Jasmin Wing-Yin Leung (梁詠然)
Jasmin Wing-Yin Leung is a composer / musician who works within composition, improvisation and installation settings. She is interested in the sonic possibilities of resonance, intonation, hauntings and the environment. She plays the Erhu and has developed an extended practice for this instrument. Jasmin’s work has been presented in Australia, China, Europe and North America, including at the NOWNow (Sydney), BIFEM (Bendigo), impuls Festival (Graz), Organhaus (Chongqing), Metro Arts (Brisbane), Spectrum (New York) and Audible Edge (Perth).
Jasmin studied Electroacoustics at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar, and Composition at Akademija za glasbo Univerze v Ljubljani and the Queensland Conservatorium of Music Griffith University. Since 2014 she has regularly visited Hong Kong to study the Erhu. In 2017, she was a resident at the Ostrava Institute for New Music in Czechia, studying with many composers including George Lewis, Jennifer Walshe, Roscoe Mitchell, Marc Sabat and many others. In 2019, as a recipient of an Asialink Arts Creative Exchange she was resident at the Organhaus Gallery in Chongqing, China. In 2021/2022 she was made Associate Artist of the Australian Art Orchestra through their ‘Pathfinder’ Music Leadership program.