Music Contemporary from China 2018 at Alice Tully Hall

New York (January 24, 2018) - Seven new commissions from seven leading composers living or working in China are going to be featured in one single concert that takes place on January 27th 7:30 pm at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center in New York City.

Chinese composers tend to write for both the Western and Chinese musical instruments, a natural outcome of their Western music training and Eastern cultural inheritance. Music Contemporary from China 2018 will feature such an integration of Chinese and Western instruments. This concert is presented by the Central Conservatory of Music (CCOM) of Beijing and performed by its leading soloists and chamber music players, all travelling from Beijing to New York for this occasion.

As a top conservatory in China, CCOM has played a decisive role in paving the way for Chinese contemporary music. When college education was resumed in 1977 after a turbulent decade, a dozen students were admitted to CCOM's composition department. The legendary CCOM 1977 composition class has produced some of the most recognizable personalities including two Academy Award winning composers Tan Dun and Su Cong, Guggenheim Fellowship Award recipient Ye Xiaogang, Pulitzer Music Prize winner Zhou Long and his wife Chen Yi, BBC Masterprize Award finalist Chen Qigang, composers Guo Wenjing, Qu Xiaosong, Liu Suola among other.

CCOM commissions from two of the 1977 class graduates are featured in the concert: Ye Xiaogang's Lagerstroemia Indica and Guo Wenjing's Recitative for Chinese Gong. Both Ye and Guo are teaching at CCOM. Other illustrious CCOM alumni include pianists Lang Lang and Yuja Wang.

Joining the mavericks are composers of the younger generation who teach at CCOM: Jia Guoping's Ripples in Spacetime, Tang Jianping's Jin Lin, Li Binyang's The Sunset Lake, Qin Wenchen's Poetry of the Land, Chen Xinruo's Concerto Grosso. The CCOM Orchestra is led by conducting faculty member Chen Bing, highlighted by Chinese intruments brought by CCOM virtuoso professors like Yu Hongmei (erhu), Zhang Qiang (pipa), Wang Lei (sheng), Ji Wei (zheng) and Feng Tianshi (dizi).

The concert is driven by an urge to introduce Chinese living composers and their latest outputs to the American peers and the US audience in an authentic way. CCOM President Prof Yu Feng hopes that the concert will become a recurrent event taking place overseas annually in order to raise awareness of the contemporary music scene in China.

"The Central Conservatory is also the central nervous system for the contemporary music landscape in China. CCOM teachers are encouraged to compose for the new era and speak their own musical language. Music Contemporary from China 2018 serves as a unique platform to display tour de force of our composers," says Yu Feng.

Tickets to this concert are distributed free of charge under an arrangement by CCOM with KLASSIKOM.

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