Artistic Vision
Martin Leung's mission to bridge classical and popular music through video game compositions
“‘I believe that video-game music will build a bridge that will link the popular music world with the classical music world’... He is already fitting a few bricks for that bridge himself. A few weeks ago, Leung gave a recital in Long Beach that featured works by Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Liszt ... and Koji Kondo, a Japanese composer.”
“Leung achieved a staggering degree of Internet fame with a six-minute video of himself pounding out solo piano renditions of multiple tunes from Super Mario Bros... It’s a hilarious, jaw-dislocating virtuoso performance. It also represents Leung’s artistic crusade... ‘I think that as more and more people get exposed to video-game music, they’ll realize that there’s more music classical instruments can play other than video-game music... And then they’ll look at Bach, Beethoven and Mozart.”
