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Artist
Ming Tsao
12+ albums
contemporary classicalchineseinstrumentalexperimentalcomposer
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Ming Tsao was born in Berkeley, California in 1966. Following his early musical studies, performing violin and viola with the Berkeley Youth Orchestra and the Young People’s Symphony respectively, he lived in Suzhou, China and studied the traditional guqin (Chinese zither) with the renowned guqin performer Wu Zhao-ji. The music of Ming Tsao constitutes a “speculative turn” in music composition that posits possible worlds as a counterpoint to our contemporary understanding of place, where musical lyricism blended with noise suggests a sensitivity to relations between human impact and presence in the world. In making the connections between the materiality of sound, formal rigor, and extreme expressionistic abstraction, Tsao renews the idea of musical lyricism as fractured, damaged, multi-perspective, complex and problematized in order to negotiate the complexities of the surrounding world. His performance projects include the opera Die Geisterinsel for the Staatsoper Stuttgart in 2011 and a full realization of Stockhausen’s Plus Minus successfully premiered in the Wittener Tage Festival 2013. His compositions have been performed by ensembles such as the Arditti Quartet, ensemble recherche, ELISION Ensemble, Ensemble SurPlus, Ensemble Ascolta in venues such as the Donaueschingen Musiktage Festival, Wien Modern, Wittener Tage Festival, Maerz Musik, Darmstadt New Music Courses. Music by Ming Tsao can be found on the labels Kairos Music and Mode Records. Books by Ming Tsao inclu
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Triode Variations (2019-20) for Ensemble: Triodes I
422Triode Variations (2019-20) for Ensemble: Interlude I
343Pathology of Syntax
344Triode Variations (2019-20) for Ensemble: Triodes II
305Das Wassergewordene Kanonbuch (2016-17) for Chamber Choir: Die Zahlen
306Das Wassergewordene Kanonbuch (2016-17) for Chamber Choir: Weissgrau
297Triode Variations (2019-20) for Ensemble: Interlude II
298Triode Variations (2019-20) for Ensemble: Triodes III
299Triode Variations (2019-20) for Ensemble: Postlude
2910Das Wassergewordene Kanonbuch (2016-17) for Chamber Choir: Dum Tria Percurris Quatuor Valet. Tertius Unum Subque Diapason Sed Facit Alba Moras
28albums
Ming Tsao: Triode Variations
Ming Tsao: Pathology of Syntax
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Ming Tsao: Plus Minus & Mirandas Atemwende
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Ming Tsao: Die Geisterinsel
Ming Tsao: Plus Minus
Ming Tsao: Plus or Minus
Ming Tsao: Die Geisterinsel, Serenade & If Ears Were All That Were Needed
Plus Minus
Pathology of Syntax
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Tsao: Die Geisterinsel
Triode Variations
Die Geisterinsel