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Bright Sheng

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Bright Sheng (; born December 6, 1955) is a Chinese and 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, Leonard Slatkin, Gerard Schwarz, David Robertson, David Zinman, Neeme Järvi, Robert Spano, Hugh Wolff; the cellists Yo-Yo Ma, Lynn Harrell, and Alisa Weilerstein; the pianists Emanuel Ax, Yefim Bronfman, and Peter Serkin; the violinists Gil Shaham and Cho-Liang

Chan Wing-wah

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Chan Wing-wah (JP (; born 1954, in Hong Kong) is a Chinese conductor and composer. He is professor of music at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and president of the Composers and Authors Society of Hong Kong. He was also chairman of the Hong Kong Composers’ Guild, vice president of the Asian Composers’ League and board member of the International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM). He composed over 100 works, including eight symphonies. He was awarded several times, e.g. with the ACL Yoshiro Irino Memorial Prize, the Ten Outstanding Young Persons Award and the composition award of the International Double Reed Society in Florida. Life and work Chan Wing-wah earned a teacher’s diploma from Northcote College of Education in 1974. 1975 he graduated from the Sir Robert Black College of Education. From 1975 to 1979 he studied composition with David Gwilt at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and obtained a Bachelor of Arts (Music). In 1979 he received the Fellowship Diploma in Music Composition (FTCL) from Trinity College of Music in London. From 1980 to 1985 he was Commonwealth Fellow with John Beckwith at the University of Toronto (Master of Music and Doctor of Music). S

Chen Yi (composer)

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Chen Yi () (born April 4, 1953) is a Chinese-American composer of contemporary classical music and violinist. Chen Yi has earned global fame as a prolific composer who integrates Chinese and Western traditions, transcending cultural and musical boundaries. She was the first Chinese woman to receive a Master of Arts (M.A.) in music composition from the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing. Chen was a finalist for the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Music for her composition Si Ji (Four Seasons), and has received awards from the Koussevitzky Music Foundation and American Academy of Arts and Letters (Lieberson Award), as well as fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. and in 2012, she was awarded the Brock Commission from the American Choral Directors Association. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2019. Early life Born to parents who are both doctors and enthusiasts of Western classical music and culture, Chen Yi and her two siblings began music lessons at age three. She began learning piano and at age four was introduced to violin. She memorized works by classical composers like Mozart, Bach, Beethoven, and Tchaikov

Chen Zi

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Chen Zi (陈紫, Huiyang, 1919–1999) was a Chinese composer. He was one of the composers at the original revolutionary Lu Xun Academy in Yan’an and one of the collaborators assisting Ma Ke in composition of 1945’s The White-Haired Girl. Among his works are the 1954 opera Liu Hulan (opera), and the 1956 opera Spring Blossoms (迎春花开了; Yingchunhua Kaile) co-composed with Liang Kexiang to a libretto by Lu Cang () and Wang Lie (). In 1981, Xiang Sihua (guzheng player), Chen Ailian (dancer), Wang Bingyan (gaohu player), Li Yuanhua (singer), Zhang Xiaoping (dancer), Ye Jianping (dancer), Wang Shuren (erhu player), and An Qingduan (yangqin player) formed a group of Chinese performing artists from China Opera and Dance Drama Theater to visit Europe, with Chen Zi as the leader. References

Ding Shande

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Ding Shande (; November 12, 1911 – December 8, 1995) was a Chinese composer, pianist, and music teacher. Biography Ding was born in Kunshan, Jiangsu. He studied music with teachers including Huang Tzu at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. Ding taught at the Shanghai Conservatory in the late 1930s. From 1947 to 1949, he studied composition in the Paris Conservatoire with Noël Gallon, Tony Aubin, and Nadia Boulanger. He also attended the courses of Arthur Honegger. From 1949, he taught at the Shanghai Conservatory again and became a vice president of the conservatory later. He died in Shanghai in 1995. Works * Long March, symphony * New China, symphonic suite * Spring, symphonic Poem * Symphonic Overture * Piano Concerto in B flat major * String Quartet in E minor * Piano Trio in C major * Ode to the Huangpu River, cantata * Variations on Themes of Chinese Folk-songs, for piano * Happy Festival, children’s piano suite * Xinjiang Dances Nos. 1 and 2, for piano * Blue Mist, art song * My Husband Gives Me a Sunflower, art song * Ode to Orange, art song * Children’s Suite - Chen Jie, Naxos 8.570602, 2007. * Spring Suite and other piano works - Ding Jiannuo, Marco Polo 82083, 2000. * Xin

Du Yun

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Du Yun (traditional Chinese: 杜韻, simplified Chinese: 杜韵) is a Chinese-born American composer, performer, musician and performance artist. She won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Music for her opera Angel’s Bone, with libretto by Royce Vavrek. Du Yun was named as one of the 38 Great Immigrants by the Carnegie Corporation of New York in 2018, and received a 2019 Grammy nomination in the category of Best Classical Contemporary Composition for her work Air Glow. In its decade review, UK’s Classic FM listed Du Yun’s winning of the Pulitzer as No. 6 in “10 ways the 2010s changed classical music forever.” Rolling Stone Italia named her as one of the women composers who defined the 2010s. In 2024, Du Yun was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Early life and education Du Yun was born in Shanghai, China. She began studying piano at the age of four, attending the primary school Shanghai Conservatory of Music for piano. She studied composition at the middle school Shanghai Conservatory of Music with Deng Erbo. Du Yun later went to the United States for college and graduated from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music with a Bachelor of Music degree in composition, under Randolph Cole

Ehesuma

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Ehesuma (Chinese: 阿诃苏摩; E.宋歌; born 1974 in Changchun, China) is a Chinese Composer and founder of AMRTA, Player of He-drum. A new style called “rhythm of light and melody of dew” is her creation for Amrta. “Charming and unrivaled music!” - George Szirtes, Poet Laureate of United Kingdom and winner of T. S. Eliot Prize. Biography In 2002, she graduated with a master’s degree in Shanghai Conservatory of Music. In 2008, she founded AMRTA by uniting avant-garde musicians of unique styles and started the serial project of “AMRTA TIME”. 2009–2013, AMRTA has accomplished five serial works and held many special performances. In 2013, “Amrta on Water ”, the first music scene on Huangpu River. With its innovation and creation, Amrta has been pioneering the contemporary original music scene. AMRTA TIME for music scene series (2009-2013) *Amrta, series I (2009) *The Scene of Circle, series II (2010) *Amrta Song, series III (2011) *Dance in Meditation, series IV (2012) *Amrta on Water, series V (2013) References External links *Ehesuma: Amrta Song *Ehesuma: Amrta on Water *AMRTA TIME

Fang Man (composer)

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Fang Man () is a Chinese-born American composer. Compositions Orchestral *That Raindrops have Hastened the Falling Flowers III (In memory of Steven Stucky) for Sheng, Cello and Chamber Orchestra (2019) *Feng (Wind) for Piano, Percussion and Wind Ensemble (2013) *Deluge 洪水 for Large Ensemble with Live Electronics (2008-9) *Resurrection 重生 for Clarinet and Chamber Orchestra with Live Electronics (2008-9) *Sketch 素描 for Orchestra (2008) *Noir 黑 for Orchestra (2005) *Aqua 水蓝 In Memoriam Toru Takemitsu for Large Orchestra (2003-4) *Lavender 薰衣草 for Soprano and Chamber Orchestra (2004) *Who will bell the cat? 谁去系铃 for Children Band (1998) Chamber *Lament 悲歌 for Solo Bassoon (2017) *That Raindrops have Hastened the Falling Flowers II (In memory of Steven Stucky) for Flute and Piano (2017) *That Raindrops have Hastened the Falling Flowers I (In memory of Steven Stucky) for Solo Piano (2016) *A Folktale of the Four Dragons 四龙传说 II for Solo Flute (2013) *A Folktale of the Four Dragons 四龙传说 I for Flute and String Quartet (2012) *Earth: Song Cycle for Soprano, Bass-baritone and Sextet (2012) *Tao 道 for sheng and violoncello (2009–10) *Images of 7 Flowers ANNETTE Suite 花之印象 for Organ (2006) *Ma

Ge Gan-ru

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Ge Gan-ru (; born July 8, 1954) is a Chinese composer of contemporary classical music. Biography Ge Gan-ru was born in Shanghai, China. His early years were spent in the Chongming Island during the Cultural Revolution. In 1974, he was originally enrolled by the Shanghai Conservatory, majoring in violin. In the third year, he switched to composition major. Ge Gan-ru’s personal composing style was developed during the years back in Shanghai. In 1983, his first representable work Yi Feng (The Lost Style) came out being commissioned by Frank Huang, who was still a student major in cello that year. Yi Feng, though arranged for solo cellist, has a chamber-like character. The strings are retuned a tri-tone lower than regular pitch and the body of cello is considered as four separated parts. The composer requires the soloist to play on those four parts in order to create percussive timbres. The premiere took place in the same year by Huang. Its avant-generation aesthetic caused a burst of discussion nationwide. Also in 1983, Ge Gan-ru was recommended by Chou Wen-chung to Columbia University for his doctorate in composition. His work has been performed by The New York Philharmonic, BBC Orch

Gu Jianfen

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Gu Jianfen (; born 21 March 1935) is a Chinese composer. She is best known for writing “The Kiss from Mother”, “Young Friends Come Together,” and “The Affection of Green Leaves to the Roots”. Early life and education Gu was born in Osaka, Japan in 1935, but her family was originally from Weihai, China. She and her family moved back to China and settled in Dalian in 1942. She studied at the Luda Art Troupe, Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts and the Shenyang Conservatory of Music. She graduated from the latter in 1955. Gu is also politically active. She was a council member for several organizations, such as the China International Culture Exchange Center, China Council for the Promotion of Peaceful National Reunification, and Beijing Municipal Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries. She also served as the vice president of the Chinese Musician’s Association in 1999. She has been a member of the Zhi Gong party since 1982, and served as a member of their 9th and 10th central committees. She was a member of the 6th Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference and the 8th, 9th and 10th Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress. References Further reading * “Wings”

Guo Wenjing

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Guo Wenjing (born 1 February 1956, in Chongqing) is a Chinese composer and educator. Guo Wenjing is a contemporary Chinese composer. Unlike many Chinese composers who have studied and lived in other countries, he has only studied in Beijing. He has lived and worked in his home country for nearly his entire life with the exception of a short period of time living in New York. However, over the years he has had many works commissioned around the world. He and his music have appeared at the Beijing Music Festival, Edinburgh Festival, Hong Kong Arts Festival, Holland Music Festival, New York Lincoln Center Festival, Paris Autumn Festival, Perth International Arts Festival, Almeida Theatre (London), Frankfurt Opera (Germany), Konzerthaus Berlin (Germany), Kennedy Center (Washington), as well as Turin, Warsaw, etc. In addition, he is contracted by CASA RICORDI-BMG and the first composer to be contracted by People’s Music Publishing House. His music has been given high praise both at home and abroad by The New York Times, Le Monde, The Guardian, People’s Music, etc. 1 Biography He began attending the Central Conservatory of Music, Beijing in 1978, the year of that institution’s reopening,

He Xuntian

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He Xuntian (; born in 1952 in Suining, Sichuan) is a composer and professor of music composition at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. Biography In 1982, he graduated from the Composition Department of the Sichuan Conservatory of Music. In 1981, he established Three Periods Theory and Theory of Musical Dimension; In 1982, he developed RD Composition ( Composition), the first compositional method of contemporary China; In 1993, he established the Five Nons (Non-Western, non-Eastern, non-academic, non-folk, and non-non.); In 1995, Sister Drum was launched, making him the first Chinese composer to have his record released worldwide. This album, together with a number of others including Voices from the Sky, was released in more than 80 countries with a total sales volume of several million copies; In 1996, he established SS Composition (stream of structure Composition); In 1997, he put forward Theory of Interspace; In 1998, he became director of the Composition & Conducting Department at Shanghai Conservatory of Music. In 2003, he composed Images in Sound, which was humanity’s first gift of primordial music to all species of the natural world; In 2008, he produced Ehe Chant, the firs

Huang Ruo

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Huang Ruo (黃若, born 1976) is a Chinese-born composer, pianist and vocalist who now lives in the United States. In 2001, Huang was one of the founding members of the International Contemporary Ensemble, an orchestral group of some 30 musicians which often performs works by European, Latin American, and Asian composers. In 2005, he founded the performance company, Future in Reverse (FIRE), specializing in multimedia and cross-genre projects. In 2010, Huang’s composition “The Yellow Earth” won the Celebrate Asia! composition competition. It was performed by the Seattle Symphony at a concert in January 2011. The piece is a rearrangement of the third movement of his sheng concerto “The Color Yellow” which brings together music produced by a Chinese instrument accompanied by a Western orchestra. to create ANGEL ISLAND, an oratorio based on the Chinese poems carved in the walls of the Angel Island Immigration Station detention barracks. The work premiered in 2021 at the Presidio Theatre and on Angel Island, with subsequent performances at the Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art with the US Air Force Singing Sergeants , the Singapore International Festival of Arts , and the Brooklyn A

Huang Tiange

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Huang Tiange (Chinese: 黄天戈) (born April 16, 2004) is a Chinese composer, pianist, educator, and a music prodigy. Early life and education Huang Tiange was born into a family of artists in Beijing, China. His father, Professor Huang Qiuyuan is a composer, conductor, and painter. His mother, Lin Jing, is a poet, and in her early years, also a piano teacher and a composer. At the age of three, Huang demonstrated a distinct ability to identify and distinguish notes. At the age of four, Huang begun his formal studies, starting with piano under the instruction of his parents, at age five, music composition conducting under his father. At age seven, he learned the violin self-taught. Huang debuted in a solo recital entitled Tribute to Bartok on March 25, 2010, on Bartók’s 129th birthday, at the age of 5 in Beijing, China, at the 1st Huang Tiange Festival, where he performed works, including multiple China and world premieres, from a variety of composers from Bach, Bartók, Beethoven, Webern, to his father’s, Professor Huang Qiuyuan, and his own. Among those in attendance were members of the Hungarian delegation to China in Beijing. As part of the festival, a photographic exhibition entitle

Huang Zhun (composer)

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Huang Zhun (25 June 1926 – 3 December 2024) was a Chinese composer known for film scores. Life and career Huang Zhun was born in Huangyan, Zhejiang. She studied in the drama department of Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts, graduating in 1944, and studied composition with Xian Xinghai. She performed as a mezzo-soprano from 1941 to 1942. She worked in the Dalian Art Work Group in 1946. Later, she worked in Northeast Film Studio and Beijing Film Studio, and then in 1949 took a position as a composer and later as a music director for Shanghai Film Studio where she worked until 1987. She has composed many films such as Long Live Youth and Red Detachment of Women. Her first film composition was produced in 1947 by the Northeast Film Studio for the first feature film in the Liberated Areas, “Leaving him to fight Lao Jiang”. She also completed the theme song “The Army Loves the People, The People Love the Army” in 1948. This song became very popular in the northeast region of China. After that, she moved to work in Beijing Film Studio and Shanghai Film Studio as a composer, where she later wrote the musical score for dozens of films, such as Family and Woman Basketball Player No. 5. In particula

Huang Zitao

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Huang Zitao (; born May 2, 1993), also known by his stage name Tao (), is a Chinese rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer and actor. He is a former member of the South Korean-Chinese boy band Exo and its Chinese sub-unit, Exo-M. After leaving Exo, he made his solo debut in China in 2015 with the mini-album TAO, under the stage name Z.Tao. Huang made his acting debut in the romantic movie You Are My Sunshine, followed by TV series Negotiator and The Brightest Star in the Sky. Huang ranked 25th on Forbes China Celebrity 100 list in 2017, 35th in 2019, and 37th in 2020. Early life Huang Zitao was born in Qingdao, Shandong on May 2, 1993. As a child, he undertook Wushu training and became a student athlete. In late 2010 he was scouted by a representative from SM Entertainment at a talent show. Music career 2011–2015: Exo and lawsuit against SM Entertainment On December 27, 2011, Huang was formally introduced as the third member of Exo (with the stage name Tao). In late 2013, Huang took part in filming for MBC’s celebrity diving program Splash!, but withdrew due to injuries, and the show was cancelled due to injuries to multiple other contestants. He featured in two songs from Zho

Jackson Wang

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Jackson Wang (; born Wang Ka-yee; 28 March 1994) is a Hong Kong rapper, singer, and songwriter. After a career as a competitive fencer, he joined the South Korean boy band Got7, which debuted under JYP Entertainment in 2014. He founded the Chinese record label Team Wang in 2017, serving as the creative director and lead designer for its subsidiary fashion brand Team Wang Design. Wang released his first solo album Mirrors in 2019, which peaked at number 32 on the US Billboard 200, followed by his second album Magic Man in 2022, which peaked at number 15. His third album Magic Man 2 (2025) reached number 13. Wang was ranked 40th on the Forbes China Celebrity 100 in 2019, 41st in 2020, and 10th in 2021. As of July 2025, Jackson Wang has 33.3 million followers on Instagram, ranking first among Chinese celebrities. He also has a large fan base on platforms such as YouTube and Spotify, and is the fastest Chinese artist to reach 10 million views on Vevo. Life and career 1994–2011: Early life and fencing career Wang was born in Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong, on 28 March 1994. He was raised into a family of athletes: his father Wang Ruiji was an Olympian fencer, his mother Zhou Ping was a gymnast

Jeffrey Ching

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Jeffrey Ching (, born 4 November 1965) is a contemporary classical composer. He was born in the Philippines, to Chinese parents. He is married to the operatic soprano Andión Fernández and has two children. His opera was given in the Theater Erfurt in 2009. Selected works *Concerto da camera *Horologia sinica *Kunstkabinett *Notas para una cartografía de Filipinas *Terra Kytaorum *Symphony No. 1 in C major (prem. 1981) *Symphony No. 2, “The Imp of the Perverse” *Symphony No. 3, “Rituals” *Symphony No. 4, “Souvenir des Ming” *Symphony No. 5, “Kunstkammer” References Further reading * Hila, Antonio C. “Understanding the Early Music of Jeffrey Ching: An Erudite Composer”, Unitas, Vol. 75, No. 3, Sept. 2002, pp. 454–75. ISSN 0041-7149 * Programme brochure for Weltblech concert, Berlin, 9 January 2001. * Programme brochure for the Kammerorchester Berlin IV. Abonnementkonzert, Berlin, 1 March 2006. * Xu, Jing (徐靜). “Zhuang Zuxin: Meilidi xuanlü rensheng” (庄祖欣: 美丽的旋律人生), Guangming ribao (光明日報), 15 September 2006. * Orosa, Rosalinda L. “Ching Amazes”, The Philippine Star, 28 October 2006. * Programme brochure for Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra concert, Shanghai International Arts Festival,

Jin Xiang

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Jin Xiang (20 April 1935 – 23 December 2015) was a Chinese composer and conductor. He studied composition at the China Central Conservatory from 1954. In 1959, he received his Bachelor of Arts in Composition. Since being labelled a rightist in 1957, he was sent to work in Art Troupe of Aksu Prefecture after graduation, and had to labor at the same time. In 1973, he became a conductor of Orchestra of Song and Dance Ensemble of Xinjiang Song, Dance and Drama Theatre. After the Cultural Revolution he returned to Beijing and was conductor and composer in residence of the Orchestra of Beijing Song and Dance Ensemble from 1979–1984. Jin Xiang came to the United States in 1988 and was a visiting scholar at the Juilliard School in 1998 and the University of Washington and the composer-in-residence at the Washington National Opera. He died on 23 December 2015, aged 80. Selected works Operas *A Warm Breeze Outside 1980. *The Savage Land (《原野》yuanye ) 1987 after Cao Yu’s 1937 play The Wilderness *The King of Chu (《楚霸王》) 1994. *Native Fatal Woman 1996. *Beautiful Warrior 2001. Written with Barbara Zinn Krieger. *Taxiwayi — The Beloved Troubadour 2003. *Yang Guifei 2004. *Eight Women Jump Into

Jing Jing Luo

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Jing Jing Luo (; born 1953) is a Chinese composer. Early life and training Jing was born in Beijing. She received an undergraduate degree at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, where she majored in piano performance and composition and studied with Chen Gang and Sang Tong. She earned postgraduate degrees from the New England Conservatory and the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Teaching career Luo has taught composition at Ashland University (1991-2001), Nazareth College (2002-2003), and the Oberlin Conservatory of Music (2002-2004). 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) * Ohio Arts Council (Individual Artist Fellowships, 1991-1998) * Music From China International Composers (Traditional Chinese Instruments Competition, 1999) * Chinese Overseas Composer Competition (3rd prize, “No Home to Return,” 1996) * American Academy of Arts and Letters, Walter Hinrichsen Award (“

Johnny Yim

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Johnny Yim Lai-hang (born 12 August 1977) is a Hong Kong pianist, composer, arranger, and producer. Life and career Yim was born in Hong Kong, coming from a family with a musical background, with one parent a musician and the other a dance choreographer. He has a sister named Alice. Yim’s journey in music began at the age of six when he started learning the piano. While growing up in Canada, he pursued a major in Mathematics at York University and didn’t consider a formal music degree due to concerns about making a living. However, his passion for music remained strong, leading him to embark on a self-study path. Upon returning to Hong Kong, Yim achieved his first milestone by winning the 16th C.A.S.H. Songwriting Quest in 2004, which served as a catalyst for his music career. Since then, Yim has worked with numerous artists, including Alan Tam, Hins Cheung, Gigi Leung, Hacken Lee, AGA, Joyce Cheng, Alfred Hui. In 2017, Yim founded the Gsus Music Ministry, an initiative dedicated to promoting Cantonese Christian music. In 2021, Yim took on the role of music director for TVB’s singing competition Stars Academy (2021–2022). Throughout his career, he has crafted over hundreds of arran

Julian Yu

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Julian Jing-Jun Yu (born 2 September 1957) is a Chinese-Australian composer. Biography Julian Yu was born in Beijing and studied at the Central Conservatory of Music, where he later worked. In 1984 he married an Australian and the following year he moved to Australia where he taught at the Queensland Conservatorium. He then moved to Melbourne and studied at La Trobe University for a Master’s degree with Keith Humble. * Reclaimed Prefu (1989-90) * The White Snake (1990), a puppet opera * Reclaimed Prefix II (1991) Recordings of Yu’s work * Classical Allusion: Selected Works by Julian Yu (2000, Move Records, MD 3207, ) * China Wind: Robert Schubert plays the clarinet music of Julian Yu (2012, Move Records, MD 3351, ) * For our Natural World: Julian Yu Works (2012, Nippon Acoustic Records, NARD-5039, ) * 126 Variations on Twinkle Twinkle Little Star (2015, Move Records, MD 3404, ) * Old and Yu: The Clarinet Music of Julian Yu, Volume 2 (2018, Move Records, MD 3424, ) References External links * Julian Yu’s profile at Universal Edition * A film about Julian Yu by Brenton Broadstock

Lam Bun-Ching

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Lam Bun-Ching (; b. Macau, 1954) is a Chinese American composer, pianist, and conductor. Early life and training Lam holds a B.A. degree in piano performance from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (1976). She obtained a scholarship from the University of California at San Diego, where she studied composition with Bernard Rands, Robert Erickson, Roger Reynolds, and Pauline Oliveros, earning a Ph.D. Career In 1981, she was invited to join the music faculty of the Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, where she taught until 1986. She has also served as the Jean MacDuff Vaux Composer-in-Residence at Mills College in Oakland, California, and in 1997 she served as a visiting professor of composition at Yale University and at Bennington College in Vermont. Her music has been recorded on the CRI, Tzadik, Nimbus, Koch International Classics, Sound Aspect, and Tellus labels. References External links *Bun-Ching Lam official site

Lam Manyee

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Lam Manyee () is a Chinese composer and music producer from Hong Kong. Early life On 10 September 1950, Lam was born in Hong Kong. In 2009, she also gained qualification as a naturopathic practitioner. Career Lam is a composer in Hong Kong and the United States. Lam has composed for orchestra, ballet and solo instrument. Lam has also composed over 50 film scores, music for TV and over 150 pop songs. Works This is a partial list of Lam’s works. *Interludes for prepared piano, 1977 *Journey for chamber ensemble, 1977–78 *Monologo II for cello, piano and tapes, 1980 *Die Meng (Butterfly Dream), Chinese orchestra, 1978 *Ceng Die, 1981 *Double Triangle, ballet, 1976 *Bamboo Suite, ballet, 1983 *Mixed Visions, ballet, 1983 *Chinese Historical Myths, ballet, 1985 *ID Shuffle, ballet, 1985 *Kwaidan/Emaki, ballet, 1986 *Diary, ballet, 1988 *Hell Screen, ballet, 1990 *Stories of Aung San Suu Kyi, ballet, 1992 *Open Party, ballet, 1994 *Is there Life on Mars?, ballet, 1997 *Dream City, ballet, 1998 *Beauty and the Beast, ballet, 1999 Filmography * A Kid from Tibet (1992) - Music * All’s Well, Ends Well (1982) - Music * All’s Well, Ends Well ’97 (1997) - Music * The Dragon from Russia (1990) -

Lei Liang

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Lei Liang (Chinese: 梁雷; pinyin: Liáng Léi; born November 28, 1972, in Tianjin, China) is a Chinese-born American composer who was a winner of the Grawemeyer Award and a Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Music. He is Chancellor’s Distinguished Professor of Music at the University of California, San Diego. Early life and education Liang is the son of musicologists Liang Mao-chun (b. 1940) and Cai Liang-yu (b. 1940) and studied piano as a child. He started composing at age six. His works written before he was thirteen are widely used for piano pedagogy and included among the required repertoire for national piano competitions in China. Liang came to the United States in 1990 for further studies, receiving BM and MM degrees from the New England Conservatory of Music, both with academic honors and distinction in performance, and a Junior Fellowship and Ph.D. from Harvard University. Career Liang was the winner of the 2011 Rome Prize and the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Aaron Copland Award, a Koussevitzky Foundation Commission, a Creative Capital Award, and the Goddard Lieberson Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His concerto Xiaoxiang (for alto saxoph

Lin Wang (composer)

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Lin Wang ( (original name), also called ), is a Chinese composer. Lin Wang was born in Dalian, China, in 1976. Biography Lin Wang studied music composition at Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing (1996–2001). Later she studied composition and music theory at Hochschule für Musik Saar with Theo Brandmüller, and electronic music at IRCAM at the Centre Georges Pompidou in France. She also studied theatrical philosophy in music theater at University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, under Chaya Czernowin. It was selected for performance again in the same year at the Biennale di Venezia and the Bregenz Festival. In 2010, her opera “Die Quelle” (The Source) was premiered at the 11th Munich Biennale. Lin Wang and Can Xue co-wrote the libretto. In this opera, drying and bubbling-up of the spring symbolize loss and regain of one’s own identity. Chinese instruments Sheng, Guzheng and Sanxian were used in its music. An unusual feature is combination of English pronunciation and Chinese intonation in this opera. Her third opera “Oh, wie schön ist Panama!” (Oh, the Beautiful Panama!) was based on an illustrated children book by Janosch. It was premiered at Deutsche Oper Berlin in 2013.

Liu Shueh-shuan

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Liu Xue'an

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Liu Xue’an (刘雪庵 1905–1985), whose pen names were Yan Ru (晏如), Wu Qing (吴青), and Su Ya (苏崖) was a Chinese composer. Among his best known songs include “The Great Wall Ballad”, “When Will You Return?,” and “Red Bean Poem” (红豆词). He taught at the Sunan College of Education in Suzhou, the music department of the East China University in Shanghai and at the Arts Normal College and the Conservatory of Chinese. Liu was criticized and suffered during the Anti-Rightist Campaign in 1957 and during the Cultural Revolution in the 1960s. He offered a public self-criticism in 1980 before he was rehabilitated, however criticism of his song “When Will You Return?” continued in mainland China for some time as an example of “yellow music”, a product of decadent and immoral society. References

Lü Ji (composer)

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Lü Ji (; Yale romanization: Lyǔ Jì; 1909 – January 5, 2002), originally named Lü Zhanqing (吕展青; pinyin: Lǚ Zhǎnqīng; Yale romanization: Lyǔ Jǎn-Chīng), was a Chinese composer. He was also a music writer, educator, and administrator. He was born in Xiangtan, Hunan in 1909 and became interested in music from an early age, learning to play several traditional instruments.He graduated from Changsha Chang Jun Secondary School in Changsha, https://web.archive.org/web/20090202024045/http://haotushu.com/book/15433/ and studied music at the Shanghai Music Training School (now the Shanghai Conservatory of Music).In 1931 or 1932 he joined the Leftist Dramatic League in Shanghai, https://web.archive.org/web/20110221052001/http://www.kervan.unito.it/contents/documents/k1_pisa.pdfand he joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1935. http://www.csonline.com.cn/infomation/rlcsmr/t20040810_219132.htm He became one of the most active composers of revolutionary Chinese music during the 1930s. In a 1936 article entitled “Zhongguo xin yinyue” (China New Music), he set out his philosophy about revolutionary music: After the establishment of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, he was appointed vice pres

Ma Ke (composer)

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Ma Ke (; 1918 – July 27, 1976) was a Chinese composer and musicologist, best known for his patriotic songs, including “Nanniwan”. Ma was born into a Christian family, at Xuzhou, Jiangsu, and his name was said to be derived from the saint Mark. Having enjoyed chemistry in high school, he studied it at Henan University, where he encountered the composer Xian Xinghai. Ma suspended his studies and became a follower of Xian, including an anti-Japanese roadshow tour of the country. In 1939, Ma traveled to Yan’an. On Xian’s recommendation, he studied at Luxun Academy of Arts with composer Lü Ji and others. He began to collect and record many Chinese folk songs. In 1947, he joined the Chinese Communist Party. After 1949, he was appointed the Vice President of the China Conservatory of Music and the head of the Chinese Opera House. He composed more than 200 musical works, including “Nanniwan”; We are Democratic Youth (我们是民主青年); Powerful Workers (咱们工人有力量); Lüliang Mountains Cantata (吕梁山大合唱); the yangge opera The Couple Learn to Read (夫妻识字); the opera Zhou Zishan (周子山) (co-composed with Zhang Lu () and Liu Chi); The White Haired Girl with Ju Wei, Zhang Lu, and Xiang Yu; Xiaoerhei’s Marriage (

Peng Xiuwen

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Peng Xiuwen (; 7 February 1931 – 28 December 1996) was a noted Chinese conductor and composer. He was a native of Wuhan, Hubei province, in central China. Peng learned to play the erhu beginning at age seven. In 1956, he became the conductor and director of China Broadcasting Chinese Orchestra, an orchestra of Chinese traditional (and modernized traditional) instruments, based in Beijing. Peng Xiuwen arranged numerous traditional music pieces for the Chinese orchestra. Among these is a piece of orchestral music inspired by Tang dynasty poet Zhang Ruoxu’s famous poem “Spring River in the Flower Moon Night” (Chun Jiang Hua Yue Ye, 春江花月夜) first written by Liu Yaozhang (柳堯章) in 1925 based on an older tune for pipa. It has since entered the classical repertoire for the traditional Chinese instrument guzheng. He also adapted music pieces originally written for a Western orchestra to be played in a Chinese orchestra, such as Dance of the Yao People, as well as Bizet’s Carmen suite. References External links *Peng Xiuwen interview (in Chinese)

Qigang Chen

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Qigang Chen (; ; born 8 August 1951) is a Chinese-born French composer who has lived in France since 1984 and obtained French citizenship in 1992. Biography Coming from an intellectual family, Qigang Chen was born in Shanghai and began his musical studies as a child. In his early teens, he was confronted with the Cultural Revolution and would spend three years locked up in a barracks, undergoing an “ideological reeducation”. Nonetheless, his passion for music remained unshakeable and, in spite of the social pressure and anti-cultural policy, he pursued his training in composition. In 1977, Chen was one of 26 candidates out of 2,000 to be accepted into the composition class at the Beijing Central Conservatory. After five years of studies with Luo Zhongrong, in 1983 he stood for the national competition where he came first. As a result, he was the only one in his field to be authorized to go abroad to pursue graduate studies in composition. He was Olivier Messiaen’s last student and lived with him as well, from 1984 to 1988. His first five years in France allowed him to broaden the scope of his culture and acquire new knowledge about 20th century music. Reception Chen is one of the m

Qu Xiao-Song

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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, violoncello and percussion ensemble *Ji No. 1, large mixed ensemble *Ji No. 2, Floating Clouds, mixed quartet, Asian instrument and ensemble *Ji No. 3: Silent Mountain, solo guitar or Asian instrument *Ji No. 4, percussion solo *Ji No

Qu Xixian

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Qu Xixian (23 September 1919 – 19 March 2008 ) was a Chinese composer. She was born in Shanghai and graduated from Shanghai National Conservatory of Music in 1948 with degrees in composition and piano. She had a full, eventful career that spanned several eras of important Chinese history. She worked with the Central Philharmonic Society and held several leadership positions on the board of the Chinese Musicians’ Association. Her choral works were performed in 1997, 1999 and 2000 in Beijing and Shanghai. Early life and education Xixian was born to parents Qu Baowen and Zhu Pingyu on September 23, 1919 in Shanghai. She loved music from a very young age, and began her formal music education during her childhood. In 1939, Xixian studied with German-Jewish composer, Wolfgang Fraenkel while he was living in Shanghai. Fraenkel had a profound influence on Xixian, as well as other prominent Chinese composers such as Ding Shande and Sang Tong. From 1940 to 1948, Xixian studied piano and composition at the Shanghai National Conservatory. Among her many teachers was Tan Xiaolin, a former pupil of Paul Hindemith, before his return to the United States in 1944. In 2010, the work was performed by

Tan Dun

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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 pairing 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 based in New York City. His compositions often incorporate audiovisual elements; use instruments constructed from organic materials, such as paper, water, and stone; and are often inspired by traditional Chinese theatrical and

Thomas Oboe Lee

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Thomas Oboe Lee (born September 5, 1945) is a Chinese American composer. Life Lee was born in Beijing, China. His family left Communist China in 1949 and lived in Hong Kong until 1959, when he moved to São Paulo, Brazil. He emigrated to the United States in the summer of 1966. Lee’s musical education began in Brazil during the Bossa Nova craze. He performed as a jazz flutist with many illustrious Brazilian musicians, including the singer/songwriter Chico Buarque de Hollanda. He continued his music education in the United States at the University of Pittsburgh, the New England Conservatory of Music and Harvard University. He taught at Berklee College of Music. He has been a professor of music at Boston College since the fall of 1990. In 1981, Lee and five other composers from the New England Conservatory formed a composers group called “Composers in Red Sneakers.” The group produced a number of successful concerts in the Boston-Cambridge area. Lee left the group in 1986 to live in Italy for a year when he won the 1987 Rome Prize Fellowship. Lee’s music has won many other awards and Fellowships: two Guggenheim Fellowship awards, two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, two Ma

Wang Hesheng (composer)

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Wang Hesheng (; born Luoyang, 27 December 1955 ) is a composer of the Military Band of the People’s Liberation Army of China, also a member of Chinese Musicians Association. In 1985, he studied composition from Professor Mu Hong in the central Conservatory of Music. He became a professional composer of the Military Band of the People’s Liberation Army of China after graduation in 1988. Over the last ten years, Wang has created more than 600 instrumental music and vocal music, with wide range of materials and different styles. The latter include solo, ensemble, symphony for symphonic band, and symphonic chorus. He has attached great importance to national characteristic, popularity and sense of the times in his creation. Twenty pieces of his works have been awarded the prize in the country and the army. And a lot of compositions have been published and recorded on the discs and the tapes. Wang’s major works are: Yuanmingyuan – a symphonic tone poem for symphonic band, Beautiful Evening of Prairie, Dance under the moonlight (a trumpet solo), Yihai – a symphonic tone-poem for symphonic band, and Plum Blossom () a symphonic chorus etc. He co-created the admission music (金声玉振 jīn shēng

Wang Jianzhong

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Wang Jianzhong (; 1933–2016) was a Chinese composer, pianist, and educator. His works, many of them composed during the Cultural Revolution, bridge Chinese folk music and Western classical piano tradition and have made him a household name in his own country. His A Hundred Birds Paying Homage to the Phoenix is considered one of the six representative twentieth-century Chinese piano masterpieces. Biography Wang was born in Shanghai in 1933. His parents were from Jiangyin and Zhejiang Province. He began his piano study at the age of 10. In 1950, he was accepted into the Shanghai Conservatory of Music where he majored in composition and piano. In 1958, after his graduation, he became a professor at the conservatory. During the 1970s he served as the composer-in-residence for the Central Philharmonic Orchestra. He returned to the Shanghai Conservatory in the 1980s where he served as an associate professor, professor, associate chair, and associate dean. Among his students there were the pianists Haochen Zhang, Peng-Peng Gong and Jenny Q. Chai and the composer Bright Sheng. Wang died in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 2016. The popularity of Wang’s compositions continued after the bans on cont

Wang Lu (composer)

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Wang Lu (born 1982) is a Chinese composer. She is a 2014 Guggenheim Fellow and has released two solo albums. She is an assistant professor of music at Brown University. Biography Wang Lu was born in 1982 in Xi’an. Her family was experienced in music, before obtaining her DMA from Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in 2012. She studied composition with Lerdahl, Chou Wen-chung, George E. Lewis, and Tristan Murail. In 2015, she started working at Brown University as an assistant professor of music, teaching courses in music theory and composition. She released two solo albums through New Focus Recordings: Urban Inventory (2018) and An Atlas of Time (2020). In October 2019, her piece Code Switch premiered during the opening night of the 22nd season of Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s MusicNOW. In January 2021, Michael Andor Brodeur named her in his 21 for ‘21 series for The Washington Post, calling her second album “one of my favorite albums of the weird, weird year”. In 2022, she was awarded a MacDowell Fellowship. In January 2023, the New York Philharmonic premiered her piece “Surge”; Joshua Barone of the New York Times said it “has the elements of an enormous score skillfully

Wang Qiang (composer)

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Wang Qiang (, born 1935 in Shandong) is a Chinese composer. Biography Wang Qiang began her study of composition at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music in 1955. As a third-year student she won first prize in the 1959 World Youth Music Composition Competition with the choral piece River of Fortune. After graduating in 1960, she took a position teaching composition at the same school. She continued to work at the Conservatory until 1991, when she moved to live and work in Hong Kong. Works Wang Qiang composes for orchestra, chamber ensemble, operetta, choral ensemble and film and television scores. Selected works include: Orchestral Works: *Ga Da Mei Ling () for Cello and Orchestra, 1960 *La Ba and Gu () for Orchestra, 1980 *Overture - Aspiration (序曲﹣希望) for Orchestra, 1992 *Fantay Overture () “ Love ” () for Orchestra, 1993 *Violin Concerto No. 0 () for violin and Orchestra, 1998 *Passacaglia () for Orchestra, 2002 Chamber Music: *Trio () for Flute, Viola and Arpa, 1979 *Cello Octet () Twelve pieces for Eight cellists, 1989 *Cello and Contrabass () Five pieces, 1989 *Quartet () For four Zhengs, Twelve pieces, 1990 *Trio () Two pieces, for Flute, Zheng and Erhu, 1991 *Untitled () for Fl

Wang Xilin

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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 to a crackdown on Western music, especially that of the 20th century. Wang gave a two-hour public speech in 1964 criticising such policies, which led to him being stripped of his position with the Central Radio Sy

Wang Ying (composer)

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Wang Ying (; born September 10, 1976) is a Chinese-born composer based in Berlin. Life Wang Ying was born in Shanghai, China. She began her musical education at the age of four, receiving piano lessons from her father, the composer Wang Xilin. At the Shanghai Conservatory of Music she studied composition with Prof. Gang Chen, Prof. Daqun Jia and instrumentation with Yang Liqing, completing a bachelor’s degree with honors in 2002. In 2003 she moved to Cologne, Germany for graduate studies with York Höller at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln. From 2008 she studied electronic composition with Michael Beil and composition with Johannes Schöllhorn and Rebecca Saunders. In 2010 she completed a master’s degree in contemporary music at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts while working with Helmut Lachenmann. At the Cologne Conservatory she studied for the Diplom and concert exam in composition as well as one in electronic composition – both were completed in 2011. In 2011 she was chosen to study at the “Cursus de composition et d’informatique musicale” at IRCAM in Paris, where she completed courses with Mauro Lanza, Philippe Leroux and Ivan Fedele, graduating in 201

Xiao Shuxian

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Xiao Shuxian (Simplified Chinese: 萧淑娴; Traditional Chinese: 蕭淑嫻; Pinyin: Xiāo Shúxián; sometimes spelled Hsiao Shu-sien) (April 4, 1905 – November 26, 1991) was a Chinese composer and music educator. Life Xiao was born in Tianjin into a highly cultural Chinese family, some of her relatives were known people in Chinese history. After a period of music studying in China, she went to the Royal Conservatory at Brussels, winning a prize there in 1932. From 1935 to 1954 she was married to Hermann Scherchen, a conductor; their daughter, Tona Scherchen, became a composer. Xiao spent 14 years working in Switzerland, where she helped to promote Chinese culture with her music and writing. Her 1938 Chinese Children’s Suite for voice and piano was among the first works by a Chinese composer to become known in the West, as was her suite for orchestra, Huainian Zuguo (A Commemoration of My Homeland). In 1950, motivated by a desire to help her homeland’s development, and a wish to have a career of her own, Xiao returned to China with her three children, not knowing that she herself would not be able to see her husband ever again. From then until her death she taught in Beijing at the Central Conse

Ye Xiaogang

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Ye Xiaogang (; born September 23, 1955) is a Chinese composer of contemporary classical music. Biography Ye was born in Shanghai in 1955. His teachers include Alexander Goehr. He teaches at the Central Conservatory of Music, where he serves as Assistant President and vice dean of the composition department. His Starry Sky was premiered at the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. In the summer of 2006, Ye took part in the inaugural “Composer Alive!” transpacific correspondence project with Accessible Contemporary Music in Chicago, Illinois. This project consisted of Ye composing a piece, Datura, and sending its fragments as they were completed to Chicago, electronically. They were subsequently read by ACM’s performance ensemble and posted to the Internet for Ye’s approval. The project culminated with Ye traveling to the United States for the completed work’s premiere performance. Ye was awarded Fellowship of the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester in December 2025. Selected compositions The Great Wall Symphony (2002) consists of nine movements, with vocal parts and traditional Chinese musical instruments and folk tunes are used in it. Ye composed the so

Zheng Lücheng

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Zheng Lücheng () or Chong Ryul-song (; 27 August 1914 – 7 December 1976) was a Korean-born Chinese composer. Born during the period of Japanese colonial rule in Korea, Zheng moved to China in the 1930s, where he became active in the anti-Japanese resistance and joined the ranks of progressive intellectual and cultural circles. Over the course of his career, he created numerous military marches, operas and choral works with Chinese revolutionary themes. His most notable work is the composing of the music to the Military Anthem of the People’s Liberation Army. Early life Zheng was born Chŏng Puŭn () in the city of Gwangju in Zenranan Province, Korea, Empire of Japan (now South Korea) in 1914. He was the youngest in his family and loved music from an early age. His father, Chŏng Haeŏp (), opposed the corruption of the Korean nobility and left the , later working for a respected official’s family. Zheng’s older brothers were deeply involved in the Korean independence movement. Zheng’s father was a patriot who refused to send him to Japanese-run schools, instead enrolling him in progressive private schools. After his father’s death in 1931, his family decided to send Zheng to China. In

Zhou Long

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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. Living in Brooklyn, New York, he became the music director of Music From China, a group founded in 1984 with the aim of presenting concerts of traditional Chinese music in the United States. Under the direction of Zhou Long, Music From China e

Zhu Jian'er

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Zhu Jian’er (; born Zhu Rong-shi, October 18, 1922 – August 15, 2017), courtesy name Zhu Pu-chen, was a Chinese symphonic composer and songwriter. Biography Zhu was born in Tianjin, China. In his early years, his grandfather moved his family to Shanghai. His family consisted of flour millers, and his father died when Zhu was three. Out of admiration for Nie Er, Zhu Rong-shi changed his name to Zhu Jian’er. He began composing in 1940 and pursued composition studies at the Moscow Conservatory in 1955. He was a professor at the Shanghai Conservatory. He composed for both Western and Chinese instruments and his works have been performed around the world. In 2000 he was commissioned by Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Project to compose Silk Road Reverie. His 1950 revolutionary work Days of Emancipation (翻身的日子, Fānshēn de Rìzi; for banhu and Chinese orchestra) is well known in the West from its appearance on the 1981 CBS Masterworks compilation Phases of the Moon: Traditional Chinese Music. Zhu died on August 15, 2017, in Shanghai. List of major works Orchestral: *Jieri Xuqu 节日序曲 (Festival Overture), Op.10 (1958) *Symphony-Cantata: Yingxiong de Shipian 英雄的诗篇 (Poems of heroes), Op.14 (Original:1959

Zou Ye

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Zou Ye ( born 20 October 1957 in Henan province, China), is a Chinese modern classical and film music composer. Zou was from the first generation of musical composition graduates from the Wuhan Conservatory of Music (then named the Hubei Academy of Fine Arts), when such education resumed with the end of the Cultural Revolution. Subsequently, Zou became the resident composer at the Wuhan Dance Theatre. During his ten-year residency (1982-1992), he completed a large number of orchestral works and, at the age of 26, Zou composed Zheng He, a major opera based on the story of the ancient Chinese explorer with that name. In 1992, Zou started his residency at the National Children’s Theatre in Beijing, where he remains the sole composer to this day. It was at the National Children’s Theatre that he composed and debuted his successful children’s musical Ma Lan Flower, which has since been performed for over a decade and enjoyed by millions of people. After Zou moved to Beijing, his musical compositions for films started to attract appreciation from a number of fourth and fifth generation Chinese filmmakers. For example, he worked closely with the director Huang Jianzhong on a number of maj