Composers and Musicologists on the Present and Future of Art Music: Crossing Into Distance (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781036466411)

English composer-conductor George Holloway is assistant professor in Nanhua University's (Taiwan) Department of Ethnomusicology, and was formerly Dean of Composition at Tianjin Conservatory, China. His compositions have been performed across Asia, Europe, and the US. Previous academic publications include: "Composing Metastable: Using Musical Creativity to Inform (and Go Beyond) Data Sonification" and "Practical and Aesthetic Reflections Regarding the Notation of Non-Power-of-Two Rhythmic Divisions of the Whole Note", published in Journal of Arts and Design, and "Composition as an Extension of Ethnomusicology: The channelling of traditional gestures and embellishments of six schools of guzheng playing in Hook for solo guzheng, and the possible role of machine learning as an extension of 'transcription' in compositional practice", published in Principles of Music Composing. George studied Classics at Oxford (UK), composition at Southampton (UK) with Michael Finnissy, and conducting at Beijing's Central Conservatory of Music (China).