Tangram x Asian Comedy Showcase
3&4 Feb 2026, LSO St Luke’s
REMIX
Tangram are flipping the script with an evening of comedy and new music by East and Southeast Asian creatives. The spirit of it? Punching back at Orientalism in Western classical music and bringing audiences into their own imaginative soundworlds and hilarious stories.
Hosted by comedian Sam See, Tangram’s newest project intertwines an eclectic range of commissioned music for Western and East Asian instruments with live comedic performances. Featuring new music by Beibei Wang, Dasom Baek and Alex Tay — alongside reimagined arrangements of works by Giacomo Puccini, Claude Debussy and more — Tangram thoughtfully reframe perspectives on Chinese cultures. Accompanied with comedic performances by Ken Cheng, Blank Peng, Jinhao Li and Jen Zhang, they cross lines between cultural appropriation, dialogue and celebration, all in their own words.
Come join Tangram to explore questions of identity and ownership through creative experimentation, parody and of course, laughter. In their refusal to be essentialised, they’re ready to have some fun.
Programme
Carl Marie von Weber Chinese Overture
Dasom Baek Nothingness
Claude Debussy Estampes: I. Pagodes
Giacomo Puccini Music from ‘Turandot’
Beibei Wang Credo in Credo (world premiere)
Nik Bärtsch Modul 5
Martin Denny / Yellow Magic Orchestra Firecracker
Dasom Baek 다리 (Dari)(world premiere)
Alex Tay BLINKER (world premiere)
Credits
Alex Tay
composer
Sun Keting
music director/creative producer
Dasom Baek
composer/daegum
Hannah Dienes-Williams
soprano
Junyan Chen
piano
Ken Cheng
comedian
Blank Peng
comedian
Jinhao Li
comedian
Jen Zheng
comedian
Sam See
comedy director/presenter
