Ye Xiaogang

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Ye Xiaogang

Ye Xiaogang ( Chinese  叶小纲 , Pinyin Yè Xiǎogāng ; born September 23, 1955 in Shanghai ) is a contemporary Chinese composer .

Life

Ye is considered one of China's leading contemporary composers. From 1978 to 1983 he studied composition at the Central Music Academy in Beijing with Du Mingxin and Alexander Goehr . In 1983 he became composer in residence there and in 1985 was one of the first young composers whose works were performed in Beijing under the name “Neue Welle”. In 1987 he went to the USA and continued his studies - with Samuel Adler and Joseph Schwantner at the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester and with Louis Andriessen at New York State University in Buffalo . Since 1993 he has lived alternately in Exton , Pennsylvania , and in Beijing, where he became a lecturer and later professor of composition at the Central Music Academy in 1994. He has also been Vice President there since 2009.

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Yes compositional work includes symphonic works, concerts, vocal, chamber and piano music as well as stage and film music. In works like Macau Bride Suite No. 2 (2001), Four Poems of Lingnan (2011) and Twilight of the Himalayas (2013) is reflected in his connection with nature, with the Buddhist religion and with Chinese mythology. In 2004, The Song of the Earth was written for soprano, baritone and orchestra - Ye set the original Chinese texts to music in a different order, the German version of which Gustav Mahler had already used in Das Lied von der Erde . Four movements of the work were premiered in Beijing in 2005 and two more in Berlin. Yes Cantonese Suite (Guangdong Suite) is inspired by Cantonese folk songs and was first performed on September 23, 2005 at Carnegie Hall in New York . The Starry Sky piano concerto, on the other hand, premiered in 2008 with the soloist Lang Lang at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Beijing .

Awards and prizes (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Ye Xiaogang. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 17 (Vina - Zykan). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2007, ISBN 978-3-7618-1137-5  ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
  2. ↑ a b c d Information from Schott Music
  3. ↑ a b Jin Ping: Ye Xiaogang. In: Encyclopedia of Contemporary Chinese Culture. 2011, accessed September 4, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Ye Xiaogang on Central Conservatory of Music (English)
  5. ↑ a b The Song of the Earth at Schott Music
  6. ^ Cantonese Suite (Guangdong Suite) at Schott Music
Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Ye is the family name here, Xiaogang is the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Ye, Xiaogang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chinese contemporary music composer
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Shanghai