promoting contemporary
music arts education
Music Of Our Time (MOOT) is an inclusive group, working to bring people from different walks of life together, engaging performers, participants and audience in shared music performance and appreciation.
supporting
emerging talent
MOOT has adopted four key concepts to prioritise, shape and inform its work:
enabling –
Providing educational and performing opportunities to young musicians (ages of 19-29) from the local areasupporting –
Engaging a professional team to mentor and work with young emerging musicians leading to a public performancesinnovating –
Focusing on innovative repertoire of the 20th & 21st centuries including commissioning new works by young emerging composers, subject to acquisition of funding from specific organisations providing grants for composers.transforming –
Creating a platform for young musicians to participate in a wider community in order to help them in developing their career paths.
advising,
developing,
mentoring.
Performance musicians enter the most difficult period of their lives after their studies, a period that lasts until they gain a solid foothold in the professional world.
Our projects are planned to develop highly talented young musicians at the beginning of their career.
case study:
jiali wang, pianist
This 3-minute film was made for the purpose of an Arts Council England funding application to assist realise plans for a music creative arts project.
The film provides a sense of what members of the public will experience at the concert planned for next May featuring Chinese and European music performed by the emerging young musician Jiali Wang.
Miss Wang was selected due to her sensitivity, intelligence and maturity as a musician, which it is hoped comes across via this film.
The Royal Pavilion’s Music Room is the ideal setting for this concert, the programme of pieces reflecting the interplay of Chinese-inspired decor and English tradition in the fabric of the building’s interior.
Some of the images and film clips are from when Jiali Wang visited Brighton to experience the Royal Pavilion’s heritage and history. An image of the Banqueting Room shows where complimentary refreshments will be served to an audience of up to 180. The audience shall include specially invited members of the local and national Classical music industry.
Among several major achievements, she won the Gershwin International Music Competition (US) in 2017. Jiali was also a prize winner in many important national and international competitions that include the first prize of Alion Baltic International Piano Competition (Estonia); the first prize of Harbin International Piano Music Festival Competition; Highly Commended in Chopin International Junior Piano Competition (Russia); in 2022, she won the Harriet Cohen Bach Competition and its special Harold Samuel Prize; winner of First Place of 2022 RAM Piano Duo Competition.
She has appeared in famous music festivals, as well as having many masterclasses worldwide with maestros such as Professor Arie Vardi, Alexander Toradze, Ian Hobson, Hung-Kuan Chen, Jerome Lowenthal and Oxana Yablonskaya.
Following her achievements during undergraduate study and audition, she was selected to join the MMus course starting in September 2023. She will continue her studies at Royal Academy of Music with the support of a generous scholarship.
During the summer of 2024, Jiali Wang won the Concerto Prize at the Malaga Piano Competition. Subsequently, she performed concerts in Belgium and London, and attended (following the successful receipt of a full bursary) as a participant in courses at the first Music Summer School Festival at Gresham’s School in Norfolk, led by pianist Rolf Hind and keyboardist Mahan Esfahani.
jiali wang, bio
Chinese concert pianist Jiali Wang is a passionate and accomplished musician with a wide range of experience performing as a soloist and working with other instrumentalists and composers across several musical genres.
Her infectious enthusiasm, playing with a virtuoso technique, has brought her to prestigious venues all over the world including Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall, Helsinki Temppeliaukio Rock Church, Netherlands Ruïnekerk Church, Xinghai Symphony Orchestral Hall, New York University Concert Hall, Xiamen Concert Hall, London Regent Hall. In 2023, she received the Edna Bralesford Piano Prize from Royal Academy of Music for graduating with the highest mark. She has also been awarded the Best Collaboration Prize on two occasions by academy for her outstanding performances of Mozart and Beethoven Piano Concertos. She is currently studying with the emeritus head of keyboard Professor Christopher Elton and regularly playing for well-established names such as Yevgeny Sudbin and Steven Osborne. In June 2024, in the THE KURTÁG PROJECT, she participated in presenting the complete ten volumes of Kurtág’s Játékok (410 very short pieces) together with such prestigious names as Harry Rylance, Joanna MacGregor and Joseph Havlat.
Jiali began her career by winning the gold award of the Beijing Music Festival Competition, where she gave the prize winner recital in honour of Chinese Piano Music in Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall. In 2011, she won the 11th Beijing Xiwang Cup National Piano Competition and was invited to give performances of the same concert series with Lang Lang in Peking University.
jiali wang, bio
Chinese concert pianist Jiali Wang is a passionate and accomplished musician with a wide range of experience performing as a soloist and working with other instrumentalists and composers across several musical genres. Her infectious enthusiasm, playing with a virtuoso technique, has brought her to prestigious venues all over the world including Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall, Helsinki Temppeliaukio Rock Church, Netherlands Ruïnekerk Church, Xinghai Symphony Orchestral Hall, New York University Concert Hall, Xiamen Concert Hall, London Regent Hall.
During the summer of 2024, Jiali Wang won the Concerto Prize at the Malaga Piano Competition. Subsequently, she performed concerts in Belgium and London, and attended (following the successful receipt of a full bursary) as a participant in courses at the first Music Summer School Festival at Gresham’s School in Norfolk, led by pianist Rolf Hind and keyboardist Mahan Esfahani.
In 2023, she received the Edna Bralesford Piano Prize from Royal Academy of Music for graduating with the highest mark. She has also been awarded the Best Collaboration Prize on two occasions by academy for her outstanding performances of Mozart and Beethoven Piano Concertos. She is currently studying with the emeritus head of keyboard Professor Christopher Elton and regularly playing for well-established names such as Yevgeny Sudbin and Steven Osborne. In June 2024, in the THE KURTÁG PROJECT, she participated in presenting the complete ten volumes of Kurtág’s Játékok (410 very short pieces) together with such prestigious names as Harry Rylance, Joanna MacGregor and Joseph Havlat.
Jiali began her career by winning the gold award of the Beijing Music Festival Competition, where she gave the prize winner recital in honour of Chinese Piano Music in Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall. In 2011, she won the 11th Beijing Xiwang Cup National Piano Competition and was invited to give performances of the same concert series with Lang Lang in Peking University.
Among several major achievements, she won the Gershwin International Music Competition (US) in 2017. Jiali was also a prize winner in many important national and international competitions that include the first prize of Alion Baltic International Piano Competition (Estonia); the first prize of Harbin International Piano Music Festival Competition; Highly Commended in Chopin International Junior Piano Competition (Russia); in 2022, she won the Harriet Cohen Bach Competition and its special Harold Samuel Prize; winner of First Place of 2022 RAM Piano Duo Competition.
She has appeared in famous music festivals, as well as having many masterclasses worldwide with maestros such as Professor Arie Vardi, Alexander Toradze, Ian Hobson, Hung-Kuan Chen, Jerome Lowenthal and Oxana Yablonskaya.
Following her achievements during undergraduate study and audition, she was selected to join the MMus course starting in September 2023. She will continue her studies at Royal Academy of Music with the support of a generous scholarship.
about MOOT
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our people
patrons:
Alexander Waugh
Dr Paul Whittaker OBE (Music and the Deaf)
committee:
Norman Jacobs
Georgina Bowden
Thomas Jones
Will Kemp