▼节目单(系列音乐会第五场,美东时间2024年10月27日19:00,美国国家歌剧院音乐厅)
本场音乐会将演出作品10部,其中:特邀作曲家作品7部,美好艺术中心学员作品3部。
Grace Wang (USA)
Grace has been composing for one year, while she's played the piano for 11 years and the cello for 4. She received First Prize in the International Festival DONNE in MUSICA Composition Competition 2023 and an Honorable Mention in the XVII Golden Key Piano Composition Competition. Last summer, she was one of 30 young composers accepted from around the world to the Juilliard School’s Summer Composition program. She enjoys composing music because it is so expressive and emotional, and she tries to tell a story in each of her compositions.Five years ago, I cried as I said goodbye to my Chinese relatives, who I haven't seen again since. I recently reminisced over this and all the farewells that I've said, and realized that my sadness came from a happy place, and I grieved because I'd enjoyed being with them. This piece travels through the emotions I've felt on saying farewell, with its many contrasts embodying my varied feelings. “A Variegated Farewell” is dedicated to everyone I've said goodbye to, especially those I haven't seen again. Leaving them has been painful, but it's only because being with them was wonderful.
Xuanqi Shang (China)
Xuanqi Shang is a bachelor's student in the Department of Composition at the Central Conservatory of Music, studying under the composer Professor Chang Ping. During his time at the High School Affiliated to the Central Conservatory of Music, he began to study composition under the famous composers Professor Chang Ping, Professor Xu Zhitong, Professor Tian Tian and pianist Tong Wei. With his work "I hate all the farewell", he became one of the five winners of the first musicON International Composition Competition in 2022, receiving a $1,000 prize and a commission for a musicON concert.The Birdsong *Commissioned by the musicON FestivalAfter listening to Messiaen's work "The Book of Horses", it triggered me to think about the sound of horses. I started sitting by the window and listening to the birds. I suddenly realized that such sounds had always been present in my life, so I chose to record the rhythm of the calls in my journal and try to record the beatmap of the group of people I imagined in the communication with multiple parts. It's also another interpretation of these sounds that have always been in my life.
Jacky Jiaqi Liu (b. 2002) is a Chinese-born US-based composer interested in the intersection of culture, literature, and social justice. Liu is currently studying Composition (BM) at The Juilliard School under the guidance of Melinda Wagner. Liu was the winner of the 2024 American Prize Charles Ives Award in Vocal Chamber Music; the winner of ASCAP Foundation 2023 Morton Gould Young Composer Awards; the winner of 2024 Juilliard Orchestra Competition and the recipient of the Arthur Friedman Prize; and the winner of 2023 Juilliard Gena Raps String Quartet Prize. Liu's work has been performed across the U.S., Europe, South Korea, and China. Liu has collaborated with The Juilliard Orchestra and members of Bangor Symphony Orchestra.Heart! We Will Forget Him!Love can be sometimes fragile, capricious, and intangible, with emotions that ebb and flow, moment to moment. During this past year, while living in this dazzling world with its high-speed rate of change, I was left with feelings both reflective and mercurial. As those memories linger in my mind, I feel a strong connection towards this poem, and I set up this piece based on the elements I extracted from the poem while I was reading: a lasting tension, a surrounding melancholy, and an ultimate relief.
Feiyang Xu (China)
Feiyang Xu (born 21 September 1991) is a Chinese composer.She has been a teacher of composition and music theory at Zhejiang Conservertory of Music since 2023.
She graduated with a PhD from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music and Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg Germany(Joint training, CSC and Konzertexmen).
Her works have been performed in cooperation with the Nieuw Ensemble, Symphoniker Hamburg, Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra, Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra, Suzhou Symphony Orchestra,New Zealand Trio, New Zealand Quartet,Beijing Contemporary Soloists and soon.
“Suite-” I.Tango *Commissioned by the musicON Festival
The work entitled Suite consists of four movements that have different characters——I.Tango Il.Ai Nai III.lmpus IV.Ferne.
I. "Tango" is the first movement. The composer incorporates Chinese elements into a "tango" that has its origins in South America, with a spirited but subtle and elegant expression.
Composer Fuhong Shi , a visiting scholar supported by the China Scholarship Council (CSC) at Columbia University in New York city, USA, a member of a council of China Nationalities Orchestra Society, a member of the Chinese Musicians Association, currently is a Professor and graduate supervisor in Composition at the Central Conservatory of Music (CCoM) in Beijing, China. She got her Bachelor’s degree in composition at CCoM in 2000. Apart from guidance received from many world-renowned composers and Professors, Shi, who has studied in Canada for many years, got her DMA in composition from the University of Toronto and a master degree in composition from the University of Victoria in Canada.Mandala *Commissioned by the musicON Festival
From 2010 to now on, she has rewarded numerous compositional and research programs which sponsored by the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China, China National Arts Fund (CNAF), Beijing Municipal Education Commission, CCoM and Irish Arts Council (Irish Language Art Songs project 2019). In 2018 and 2021, Return-A Concert of Fuhong Shi’s Chamber Music Works (Music Album titled Return was published by Beijing Global Audio-Visual Publishing Co., LTD in 2022) and a musical trilogy Sound Jigsaw of large-scale symphonic concerti composed by Fuhong Shi financed by the CNFA, were held in the Opera & Concert Hall of the CCoM (Music Album and Musical Scores of the concert will be published by Beijing Global Audio-Visual Publishing Co., LTD and CCoM Press in 2024 and 2025).
Tony Li was born in China on April 25, 2006, and currently studies at UWC CSC as a Grade 11 student. Tony started composing at the age of 16 and wished to express his thoughts to nature and people, and to the world’s emotions and thoughts via composition. Tony's work focuses on people and society, with currently completed works for solo piano, cello and piano duo, string quartet, and chamber music. Tony has an infinite passion and love for music. He has played the piano for 12 years and has obtained an ARSM piano credential and passed with distinction.A dream is floating in and awaking, touching the wind blows from afar, interspersing with clouds. The rain falls intermittently as it swings, touching the earth, the rivers and ponds, awakening the living. As the cells divide, everything is under preparation with joy, despite being busy.Breaking free of gravity, light travels through time and space, the photons rapidly shoot onto each happiness cell. It's the night, when the flowers are dreaming. It's dawn, when the earthworms are turning over the soil. As the insect hatches, the dead branches have green shoots, the earth is reckless. It's a farewell to the past, everything in changing from dawn to dusk. the spring currents blow, the wind is strong, day, night, murmuring, emanating, chaos, silence, .... The seeds are dancing, with floating dreams...
Dai Bo is a young Chinese composer, pianist, and a faculty member of the Composition Department at the Central Conservatory of Music. His orchestral work The Invisible Mountain won second prize at the 2014 Beethoven Society International Composition Competition and toured in Poland and Norway the following year. In 2015, he was commissioned by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Poland to compose the Vojski Horn Concerto, which premiered in Warsaw. Dai Bo's vocal suite The Call of Dawn received funding from the National Arts Fund's 2015 Young Artistic Talent Creation Project. In 2018, Dai Bo composed the original score for Plants That Changed the World, China's first large-scale, ten-part documentary on plants, recorded by the International Master Philharmonic Orchestra.Footprints in the Sands of TimeThe work features the short tone of the folk song style of the southwestern China, only in a different musical context and juxtaposed with inhomogeneous/ mismatched/ unexpected music lexicon. It creates the impression of omnipresent sound of the traditional music, but one that flourished on a totally strange land. It is as if, in a time of instantaneous changes, each individual had the memory severed from his part of the history. All may have their Neverland, which they can never return, and yet none readily undertakes such return. This paradox renders our conception of time more post-modern, like items wrapped in the cloak of creation, albeit the alienation from the tradition.
Yiming Wu (USA)
Yiming Wu is a Chinese-American composer, educator, founder of Mayflower Art Center and Co-founder of the musicON chamber orchestra and MusicON Festival.
Yiming 's original concert music has been performed worldwide by notable orchestras such as the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Belgium Royal Wind Orchestra, Beijing Symphony Orchestra, etc.
In 2006, he was the first Chinese to participate in the three-pipe symphony and won the third prize of Takemistsu Composition Award in Japan at the age of 23.
In 2008, he won second place in the third Harelbeke International Composition Competition in Belgium.
In 2010, He was the recipient of the BMW Musica Viva Composition Prize in Germany.
The flute solo piece "Vision" consists of three sections: ABA. It depicts the hazy imagery and tranquil qualities of a pastoral shepherd's life. However, the expression is not traditional; it incorporates a significant amount of microtones that intersperse the pure sound of the shepherd's flute. The delicate nuances of breath, along with vivid imagery of light and color, expand the imagination of a calming space. Even noise paints a dreamy wonderland, creating a fresh and interesting experience that reflects the fusion of modern musical techniques with Eastern sensibilities.
Emily Chen is a passionate young composer and pianist inspired by both classical and modern music. For her composition work, she was recognized by the London Young Musician competition where she won a silver prize in the original composition category. She made her piano debut in Carnegie Hall as a prize winner of the American Protege International Piano Competition. She was also a participant in the inaugural Juilliard Summer Composition Intensive, where she learned from seminars with guest composers and presented her work. Emily lives in Southern California, where she is passionate about dancing and trying new foods in addition to music.This piece arose from muddy visions of gold and pink, a lazy day spent daydreaming. It is tinged with hope and melancholy—the lingering uncertainty of meeting someone again, the warmth that comes after a fateful encounter. The main motif is simple and wandering, lingering between fast and slow notes to build a feeling of uncertainty. The second section of the piece has a repeated motif and shifting harmonic contexts, conveying a sense of movement and forwardness. As the motif develops in complexity, it also becomes more convoluted like a memory being embellished. The ending is a representation of mental acceptance—through the journey taken, the dreams in the beginning are consolidated and given meaning.
Shen-Ying Qian, Composer, Associate Professor of Composition at Shanghai Conservatory of Music. His music is influenced deeply by natural phenomenon and eastern philosophy, drawing its inspiration from the expression structure in literature, visual arts and architecture, pursuing the reflection on the duality and the contradiction in his sound organizing process.He has received many world prestigious prizes and awards, among them: Grand Prize at “Alfredo Casella” International Composition Competitio;Grand Prize at “George Enescu” International Composition Competition (Chamber Music Section);Finalist Prize (Top 4) at “Queen Elisabeth” International Composition Competition. Some of his scores have been published by CASA RICORDI and SMPH.His students also have achieved excellent results in many important competitions, including Basel Composition Competition, Rachmaninoff International Competition, Luciano Berio International Composition Competition, etc.Familia Correspondentia Ia- Lux Misericordiae
The “Family Correspondence” series is a collection of several compositions for various instrumental formation.The String Quartet “Family Correspondence 1a – Light of Compassion” draws inspiration from Vincent van Gogh’s very last letter to his brother Theo.About the title, “Compassion” represents both love and mercy, while “light” symbolizes both particles and waves.It is divided into four sections:1.Choral I, nobilemente e susurrantemente;2.Trope I, sentimentale e scorrevole;3.Choral II - Diapente Intervallum, amorosamente e coloramente ;4.Trope II, agitato e ritmico.▼ 2024 musicON音乐节演奏家及歌唱家(共25人)▼直播预告
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