國家大劇院青年作曲家計劃頒獎音樂會2011

NCPA Young Composer Programme Awards Concert 2011

• The Vanishing River Wang Zhiyi

  Born in 1980, Wang Zhiyi is an emerging young composer from China. Being featured in many significant events, Wang's music works established his reputation in both academic and commercial music industries.

  Born in 1980, Wang Zhiyi is an emerging young composer from China. Being featured in many significant events, Wang's music works established his reputation in both academic and commercial music industries.

  As one of the core members in the music creative team of 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, Wang composed various music works for the Opening Ceremony, including Fanfare for the Ceremony, the works of orchestration: the theme song You and Me , duet song Dream of the Five Rings, Ritual Music, and Lighting of the Olympic Cauldron.

  Before joining the Olympic music creative team, Shanghai Opera House appointed Wang as the Composer-in-Residence (2006 – 2008). During this time, he accomplished a great number of works, and Mr. Zhang Guoyong, President of the Shanghai Opera House praised him as "an excellent skillful composer".

  Wang has received numerous awards and honors, including the top prize in the Premio Franz Liszt International Competition for Composers, honor certificate awarded by Beijing Olympic Organizing Committee, laureate of Grawemeyer Fellowship, etc. His works have been performed by many prestigious orchestras, ensembles and soloists.

  Besides his composing talent, Wang is a superb pianist as well. He held several piano concerts dedicated to his works in China and USA in the past few years, and he also appeared in various concerts and music festivals as guest pianist, especially premieres of new works. The University of Louisville honored him with a prize during his graduate studies in recognition of his excellence in piano performance.
  Wang received Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in composition from Oberlin College Conservatory and the University of Louisville respectively.
  

  There are countless configurations, either tranquil or rough, when a river runs through. Shaped by different terrains, routes and climates, a river can present colorful phenomena and create different landscapes. While thousands of lives are relying on the prosperity of river systems, however, some rivers are facing the destiny of disappearance due to contrived harm as well as natural transformation. Therefore, the moments in a vanishing river are extremely precious and fragile as it may never reappear again. The music piece captures the diverse aspects of the vanishing river, and reflects a space of imagination in which the river continues to flow.

• Concentric Circles Shi Fuhong

  Shi Fuhong, teacher in the Composing Department of Central Conservatory of Music. She graduated from Toronto University in 2009, with a Doctor’s degree in composition. In 2000 and 2005 she graduated... ...

  Shi Fuhong, teacher in the Composing Department of Central Conservatory of Music. She graduated from Toronto University in 2009, with a Doctor’s degree in composition. In 2000 and 2005 she graduated respectively from Central Conservatory of Music and University of Victoria in Canada with a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree in composition. She has studied with many world renowned composers, including Tang Jianping, Chen Yi, Guo Wenjing, Su Xia, Zhou Wenzhong, Chen Qigang, James MacMillan, Salvatore Sciarrino, Steve Reich, Murray Schafer, and Gilles Tremblay.

  Her works have won numerous awards, including the sixth annual Taiwanese Symphony Orchestra Composition Competition in 1997, Traditional Music Composition Competition of the Council for Cultural Affairs of Taiwan in 2002, Karen Kieser Music Award in Canada in 2007, and Ensemble Contemporain de Montréal Composition Competition in Canada in 2008, etc.

  She has worked with many orchestras worldwide, including Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble Contemporain de Montréal, Queen of Puddings Music Theatre, Orchestre de la Francophonie Canadienne, Taiwan Symphony Orchestra, Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra, and Guangdong National Orchestra, among others.
  

  Concentric Circles is a piece for large orchestra. The inspiration and structure of the music come from one of the most ancient Chinese philosophy classic texts I Ching. It consists of four consecutive movements: I. Tai Yin; II. Shao Yang; III. Shao Yin; IV. Tai Yang. The music emphasizes the movement, energy, and tension of singular notes. The ratio and balance between pause and music are influenced and inspired by the ideology and aesthetics of Chinese calligraphy.

  The first movement tries to use rustling texture and delicate tone and an imagery of ancient Chinese landscape paintings to create an atmosphere that is vast, spacious, and elegant. The second movement aims to seek transparent and gorgeous musical colors interpreted by the orchestra. The echo produced by the combination of the di erent instrumental groups depicts undulating ripples and the growth rings of trees. Brass and bass instruments are used in the third movement. Multi-layer texture melodies and special tone colors portray vigorous and dynamic religious dance rituals. In the fourth movement, tempest-like musical elements are used till the end of the music, trying to paint the scene in which Kuafu, the legendary figure in Chinese mythology, is exerting all his strength to chase the sun.

• Question of a Flower Liu Chang

  Liu Chang was admitted into the Composing Department of the Middle School attached to China Conservatory of Music in 2004, and admitted with distinction into the Composing Department of Central Conser... ...

  Liu Chang was admitted into the Composing Department of the Middle School attached to China Conservatory of Music in 2004, and admitted with distinction into the Composing Department of Central Conservatory of Music in 2007, studying under Professor Jia Guoping who is a renowned composer and doctoral tutor. In 2008 , Liu Chang’s work Jingle Princess for violin and piano premiered in the concert hall of the Central Conservatory of Music to high acclaim. In May, 2010, Liu Chang’s composition I Believe stood out among the 420 candidates of the Second Songs Collection of the Universiade 2011 in Shenzhen and won the “Prize of Excellence” in the event. Her works include: piano trio Wings of Colors, string quartet Gong, twelve-note serial music Swirling Bubbles, wood pipe quintet Zaandam Boat and piano quintet A Lonely Sunny Day.
  

  Women are like owers, and blooming owers like women. In the perspective of a woman, there are more beauty and sincerity in this world than anything else, and they are more important than anything else. The presentation of the music originates from an inner voice: the ower asks the water and the light that are so full of hopes and brightness, what is the meaning of life? When she learns the answer, she changes into petals that y and ll the air. There are ve passages of presentation in the music:

  [Posture of the Flower]

  Introducing the concept of “acoustic eld”, the music displays the static beauty of plants. The work is based upon A, with 6 extended tonal pentascale upward to form the essential sound of the music.

  [Asking]?There will always be questions as long as there is life. [Water and Light]

  Either in the West or in the East, water and light are the common vehicles of beliefs and wisdoms of the humankind. They are also the vital elements, like parents, that foster the growth of plants. The vibra-harp is integrated into the orchestra, representing the status, nature, and commonness of these two things.

  [Meaning of Life]

  What is the meaning of life? The music progresses to the fixed rhythms of the eighth note on the timpani, which creates a fixed mode momentum out of the “horizontal exterior hearing”, which again influences the stereometric structure of “vertical interior hearing”.

  [Petals Filling the Air]

  Multi-line extended composing technique is used to present a multidimensional image instead of a single at image. The nale returns to the initial sentiments of the music, transcending all bloom and splendor and giving gratitude to the bliss of life!

• Niao Qing Si · The Interruption of a Dream Du Wei

  Born in 1978, Du Wei studied piano and composition with her father since childhood. In 1996 she enrolled in the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, where she majored in composition with Shi Wanchun, Fa. ... ...

  Born in 1978, Du Wei studied piano and composition with her father since childhood. In 1996 she enrolled in the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, where she majored in composition with Shi Wanchun, Fan Naixin and Guo Wenjing. She obtained her Master’s degree in 2005 under the mentorship of Chinese master composer Mr. Guo Wenjing.

  Both her works Stained and Exotic Perfume were commissioned by Radio France, and Stained was awarded in 2003 the third prize of TMSK Liu Tianhua Prize of China National Chamber Music Competition. She also wrote many other works such as Eye of the Heaven commissioned by Shanghai Chinese Orchestra, Color of Love commissioned by Royal Danish Ballet, Golden Lotus commissioned by Hong Kong Arts Festival, Soul of Sword commissioned by National Ballet of China and The Interruption Of a Dream-New Legendary of Peony Pavillion, etc.

  Du Wei created also various movie and TV play music works.
  

  A falling plum petal, a fleeting dream, enough to exhaust her poor life. Du Liniang, the most vulnerable character of Chinese literature; the most sensible, tender and feminine soul ever seen. In an endless lingering of the ink and wash, in an endless struggling of love desire, she believed, the whole world was in that plum.

  Niao Qing Si · The Interruption Of a Dream features enchanting singing, swaying rhythm of Kunqu opera. It is about the hidden desires sealed with love, incapable of realizing whether it’s a dream or the reality.

• Baihua Shenchu Xiao Ying

  Xiao Ying began piano study at the age of 3. After graduation from the Middle School affiliated to the Central Conservatory of Music, Xiao entered Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris in 2006, studying compos ... ...

  Xiao Ying began piano study at the age of 3. After graduation from the Middle School affiliated to the Central Conservatory of Music, Xiao entered Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris in 2006, studying composition and orchestration under Michel Merlet. One year later, Xiao received an advanced composer diploma. In the same year, Xiao was admitted into the Conservatoire Supérieur de Paris, majoring in composition under Canat de Chizy. Xiao also studied orchestration, counterpoint, music analysis and electronic music there. In 2010, Xiao Ying was admitted into the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris and studied with Gérard Pésson.

  Xiao Ying’s work Reflet d' un reflet for two percussion bands was awarded the first prize in the 1st Lyon Percussion Composition Competition in 2009. The music premiered in the same year in Cannes Licorne Theater, and was published by music publisher Fran?ois Durand in 2010.

  Xiao often works with Parisian chamber music orchestras. In 2008, the commissioned work Rappler à rapel for flute and piano was performed in Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris; in 2009, Doom clock commissioned by Paris Intercontemporain Orchestra for 14 string instruments was performed in Cité de la Musique in Paris.
  Xiao Ying has composed music for many short films and TV videos.
  

  Baihua Shenchu is a hutong’s name, which means “deep in the blossoms”. Located in the jurisdiction of Shichahai sub-district of Xicheng District, it starts on east from Huguosi East Lane and extends to Xinjiekou South Avenue on west.
  Once, a couple surnamed Zhang bought a eld in the small lane south of Xinjiekou, and they were living on planting vegetables. Later, when they became rich they started to grow flowers. Year after year, many kinds of owers could be found in their garden, which were also decorated with the rockeries, ponds and thatchy pavilions. Their charming flower garden became a quiet and elegant place and attracted many literates to appreciate the blooming owers.

  However, Baihua Shenchu is no longer the tranquil place it once was and the fragrance of owers once there can only be found in people's memory.

  The work Baihua Shenchu is not only a sketch about this alley, but also the sign with emotion facing the transformation of the city’s aspect in the modern time. Did it lose the rivalry against urbanization in the progress of time? Or was it but a glance on our path?

  I have passed it several times, thus I found the subject for the new work of mine.

  In this music, you can hear the occasional ringing of bicycle bell coming out of the alley, chirping of birds in the morning, the sound of cicada in the summer, and melody of famous Peking opera excerpts played by the chinese traditional instrument Jinghu, sometimes near and sometimes far away. On the contrary, urban noises coming from beyond the alley bombard the ear from time to time, creating a fusion of clutter and harmony.

  The writing of this piece for Sheng is based more on western composing ideology. As Westerners call this instrument 'breath organ', the circular breathing technique and the dense chords are extensively used in music.

• Three Pieces of Chinese Traditional Painting Jin Qiuyue

  Jin Qiuyue, Manchu, was born in Beijing in 1989. She learned piano, dance, singing from childhood in Beijing Children's Palace and BTV Art Ensemble "Seven color light", and later enrolled in Oriental Song and... ...

  Jin Qiuyue, Manchu, was born in Beijing in 1989. She learned piano, dance, singing from childhood in Beijing Children's Palace and BTV Art Ensemble "Seven color light", and later enrolled in Oriental Song and Dance Ensemble. In 2001, she was admitted to the Middle School attached to the Central Conservatory of Music and studied composition with Liu Changyuan, Chen Changfeng and Du Yong. She has been the chorus conductor for many times in the school. In 2007, Jin Qiuyue attended the Central Conservatory of Music where she majors in composition and studies with Guo Wenjing.

  During her studies, she created many works and received numerous awards, including Folk Toy for solo violin (awarded the excellence prize of the “Palatino”Music Composition Competition, the script has already been published); chamber music Spring in the Desert (awarded the third prize of the 14th Wenhua Music Composition held by the Ministry of Culture of China; art song Three Poems by Hai Zi (the bronze prize of the 2009 “Palatino” Music Composition Competition), etc.

  In early 2010, she wrote the Ballad of Mulan commissioned by the “211” Excellent Chamber Music Project. The work premiered in the same year and was highly acclaimed. Furthermore, she created music for film and drama. Invited by Zhu Yibing, famous cellist, conductor and founder of the Cello Philharmonic Ensemble, she adapted the theme song You and Me of the 29th Olympic Games for eight young cellists of the Cello Philharmonic Ensembles.
  

  I sketched this work in the late autumn, and it was accomplished by the early summer. Through the whole journey, the scenery and my mind melted in water, full of twists and turn up and down. I chose three of the most memorable-worthy moments to express my feeling by the different types of the writing techniques and the shaping of the musicality.

• The Created Universe Jiang Yu

  Born in 1986, Jiang Yu is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in music composition at the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music and Dance, where she studies with Chen Yi and Zhou Long. ... ...

  Born in 1986, Jiang Yu is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in music composition at the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music and Dance, where she studies with Chen Yi and Zhou Long. She received in 2010 a Bachelor of Arts degree in composition from Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, China, where she studied with Liu Yuan for ve years. Her pieces have been performed in various concerts. Electronic music work Kaleidoscope was performed at EMM music festival this October.
  

  Out of Tao, One is born; Out of One, Two; Out of Two, Three; Out of Three, the created universe.
  —— Laozi “Tao Te Ching” Chapter 42 (Translator: Lin Yutang, 1955)

  The Tao can be considered the root of all things. The nature of those who launched the original motive force has an unlimited potential of creativity and vigor of all things between heaven and earth.

  The launch of creation follows the inherent law. It is a unique road containing the two, which are yin and yang. Qi, the culmination of yin and yang intersects to animate the forms of the world.

  The music starts at the simplest three single tones and slowly changes into a vast complexity. Then it becomes more dynamic and its range is broadened as it reaches the climax; then it returns to the original motive.