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List Of Chinese Composers
List of Chinese composers by surname: * Chen Gang - (born 1935) * Chen Qigang - (born 1951) * Chen Yi - (born 1953) first Chinese female composer to receive a Master of Arts from the Central Conservatory of Music. * Chou Wen-chung - (1923–2019) noted protogé and longtime professor at Columbia University. * Du Mingxin - (born 1923) * Du Yun - (born 1977) * Ge Gan-ru - (born 1954) * Jian'er Zhu - (1922-2017) * Huang Ruo - (born 1976) * Lei Liang - (born 1972) * Liu Sola - (born 1955) * Jing Jing Luo - (born 1953) * Ma Sicong - (1912–1987) * Qu Xiaosong - (born 1952) * Bright Sheng - (born 1955) professor at University of Michigan * Su Cong - (born 1957) * Tan Dun - (born 1957) * Wang Xilin - (born 1937) * Xian Xinghai - (1905–1945) * Ye Xiaogang - (born 1955) * Zhou Long - (born 1953) * Yang Jing - (born 1963) {{DEFAULTSORT:List Of Chinese Composers Chinese Composers A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chen Gang (composer)
Chen Gang (; born 1935) is a Chinese composer best known for his work ''Butterfly Lovers' Violin Concerto''. He is the son of songwriter Chen Gexin. Chen Gang started to learn piano and composition from his father and music teachers from a young age. From 1955 to 1959, Chen Gang was a student at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, studying composition. In 1959, Chen Gang, together with another student, He Zhanhao, composed the violin concerto ''Butterfly Lovers The Butterfly Lovers is a Chinese legend of a tragic love story of a pair of lovers, Liang Shanbo () and Zhu Yingtai (), whose names form the title of the story. The title is often abbreviated to Liang Zhu (). The story was selected as one o ...''. The violin concerto won five Golden Record prizes as well as a Platinum Record prize. The Concerto has also achieved enormous international success. Chen is a professor at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. In his composition career, he composed and recomposed many cla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jing Jing Luo
Jing Jing Luo (; born 1953) is a Chinese composer. Early life and training Jing was born in Beijing. She received an undergraduate degree in Shanghai and postgraduate degrees from the New England Conservatory and the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Luo's fellowships have come from the Asian Council on the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Ford and Rockefeller foundations. Her work has been distributed and published by Subito Music Corporation. In 2014, Luo was included in a concert sponsored by the League of American Orchestras that wished to pair emerging composers with orchestral opportunities. Selected honors and awards Luo has won the following honors and awards: * Rockefeller Foundation at Bellagio Conference Center (composer residency, 2011). * Koussevitzky Music Foundation (2006) * International Composers Competition for Orchestra Works with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra in Canada (3rd prize, 2001). * ASCAP awards (1994-2011) * Ohi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yang Jing (composer)
Yang Jing () (born 1963) is a Swiss-Chinese composer and concert pipa soloist. Early life and education Yang grew up in Xuchang in Henan province, China. According to Yang, she came from an educated family that was regarded with suspicion during the Cultural Revolution. Her mother worked in a hospital, and her father was an army officer. One of her grandfathers died in prison after being accused of counterrevolution. She started playing the pipa, the Chinese plucked lute, at the age of six. From 1976, at the age of 12, she started performing in an ensemble at the Henan Opera music school. From the age of 18, Yang studied at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, and graduated in 1986. In 1998, she went to Japan to study with composer Minoru Miki, as she started to explore contemporary music, and later performed and recorded pipa concertos by Miki with Japanese orchestras. In 2003, she moved to Switzerland to complete a master's degree at University of the Arts Bern. Career ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zhou Long
Zhou Long (; born July 8, 1953) is a Chinese American composer. He won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Music. Biography Zhou Long was born in Beijing, China. Born into an artistic family, he began studying piano from an early age. Due to the artistic restrictions implemented during the Cultural Revolution, he was forced to delay his piano studies and live on a state-run farm where he operated a tractor. The deserted landscape with fierce winds and fires he experienced during the Cultural Revolution made a deep impression and influence his compositions even today. Nearing the end of the Cultural Revolution, he was able to resume his musical studies in the areas of composition, music theory, conducting and also traditional Chinese music. One year after the end of the Cultural Revolution, Zhou Long was one of one hundred students chosen from eighteen thousand applicants to study at the newly reopened Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing in 1977. From 1977 to 1983, he studied compo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ye Xiaogang
Ye Xiaogang (; born September 23, 1955) is one of China's most active and most famous composers of contemporary classical music. Biography Ye was born in Shanghai in 1955. He studied at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing from 1978 to 1983, under the composer Du Mingxin. He then studied at the Eastman School of Music beginning in 1987."Ye, Xiaogang - Profile" ''Schott-Music.com''. His teachers include . He teaches at the Central Conservatory of Music, where he serves as Assistant President ''en.ccom.edu.cn'' [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xian Xinghai
Xi'an ( , ; ; Chinese: ), frequently spelled as Xian and also known by other names, is the capital of Shaanxi Province. A sub-provincial city on the Guanzhong Plain, the city is the third most populous city in Western China, after Chongqing and Chengdu, as well as the most populous city in Northwest China. Its total population was 12,952,907 as of the 2020 census. The total urban population was 9.28 million. Since the 1980s, as part of the economic growth of inland China especially for the central and northwest regions, Xi'an has re-emerged as a cultural, industrial, political and educational centre of the entire central-northwest region, with many facilities for research and development. Xi'an currently holds sub-provincial status, administering 11 districts and 2 counties. In 2020, Xi'an was ranked as a Beta- (global second tier) city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network, and, according to the country's own ranking, ranked 17th. Xi'an is also one of the w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wang Xilin
Wang Xilin (; born December 13, 1936) is a Chinese composer. Life Wang was born in Kaifeng, Henan province and spent his childhood in Pingliang in the Gansu Province. When he was 12 he taught himself music theory, the huqin, accordion, brass instruments, as well as instrumentation and arranging. His first exposure to Western music was in 1955 when he began studying conducting at a music school run by the People's Liberation Army Central Committee. He studied theory and piano at a teachers college in Shanghai and graduated from the Shanghai Conservatory in 1962 where he studied composition with Liu Zhuang, Ding Shande, and Qu Wei. While still a student, Wang composed his String Quartet No. 1 (1961) and the first movement of his Symphony No. 1 (op. 2, 1962, this was his graduation work) which led to his appointment in 1963 as composer-in-residence of the Central Radio Symphony Orchestra. Later in 1963 there were political changes in China under Chairman Mao Zedong which led t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tan Dun
Tan Dun (, ; born 18 August 1957) is a Chinese-born American composer and conductor. A leading figure of contemporary classical music, he draws from a variety of Western and Chinese influences, a dichotomy which has shaped much of his life and music. Having collaborated with leading orchestras around the world, Tan is the recipient of numerous awards, including a Grawemeyer Award for his opera ''Marco Polo'' (1996) and both an Academy Award and Grammy Award for his film score in Ang Lee's ''Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon'' (2000). His ''oeuvre'' as a whole includes operas, orchestral, vocal, chamber, solo and film scores, as well as genres that Tan terms "organic music" and "music ritual." Born in Hunan, China, Tan grew up during the Cultural Revolution and received musical education from the Central Conservatory of Music. His early influences included both Chinese music and 20th-century classical music. Since receiving a DMA from Columbia University in 1993, Tan has been bas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Su Cong
:''This is a Chinese name; the family name is Su.'' Cong Su (; born 1957 in Tianjin, China) is a Chinese composer. He studied at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, then in Germany. He has lectured on music theory, music analysis, film music and ballet music at the Musikhochschule in Munich. Since 1991 he is professor of film and media composition at the newly founded State Film Academy in the Stuttgart area. Together with Ryuichi Sakamoto and David Byrne, Su won the Best Original Score Academy Award for the Bernardo Bertolucci film ''The Last Emperor'' in 1987. He has scored other film soundtracks, mostly for Asian films. Su divides his time between Beijing, Lake Constance and Lucca, Italy. Works Film * ''The Last Emperor'' – Soundtrack (1987) * ''Green Tea'' (2002) * ''Jasmine Women ''Jasmine Women'' is a 2004 Chinese film directed and co-written by Hou Yong in his directorial debut. The film is an adaptation of Su Tong's novel ''Women's Life'' (妇女生 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Michigan
, mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As of October 25, 2021. , president = Santa Ono , provost = Laurie McCauley , established = , type = Public research university , academic_affiliations = , students = 48,090 (2021) , undergrad = 31,329 (2021) , postgrad = 16,578 (2021) , administrative_staff = 18,986 (2014) , faculty = 6,771 (2014) , city = Ann Arbor , state = Michigan , country = United States , coor = , campus = Midsize City, Total: , including arboretum , colors = Maize & Blue , nickname = Wolverines , sporti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bright Sheng
Bright Sheng (Chinese: 盛宗亮 pinyin: ''Shèng Zōngliàng''; born December 6, 1955) is a Chinese-born American composer, pianist and conductor. Sheng has earned many honors for his music and compositions, including a MacArthur Fellowship in 2001; he also was a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist. His music has been commissioned and performed by virtually every major American symphony orchestra, in addition to the Orchestre de Paris, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, London Sinfonietta, St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Russian National Orchestra, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan, Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra, Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra among numerous others. His music has been performed by such musicians as the conductors Leonard Bernstein, Kurt Masur, Christoph Eschenbach, Charles Dutoit, Michael Tilson Thomas, Leonar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Qu Xiaosong
Qu Xiao-Song ( 瞿小 松; surname Qu, b. Guiyang, Guizhou province, southwest China, September 6, 1952) is a Chinese composer of contemporary classical music. He is a 1983 graduate of the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, where he studied composition with Du Mingxin. In 1989 he was invited by the Center for US-China Arts Exchange of Columbia University in New York City to be a visiting scholar, and he continues to live in New York City. He has received commissions from the Holland Festival, American Composers Forum, Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra, and Boston Musica Viva. His operas ''Oedipus'' and ''The Death of Oedipus'' were premiered in 1993 and 1994 respectively, in Stockholm and Amsterdam. His chamber opera ''The Test'' (2004) was commissioned by the Munich Biennale and Contemporary Opera Berlin, and performed in both cities in May 2004. His name is sometimes also written Qu Xiaosong. Music Chamber music *''Cello Concerto for cello and chamber ensemble'' *''Cursive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
