Qigang Chen

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Qigang Chen (Chinese: 陈其钢; family name: Chen; born: 1951 in Shanghai) is a Chinese-born composer, currently living in France, having obtained French citizenship on 1992. He started learning music from childhood. At the time when Cultural Revolution broke out in China, he was studying at the Music Middle School of the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing. His father, administrator of the Beijing Academy of Fine Arts, famous calligrapher and painter, was immediately judged "bourgeois", "antirevolutionary", and sent to a labor camp. As for him young Qigang Chen was kept in confinement during three years and underwent "ideological re-education". Yet his passion for music remained unwavering: he went on learning composition and scoring in spite of social and political anti-cultural pressure. In 1977, Chinese government re-established the system of contest for entering upper schools. That year, Qigang Chen was one of the 26 candidates among two thousands passing successfully the entry examination of the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing. From 1978 to 1983 he followed a training on composition with Luo Zhonghong. In 1983, he was the first nominee at the National postgraduate contest and thus got the opportunity to go abroad and carry on a Master's degree. And that was how he discovered France. From 1984 to 1988 he received a state grant and studied with Olivier Messiaen. He simultaneously worked with Ivo Malec, Betsy Jolas, Claude Ballif and Claude Castérède. In 1987,

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albums

Qigang Chen: Er Huang, Enchantements oubliés & Un temps disparu

Qigang Chen Iris Dévoilée

The Flowers of War

Coming Home (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Extase

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Gateways. Chen – Kreisler – Rachmaninov

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The Flowers of War (Original Soundtrack)

China Huaxia Chamber Ensemble: Contemporary Music for Traditional Chinese Instruments

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Jiang Tcheng Tse

Chopin - Xiaogang Ye - Qigang Chen

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Emotions

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Enchantements oubliés / Er Huang / Un temps disparu

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