Christopher Tin, the two-time Grammy Award winner is making his Carnegie Hall conducting debut  on June 9 with the presentation of his classical crossover album Calling All Dawns. Presented by DCINY, Tin, the DCINY composer-in-residence, will be leading a mass choir of singers performing Calling All Dawns with a full orchestra. Featured soloists are Jacqueline Horner-Kwiatek, Mezzo-Soprano, Michael Odokara-Okigbo (Michael O.), Tenor, Camille Brault, Mezzo-Soprano, Holly Sedillos, Soprano, and Deanna Choi, Soprano. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #4d4d4d} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #4d4d4d; min-height: 14.0px} READ THE FULL BroadwayWorld ARTICLE

Legendary Taiwanese diva Teresa Teng is going through a revival, after blockbuster flick Crazy Rich Asians used a big band cover of her classic melody "When Will You Return" (also known as "Waiting For Your Return") to open the movie.  Composer Christopher Tin, who adapted the song for the film, tells Inkstone about remaking a classic, and explains why Crazy Rich Asians has finally given the Asian community a voice in Hollywood. WATCH THE inkstone VIDEO p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #606060} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #606060; min-height: 14.0px}

In his 15 years as one of the leading artists in electronic music, Australian songwriter, composer, record producer and DJ tyDi, has recorded five full-length albums, countless singles, remixes, and EPs that have topped global charts. On his new album - Collide, tyDi enlisted 2x GRAMMY award winning composer and seasoned vet Christopher Tin to help bring Collide to the masses. Best known for his composing and scoring work across the concert music, film and video game industries, Tin has won multiple awards and accolades: In 2011, his choral piece Baba Yetu from the video game Civilization IV became the first piece of video game music to ever win a Grammy Award, while his album Calling All Dawns took home a second Grammy for Best Classical Crossover Album that same year. "To make my dream album, I needed someone experienced who was a king in the composing world," says tyDi of his collaboration with Tin. "This is the type of composition you can only get from an entire orchestra, and I owe so much to Christopher." For tyDi, it all now comes full circle on Collide, his most ambitious and most challenging project to date. READ THE VENTS Q&A with tyDi

On the surface, the relationship between video games and music seems to be a straightforward one. One of the integral features that makes a well-written, mechanically strong video game into a masterpiece is music. On the flip side, video games benefits in the music industry in many ways too. Then there are the unique examples such as Youtuber Dan Bull, who makes fantastic songs about video games, which have then been used by video game developers in order to market their games. These creative back and forth relationships are rare but are an excellent example of how a sort of coevolution can develop between the video game and music industries. One of the integral features that makes a well-written, mechanically strong video game into a masterpiece is music. So if these links are so prominent and so beneficial for both sides, why has the music industry made frustratingly difficult for these links to be maintained, cultivated further and celebrated? The music industry seems to specifically ignore the valuable contributions video games makes to it and you can see this in the Grammys. First off, let's talk about the fact that until 2011, video games were not eligible to be nominated for any category. Even with the allowing of video games to be nominated into the Grammys there has been a significant handicap attached to them. They have to compete in the Visual Media categories. This is an important issue because they have to go up against blockbuster film scores, which have more money and more reach than individual game soundtracks, in order to even be considered for the award. This fact is the major contributor to why video game music has only ever been nominated twice for an award. The first was Christopher Tin's ‘Baba Yetu', which is the legendary piece of music recorded for Civilisation IV. This actually won the award for ‘Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s)' in 2010, but only 6 years after the song was first released in Civilisation IV and because it was re-recorded which technically made it applicable to be nominated. The other nomination is from Austin Wintory, who composed the breath-taking soundtrack to the 2012 mega hit Journey, in which he was nominated for the ‘Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media' along side the titans of the movie music industry John Williams and Hans Zimmer. Personally, I don't think that a particularly fair fight, and this highlights how great video game can be completely overshadowed because the music industry refuses to acknowledge gaming's individual contribution. READ THE FULL Boar ARTICLE p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #606060} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #606060; min-height: 14.0px}

DOUBLE Grammy Award winner Christopher Tin will conduct the European premiere of his majestic work The Drop That Contained The Sea at York Barbican on Saturday night. The 200 voices of Prima Vocal Ensemble, from York, and Angel City Chorale, from Los Angeles, will be accompanied by the Mowbray Orchestra, joined on stage by yet-to-be-confirmed international soloists and York singer Alistair McQueen, who has been chosen to perform Tin's ground-breaking piece, Baba Yetu. The York premiere reunites the two choirs for the first time since the sold-out world premiere of The Drop at Carnegie Hall, New York, in 2014. In addition to the main event, Christopher Tin will host a pre-concert talk from 6pm: a chance to ask the American composer questions about his life, music and accolades, from his Grammys to his John Lennon songwriting award and Horovitz prize. Admission to this intimate session is free but spaces must be pre-booked by emailing prima@gemmusic.co.uk with numbers. READ THE FULL ARTICLE

The second album from two-time GrammyTM Award-winning composer Christopher Tin, entitled The Drop that Contained the Sea, has entered the Billboard Classical Traditional Charts at #1 after its first week of release.  The ten-part song-cycle explores the theme of water in its different forms, with vocal performances by fellow GrammyTM Award-winners the Soweto Gospel Choir and Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares, as well as early music superstars Anonymous 4, Mongolian pop starNominjin, world-renowned fadista Dulce Pontes, GrammyTM-nominated choir Schola Cantorum and more.

The recording follows Tin's debut album Calling All Dawns, which won the GrammyTM for Best Classical Crossover Album in 2011 and contained the hugely popular song "Baba Yetu," which was the theme song for video game Civilization IV and won a GrammyTM for Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalists (the first piece of video game music to win a GrammyTM). SEE THE FULL Dirty Dog LIST FOR August 2015  

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Christopher Tin's "Baba Yetu," otherwise known as "that Civilization IV song that won't get out of your head," won a Grammy for "Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalists" at the 53rd annual music awards. The track, which is the first piece of video game music nominated for a little gramophone, was recognized so many years later because it was the opening track on composer Christopher Tin's debut album, Calling All Dawns, which also won a Grammy for "Best Classical Crossover Album."

Tin's "Baby Yetu" has been a mainstay of Video Games Live for several years and can be seen performed live on the show's DVD/Blu-ray (and on the YouTubes). "We're so proud of Christopher's Grammy Award victory and what he has accomplished," said Video Games Live CEO Tommy Tallarico in a statement this morning. "This historic moment will continue to bridge the gap between mainstream music and video games. It is an honor to perform his music in our show." http://www.lazygamer.net/soweto-gospel-choir-won-a-grammy-why-do-we-care/