CH Loh is a columnist for Off The Edge magazine, and has written extensively on Malaysian music over the past fifteen years. He is one of the founders of the Malaysian Composers Collective, and recently organised Malaysia's first KL Contemporary Music Festival 09, which saw the premiere of his Illegal Structures III for chamber ensemble by Ensemble Mosaik (Germany) in November 09.   Other works include band transcriptions such as Yellow River Concerto and Hong Wu Capriccio for Violin and Band, the Toccata for String Quartet premiered in Wellington at the Asia Pacific 07 and Maekhong for Saxophone Quartet premiered in Bangkok in 2008.
Winter Night on the River was especially written for the Melbourne Composers' League 2009 Spring concert, and is based on an earlier work for saxophone quartet entitled Maekhong, which was inspired by my travels in Thailand as a student - in particular that joyful wintry night in the deep forest of Chiangmai, by the river, making music with travellers from around the world, including a young couple from Melbourne, singing by the fire and playing on empty beer bottles and other found objects - a celebration of a world united purely by music at the bosom of mother nature, free from all politics. The title is a play on Delius Summer Night on the River, which shares the same gentle reflection.