”Dialogue – East Meets West” is the result of several years’ discussion and planning. It represents an exploration in sound, featuring ten new compositions by five young Chinese and five young Danish composers. Their works are colorful and varied and provide ten distinctive visions of the musical encounter between China and the West. Whether combining tradition and innovation, eastern and western elements, borrowed or newly created musical resources, each piece is an exploration of how these disparate and seemingly mutually exclusive views can provide new possibilities for creativity and beauty. While the very nature of a ”duet” implies a ”dialogue”, the variety of musical expressions create a ’dialogue within a dialogue’; the unique vision of each composer interacting with the vision of every other composer presented here.

Dialogue
Ti danske og kinesiske komponister, Michala Petri (blokfløjte) og Chen You (xiao, dizi).

Dialogue: East Meets West
Yao Hu: Rong (Fusion)
Mette Nielsen: Stream
Rui Li: Peng Zhuang (Sparkling-Collision)
Pernille Louise Sejlund: Butterfly-Rain
Gang Chen: The Greeting from Afar
Anders Monrad: East West-project 16
Siqin Chaoketu:Yan Gui (The wild goose comes back home)
Kasper Rofelt: Circonflexe
Ruemei Chen: Jue (Very rare and fine jade)
Bejamin de Murashkin: Cascades

Anmeldt i Politiken af Henrik Friis d. 10/2-2009:

Så ørerne blafrer
…spillet er rigtig godt, og man får anderledes oplevelser, så ørerne blafrer. Det er altid sympatisk, når etablerede musikere lægger ryg til helt unge og uprøvede komponisters musik, og beundringsværdigt, at Michala Petri begiver sig ud i et så musikalsk skrøbeligt projekt. Ti spritnye værker af folk stort set alle under 30 i en temmelig eksotisk duo giver overhængende risiko for at miste trofaste pladekøbere. De kan nu bare købe løs – man bliver overrasket.