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Neoclassic Electronic Music - Day and Night

Day and Night is an electronic neo-classic music piece with multimedia and installation recomposed from the 24 Preludes, Op.28 by Chopin 24 motives taken from each of the 24 preludes carefully weaved into 24 minutes of blasting enjoyment. Discarding the original composing technique and inner structure of Chopins work, Day and Night follows the shifting time within one day. Starting from the midnight to dawn, noon, afternoon, dusk and coming back to the end of the day, the work will take you through the evolvement of modern music in the 21st century. Song SihengSong Siheng started to study piano when he was 3, then he went to Shanghai Concervatory until 20-years-old. After moving to Paris, he entered the Conservatoire de Pairs and began collecting many definitive prizes, such as Leeds, Dublin, and most importantly, the Grand Prize at the 2004 Long-Thibaud Piano Concours, making him the first Chinese to win this prestige competition. Since his victory in Paris, Song Siheng has toured extensively, working with Halle Orchestra, Radio philharmonic de Frace, Vienna radio symphony orchestra, Orchestra de Swiss Romande, New Japan philharmonic and so on. He is also the creator of Multimedia piano recital, making such as In search of Haruki Murakami, Blue, Chopin-Love, the 80s. He is also one of the youngest jury member of the international piano competition. B6LOU Nanli, best known by his stage name B6, is a multi-talented Electronic music pioneer, DJ, renowned designer, video and multi-media artist. He has started creating electronic music and sound art since 1999. His music works are critically acclaimed, such as B6 Box, Post Haze, My Post-Rock Yard and so on. He has been interviewed and featured by many renowned TV programs and magazines.

Music 2015

Music Film - Sever

Wrapped in an absurd and hyperbolical narrative, the music film revisits an ancient Chinese folk tale: Guan Yu beheaded Diao Chan. In this film adaptation, Guan Yu, the once proverbial historic hero in the Three Kingdom period, travels to the modern urban society and finds himself frustratingly debilitated day by day, while a modern thespian devoted to playing Diao Chan (a femme fatale in Guan Yus time), primps and preens herself for her performance, not knowing the tragic looms ahead. The two storylines are intertwined and eventually come to an end as Guan Yu severs Diao Chan on the stage, asymbolic scene with stark historical resemblance: back in the Three Kingdom period, Guan Yu killed Diao Chan for the sake of loyalty and justice. By juxtaposing this anachronism, this innovative rendition attempts to answer how we should reflect on our tradition. Zhu MaThe band Xi Baner was established by Zhu Ma. He is the composer, songwriter and the player of sanxian (a three-string plucked instrument) and danbura (a traditional Kazakhs plucked instruments) in the band. He combines traditional Chinese operas with other music elements to create a crossover music style. The band features cross-boundary music style and rich expression in minimum lyrics. This unique style has fulfilled the gap in the field of origin Chinese songs and meanwhile offers the Chinese people an opportunity to have the sense of belongings in this era of western music.

Music 2015

Multi-media Theatre - Hear the Way in the Morning

Is there some kind of emotional mood, which is shaking our faith and is going to destroy our mutual spiritual home? Is there some kind of extending culture, which will let us become completely irrational and will wreck the life that we painstakingly built up? Maybe there is no answer in the end; maybe everything is outside of the plan. Hear the Way in the Morning shows a brand new method of how we express ourselves on stage. The director rebuilt the relationship between audience and the theatre. The daily life of every audience and the play itself will combine with each other, and this connection is the most important part in this show. Ma JunfengMA Junfeng is a director in Shanghai Theatre Academy. He received a BFA in professional performance in Shenzhen University. He furthered his study at Shanghai Theatre Academy, where he received an MFA in directing. His recent works includes: Big Coffin Tiny Hole, That Guy, Love Debris of Shakespeares Work, Flowers of Evil, Descendants of the Eunuch Admiral, Richard III, Nothing and many other plays. His works were performed in Shanghai International Arts Festival, Beijing Fringe Festival, Shanghai International Experimental Theatre Festival, Macao City Fringe Festival, Shenzhen Fringe Festival and Singapore Chinese Theatre Festival. Wang LifuWang Lifu has been the leading singer and producer of The Samans since its establishment in 2006. He wrote the lyrics and songs and did the post-production for all four albums of the band. He also did scores for many TV programs including CCTV documentaries Guonian and Chinese Life 2015, and composed songs for The Voice of China Season 3. His band played an important role in many grand music festivals in China, such as Beijing Midi Music Festival 2014.He is the winner of Abilu.

Music 2015

Chamber Opera - The Trio

In his newly-rented apartment, a young man meets the middle-aged and elderly incarnation of himself. These personages are destitute and hopeless, both hoping to return to their youth and rewrite their destinies. Their shared inheritance becomes a point of dispute, and argument breaks out among them in which each party only think of their own benefit. The three of them have no other choice than to bring out their childhood self to help them make a decision, but their continued fighting fills the child with dread. The child cannot withstand the young mans expressions of anger and despair, so the boy jumps from a window, ending his life. The three men immediately vanish: with no "once upon a time", there can be no future. Tian TianTian Tian was born in Qingdao in 1987, and began studying music with his father at a young age. He is currently a PhD candidate under the guidance of well-known composer Professor Wenchen Qin at the Central Conservatory of Music (CCOM). His works have been performed in the Beijing Modern Music Festival, the Central Ballet Workshop, and the Plucked String Instrument Festival held by the CCOM. In 2013, his symphonic poem Ring on August won first prize in the Beijing Modern Music Festival Symphonic Music Grand Prix and the 4th Young Composer Project, and his ballet Jiwas recognized as an "Excellent Work" by the Ministry of Culture in 2012. In 2010, his chamber work Dhyana was part of the Chamber Music Project.

Music 2015

Oratorio - Rubbish on the Square

In the morning of October 1st 2013, the National Day of China, lakh of people from allover the country came to Tiananmen Square watching flag-raising ceremony in the rain. After the ceremony, about 5 tons of rubbish was left on the square. This situation was published on the website and became the hot topic nationwide. Oratorio "Rubbish on the Square is based on this event. lt is performed by 5soloists, mix chorus and a piano. The work not only shows the inflexion of the debate, but also describes lots of famous or nameless opinion leaders and central figures. The composer wants to call attentions to the "mob phenomenon - out of sense when flocking together through this work, at the same time he wants people to protect the environment and love our country rationally. Wen ZhanliWen Zhanli, is a composer living in Beijing. He was admitted to the composition department of China Conservatory in 1999 and studied composition with prof. WANG Ning. In 2006 he studied at Darmstadt International Summer Courses for Modern Music in Germany. In 2010, WEN attained doctors degree in China Conservatory and became a teacher there. From 2013 to 2015, he studied and was admitted to the sociology in Renmin University of China. ln 2015, he was selected in the first batch of Talent Pool of Outstanding Young and Middle-aged Artists of Beijing by Federation of Literary and Art Circles. WENs music has a variety of styles and genres. Many of his works were selected and premiered in national and international concerts and music festivals, some of them were recorded in the CD which was published and released in China and Europe. His works won the prize of music composition many times which is a governmental award conferred by the Ministry of Culture and Federation of Literary and Art Circle in China.

Music 2015

Multi-media Music Theatre - 2o15

2015 unfolds like an unfinished history book and tragicomedy in our life. On the other side of 2015, we have 2o15. These are two parallel universes where the same people and similar landscapes recur but develop in different ways. This work is based on scenarios of our daily life. Players, as normal citizens lead you through worlds of reality and imagination, conventional and alienated worlds. The boundary between the real world of 2015 and the virtual one of 2o15 will be broken at last, for both of them share peoples confusion, pain and love. Zhou DongZhou Dong is graduated from Shanghai Conservatory of Music (Department of Music Engineering). During her study of electroacoustic music composition, she focused much on those sound art forms which have multiple sound sources such as radio drama and soundscape composition. Influenced by these art forms, she tries to create different spaces and layers of sound to fully express her imagination of music. She won several prizes for her excellent achievements in this field, including the first prize of "Sound of Shanghai" Soundscape recording competition, the first prize of the Sound of World ringtones collection, Spark Award of the fourth film festivals in Macao and Second Prize of National Undergraduate Film Competition and the most potential animated short film by the Ninth Golden Monkey Cartoon Award in China.

Music 2015

Symphony - Five Actions of Wu Kong

The Monkey King embodies many contradictions, he was given the Buddhist name "Wu Kong(mneaning "to realize the void of senses"), he was doomed to a fate of struggling and fighting for freedom. We always say that deep in every Chinese soul, there lives a Monkey King, fighting for freedom as we define it ourselves, during our lifetime. The work Five Actions of Wu Kong reflects ones inner ambivalence, when it comes to freedom, fate and lifes journey. The five actions are constructed using a Chinese theatrical approach to tension and relaxation. The titles are as follows: Lento - the Purple Forest of Spirits; Presto - "There is a young lady on the road ahead!"; Andante - Monolog in the Moonlight; Largo - "Wear this metal head hoop, and you will be free"; Allegro - Eternal Battle Symphony Ochestra. Zhou JuanA native of Sichuan, grew up in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China, Zhou Juan graduated from the Central Conservatory of Music (BA and MA) and University of Missouri - Kansas City (DMA). She is associate professor in music composition at the Central Conservatory. She was awarded the China Music Golden Bell Award,17th and 18th National Music Composition Award, ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award, GEDOK Fuch-Award", and Staunton Music Festival Emerging Composer Award. She received commissions and has worked with China National Centre for the Performing Arts, Korean Traditional Arts Foundation, Beijing Peoples Art Theatre, Chongqing Peking Opera House, Chengdu Peking Opera Research Center, Alarm Will Sound, Nieuw Ensemble, Kansas City Chorale, Mizzou New Music Summer Festival, New Dramatists Composer-Librettist Studio, Virginia Arts Festival, Bachfest Leipzig, and Nelson-Atkins Museum of Arts. Her major works include End of the Earth (orchestra), Far Far Away (orchestra), Before Curtain!(symphonic band), My Spiritual Garden (Uygur artists and chamber orchestra), Wu Kong (opera), Fate Makes a Choice (music theater), Golden Lock (Peking Opera incidental music), Sing by the River Flower (Peking Opera incidental music), Oedipus the King (musical play), Love Cantata, Wind (chorus a cappella), Second Language (jazz mixed combo) Water Your Memory (jazz band), Ming (large ensemble), Say "Bye"(large ensemble), Cycle of Life (song cycle), two string quartets, and many chamber works.

Music 2015

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