Wu Wei (musician)

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Wu Wei plays the Chinese mouth organ Sheng

Wu Wei (born April 29, 1970 in the People's Republic of China ) is an instrumental virtuoso of the traditional Chinese musical instruments Sheng and Erhu in improvising music , new music and jazz as well as a composer.

With his openness to modern composition and playing techniques, he has opened up new uses for the 4000 year old Sheng instrument in concert life. In addition, he has proven himself to be a stylish interpreter of the traditional music of his home country in concerts of world music in interaction with Chinese instrumentalists.

biography

Wu Wei studied the Chinese mouth organ Sheng at the Shanghai Music Academy and was a soloist with the “Shanghai Chinese Orchestra” before going to the “Hanns Eisler” Berlin Music Academy in 1995 with a scholarship from the DAAD ( German Academic Exchange Service ) . Since then he has lived in Berlin. Since 2013 he has been a professor at the Shanghai Music Academy.

He has appeared as a soloist at the most important festivals around the world and has been accompanied by leading orchestras. So he worked u. a. with the Berliner Philharmoniker ( Kent Nagano ), the Los Angeles Philharmonic ( Gustavo Dudamel ), the Orchester National de France ( Chung Myung-whun ), the Kungliga Filharmoniska Orkestern Stockholm ( Susanna Mälkki ), the BBC Symphony Orchestra ( Ilan Volkov ), the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra , the NDR Symphony Orchestra , the NHK Tokyo Symphony Orchestra , the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, the Ensemble intercontemporain and the Ensemble Modern .

To date, Wu Wei has more than 280 works, including ten concerts for sheng and orchestra, by composers such as John Cage , Chin Un-suk , Toshio Hosokawa , Enjott Schneider , Jörg Widmann , Klaus Hinrich Stahmer , Guus Janssen , Jukka Tiensuu , Tan Dun , Chen Qigang, Guo Wenjing and Huang Ruo premiered. He has also composed a number of works for Sheng himself. He received composition commissions a. a. from the "Fondation Royaumont", the Saxon Cultural Foundation, the "musica viva" Munich, the Hamburg Cultural Foundation and the "Civitella Raniera Foundation" New York.

Awards

  • 1996 and 2002 respectively 1st prize in the world music competition Musica Vitale in Germany
  • 2004 winner of the German Folk Prize Ruth .
  • 2011 Herald Angel Award from the Edinburgh International Festival
  • 2014 BBC Music Magazine Jury Award for the CD Unsuk Chin / 3 Concertos (see discography)

Discography

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personal data
SURNAME Wu, Wei
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chinese musician
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH People's Republic of China