Alvin Leung | Composer

Performance History:
Premiere: February 22, 2025, performed by Pak Hei (Alvin) Leung (voice and piano), Anne Dearth Maker (bass flute), Victoria Donaldson (bassoon), Benjamin Damann (drumset), Agustin Alonso (piano), Colin Stokes (cello), Kory Reeder (double bass), and Kelsey Wildman- Stokes (dance and choreography), Merrill Ellis Intermedia Theater, UNT

Performance History of #ABetterMe (movt IV) from Future Port:
Premiere: Electric LaTex Festival, January 17-18, 2025, performed by Pak Hei (Alvin) Leung, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
Performance: PdMaxCon~25, September 5-7, 2025, performed by Pak Hei (Alvin) Leung, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL

Program Notes:
Future Port (2025) is an intermedia performance that seeks to explore and evoke the emotional and dramatic tension contained in the way we look at our future—it is a fascination, it is an imagination, yet it also comes with uncertainty, hesitation and anxiety. The piece is also a contemplation on time—and an exploration of the use of artistic mediums to blur the sense of the past, present and future. It is a commentary on the way we interact in the current world we are living in. It is an autobiographical reflection on my life since COVID, a way to record my maturing mind—that our lives are essentially fragile; but more importantly, that even in this highly digitalized present, I am always, always, more loved, than I would ever realize. Future Port is dedicated to my mom, who passed away—or possibly transcended to the higher dimensions—in October 2024.

Photo Documentation (thank you to my friends for taking these photos!):