Liu Suola

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Liu Suola

Liu Suola ( Chinese  刘索拉 , Pinyin Liú Suǒlā , sometimes calls herself "Liu Sola"; * 1955 in Beijing ) is a Chinese composer , author and musician .

Live and act

From 1977 to 1981, she studied composition with Du Mingxin at the Beijing Central Conservatory of Music . She then worked as a freelance writer and landed a success with her novel Ni Bie Wu Xuanze (You Have No Choice), which was published in the mid-1980s and won the National Best Novella Award in 1985 . In 1985 she published two more novels: Blue Sky - Green Sea, about the life of pop-rock musicians, and In Search of the King of Singers, about Chinese folk music. During this time she also founded a women's rock band with which she made three records. In 1988 she completed China's first rock opera Blue Sky - Green Sea , based on her novel of the same name.

During her stays in the USA in 1987 and 1989, she dealt intensively with blues and jazz for the first time. In 1988 she left China for a long time and initially lived in London. There she wrote her short story Chaos and All That , the English version of which won the British Comparative Literature Association's prize for best translation. In 1993 she went to New York, where she studied the connection between blues and Chinese music. This was reflected in her US debut album Blues in the East , for which she was able to win over renowned New York jazz musicians such as Henry Threadgill , James Blood Ulmer and Amina Claudine Myers alongside producer Bill Laswell . Other albums such as China Collage (1996) followed, and in 1997 she founded the formation Liu Sola & Friends .

From 2002 she worked a. a. as artistic advisor at the House of World Cultures in Berlin. In collaboration with Ensemble Modern , she composed Fantasy of the Red Queen , a chamber opera in six scenes about Mao's wife Jiang Qing , the work premiered in Frankfurt in May 2006. Liu was also heard in the lead role in this piece. In 2009 Liu Suola wrote the chamber opera The After Life of LJT for the Theater of Voice by British conductor Paul Hillier , which premiered in May 2009 in London.

Back in China, she continues to work as a writer and composer, especially with her Liu Sola & Friends Ensemble , which can be heard at festivals around the world and was reinforced from 2015 to 2017 by the guitarist Liu Yijun and the percussionist Gert Mortensen. Her orchestral work Goose and Crane Calling premiered in 2018 with the New Juilliard Ensemble.

Compositions

  • Fantasy of the Red Queen (2006)

Discography

  • Blues in the East (1994)
  • China Collage (1996, with Wu Man)
  • Haunts (1997)
  • June Snow (1998)
  • Spring Snowfall (2000)
  • Sola and Friends (1999)
  • Apparitions (2000)

Fonts

  • You have no choice . Novella (1985)
  • Blue Sky Green Sea . Selection of short stories and novellas (1992, published in English)
  • Chaos and All That . Roman (1994, published in English). ISBN 978-0-8248-1617-9

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Liu Suola ( Memento from August 30, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) on culturebase.net
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h biography on liusola.org
  3. ↑ a b c d Portrait: Liu Sola (刘索拉) online magazine of the Goethe-Institut China, December 2008
  4. ^ Liu Sola & Friends Ensemble
  5. ↑ Goose and Crane Calling 2018 on liusolastudio.com
personal data
SURNAME Liu, Suola
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 刘索拉 (Chinese); Liú, Suǒlā (pinyin); Liu, Sola
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chinese composer, author and musician
DATE OF BIRTH 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Beijing