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Xiaogang Ye
12+ albums
contemporary classicalchineseinstrumentalClassicalcomposer
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Born on 23 September 1955, Xiaogang Ye is regarded as one of China’s leading contemporary composers. From 1978 until 1983, he studied at the Central Conservatory of Music in China and after graduation he was appointed Resident Composer and Lecturer at the Central Conservatory of Music in China. From 1987 he studied at the Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester in New York. Amongst his former teachers are Minxin Du, Samuel Adler, Joseph Schwantner, Louis Andriessen and Alexander Goehr. Since 1993, Ye has divided his time between Beijing and Exton, Pennsylvania. Ye is entrusted with cultural tasks as member of the Chinese Parliament, and he is presently Vice Chairman of China's Musicians' Association, Vice President of the Central Conservatory of Music, and Founder and Artistic Director of Beijing Modern Music Festival, the biggest contemporary music festival in the Far East. He has received numerous prizes and awards, among others the 1982 Alexander Tcherepnin prize, the 1986 Japan Dance Star Ballet prize, and awards from the Urban Council of Hong Kong (1987-94), the Taiwan Symphony Orchestra (1992), the China Cultural Promotion Society (1993), the Li Foundation, San Francisco (1994) and the Chinese National Symphony Orchestra (1996). In 2013 Ye was awarded with the China Arts Award. He was a fellow of the Metropolitan Life Foundation and the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts in 1996, and of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 2012. Ye’s oeuvre comprise
top songs
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Piano Trio, Op. 59
3572Starry Sky, Op. 56
2303"The Song of the Earth" for Soprano, Baritone and Orchestra, Op. 47: V. Feelings upon Awakening from Drunkenness on a Spring Day
1184The Memories of Mount Jing Gang, Op. 97 - Radio Edit
815The Loquat in Five Colors, Overture for Orchestra, Op. 108
746The Macau Bride Suite, Op. 34: II. Blessings and Devotion
7177 Episodes for Lin'an, Op. 63: No. 6, No. 6, Leave the Jingci Temple in the Morning to See Zifang Lin Off
638Sichuan Image, Op. 70: No. 18, Qingcheng in the Rain
609The Backyard of the Village, Op. 89 - Radio Edit
5910Song of Farewell Without Words, Op. 61B: II. Promise
40albums
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Piano Trios - Krammer, G. / Woolrich, J. / Ye, X.G. / Doderer, J. / Ndodana-Breen, B. / Sanchez-Verdu, J. (Dedicated To Haydn)
Xiaogang Ye: Sichuan Image
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Ye: "The Song of the Earth" for Soprano, Baritone and Orchestra, Op. 47: V. Feelings upon Awakening from Drunkenness on a Spring Day
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Xiaogang Ye: Backyard of the Village
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The Memories of Mount Jing Gang, Op. 97 (Radio Edit)
Xiaogang Ye: Twilight in Tibet, 7 Episodes for Lin'an & Tianjin Suite
Xiaogang Ye: The Macau Bride Ballet Suite & 4 Poems of Lingnan
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The Backyard of the Village, Op. 89 (Radio Edit)
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Requiem: 30 Serene Choral Masterpieces
Xiaogang Ye: Song of Farewell Without Words, Op. 61B
Xiaogang Ye: Symphony No. 3, Op. 46 "Chu" & The Last Paradise, Op. 24