Kai Leung will be conducting a read-through of Martin Palmeri’s “Misatango”. Kai is a passionate choral conductor, singer, voice teacher, and composer. He is the Artistic Director and Executive Director of the Modern Sound Collective, a choral organization that provides youth and young adult musicians with accessible opportunities for growth and collaboration. He is also the Artistic Director of Oakville Choral.
Also known as “Misa a Buenos Aires”, “Misatango” is a 1996 setting of the mass by the Argentinian composer Martin Palmeri. It is a choral mass on Tango sounds, composed on the same movements as a mass in classical Latin, in which the harmonics and syncopated rhythms of tango are mixed.