Wenchen Qin

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Wenchen Qin (b. 1966) is a composer and teacher in Beijing, where he is a professor of composition at the Central Conservatory of Music, and a distinguished professor at the China Conservatory of Music. Qin was born in 1966 in Ordos, Inner Mongolia, and became familiar with the folk music of his home while still very young. In 1987 he went to study composition at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, where his tutors included Jian-er Zhu (b. 1922) and Shuya Xu (b. 1961). He joined the staff of the Central Conservatory in Beijing in 1992 and, between 1998 and 2001, studied with Nicolaus A. Huber in Essen, Germany, thanks to the sponsorship of the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD). Qin is one of China’s most influential composers, and has written commissions for many international music organisations, including the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, the Beethovenfest Bonn, and the Warsaw Autumn, Bayerischer Rundfunk and Shanghai Spring International Music Festivals. His works have been widely performed by more than seventy well-known musical groups in China and further afield, including Ensemble Intercontemporain and L’Itinéraire in France, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester, the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra and ensemble recherche in Germany, the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Ensemble Europeo Antidogma in Italy, the Tokyo City Symphony Orchestra, the St Petersburg Philharmonic, the Nieuw Ensemble Holland, the Ensemble Phoenix Basel, the Helsinki Philharmonic

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Wenchen Qin: Orchestral Works

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Wenchen Qin: The Border of the Mountains

The Border of the Mountains

Orchestral Works

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秦文琛 室內音樂作品

The Border Of The Mountains (Rabl)

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Violin, Cello & Souna Concertos

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Violin Concerto "The Border of the Mountains" / Cello Concerto "Dawn" / Suona Concerto "Calling for Phoenix"

Chamber Music

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向遠方 - 30首民樂室內樂曲集 (上集)

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Warsaw Autumn 2014

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