Shk Kang

Shake is the main stay of feature film compositing and in this course we focus on the detailed workflow you need for real world feature film style compositing - but which are also relevant to other work such as compositing for commercials. This term we will be compositing a range of material from Cineon to Panalog and even traditional animation files. As shake is often used for compositing 3D - special attention will be given to this important area this term.

The Chinese viola Wenting Kang has been described as "an excellent violist" who "has a dark and bright sound" by the New York Times after her performance at the Marlboro Music Festival at Carnegie Hall. His performance has also been described by the Boston Musical Intelligencer as "elegant, precise and full of expressive intensity", which has "a pure, muscular tone …", becoming "passionate without ever losing control".

With his first stage work ‘Le Villi’, the young Giacomo Puccini instantly struck a chord with his contemporaries.

With his first stage work ‘Le Villi’, the young Giacomo Puccini instantly struck a chord with his contemporaries. His unerring instinct for deeply moving melodies made him a beacon of hope for a new generation of Italian opera composers. In this ‘opera ballo’ he masterfully set to music the gruesomely beautiful legend of an unfaithful fiancé who is killed by the frenzied dance of the “Willis” – elemental spirits haunting the Black Forest.

With his first stage work ‘Le Villi’, the young Giacomo Puccini instantly struck a chord with his contemporaries.

With his first stage work ‘Le Villi’, the young Giacomo Puccini instantly struck a chord with his contemporaries. His unerring instinct for deeply moving melodies made him a beacon of hope for a new generation of Italian opera composers. In this ‘opera ballo’ he masterfully set to music the gruesomely beautiful legend of an unfaithful fiancé who is killed by the frenzied dance of the “Willis” – elemental spirits haunting the Black Forest.

In the spring of 2020, the Covid pandemic caused turmoil in the concert diaries of most musicians, including the conductor Andrew Litton and his wife Katharina Kang Litton, principal violist of New York City Ballet. To find an outlet for their musical expression they began to explore the repertoire for viola and piano together. Having played the sonatas by Brahms they came across the music by two other Viennese composers, Brahms’ near-contemporary Robert Fuchs and his student Egon Kornauth.