Shih (composer)

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Shih

Shih (born November 29, 1950 in Taipei , Taiwan ) is a composer from Taipei. Shih has lived and worked in Vienna since 1974. He renounced his full name (Shih Chieh 施 捷) due to incorrect spelling and pronunciation.

Life

His career choice led Shih to Austria in 1974. He studied harp and composition at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna and graduated in 1983 with a diploma in composition. He has been an Austrian citizen since 1984.

Shih works as a freelance composer and music teacher, and since 2002 as artistic director of the Pacific Youth Orchestra in Vienna, which he founded. He has also made particular merits as a mediator of contemporary Austrian music in China. His own works - chamber music, ballet music, songs, large orchestral works, opera and oratorio - have been performed in many European and Asian countries as well as in the USA.

International critics first noticed Shih in 1994 when his chamber opera “Father Murder” came out with resounding success at the Leipzig Opera (after the world premiere in Dresden and followed by performances in Nuremberg, Erlangen, Vienna and Berlin). Other important steps: the oratorio “Lebend'ges Land”, which was premiered in Münster and re-enacted in the Netherlands, and the cycle “One measure for ...” (e.g. “One measure for clarinet and piano”) with which Shih zu found his own style of form-skeptical-abstaining implementation of emotional states and processes, which the critic praises above all weightlessness, turning away from the external effect as well as a high degree of interpretative freedom. First and foremost among his CDs is the ORF recording of the chamber opera "Patermord".

style

The “Personenlexikon Österreich” (2001) judges Shih's style: “Opponent of a formalistic way of composing, which primarily deals with the expression of psychological processes.” And the musicologist Dr. Christian Baier explains: “It is difficult to classify the compositions of Shih in the drawers of Western music reception. His work is too controversial to allow normative definitions. The search for form and at the same time skepticism of form, diversity of expression and at the same time absolute restriction and abstinence stand side by side on an equal footing in creativity. "

Shih himself states: “My music is not traditional, but it is traditional. The composer is part of a long tradition. He stands in this tradition and has to deal with it. Of course, I can withdraw, say goodbye to tradition and devote myself entirely to experimentation. But then you quickly become lonely, not only in human terms, but also artistically. It is necessary to be aware of the long cultural-historical past in order to arrive at an artistic, ie individual, present. "( Shih )

List of works

  • 1981: Epitaph I (flute, oboe, clarinet and bassoon)
  • 1982: Tanzlied - for flute solo and seven percussion instruments
  • 1983: The night of August 15th - Symphony in three movements
  • 1983: Dance suite - for strings, flute and harp
  • 1984: Hera or The Search for Manis
  • 1984: Sonata - for solo cello
  • 1985: Dejaviews (Three Dances for Duo) - for piano solo
  • 1986: Three songs - based on poems by Li Ho for soprano and piano
  • 1987: "Memories - based on poems by Charles Chiu"
  • 1987: Nestor's dream - for flute solo
  • 1988: Triptych in L (clarinet, violoncello and piano)
  • 1989: One measure for clarinet and piano (Stygian elegy)
  • 1989: tracks. Four songs based on poems by Franz Hrastnik for lower voice and piano
  • 1991: Epitaph II (clarinet, basset horn, horn, Wagner tuba and two bassoons)
  • 1991: One measure for flute and organ
  • 1991: One measure for piano
  • 1991: One measure for violoncello
  • 1992: One measure for violin and piano
  • 1994: One measure for harp and string quartet
  • 1994: parricide. Chamber opera in nine episodes
  • 1995: … night falls over the river (1st part of the river trilogy). Symphonic music in one movement based on a motif by Marguerite Duras
  • 1995: One measure for alto saxophone and organ
  • 1996: The crossing of the river (2nd part of the river trilogy). Chamber music episode based on a motif by Marguerite Duras
  • 1996: The Last Waltz - for piano solo
  • 1997: Living land. Oratorio for solos, two mixed choirs, children's choir and orchestra
  • 1997: Secession. Dialogue for guitar and the other twelve
  • 1999: One measure for guitar
  • 1999: One measure for saxophone quartet
  • 2001: One measure for viola and piano
  • 2002: One measure for pi-pa and string quartet
  • 2004: One measure for harp
  • 2004: One measure for two pianos and two percussionists
  • 2005: The separation (3rd part of the river trilogy). Symphonic music in one movement based on a motif by Marguerite Duras
  • 2005: One measure for piano and four strings
  • 2005: One measure for Pi-Pa
  • 2006: One measure for nine (violin, viola da gamba, erhu, guitar, pi-pa, lute, clarinet / bass clarinet, harpsichord, drums)
  • 2008: One measure for a string (of your choice) and three percussionists
  • 2008: One measure for clarinet and string quartet
  • 2009: One measure for saxophone and accordion
  • 2009: Requiem for piano, string orchestra and membranophone
  • 2010: Wandering - symphonic singing for soprano and chamber orchestra after Georg Trakl
  • 2011: Prayer - sound installation for vocalist, two female choirs, two children's choirs, orchestra and 72 timpani
  • 2012: One measure for six percussion sets and a percussionist (marimbaphone, vibraphone, crotales set, 3 bongos, cymbals, conga)
  • 2015: Schweigendes Meer, sound installation for large orchestra, mixed choir and children's choir
  • 2015: Dancing Sea, sound installation for 11 players
  • 2019: One measure for tenor trombone

Awards

  • 1984: Scholarship from the Alban Berg Foundation
  • 1985: Winner of the Republic of China Composition Competition
  • 1994: “Blue Bridge” composition prize from the Dresden Center for Contemporary Music
  • 2005: Gold Medal for Services to the State of Vienna
  • 2015: Silver medal for services to the state of Lower Austria

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 施 捷 《一 小节 系列 —— 琵琶 与 弦乐 四重奏》 的 创作 观念 及 启示 2012 01 引言 施 捷 (SHIH), 1950 年 出生 于 中国 台北, 1974 年 到 奥地利 维也纳 学习 竖琴 和 作曲 并 定居 奥地利, 从事音乐 创作 和 音乐 教学, 1994 年 室内乐 歌剧 《弑 父》 获 德累斯顿 中心 当代 音乐 作品 奖项, 2005 年 获 维也纳 市 金功勋 奖章.
  2. ↑ Die Bühne 1998 Page 28 Austria-International Gesellschaft, Vienna - "Landed here to study music in 1974, the Taipei-born composer Shih (he renounced his full name because of notoriously incorrect spelling and pronunciation) has long since become an Austrian citizen."
  3. ↑ edited by Ernst Bruckmüller: Personenlexikon Österreich . Verlagsgemeinschaft Österreich-Lexikon, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-9500438-7-X , p. 459 .
  4. ↑ Sound journey 2015/16. Hainfeld Music School, p. 9 , accessed on February 1, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Shih
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Taiwanese composer
DATE OF BIRTH November 29, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Taipei , Taiwan