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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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