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2021-06-18 14:00:32
Name: Melody Yun Xie Voice type: soprano From: South Korea Teachers: Mignon Dunn, Ying Huang, Yan Yang Education: Manhattan School of Music Music runs in the family: there’s a choir conductor, a koto teacher, a composer and a singer. And then there’s Melody Yun Xie, a lyric soprano and voice teaching assistant at Xinghai Conservatory [...]
2021-03-06 10:20:59
To counter the way memory disappears and fades into the background: composer Raymond Yiu on the ideas, both musical and personal, behind the works on his latest disc
[…] Ma Sicong (1912-1987). Some mid-20th century Chinese composers are known, thanks to the success of works like the Butterfly Lover's Violin Concerto, which was written in 1959 by He Zhanhao (born 1933) and Chen Gang (born 1935), and the Yellow River Piano Concerto, which was a premiered in 1969 and was a collaboration between composers including Yin Chengzong (born 1941) and Chu Wanghua (born 1941), and based on the earlier Yellow River Cantata by Xian Xinghai (1905-1945). But other works do not get played, and Ma Sicong's music was banned for 20 years after he escaped to America and wrote about his experiences in China and so was branded a traitor. This brings us back round to the present, with the current worrying events in Hong Kong (Raymond still has family living there) and in fact, Raymond has made some musical changes to Old Bei to make it less contentious. […]
2019-06-15 18:19:00
Composer Marcus Norris Makes Asian Debut in China with GLORY Violin Concerto
Guangzhou, Guangdong, China. Composer Marcus Norris makes his Asian debut June 18, 2019 with a performance of his 2019 violin concerto, titled GLORY. Violinist Xie Min and the School of Arts in South China University of Technology orchestra will be performing the work as part of a concert at Xinghai Concert Hall in Guangzhou. The performance comes following three sold-out performances of GLORY by the Jackson Symphony Orchestra in March 2019, and was composed on their commission. Scores and parts for the piece are available in the shop at www.MarcusNorris.com
2018-03-28 07:09:09
Fire and Water
Saint-Saens, Einaudi, Rachmaninov, De Falla, Debussy, Xinghai, Stravinsky, Ravel, Scriabin; Ji Liu; Classic FM Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 27 Mar 2018 Star rating: 3.0 (★★★)A beautifully produced programme, finely played with delicacy and clarity, yet the pianist's own personality remains too discreetly reticentJi Liu is a young pianist who was born in China and currently based in London and this disc, Fire and Water from Classic FM, is his fourth recital disc. The programme's theme comes from the ancient Chinese five-element theory and the music is mostly linked to the elements of fire and water, sometimes literally sometimes conceptually. The music moves through Saint-Saens, Debussy and Ravel, through De Falla and Stravinsky, Einaudi and Xinghai to Scriabin. We start with Saint-Saens, two movements from Carnival of the Animals both water inspired, 'The Aquariam' and 'The Swan'. Ji Liu plays with delicacy, clarity and a nice fluidity. […]
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