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New Music Series #10 : A Voice of Wind

New Music Series is back with a 10th installment! This time we are featuring the woodwind family, if you play a woodwind instrument (Eastern or Western, doesn't matter) bring your instrument with you and come jam with us! 

New Music Series #10 : A Voice of Wind

Musicians:

Goh Boon Aik / 吴文益 / Saxophones, 萨克斯风

Siah Pei Ken / 谢培根 / Suona, 唢呐 

Sow Yoong Wai, Corgan / Flute, 长笛

Yii Kah Hoe / 余家和 / Xiao, 箫

Yong How Keen / 杨皓景 / Oboe, 双簧管 

Artistic Director : Ng Chor Guan

We welcome all musicians, teachers, students, lovers of music and anyone interested in seeing and hearing new music! 

Date/Time: 4/7/2015 (Saturday), 8.30pm 

Venue: Space. Toccata, SS2 

Admission by minimum donation of RM30 

*Special promotion for students: buy 5 free 1

Call/text 016-3618504 or email us etoccata@gmail.com to reserve your seats now!

JUNE PROGRAMMES: TOCCAPOLY KIDS! / POLKA DOT PLAYGROUND / 2020

Who can participate?
Children aged 4 – 6 years old. If your child demonstrates interest in the arts: be it theatre, music, painting, or dance, this is the course to enroll! 

Course Content
TOCCAPOLY is an immersive four-day program focusing on arts appreciation. Learn about the different artists and art forms from different regions in varying periods in history. This course takes a lighthearted and hands-on approach to exposing the students to the arts and offers guidance in terms of creativity and expression. 

Aims of the Course
To expose and introduce the arts to young children and foster a healthy attitude for art and its appreciation. Children will be encouraged to observe and formulate their own ideas about art, and finally, make art themselves. 

Date/Time: 1/6/2015 - 4/6/2015 (9am - 5pm daily)
Venue: Space.Toccata

For more information please call/text 016-3618504/014-8770388 or email etoccata@gmail.com

Polka Dot Playground is an interactive audio-visual performance featuring percussionist/drummer Jimmy Zhai, composer and Thereminist Ng Chor Guan, and Alubakhan Chen, who plays guqin and the didgeridoo. 

Date/time: 5/6/2015 (Friday) 8.30pm, 6/6/2015 (Saturday) 8.30pm 
Venue: Space. Toccata 
Admission by minimum donation of RM30

Join us in this wonderful venture into the world of improvisational music! 
Call/text 016-3618504 to reserve your seats now!

Toccata Studio is presenting a new multidisciplinary performance featuring two prominent Malaysian artists of differing fields: composer/musician Ng Chor Guan and dancer/choreographer Steve Goh. This is an ongoing project with the first phase debuting in the second half of June. A marked departure from their last collaborative work, this piece takes a turn for a narrative of the speculative nature. Using accessible concepts such as time travel, the multi-verse theory, and the relativity of time, Ng and Goh, are attempting to grapple with the currents and rapids in both their immediate worlds and those they are embedded within. Interestingly, the artists, hailing from separate and different backgrounds, are often mistaken as brothers, even twins. Ng and Goh have always wanted to exploit this unique physical commonality in a collaborative work, and in this piece, alongside the aforementioned themes, they will explore specifically, with regards to their physicality, illusions of sameness, sight, and change. 

What this piece aims to do is - instead of speaking of an indeterminate future - to discuss an imminent ‘tomorrow’; a deliberate teasing out of the anxieties the human race has always had for the future. After a long and difficult discussion, the artists, with the approval of its production team they have chosen the working title ‘2020’, a specific time merely five years, 60 months away. 

Ng and Goh are internationally acclaimed artists in their respective circles and specialize in the creation of collaborative contemporary works probing the deep recesses of human nature. They wish to create poignant works resonating in their audience, works that will inspire and catalyze change in hearts and minds. 

Date/Time: 27/6/2015 (8.30pm), 28/6/2015 (3pm)
Venue: Space. Toccata
Inquiries: 016-361 8504 / etoccata@gmail.com

Dance=Music Series #11: Netizen

Dance=Music Series has returned! This 11th installment features dancers Nuur Faliza Saad and Mohd Fauzi Amirudin, members of Aswara Dance Company, both young and passionate dancers in the vibrant KL dance scene. The music side of the equation features Ng Chor Guan, esteemed composer and musician born and bred in Kuala Lumpur. 

Date/time: 23/5/2015 (Saturday) 8.30pm, and 24/5/2015 (Sunday) 3pm 
Venue: Space. Toccata，SS2
Admission by minimum donation of RM30 


Call/text 016-3618504 to grab your seats now!

May: Square Fete and more!

Australian new-music collective halfsound are a dynamic, award-wining ensemble at the forefront of modernity. Based within the tradition of western art music, they give performances that always have a strong foundation in the music of today. Their performances aim to create an experiential sonic world in which sounds are linked to underlying themes and theatrics in order to maximize accessibility. Their sonic vocabulary comprises ensemble and solo works written by a wide variety of composers from around the world. halfsound understand the importance of collaboration in music as a means of artistic exchange, and as such they have featured many leading Australian and international interpreters of modern music as guest artists in their programmes. halfsound is jointly directed by two Australian saxophonists, Mr. Matt Hinchliffe and Ms. Ali Fyffe.

 Both Matt and Ali are graduates of the Faculty of the Victorian College of the Arts of the University of Melbourne in Australia and have worked together for seven years. As collaborative partners, they are in high demand and have performed extensively throughout Australia and abroad. They have twice toured Australia, once in 2012 and again in 2014 and in 2013 they undertook an extensive tour of the south of France. They have also performed in New Zealand, Malaysia, Thailand, Hong Kong, Vietnam, China, Hungary, Italy, and the United Kingdom in various capacities. They also regularly commission new works from composers and have many works attributed to them. halfsound have received much recognition in Australia and abroad in the form of a number of prestigious awards. Most notably, they have received 1st prize in the Musical Society of Victoria Chamber Music Competition, People’s Choice Award at the Gisborne International Music Competition, 3rd prize in the Marco Fiorindo International Chamber Music Competition, the Alan C. Rose Memorial Trust Award and the Athenaeum Prize for Chamber Music among many others.
halfsound are currently based in Hanoi, Vietnam where they are working on numerous projects in the region. Their 2015 concert season will include concerts across Asia and the Middle East as well as many commissions and other independent concerts.

Date and Time: 9 May 2015 @ 830pm
Venue: 39A, Jalan SS2/55, 47300 Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia.
Contact: 016-3618504
Admission: minimum donation RM30

Performers: Australian saxophonists duo Halfsound, Mr. Matt Hinchliffe and Ms. Ali Fyffe

Program:
Murasaki No Fuchi (for saxophone duo) - Ryo Noda
Hard (for tenor saxophone solo) - Christian Lauba
Mysterious Morning III (for soprano saxophone solo) - Fuminori Tanada
Tre Pezzi (for tenor saxophone solo) - Giacinto Scelsi
Sequenza IXb (for alto saxophone solo) - Luciano Berio
Teintes (for saxophone duo) - Etienne Rolin

Date/Time: 10th May / 12pm - 6pm

Venue: Space. Toccata
39A, JLN SS2/55, 47300 Petaling Jaya.

Admission is FREE!!!

1pm: Contemporary Dance and Chinese Drums + Mobile Phone Orchestra

2pm: Singer-songwriters session

3pm: Cake Project 

4pm: WVC Trio +1 

5pm: POLKA • Playground 

Come by and hang out with us at Space. Toccata.
we've got food, an amazing line up, and great conversation!

Kindly RSVP by 5th May, hope to see you then!

Call/text 016-3618504 or email etoccata@gmail.com to reserve your seats now! 

April updates!

'What If...' 

Our lives are shaped by the decisions we make, be they made consciously or otherwise. These decisions are influenced by our lived experiences and will in turn influence our lives; each decision leads to an outcome, another decision, a different path. 

'What If...' explores the concept of decision-making, questions the idea of grappling with change and how free we are to pick and choose. 

Choreography: Steve Goh

Music: Ng Chor Guan

Dance Dance Dance Showcase 'Rainbow' 

Dance Dance Dance is now about to embark on its 6th run and 'Rainbow' is the accumulation of both instructor and students' hard work. A poignant piece about dream and memory, 'Rainbow' examines their intangibility and ambiguities. 

Choreography: Steve Goh

Dancers: Anjoey Chong, Bee Yen, Emily Tan, Eliza Wong Chuen Foong, Viennie C, Sze Ching Lee 

Date/Time: 

18 April 2015 (Saturday), 8.30pm 

19 April 2015 (Sunday) 3pm

Venue: 

Space.Toccata, 

39A, Jalan SS2/55, 

47300 Petaling Jaya, Malaysia

Admission by minimum donation: RM30

For more information please contact 016-361 8504 / 011 3302 9688 or email etoccata@gmail.com. 

Don't miss the premier of "What If..." in Malaysia!

"RAINBOW" by Dance Dance Dance 5.0

"What if..." by Steve Goh, original music by Ng Chor Guan

Please browse our youtube website to watch the teaser if you've missed it.

Here is the youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58zoZRXxZok

New Music Series is back! This installment features the instruments from the brass family of Western classical music. 

Musicians: 
Chai Kee Hong (French Horn)
Heng Zhi Wen (French Horn)
Kok Shu Liang (Trombone) 
Tan Qin Wei (Trumpet)

Conductor: Ng Chor Guan 

Date/Time: 24/4/2015 (Friday), 8.30pm 
Venue: Space. Toccata, 39A, Jalan SS2/55, 47300 Petaling Jaya. 
Admission by minimum donation of RM25

Call/text 016-3618504 or email etoccata@gmail.com to reserve your seats now!

March is here!

What is CAKE PROJECT?

CAKE PROJECT is a micro crowd-funding project by Toccata Studio which aims to build a strong and diverse network of local art practitioners and audiences. It started as a nostalgic idea of wanting to recreate the atmosphere of Sunday afternoon chit-chat with tea and cakes among friends and family where one could bounce ideas about each other. The current version of CAKE PROJECT is a better structured one where ideas can be turned into projects with the money from the audience and arts community. 

Who goes to CAKE PROJECT? 
People who want to share and realise their creative ideas and people who want to see new things come to live and help artists realise their projects! 
• Dreamers (presenter): eager people who have creative ideas and want to realise them! (We welcome all art practitioners, professional and amateur alike!)
• Audience (voters): people who want to see and hear new, creative things and support them.

How does CAKE PROJECT work?
CAKE PROJECT happens bi-monthly on odd months (i.e January, March, May etc). There is a PRIZE POT in a corner of Toccata Studio where people can contribute any amount CAKE PROJECT. Admission to CAKE PROJECT is at a minimum of RM15 per person, which adds on to the accumulated amount in the PRIZE POT, which will go to the winner at the end of the day. In return, audience and presenter will both enjoy tea and a slice of homemade cake sponsored by kind aunties in the neighbourhood.
• Each presenter is allocated 15 minutes of the floor: 10 minutes for presenting their idea + 5 for a quick Q&A session.
• At the end of the presentation period, each person is entitled to one (1) vote of their choice.
• Votes will then be collected and counted by Toccata Studio while everyone enjoys a slice of homemade cake with coffee or tea.
• Occasionally there may be performances or talks by special guests; sometimes past winners of CAKE PROJECT will return to share the progress of realising their project.
• The project with the most votes wins, and is the recipient of all the money in the PRIZE POT. 

If you would like to come to CAKE PROJECT as a Dreamer, do not hesitate to contact us. Submit a simple write up (no more than 200 words) about your idea/project to etoccata@gmail.com.

If you would like more information before making a decision, do not hesitate to contact us:

phone: 016－3618504 / email: etoccata@gmail.com.

please browse our YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zC-KwEQ28-k

Fans and friends of FUGU, take note! 

FUGU has returned and will be playing at Good Friends Cafe 10th March. 

Date/Time: 10/3/2015 (Tuesday), 8.30pm 

Venue: Good Friends Cafe, 15 & 17, Jalan SS 15/8a, Ss 15, 47500 Subang Jaya, Selangor

Admission by minimum donation of RM30 

Early birds pay RM25 with special gift! (before 5/3/2015)

Call/text 016-3618504 or email etoccata@gmail.com to get your seats now!


Please browse our youtube website to watch the teaser if you've missed it.

Here is the youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kzp1oSHStEo