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Chamber Music - Hymm to the Fallen and Recessional

Guo Shang and Li Hun are the last two chapters of Jiu Ge (Nine Songs), a poem selection from an ancient Chinese anthology of poems, Chu Ci(Songs of Chu), by Qu Yuan. In Jiu Ge (Nine Songs), Guo Shang shows the most lamenting emotion for the fallen soldiers and Li Hun is a short concluding hymn or recessional. The two-movement of chamber music works are taken from Guo Shang: Hymn to the Fallen and Li Hun: Recessional. The composer restore the Chinese ancestors perennial celebration of life and fear of the nature with skilled modern composing techniques. The Song cycle, Taking Leave of a Friend composed by Shen Yiwen will also be performed at the concert, which was commissioned by American soprano Dawn Upshaw and the Carnegie Hall. Shen YiwenShen Yiwen, a young composer and doctor of the Juilliard School. He won the silver award of the Chinese Golden Bell Award (the gold award is vacant), and both the third award and excellence award of the Chinese National Composi-tion Competitions, first prize from SCI/ASCAP Composition Commission, title of outstanding composers from American IBLA international competition, best band work and best chamber music work at Juilliard School. His works has been performed in Beijing Concert Hall, Shanghai Concert Hall, the Carnegie Hall in New York, and Lincoln Center for several times. Shen Yiwens music has been praised as a jaunty, vibrantly scored canvas" and "with a lucid, economical lyricism handed down by Barber and Rorem by The New York Times.

Music 2014

Percussive Theatre Drifting

The work Drifting, performed by six percussionists, demonstrates the relation between the individual and the group. The six voices (percussionists) represent six islands, drifting back and forth in the ocean. It also adds body language, whisper and recitation, representing mature thinking and interaction among individuals The trio interpreted by body language, the duo by vibraphone and marimba, another quintet by drums, these complex combinations of ensemble create all kinds of rich form of sonority, and subtlety changing color of each interpreter.This work is supported by the instrumental music department and percussion music department of shanghai conservatory of music. Tsai WenchiBorn in Taipei, Tsai Wenchi began her study of composition with Chiang Chia-chen. She then enrolled into the ÉcoleNormale de Musique de Paris in the class of the renowned Japanese composer, Yoshihisa Taira. In June 2006, she obtained her superior diploma of composition with the 1st prize. Upon graduation.she actively created and published works in both France and Taiwan, and Wen-chi was invited by the great saxophonist Nicolas Prost to compose Le fougémissant for the saxophone baritone. Her other works include Plongeurand Relation, the percussion duet Ombre, and Pluie du soirfor marimba and flute. Her works were performed at various music festivals in Paris, Lyon, and Avignon, and also on tour in Taipei, Hsinchu and Taoyuan . Tsai Wen-chi is currently a teacher of composition and music theory in the Central Conservatory of Music (Xiamen Branch) in China.

Music 2014

Concept Concert - Me and TA

Ta, Chinese for He/Her/lt. l and TA, is a kind of indescribable luxury. Ta is music, and friend. Ta is the necessity of music, and the encounter by chance. Ta is an unknown fortune. Ta is existed breathing, and the mark of life. Ta is a music journey with infinite possibilities. This will be a music concert with new force rising. The members of the band are currently the best musicians who all born after 1980s. It is a truly releasing concert in which cooperative album producers are invited by the guest performers. Chang ShileiChang Shilei was graduated from Shanghai Conservatory of Music, a songwrit-er and golden producer who belongs to the generation of 1980s. He has peculiar tone, strong control, with diversified creative and productive abilities. His masterpiece High Song, Brother, and Hawthorn Tree have been widely spread. He has created many songs and produced albums for Zhang Jie, MoMo Wu, Ivana Wong, Hins Cheung and many other famous singers. For the produc-tion of the album Gaia for Sandy Lam in 2013, he won the Best Arrangement Award and the Best Album Producer Award in the 24th Golden Melody Awards, and became the first musician in the mainland who won this award.

Music 2014

Sinfonia Concertante for Anda Union and Orchestra - The Last of the Steppes

In nine movements, The Last of the Steppes depicts the past, present, and future of the lnner Mongolian grasslands. The past is the nomadic life of Mongols, a culture built on relationships with domesticated animals as well as with wildlife: wolfs, eagles, gazelles, and more. The present is about the loss of the steppes; the human transition from protecting to threatening the grasslands through mining, agriculture, and urban development, leading to habitat destruction, desertification, and air pollution in the region, as well as a plea to "go home," a place strictly of the past. The future is uncertain. lt might be dystopian and devoid of anda, the Mongolian word for brotherhood and compassion, or it might be a chance for grasslands rebirth; the people who preserve the steppes today, then, are the heroes of tomorrow. Sam WuSam Wus music deals with the beauty in blurred boundaries. Many of his works center around extra-musical themes: architecture and urban planning, climate science and the search for exoplanets that host life. Selected for the American Composers Orchestras EarShot readings, winner of an ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award, Sam was also awarded First Prize at the Washington International Competition. Sams collaborations span five continents, most notably with the Philadelphia, Minnesota, and Sarasota Orchestras, the Melbourne and Tasmanian Symphonies, New York City Ballet, Sydney International Piano Competition, the Lontano, Parker, Argus, ETHEL and icarus Quartets, conductors Osmo Vänskä, Case Scaglione, and Benjamin Northey, and sheng virtuoso Wu Wei. After growing up in Shanghai, Sam (b. 1995) received degrees from Harvard University and The Juilliard School, and is a DMA candidate in Composition at Rice Universitys Shepherd School of Music. His teachers include Tan Dun, Anthony Brandt, Pierre Jalbert, and Chaya Czernowin. Anda Union"Anda" in Mongolian mean sworn brothers. Anda Union Mongolian Ensemble was established in 2003. The 10members of the team are all from Aru Khorchin in Xilingol prairie, with an average age of less than 30. As the only domestic professional art groups of perfect combination of horse-headed fiddle, the Khomus and Humai singing, they won the first place of grand prix in aboriginal group in authority singing competition in 2006, the 12th CCTV young singer competition, and got fame since then. Anda Union Mongolian Ensemble is one of the most popular Chinese band in number of foreign tours.

Music 2014

Musical - Rags’ Love

Rags Love is about five rags in room 501, unit 8 of a flat. Their life may not be complicated, but all of them have a great story. Though busy, they spare some time practicing art. They occasionally sentimentalize about life, and gradually fall in love with each other in mutual comfort. As the arrival of a new member - super rag Awei, great change is about to happen. How can Juan Mao, Hua Gu, Li Li and Da Hei with different personalities fully display their talents, and turn the tide? 12 original songs. Happy or sad together with exaggerated humorous dance, reflect the identities and unique values of the ordinary people from the angle of rags. Chen JiaweiDirector Chen Jiawei was graduated from Shanghai Theater Academy majored in directing. He won the 2011 Shanghai Spring New Talent Award. His work One Sentence Counts for Ten Thousand was selected to the 15th China Shanghai International Arts Festival: Young Talents Program and Youth Art Week. He has also won the second session of the National Theatre Culture Award, and silver medal of performance.

Music 2014

Live Soundscape and Electronic Music - Talking Goods

The work Talking Goods begins from the random opening of a coke can, the seemingly trivial meaningless collision and extrusion constructs an interesting soundscape. The inflectional storytelling and ballad singing in Suzhou dialect circuitously penetrates in modern metal tonality, the performance of Erhu, Pipa, or fast or slow, the dancers moving point, the timely cuts in multichannel interactive electronic music rhythm... The object, language, sound, and tone melt together, which is a subtle and ordinary leap into a special music experience. Li LeiLi Lei is graduated from Shanghai Conservatory of Music in electronic music composing. He won the second prize in the fifteenth session of the National Music Awards and the second prize in the third session of TMSK Liu Tianhua Award-Folk Music and Chamber Music Competition. Many of his works were performed at the National Centre for the Performing Arts, Shanghai Grand Theatre, Shanghai Concert Hall, the Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco，Taipei National Concert Hall, MUSICACOUSTICA-BEIJING and Shanghai Spring International Music Festival.

Music 2014

Music Theare - Jinyang

Jinyang, the ancient name of Taiyuan city, was founded two thousand and five hundred years ago, developed over the Spring and Autumn Period of five dynasties, peaked in the Tang Dynasty, and was burned down over 3 days in the Song Dynasty. Fortunately, the posterities have unearthed historical relics and sites, among which were manyBuddhist temples. lt has since been dubbed Chinas ancient city of Pompeii. The composer grew up with influences of Buddhism and Taoism. The acquisition of local natural sounds, the clear and pure female voice with plain male voice, and drum from local villages, all combines to shape the Jinyang city that blurs space and time. With the unique characteristics of world music, the composer divides the work into three parts, that is, Cultivate Oneself, Release Souls from Purgatory, and See All Sentient Beings. It outlines the old image of the ups and downs of human civilization. Zhang ZhiweiZhang Zhiwei, an independent composer and game sound designer, is graduated from Shanxi Normal University. He created and led the first domestic major of sound design in Beijing Contemporary Music Academy in 2010. He has a world music band ‘Liang Ren(Beloved). He seeks inspirations from the western classical and modern music, opera, kunqu opera, martial arts, literature and ancient Chinese poems.

Music 2014

Contemporary Dance Dance The Monkey King’s Enlightenment

Monkey King, a character from classic literature Journey to the West, came to life from stone in the wild and ended up as a saint. In him we can find monstrosity, humanity and divinity all at the same time. The image of him has reflected inner heart of us in modern time. In nature, everyone is acting like a monkey in daily life, both as performer and a bystander. Choreographer Chang Xiaoni uses movements from Peking Opera in a sarcastic way to tell the story of Monkey Kings struggle and his epiphany. Chang XiaoniInitially graduating from the Beijing Dance Academy, she later furthered her education in film and television for a Masters Degree in the Beijing Normal University. She has participated in many performances and competitions both at home and abroad, winning various awards. She won the First Creation Prize of Mandarin Awards in the Seventh National Dance Competition for her solo dance work Odds to Yangtze River, the Creation Golden Award for professional dance group in ‘Hujihua International Music Dance Competition in Singapore for her work The Girl in Blue. She participated in cultural communication activities during the Amsterdam international Youth Drama Festival in Holland and the activities in China-ltaly Cultural Exchange Year in Rome, Italy.

Dance 2014

Dance Theatre - Wind Valley

Through performance in this dance theatre, Tibetan choreographer Wanma Jiancuo now sets the context in a fictionary future where human race civilization was declin-ing by a clue of birth, development, death and rebirth, and finally all creatures became extinct and was replaced by machines and robots. Wanma tries to explore how tech-nology, such as wind power, influ-ences us throughout the history of evolution. Wanma JiancuoBorn in Tibet in 1979, he loved dancing at a young age, and has created and directed more than 10 dance dramas, gained awards such as the Best Creation Award in Chinese Dance Competition, the Golden Medal in National Taoli Cup Dance Competition, Mandarin Award for performers in China Art Festival, and Golden Award in International Dance Competition in Seoul. After further education in the Graduate School of Minzu University of China, he established Beijing Wanma Dance Troupe in 2012 and his first work ShamBhaLa is warmly accepted both at home and abroad.

Dance 2014

Contemporary Dance - All and None

Evolution has brought suffocating high pressure to modern life. To meet their desires, people subconsciously step into a net impossible to shake off. The work describes the dilemma between a high speed city life and our pursuit for inner peace. Yang ChangGraduated from the Dance College in Korean National University of Arts and is currently a dance choreography teacher in Sichuan Conservatory of Music. From 2006 to 2010, as a dancer and a choreographer of Beijing Modern Dance Company, he had participated in important arts festivals in America, France, Britain, ltaly, Sweden, Finland and Spain, and started working on experimental dance, collaborating with celebrities such as Tian Zhuangzhuang and ChenKai-Ko. In July 2013, he was awarded the gold medal in the Second Session of Beijing International Ballet and Choreography Match.

Dance 2014

Physical Theatre - 123·45

Walking in prosperous cities, we played the roles of A, B, C and D in others eyes, to be home mortgage slaves, car slaves and "office building slaves". How much time could we provide to ourselves? Accidents happened every day and speed being prioritized seems to be a way of modern life. Memories and beauty in our heart is almost dead, in our formula of pursuing external things. Huang XinShe has graduated from Master Degree of Dance in Shanghai Theatre Academy and focuses on dance performance and creation, currently is engaged in directing and teaching in dance in Jia Xing College. Some of her works such as Time and Journey have gained success in Beijing, Shanghai, Hang Zhou, etc. ln2007, she had participated in great music epics performance of Himalaya as the main actress; and she had also acting as a screenwriter and director for various kinds of grand evening parties.

Dance 2014

Experiment Kinqu Opera - Inscription

Inscription is adapted from the traditional Kunqu opera Soup For Treat-ment of Jealousy. lt tells the story of woman in civilian clothes, QiaoXiao-qing, who has both talent and beauty, but was sold to a man as his concubine and later to suffer the wrath of his wifes jealousy. This work concentrates on the role transformation in Inscription. The performer plays different roles, transforming from QiaoXiaoging, to DuLinaingand others, and then back to Xiaoging. In the 20 minutes performance, a folded drama form appears with transformation and crossing among soundless performance, sounded performance and tune names. Shen YiliShe is graduated from drama performance major in Shanghai Theatre Acade-my (STA) and had ever acted a leading role in Peony Pavillion, Palace of Eternal Youth, The Jade Hairpin, The Story of Sima Sheug-yu, Pei Shaojun and Li Qian-jun, and also participated in performance of some opera highlights such as Dream in the Deserted Garden, Pursuit of a Dream, The Drunk Beauty, and she has ever participated in performance and lectures in Britain, France, Spanish America, and Taiwan and Hong Kong in China, to promote the development of Kunqu Opera art actively. With strong and solid basic skills, elegant costume and makeup, rich classic appeal, she acted vividly and voiced mellowly, show-ing a dignified and elegant stage appeal and exquisite performance.

Drama 2014

Theatre - An Expressionless Man

K and S met by chance on the subway. Later, S found out that they were neighbors in the same residential community, and K has had an eye on her in a social networking website for a long time. It was then that their relationship started to change. K had a strange disease, which lost him the ability to smile and made him the subject of ridicule. He desperately tries to recover his ability to smile and plans to meet someone who might be able to help him. Can he recover his smile? What will happen between him and S? A confusing and intriguing situation follows. Shang LeiAs a screenwriter and director, Shang Lei graduated from the Department of Chinese Language and Literature of Peking University in 2007. His drama works include What was Make-believe has Become Reality, The Birthday Party, Ulysses in Mental Hospital, Loves Conditional Expression, Expressionless Person, Hamlet Sonata and many others. In July 2012, he was among in the final 6 of the Tian Qinxin New Writing Planand went to the National Theater of Scotland in Britain. Hamlet Sonata was presented in the Beijing Fringe Festival, and publicly shown in No.9 Theater in Beijing in December that same year.

Drama 2014

Multimedia Theatre - The M Feast

The play takes Mr. Ms feast as the cue, the invited guests (the audiences) are asked to join the Wechat group through two-dimensional code scanning. The mysterious Mr. M uses voice commands and randomly selects seven people from the Wechat group. The selected audiences are guests of the feast from different social classes. They attend the feast with different purposes. They conduct hypocritical social performances ofthe upper class at first, but then fight crazily for the so-called mysterious gift. Sartre once said: others are the hell. The law of the jungle among animals and human beings greed and desire we reflected vividly in the play, and the even peoples hypocrisy is gradually faded with Mr. Ms game instructions. Crime and punishment the third eye, them mysterious Mr.M, the strange diners, how could everything develop? Tong TongTong Tong (Bella) is a scriptwriter, director, and actress graduated from New York University, majored in Media, Culture and Communication. She is named as Youth Ambassador to fight against AlDS by UN, and worked as an NBA reporter for the SOHU sports channel. She starred in many TV dramassuch as I Want A Home, The Little Imperial Envoy and Smiling Crabs. She is the script writer and director of the documentary films Chinese University Alliance in Greater New York area, Drop Mark, and the First Great Wall Modern Art Biennale. Her work directing The Little Master was awarded Best Film in the Sino-American University Student Micro-Film Competition, organized by the Miami International Festival and Shanghai International Festival.

Drama 2014

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