Israel just turned 30 – and also into a doctor. So he decided to write 30 short pieces of piano music to celebrate that, and he’d like you to come celebrate with him!

Admittedly, he’s a bit late to my own party. But it doesn’t matter, as long as we have fun! Tickets are sold only to help with venue costs. After the concert we can go for a pint.

About Israel Lai

Israel Lai is an award-winning composer, collaborative pianist and conductor from Hong Kong. His music, rich in harmony, deeply personal, and acclaimed as ‘thought-provoking’, ‘visceral’, and ‘unreservedly powerful’ in The Oxford Student, has been widely performed in Hong Kong and the UK, as well as abroad in Taiwan, Italy and North America.

Israel’s passion for intercultural communication also plays a part in his exploration of musical identity. Having studied around a dozen languages, he shares his passion not only through his blog and channel Rhapsody in Lingo, but also through compositional issues that interest him, including but not limited to drawing inspiration from linguistic phenomena, and writing music in under-represented languages. He is also a prolific speaker on musical, cultural and language issues, having given numerous talks and presentations on topics such as protest music, linguistic diversity in the arts, and art forms in transcultural social contexts.