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GUO
WENJING
b.
1956 (resident in Beijing)
Peach
blossom, 2010
for countertenor and recorder
poem by Hai Zi
commissioned by UMS 'n JIP
world premiere Lee Hysan Concert Hall Chinese University of
Hong Kong CUHK, 02/12/2010 |
Guo
Wenjing
was born in 1956 in Chongqing, an ancient city of China’s
mountainous Sichuan province, and the resulting combination of
urban tension and regional folklore in his formative years has
fused together into a highly distinctive compositional voice.
In
1978, Guo was one of a hundred students admitted out of 17,000
applicants to Beijing’s reopened Central Conservatory of
Music. Unlike many colleagues from this acclaimed class (Tan Dun,
Chen Yi, Zhou Long), Guo remained in China after graduation except
for a short stay in New York (on an Asian Cultural Council grant)
and has spent little time outside his home country. Guo’s
prolific output includes the internationally acclaimed chamber
operas WolfCubVillage (1994) and Night Banquet (1997-98/2001).
The former, based on Lu Xun’s Diary of a Madman, was premiered
at the Holland Festival, and after a subsequent performance in
Paris, Le Monde compared his “masterpiece of madness”
to Berg’s Wozzeck and Shostakovich’s The Nose. Night
Banquet, inspired by a painting about the Song dynasty court official
Han Xizai, was first produced at the Almeida Theatre (London)
and the Hong Kong Arts Festival. A subsequent production, premiered
at the Paris Autumn Festival, has also appeared at the Berlin,
Lincoln Center, and Perth International Arts festivals. In October
2003, both operas received their Chinese premiere at the 6th Beijing
Music Festival, directed by Lin Zhaohua of the Beijing People’s
Art Theatre. Guo’s recent chamber opera output include Mu
Guiying (2003) and Hua Mulan (2004), new Beijing operas directed
by Li Liuyi that premiered at the Beijing Capitol Theatre, and
Fengyiting (2004), written for Beijing opera tenor and Sichuan
opera soprano, premiered in the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. Critics
from many countries have responded to Guo’s “unparalleled
musical beauty and dramatic power” (Le Monde), and found
his work “pungent and vivid” (The Guardian), “uninhibited
and pure” (Het Parool) and “subtle and unusual”
(Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung), with the composer “showing
his credentials as a man of the theatre” (Financial Times)
with “a highly original sense of operatic possibility”
(The Independent). Guo’s music first became known in the
West in 1983, when his Suspended Ancient Coffins on the Cliffs
on Sichuan premiered in Berkeley, California. The piece clearly
salutes Bartok, highlighting two solo pianos with a battery of
percussion instruments, but the strong imprint of Guo’s
own Sichuanese roots is unmistakable in the orchestral writing.
Shu Dao Nan [“Hard are the ways of Sichuan”] (1987),
a symphonic poem with voices, is a setting of Li Bai’s poetry,
which the official People’s Music Publishing House selected
as part of its series “Twentieth-Century Distinguished Chinese
Classics.” Chou Kong Shan [“Sorrowful, Desolate Mountain”]
(1992, rev. 1995), a concerto for Chinese bamboo flute, was premiered
by the Goteborg Symphony Orchestra in Sweden under the baton of
Neeme Järvi. Guo’s other orchestral works include concertos
for violin, cello, and harp. His most recent work, written for
soprano and orchestra, Journeys, was a commission premiered by
Edo de Waart and the Hong Kong Philharmonic in October 2004. The
text for Journeys was taken from epic poetry by contemporary Chinese
poet Xi Chuan.Apart from his chamber music for traditional western
string quartets and percussion ensembles, Guo also has composed
Late Spring (1995) for Chinese ensemble and Sound from Tibet (2001)
combining instruments from China and the West. Among his most
performed chamber works are Drama (1995, a trio for three percussionists
who also speak and sing), Inscriptions on Bone (1996, for alto
singer and 15 instruments), and She Huo (1991, for eleven players),
and Parade (2004, a sequel to Drama, for three percussionists).
Guo has also composed music scores for 20 feature films and 25
television films in China. At home, Guo has been honored among
the Top 100 Living Artists of China. Abroad, his works have been
featured at festivals in Amsterdam, Berlin, Glasgow, Paris, Edinburgh,
New York, Aspen, London, Turin, Perth, Huddersfield, Hong Kong
and Warsaw, and at such venues as the Frankfurt Opera, Berlin’s
Konzerthaus, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, Washington’s
Kennedy Center and New York’s Lincoln Center. He has written
works for such internationally distinguished ensembles as the
Nieuw Ensemble, Atlas Ensemble, Cincinnati Percussion Group, Kronos
Quartet, Arditti String Quartet, Ensemble Modern, Hong Kong Chinese
Orchestra, Goteborg Symphony Orchestra, China Philharmonic Orchestra,
Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra, and Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra.
The former head of the composition department of the Central Conservatory,
where he still remains on the faculty, Guo maintains a busy schedule
as composer and educator. His forthcoming works include:
a concerto for erhu (Chinese two-stringed fiddle) co-commissioned
by the Singapore Symphony Orchestra (worldpremiered on 19 January
2007) and the Bavarian Radio’s longstanding concert series
“Musica Viva”; the opera Poet Li Bai (upon the most
famous Tang dynasty poet) the world premiere of which was on July
2007 in Denver (Colorado) during the Summer Festival of the Central
City Opera. European premiere took place in Rome, May 2008.Both
works receive their premieres in 2007. In October 2009, JIP premiered
the Madman's part in 'Suite from Wolf Cub Village' at 2nd Int.
New Music Days Shanghai.
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DEQING
WEN
b. 1958 (resident in Shanghai/Fuzhou)
A
New Legend of Yang Zongbao and Mu Guiying, 2008/9
for tenor/countertenor, recorder and playback CD
commissioned by UMS 'n JIP
world premiere at Swiss Contemporary Music Festival forum valais,
16/01/2009 |
Wen
Deqing. Born in a small village in Southern China, Wen
studied composition in China, Switzerland and France, with Guo
Zu-Rong, Shi Wan-Chun, Luo Zhong-Rong, Jean Balissat and Gilbert
Amy. He was a visiting scholar at Columbia University in New York
City while 2005 to 2006. At present, he is professor of “analysis
and performance of contemporary music”, as well as the artistic
director of New Music Week of Shanghai Conservatory of Music.
Composer in residence of “Davos Festival – young artists
in concert” 2009. His music is a mixture of traditional
Chinese music and complex western techniques combined with his
own creative inspiration. Wen is deeply influenced by Chinese
culture, particularly philosophy, painting and calligraphy. He
also tries to use everyday objects such as cans, bottles, glasses,
wind machines, tap water and paper. His music has been performed
around the world. He has been honoured with concerts dedicated
to his compositions in China, France, Denmark, Switzerland and
the United States. Deqing Wen’s CD is published by Stradivarius
(Italy) and Grammont Portrait (Switzerland). He has been awarded
numerous prizes (among others the Prix Cultura 1999 of the Foundation
Kiwanis and the 2001 Composer Prize of the Foundation Leenaards
of Switzerland). His commissions include Pro Helvetia, the Festival
Archipel, the Association des Amis de la Musique , the Wittener
Tage für neue Kammermusik for Arditti String Quartet, Radio-Espace
2 for the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and the Taipei Chinese
traditional orchestra of Taiwan. His opera «Le Pari»
(The Wager) has been performed in the international Festival of
Geneva (Switzerland), Shanghai, Beijing and Savonlinna (Finland).
Since 1991 Wen has been living in Geneva. He is a member of the
Association Suisse des Musiciens and the Societé Suisse
pour les Droits des Auteurs d’Oeuvres Musicales. Over these
past few years, he has returned to China several times to take
part in musical exchanges between China, Switzerland, USA and
France. www.deqingwen.com
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TAM
CHIN FAI, SAMUEL
b. 1969 (resident in Hongkong)
Bird's
Words, 2010
for tenor/countertenor and recorder
commissioned by UMS 'n JIP
world premiere Lee Hysan Concert Hall CUHK Hong Kong, 02/12/2010 |
Tam
Chin Fai, Samuel (born
1969) studied composition with Victor Chan and David Gwilt at
the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His early works combined
traditional values with experimental elements, as illustrated
in his electronic-acoustic ensemble work “Concerto Grosso
I” which won him the Yu Luan Shih Creativity Award. Tam
works in the field of popular music production for many years
and had received several major awards. Recently Tam is working
in the field of music education as well as remaining active in
serious music composition. His works show great interest in Chinese
subjects and attempt to blend traditional and non-traditional
sounds (tonal, atonal, etc.) in a contemporary musical context.
Music by Tam Chin Fai has been widely performed by local and overseas
musicians, including Shum Kin Wai, The Cantacore Society, Ying
Wa College Old Boys’ Choir, Valentin Johannes Gloor, Simone
Keller, Sregnis Singers and Brain Lai. His new work “If
Life is Unknown…” for wind quintet was premiered by
the Hong Kong Kamerata earlier this year. His string quartet “Shan
Shui I” was selected for the final round of the 7th International
Contemporary Music Contest “Città di Udine”,
and was published in Italy. His choral work “Deng Luo You
Yuan” will also be published by the Hong Kong Composers’
Guild in the coming days. http://www.hkcg.org/Composers/tamchinfai_e.html
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HUANG
RUO
b. 1976 (resident in New York)
Cursive
Scripts, 2009
for tenor/countertenor and recorder
commissioned by UMS 'n JIP
world premiere at Swiss Contemporary Music Festival forum valais,
16/01/2009 (part I/II)
world premiere at 2nd Int. New Music Week Shanghai, 16/10/2009
(part III)
Painted
Skin, 2011
for tenor/countertenor and recorder
commissioned by UMS 'n JIP
world premiere at Swiss Contemporary Music Festival forum valais,
13/2/2011 |
Huang
Ruo. “one of the most intriguing of the new crop
of Asian-American composers.” His vibrant and inventive
musical voice draws equal inspiration from Chinese folk, Western
avant-garde, rock, and jazz to create a seamless, organic integration
using a compositional technique he calls "dimensionalism."
Huang Ruo’s writing spans from orchestra, chamber music,
opera, theater, and modern dance, to sound installation, multi-media,
experimental improvisation, folk rock, and film. Ensembles who
have premiered and performed his music include the New York Philharmonic,
Philadelphia Orchestra, Hong Kong Philharmonic, Chamber Music
Society of Lincoln Center, Asko Ensemble, Nieuw Ensemble, Quatuor
Diotima, and Dutch Vocal Laboratory, and under conductors such
as Wolfgang Sawallisch, James Conlon, Dennis Russell Davies, Ed
Spanjaard, Xian Zhang, and Ilan Volkov. Huang Ruo has received
awards and grants from the ASCAP Foundation, Presser Foundation,
Jerome Foundation, Argosy Foundation, Greenwall Foundation, Meet
The Composer, NYSCA, Chamber Music America, American Music Center,
Aaron Copland Award, and Alice M. Ditson Award. Huang Ruo has
collaborated with New York City Ballet's principal dancer Damian
Woetzel and choreographer Christopher Wheeldon, in addition to
kinetic painter Norman Perryman. In 2003, Miller Theatre featured
Huang Ruo on its Composer Portraits series, where his four chamber
concertos were premiered as a cycle with him conducting. New York
Times critic Allan Kozinn listed this concert as the second on
the list of his “Top Ten Classical Moments of 2003.”
Huang Ruo’s Chamber Concerto Cycle was released on Naxos
in February 2007; Leaving Sao, a work for orchestra and Chinese
Folk Voice, was released on Albany Records with his own singing
in 2008; and Divergence came out on Koch International in 2009.
Huang Ruo’s film credits include soundtracks for Jian-Fu
Garden and Stand Up. The latter was recently named the Official
Selection for the Rhode Island International Film Festival and
the Atlanta International Film Festival. His music has been played
in Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall and Weill Recital Hall, Avery
Fisher Hall and Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, Miller Theatre
at Columbia University, Symphony Space (New York), the Academy
of Music (Philadelphia), the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art,
the Chicago Cultural Center, the Harris Concerto Hall (Aspen),
the Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ and Paradiso (Amsterdam), the
Shanghai Concert Hall, and the Hong Kong City Hall cultural complex.
A frequent winner of the ASCAP Concert Music Award, Ruo’s
work has been spotlighted on National Public Radio (NPR), Radio
Finland, Radio Sweden, Radio-Amsterdam, Radio-Canada and Radio-China.
Huang’s recent commissions include a cello concerto, People
Mountain People Sea, for Jian Wang, co-commissioned by the ASCAP
Foundation as part of Miller Theatre’s Pocket Concerto series;
Real Loud, a chamber work co-commissioned by the La Jolla Music
Society’s SummerFest and the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival;
and The Color Yellow, a concerto for sheng, written for Wu Wei
and the Albany Symphony under David Alan Miller. Huang Ruo’s
future concerts include with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra
at Hong Kong’s Culture Center Concert Hall, Shanghai Symphony
at the Shanghai Grand Theater, as well as the American Composers
Orchestra with him singing his own Leaving Sao at Carnegie Hall’s
Zankel Hall in 2009.His future commissions and premieres include
an orchestra work for the Shanghai Spring International Music
Festival with the Shanghai Symphony, the chamber concerto MO for
the Luxembourg Sinfonietta (Luxembourg), an grand opera for the
Opera Hong Kong, a chamber opera for the Dutch Vocal Laboratory
(Netherlands), String quartet No.2 for the Carducci Quartet (Great
Britain), and String Quartet No.3 for the Chiara Quartet (USA),
chamber works for UMS ´N JIP (Switzerland), the Continuum
Ensemble, Camerata Pacifica, the Bowdoin Summer Music Festival,
the Macau International Music Festical. Huang Ruo’s past
film credits include sound tracks to the films Jian-Fu Garden
as well as Stand Up. His works are published by the Huang Ruo
Publishing and Recording Company, which he founded in 2000. Also
noted as an author, he published Selection of Classic Chinese
Folk Songs (Zhong Shan University Press). In 2006, the National
Committee on United States–China Relations selected him
as a Young Leader Fellow. A frequent winner of the ASCAP Concert
Music Award, Ruo’s work has been spotlighted on National
Public Radio (NPR), Radio Finland, Radio Sweden, Radio-Amsterdam,
Radio-Canada and Radio-China. Aside from being an avant-garde
composer, he is also a conductor and Chinese folk-rock singer,
releasing commercial recordings on Naxos and Albany Records, and
making debuts at Lincoln Center as well as Carnegie hall. Also
noted as an author, Huang Ruo published Selection of Classic Chinese
Folk Songs with the Zhong Shan University Press. His music is
published by the Huang Ruo Publishing and Recording Company, which
he founded in 2000. Huang Ruo has been an invited lecturer and
forum presenter at New York University, Columbia University, Central
Conservatory of Music in Beijing, Shanghai Conservatory of Music,
and Guangzhou Conservatory of Music. He was also a visiting composer
at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and the University of Georgia.
Huang Ruo was born in Hainan Island, China, in 1976, the year
the Chinese Cultural Revolution ended. His father, who is a well-known
composer in China, began teaching him composition and piano when
he was six years old. Growing up in the 1980s and 1990s, when
China was steadily opening its gates to the Western world, he
received both traditional and Western education at the Shanghai
Conservatory of Music. He was admitted into its composition program,
studying with Deng Erbo at the age of twelve. As a result of the
dramatic cultural and economic changes in China following the
Cultural Revolution, his education expanded from Bach, Mozart,
Stravinsky, and Lutoslawski to include the Beatles, rock and roll,
heavy metal, and jazz. Huang Ruo was able to absorb all of these
newly allowed Western influences without inhibiting factors. As
a member of the new generation of Chinese composers, he clearly
knows that his goal and task is not just to mix both Western and
Eastern elements, but to go beyond that to create a seamless integration
and a convincing organic unity, drawing influences from various
genres and cultures. After winning the Henry Mancini Award at
the 1995 International Film and Music Festival in Switzerland,
he moved to the United States to further his education. Since
then, he has earned a Bachelor of Music degree from the Oberlin
Conservatory of Music and Master of Music and Doctor of Musical
Arts degrees in composition from the Juilliard School. His composition
teachers have included Randolph Coleman and Samuel Adler. Huang
Ruo is currently a member of the composition faculty at SUNY Purchase.
He is the artistic director and conductor of Future In REverse
(FIRE), and was selected as a Young Leader Fellow by the National
Committee on United States–China Relations in 2006. www.huangruo.com |
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DU
YUN
b. 1977 (resident in New York)
Panacea,
No-chê, 2009
for countertenor, recorder and electronics
commissioned by UMS 'n JIP
world premiere at Swiss Contemporary Music Festival forum valais,
16/01/2009 |
Du
Yun. Born and raised in Shanghai, China, Du
Yun currently resides in New York City. She is an alumna of Shanghai
Conservatory, Oberlin Conservatory (B.M.) and Harvard University
(M.A., Ph.D). Her principal compositional teachers include
DENG Erbo, Randolph Coleman, Bernard Rands, Joshua Fineberg, and
Mario Davidovsky. She currently serves on the composition faculty
at the State University of New York-Purchase. Aside from composing
notated music for concert halls, Du Yun's music also spans from
writing for art shows, experimental theatres to improvising/performing
actively at avant-garde venues on the amplified/processed Chinese
zither (the 21-string zheng), piano, laptop, and with her own
voice. Propelled by the kernel of genere-defying, her approach
to music, regardless its formation, has always aimed to be ultimately
visceral; to evoke a sense of corporeality stripped-down from
spirituality. Recent recipient of the 2007 Fromm Foundation, in
the recent years Du Yun has been granted of awards, fellowships,
and commissions including from the Jerome Foundation, Meet the
Composer, American Music Center, Greenwall Foundation, Lower Manhattan
Council, the First Place of China National Young Composer Competition,
Harvard Dissertation Completion Award, winner of the 3rd British
and International Bass Forum Composition Competition (solo section),
Adelbert W. Sprague Prize, the audience award of the 2004 International
Composer Forum in Montréal, Canada, New Trumpet Festival
of New York, and the Shanghai New Music Foundation. http://www.iceorg.org/about/artist/yun.html
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TAO
YU
b. 1981 (resident in Paris)
Wu-Wu,
2008/9
for countertenor, recorder and percussion
commissioned by UMS 'n JIP
world premiere at Swiss Contemporary Music Festival forum valais,
16/01/2009 |
Tao
Yu. born 1981 in Beijing. Tao Yu began private
piano lessons with Wang Jia, Wang Ming-li and Zheng Xiu-lan in
Beijing at age four and studied composition privately with Wang
Ning in Beijing from 1995-99 and privately with Yao Heng-lu in
Beijing from 1998-2002. She studied composition with Shi Wan-chun
at the Conservatory of Music in Beijing from 1996-2000, where
she also studied composition with Wang Ning from 2000-02, on a
scholarship. She then studied composition with Nicolas Bolens
and Éric Gaudibert and electronic music with Rainer Boesch
and Émile Ellberger at the Conservatoire de Musique de
Genève from 2002-05. Among her honors are Second Prize
in the art song competition of the Conservatory of Music in Beijing
(2000, for Rose) and the Excellence Prize in the TMSK Chinese
chamber music competition in Shanghai (2003, for Poetry of the
Autumn Wind). She has received commissions from Ensemble Phoenix,
pipa-player Han Yinying, theorbo-player Markus Hochuli, the ensemble
Ilôrkestra, and the Museum Rath in Geneva and her music
has been performed in China, Germany, Japan, Poland, South Korea,
Switzerland, and the USA. |
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LI
KAR YEE, KARRY
b. 1981 (resident in Hongkong)
His
shadow, 2006/2010
for tenor/countertenor and recorder
world premiere Amphitheatre Hong Kong Academy of Performing
Arts HKAPA, 01/12/2010 |
Li
Kar Yee (b. 1981) received her Master Degree of Music
with local full scholarship, major in composition and electronic
music in The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, studied with
Law Wing-fai and Clarence Mak. In 2006, her Spring won the Best
Composition Award in the HK New Generation Composition Concert
and was selected to be performed in the 2006 Musicarama Festival
and Macau Orchestra Concert. She participated in the ACL Music
Festival in Bangkok in 2005 as the HK Young Composer Representative
with her chamber work Summer performed in the concert. In 2008,
Li has her 1st individual multi-media concert Escape in HKAPA.
Apart from presenting her compositions in concerts, Li is active
in promoting creative art and music and related educational activities
for the young generation. She formed the Creator Of Music Performance
Organization (COMPO) with a group of young composers in 2003 for
promoting Contemporary music in Hong Kong, and currently working
as the president. She is currently a part-time teacher of the
Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. http://www.hkcg.org/Composers/likaryee_e.html |
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WU
GUANQING, CHRIS
b. 1983 (resident in Hongkong)
The
Fly, 2010
for tenor/countertenor and recorder
poem by William Blake
commissioned by UMS 'n JIP
world premiere Lee Hysan Concert Hall CUHK Hong Kong, 02/12/2010 |
Wu
Guanqing, Chris. Born 1983 and raised in Guangzhou, China,
Guanqing is an Chinese female composer and pianist. She is now
doing her doctoral degree at The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
She had studied at Shanghai Conservatory (B.A in both composition
and conducting), University of Missouri-Kansas City, and The Chinese
University of Hong Kong (MMus). Her principal compositional teachers
include Ye Guohui, Victor Chan, Wendy Lee, Mario Davidovsky, Chen
Yi, Zhou Long, Paul Rudy and James Mobberley. She began her music
career with piano study at age 3. Three years later, she made
her first successful debut as a child pianist. She was granted
the “Best Performance Prize” in the 7th YMCA International
Piano Competition when she was at the age of 13. At 15, she found
her interests in composing and thereafter she began her formal
training as a composer. Her music compositions have been performed
in different places, including Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hong
Kong and The United States. Her chamber work Died For Beauty (for
four flutes) was selected for the grand opening of The Beijing
International Modern Music Festival. In recent years, commissions,
scholarship, and awards she received include those from The Academia,
Ensemble Tag, UMS 'n JIP, Hop Wai Foundation, the 2010 David Gwilt
Composition Competition, the 2008 New Generation Young Composers’
Competition and the UMKC Chamber Music Composition Competition.
Her recent compositions include: Nirvana (written for Nieuw Enemble),
Last Dance of the Prey (premiere by Musica Nova), Mountain song
(for woodwind quintet and cello), The Sick Rose (for Academia
Winds), and The Fly (commissioned by UMS ‘n JIP). |
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CHEN
YEUNGPING
b. 1983 (resident in Hongkong)
A
silent tree, 2010
for tenor/countertenor, recorder and electronics
commissioned by UMS 'n JIP
world premiere at Festival d'Avignon, Palais Royal 11/07/2010
NN,
2012
for tenor/countertenor, recorder and electronics
commissioned by UMS 'n JIP |
Chen
Yeungping was born in Hong Kong in
1983, where he first studied clarinet and then composition from
2002 until 2005 at the Hong Kong Baptist University. He starts
his postgraduate studies with Law Wing-fai and Clarence Mak immediately
afterwards at the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts. In addition,
he has studied privately and in masterclasses with Wolfgang Rihm,
Isabel Mundry, Misato Mochizuki, Marco Stroppa, Guo Wenjing, Stefano
Gervasoni, Xiaoyoung Chen, Tokuhide Niimi, and Julian Yu. He gave
academic presentations and attended exchange programs and modern
music festivals in Guangzhou, Bangkok, Bali, Beijing, Darmstadt,
Taipei and Shanghai. As
an original mixture of Western tradition and Asian cultural temperament,
his music develops seductive atmosphere and astonishing sound
colors with a freedom in form and style; the genres of his music
include chamber, symphonic, electronic, multimedia, and arrangements.
The unique mixture of Western and Chinese musical idea and effort
in his music has attracted more and more people. One of his most
representative pieces Bie I, a duet for clarinet and sheng, was
being one of the winning works of International Call for Duet
Compositions at Shanghai Conservatory of Music, New Music Week
2009 and won the prize of Inter-Sections fellowship. Recently,
one of the prestigious contemporary music groups in Asia - Hong
Kong New Music Ensemble has performed the complete series of Bie
in Hong Kong Osage Gallery conducted by conductor of Hong Kong
Philharmonic Orchestra Perry So. |
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LIU
JIAN
b. 1984 (resident in Shanghai/Guangzhou)
There's a song, 2010
for tenor/countertenor and recorder
commissioned by UMS 'n JIP
world premiere Lee Hysan Concert Hall CUHK Hong Kong, 02/12/2010 |
Liu
Jian,
born in Guangzhou in 1984, studies piano and painting since she
was very young. She finished her bachelor’s degree in Xinghai
Conservatory of Music, where she got the dual degree of musicology
and composition theory. In the musicology department, the history
of western music is her major, and her tutor is Professor Huang
Hong. She learned composition theory from Professor Xu Xueji and
Associate Professor Li Fang. Now she is a graduate student of
Shanghai Conservatory of Music, where she learns composition theory
from Associate Professor Lu Huang. In theory, Liu Jian concentrates
on the relation between Stravinsky and Picasso, and the research
of the space in music; In practice, she makes the composition
of both of western instruments and Chinese traditional instruments,
and devotes to the exploration of the combination of western and
Chinese style in the modern music. Developing of both the theory
and practice, and the loving of the fine arts endow her music
with rich imagination and unique style. The new pieces which won
several prizes and have been performed in 2008 and 2009 are: the
Dragon playing a ball for Pipa and percussion (Excellence Awards
in the TMSK Chinese Traditional Chamber Music Competition in Shanghai
in 2007), Eight Claws for two violins (Candidate Prize in the
2008 “Palatino” Awards, premiered in Concert Hall
of Central Conservatory of Music in May 2008), Song for the Yellow
River Boatman for Chinese bamboo flute solo (chosen oeuvre for
the Contemporary Music Performance Competition for Challenge and
Encouragement Award, premiered in He Luting Concert Hall of Shanghai
Conservatory of Music in June 2008), Saluting to Mozart for percussion
nonet (commissioned by Wang Yinrui for his “Special Concert
of Percussions” of the Shanghai Traditional Orchestra, premiered
in the Shanghai Oriental Art Center in September), Ping-pong and
the Ball for two groups of tempo block (Excellent Award for the
Composing in the 14th National Musical Pieces Prize), the Cross
Talk for three Suona horns (Consolation Prize for the “Min
Yin Cup”, the 2nd Chinese Traditional Chamber Music of Shanghai
Conservatory of Music in 2008), Thunders in the summer day for
Pipa and Zheng (the Second Prize of the “Chang Feng Prize”,
16th International Chinese Traditional Instrumental Composition
Competition in 2008), the septet My Steps (Selected for the Special
Concert for the Chinese Young Composer in the Germany Music Week
in Beijing in 2009, premiered by Ensemble Recherche), and Er-Hu
for two Erquan Hu (entering in the 2nd New Music Week of Shanghai
Conservatory of Music in 2009). |
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NG
KING FUNG, KELVIN
b. 1985 (resident
in Hongkong)
NN, 2012
commissioned by UMS 'n JIP
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Kelvin
King-fung Ng was born in Hong Kong in 1985. He is currently
a Master of Music in Composition candidate in the University of
Missouri-Kansas City, after studying Music and Psychology in the
Chinese University of Hong Kong. His major teachers include Chan
Wing-wah, Chen Yi, Lo Hau-man, James Mobberley, João Pedro
Oliveira, John Psathas, Paul Rudy, and Zhou Long. http://www.kelvinng.info
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LEE
KAR TAI, PHOEBUS
b. 1986 (resident
in Hongkong)
I'm a Goldfish in a Globe, 2010
for tenor/countertenor and recorder
commissioned by UMS 'n JIP
world premiere Lee Hysan Concert Hall CUHK Hong Kong, 02/12/2010 |
Lee
Kar Tai, Phoebus. Phoebus
Lee was born in Hong Kong in 1986. He had obtained his Bachelor
of Arts degree in Music and Master of Music degree from the Chinese
University of Hong Kong, studying composition with Professor Victor
Chan, Professor Wendy Lee Wan-ki and Dr. Lo Hau-man. He was admitted
to the Doctor of Music program (D.Mus.) at CUHK once after his
master graduation in 2009 and attained his doctoral candidature
in 2010. In recent years, he was awarded the Composers and Authors
Society of Hong Kong Scholarship 2008/2009 and the Winner Award
of the New Generation 2010 held by Hong Kong Composers’
Guild and RTHK Radio 4. He is also a member of the Composers and
Authors Society of Hong Kong and the Hong Kong Composers’
Guild.
http://www.hkcg.org/Composers/leekartai_e.html
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| TRADITIONAL
CHINESE MUSIC REPERTOIRE
(only concerts in Switzerland in 2009)
A Piece Of Flower
Arranged by Zhang Shiye, Solo (Erhu)
Dialogue Between The Fisherman
And The Forester
Duet of Qin and Xiao
Autumn Moon In The Imperial Palace
Of Han Dynasty
Duet of Qin and Erhu
Listening To Dripping Spings
Composed by Zhan Yongming, Solo (Dizi)
Plum Blossom´s Three
Variations
Solo of Qin
PERFORMERS
TRADITIONAL CHINESE MUSIC
(only concerts in Switzerland in 2009)
Xu
Bi : Qin/Yangqin
Juanjuan Wang : Erhu
Yulong Mao : Dizi/Xiao
MORE
ABOUT CHINESE MUSIC
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_China |
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