the art really came from within and it's authentic and it's human. But AI can imitate that, and it can be a tool that a creator uses in this process of creation. And I can see a lot of useful applications AI could help. For example, when I compose a new piece of music, sometimes I improvise on the piano and then I transcribe it to music notation.
And then... I write a clean score for musicians to play them. So maybe in this process, AI could be the tool to transcribe this music to clean notation so that musicians can read them. And it can also be used for recording or making demos of my composition.
Say, for example, if I write a piece for orchestra, but I don't have a live orchestra with me, AI could mimic the sound of the orchestra to create a digital demo audio file for reference or for some kind of soundtrack. So there are applications, but I think to create the highest level of art, we still need that human element, which is our soul, our emotions, our own feelings in the music.
And I don't think AI could replace that since AI doesn't have real human emotions. But I could see that potentially say for some game music, we could just use AI to make something practical. So it depends on the purpose of the creation. If it's purely for practical purpose, maybe the computer can do it.
But if it's for emotional expression, for connecting people to inspire people, I still think the human touch is extremely important.
My advice would be to follow your intuition to find your purpose and to really believe in yourself that you can do it because I believe that when you unconsciously also believe in something, it will actually happen. And it takes effort, of course, to change your unconscious belief. And it takes effort to trust yourself enough to make something happen. But just be confident and believe in yourself.
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