Mini Violin Concerto - Three and a Half Phrases
“San Ju Ban” (Three and a Half Phrases) is a kind of Chinese traditional folk operatic performing form, which consists of three long phrases and a half length phrase. The composer integrates the folk-song-styled melody of "San Ju Ban" with the contemporary composition technique in a natural and ravishing way. It not only well communicates the wits of the Chinese traditional drama, but also grants the musician with the freedom to highlight the keen emotion and consummate skills. The eponymous solo piece was ever selected the mandatory repertoire of the Menuhin Competition Beijing 2012, and now developed to the concerto starring Li Zeyu, the extraordinarily gifted violinist, with the accompaniment of Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra.
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Tian Jinglun
Born in Qingdao, Shandong province, Tian Jinglun began her studies in the Middle School of the Chinese Conservatory of Music with Li Lifu at the age of 16, and has continued her studies at the Central Conservatory of Music with Liu Yuan since 2008. Given the title ‘Excellent Student’, she also received the China National Scholarship and the Excellent Student Scholarship. Tian has won prizes in many composition competitions. Her work Three and a Half Phrases have been selected for the Menuhin Competition Beijing 2012, and this work was performed by every entry of the Senior Semi-finals of the competition; her major compositions cover different styles and orchestrations of chamber music.
Zeyu Victor Li
Zeyu Victor Li is honored as a musical prodigy. Entering Curtis Institute of Music when he was 14 years old (2010), he was the youngest violin student there from Asia. Aaron Rosand, the world renowned violinist and educator speaks highly of his youngest student. Early in China, Victor excelled with his consummate violin skills and innate musical talent. He won the Gold Award of Junior Division, and the only award for Chinese work performance in the Ninth National Youth Violin Competition in Qingdao, 2009; he won the New Creations Performance Award (Composer Prize) in the Yehudi Menuhin International Violin Competition in 2012; and he was awarded First Place of Senior Division in the concerto competition in Summit Music Festival in New York, 2012. In 2009, Victor was invited to participate in the 5th anniversary of the restoration of Weekly Radio Concert held at Shanghai Concert Hall, as well as the 50th anniversary of the naming of the hall. In 2010, he was invited to perform solo the Sibelius D minor Violin Concerto in Shanghai Spring International Music Festival. In April 2009, while communicating with internationally eminent violin virtuoso Pinchas Zukerman in Shanghai Oriental Art Center, Victor Li was praised as "a genius with a bright future". Since Victor entered Curtis, he has performed in Carnegie Hall in New York, and several times in Kimmel Center in Philadelphia. He participated in the American Summer Music Festival at MANN CENTER on May 11th, 2012.
