Biography
Zubin Kanga is a pianist, composer and technologist. For over a decade, he has been at the forefront of creating, co-creating and performing interdisciplinary music that seeks to explore and redefine what it means to be a performer through interactions with new technologies. Since 2021, he has been the Director and Research Lead of Cyborg Soloists, a 7-year music technology research project supported by a UK Research and Innovation Future Leaders Fellowship and based at Royal Holloway, University of London, where he is Senior Lecturer in Musical Performance and Digital Arts.
Cyborg Soloists is unlocking new possibilities in composition and performance through interactions with AI, interactive visuals, motion and biosensors, and new hybrid instruments. His Cyborg Soloists work has been featured in The New York Times, New Scientist, The Wire, Classical Music Magazine and the BBC World Service. He has premiered more than 170 works and performed at many international festivals including the BBC Proms, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Aldeburgh Festival, London Contemporary Music Festival, Melbourne Festival, Paris Autumn Festival, Time of Music (Finland), Music Current (Ireland), Klang Festival (Denmark), Hamburg International Music Festival, Gaudeamus Festival (Netherlands), Tongyeong International Music Festival (South Korea), Transit Festival (Belgium) and Modulus Festival (Canada). In the last two years, he has premiered 8 new concerti with ensembles including BCMG, Explore Ensemble, Ensemble Offspring, Manchester Collective and the BBC Philharmonic.
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