3.3: Alissa Cheung by New Music Edmonton

We are back with another episode of New Music Edmonton’s The No Normal. Today’s guest is an artist familiar to many people in many places. Composer and violinist Alissa Cheung. Her compositions have been performed often in Edmonton and for several years she was a key part of the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra’s violin section. More recently, Alissa moved to Montréal to take up a position in the mighty Quatuor Bozzini, and since then has continued to build her career as a composer while also taking part in the quartet’s almost constant schedule of performing, recording, and working with emerging artists.

It’s always fantastic to chat with Alissa, and we hope you enjoy sitting with us while we do so! And so here we are, in a wide-ranging conversation recorded in early spring, 2023.

Compositions by Alissa Cheung Included in this episode:

- 20:45 ZWISCHENTÖNE (EXCERPT 1)
Performed by Alissa Cheung and Ewald Cheung, C’mon Festival Edmonton, 2022
- 25:27 ZWISCHENTÖNE (EXCERPT 2)
- 38:10 CHEMINS DE FER
Composed by Alissa Cheung, 2018
- 48:04 DU NORD (EXCERPT 1)
Performed by Quatuor Bozzini, Montréal, 2021
- 54:15 DU NORD (EXCERPT 2)
- 60:32 EUPHORIA (EXCERPT 1)
Performed by Continuum Contemporary Music HATCH, 2021
- 65:02 EUPHORIA (EXCERPT 2)
- 70:15 DU NORD (EXCERPT 3)

For more Information:
Alissa Cheung:
http://www.alissacheung.com/

Quatuor Bozzini:
https://quatuorbozzini.ca/en

Continuum Contemporary Music:
https://www.continuummusic.ca/

Continuum Contemporary Music Euphoria video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAmEW6CQsNE

C’mon Festival:
https://cmonfestival.ca/