YUANLIN CHEN 150-11 72nd Road, Apt. 3A, Kew Garden Hills NY 11367 Tel. (646) 926-0886 Fax: (801) 987-2343 E-Mail: [email protected] Web Site: www.yuanlinchen.sunbow.us

Specialization: Composition, Instrumental, Conducting, Choral, Music Education, Computer & Electronic Music Education: 1991-1996 Ph.D. (Music) State University of New York at Stony Brook, NY, USA 1983-1986 M.A. Central Conservatory of Music, Beijing, China 1978-1983 B.A. Central Conservatory of Music, Beijing, China

Teaching Experience: 2012 – 2014 Artistic Director/Conductor, Concord Chorus, New York 2002 - 2012 Guest Professor, CCM (Central Conservatory of Music, Beijing, China) 1991 - 1995 Teaching Assistant, Computer Music and Electronic Music at SUNY at Stony Brook. 1986 - 1991 Lecturer, teaching Composition, Electronic and Computer Music, Music Theory, at CCM 1984 - 1985 Teaching Fellow, Sight-singing and Ear Training, at CCM.

Professional Activities: 2014 Composer and conductor, Coexistent Beauty, • Yoshi’s Oakland, San Francisco, Nov. 11, 2014. • Community School of Music and Arts, San Francisco, Nov. 9, 2014. • Old First Concert, Old First Church, San Francisco, Nov. 7 2014. 2014 Violinist/Arranger, Songs of the Pilgrims Concert, St. George Church, Flushing. Feb. 15, 2014 2013-2014 Conductor, Long Island Chinese Woman Chorus: Chinese New Year Concert, Jericho High School Little Theatre, Feb. 7, 2014 2012-2014 Conductor, Concord Chorus: • 3rd. New York Chinese Chorus Competition Concert, John Bowne High School, Sep. 27, 2014 • Fall Concert, Flushing Library, Sep. 13, 2014. • Summer Concert. Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association, Jul. 26. 2014. • Make Music New York, Lincoln Square Dante Park, Jun, 21, 2014. • Winter Concert, Flushing Library, Dec. 7, 2013. • 2nd New York Chinese Choir Festival Concert, Flushing High School, Sep. 28, 2013. • Fall Concert, Flushing Library, Sep. 14, 2013. • Autumn Concert, Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association, Sep. 7, 2013. • In Honor of Wang Luobin Concert, Herald Mission Center, Aug. 25, 2013. • Spring Concert, Flushing Library, May. 25, 2013. • Golden Autumn Concert, Flushing Library, Oct. 27, 2012. • Night of China, Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, July 19, 2012. • Mother’s Day Concert, Flushing Library, May 12, 2012. 2008 Composer and conductor, Wondering along the Journey, Chamber Music America annual conference concert 2002-2012 Guest professor, Central Conservatory of Music 2006 Music Editor and electronic music programmer for the movie music The Banquet 2006 Guest composer, the University of Oregon, School of Music 2004 Panelist of The CEMC First Electronic Composition Competition 2004 Composer and conductor, The Great Wall Resound, 4th Music Festival, CCM 2004 Composer and conductor, Blowing Across the Sky, Striking Throughout the Earth, Stern Grove Festival, July 4, 2004 2003 Composer and conductor, Thundering Across The Sky concert， Herbst Theater, San Francisco on January 26, 2003. 2002 Music Editor and electronic music programmer for the movie music Hero 2000 - 2014 Electronic music programming and Keyboard Player, Water Passion after St. Matthew, • Grote Zaal Muziekgebouw aan‘tIJ, Amsterdam, Apr. 17, 2014 • Tonhalle, Düsseldorf. Apr. 16, 2014 • Grote Zaal Concert- and congress centre DE Doelen, Rotterdam, Apr. 14, 2014 • Leipzig, Thomaskirche, May 5, 2013 • Summer Fest, La Jolla, CA, Aug. 12, 2012 • Musikfest Stuttgart Germany, Sept. 18, 2011 • Santa Cecilia Hall, Roma Italy, Apr. 29, 2011 • The UWA Perth International Arts Festival, Perth Australia, Feb. 20, 2005 • Newman Center for Performing Arts, Gates Concert Hall, Denver, Oct. 4&5 2004 • Macau, Nov. 2, 2003 • BAM, New York, USA, Dec. 11, 13, 14, 2002 • Oregon Bach Festival, Eugene, Oregon, July 5, 2002 • Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg, Russia, June 22, 2001 • Tokyo Opera City Concert Hall, Tokyo, Japan, Nov. 16, 2000 • Barbican Centre, London, UK, Sep. 30, 2000 • Stuttgart, Germany, Sep. 7, 2000 2000 Composer and conductor, Archaic Spirits in Millennium Sounds premiere concert held at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco on March 4, 2000. 2000 Electronic music programming and performing for the movie Crouching Tiger, hidden Dragon 1999 Guest composer, in Summer Festival at Suntory Hall, Tokyo, Japan 1999 Electronic Music programming and performing for Tan Dun’s CDs Bitter Love and 2000 Today – A World Symphony for the Millennium distributed by SONY Music. 1998-99 Electronic music musician, technician, Opera "Peony Pavilion", Director Peter Sellars, Music Tan Dun. Performances at Vienna, London, Roma, Paris and Berkeley. 1998 Guest composer, Composition Seminar and Concert, Peabody Conservatory 1997 Guest composer, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, New Territories: Young Asia, Glasgow, UK 1997 Conductor, Chen & Dancers, Transparent Hinges, La MaMa Theater, NY; Theater Artaud, CA 1995 Guest composer, Tomb Treasures from China Concert, Academy Theatre, Honolulu 1993 Guest composer, Music From China, Premiere Works III concert, New York 1993 Participant The Second International Conference on Chinese Music, Boston 1990 Participant The First Pacific Composers Conference, Sapporo, Japan 1988 Participant The Culture Exchange Program in Electronic and Computer Music, Australia 1987 - 1991 Founder and Director of Computer and Electronic Music Studio, Central Conservatory of Music, 1972 - 1978 Violinist at Guiyang Beijing Opera Troupe, Guiyang, China

Commissions: • Coexistent Beauty, Chamber Music America • Tribe among Mountains, Kronos Quartet • Wondering along the Journey, Chamber Music America • Great Wall, a cantata with orchestra underwritten by the Chinese Aids Foundation • Blowing Across the Sky, Striking Throughout the Earth, Melody of China, USA • Pipa Concerto Red Cliff, the American Composers Forum with funds provided by the Jerome Foundation • Guitar Quartet Chasing the Sun, the Minneapolis Guitar Quartet • Primary Voice for Chinese instruments and electronics, the American Composers Forum • Silk Road Suite for Chinese instrument and electronics, funds provided by Silk Road Foundation Film Music: • Ghost Fox, Hong Kong Gold Horse Film • Love at the Drum Tower, Guangxi Film Factory • Hundred Bird Clothes, Guangxi Film Factory • Girl, Escaped Criminal, and Dog , Tianshan Film • He has chosen murder, Shenzhen Film Company • Lone Murderer, Guangxi Film Factory Dance Music: • Gold, Wood, Water, Fire and Soil , Beijing Dance College • Spirit of the Dance, Central Television Station Recordings: • Away from Xuan Innova CD 721 • Flying Swan CRI CD 805 • Primary Voice Sunbow CD 0001 • Seeking Home Sunbow CD 0002 • Primary Voice: Rite, Festa Innova CD 118

Membership: • ASCAP • ACF (American Composers Forum) • AMC (The American Music Center)

Yuanlin Chen 150-11 72nd Road Apt.3A, Kew Garden Hills, NY 11367 陳 遠 林 Tel. 646-926 0886 Fax. 801-987 2343 Email: [email protected] Web Site: www.yuanlinchen.sunbow.us

Yuanlin Chen

The recipient of a Ph.D. in music from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, a Master and Bachelor degree from Central Conservatory of Music (CCM) in Beijing, China, Dr. Yuanlin Chen has established an impressive career in the music field. His compositions in various genres and forms include orchestral, choral, chamber, vocal and instrumental works, as well as music written for television, movies, and dance. His music has been performed worldwide at major concerts and venues in Australia, England, Romania, Japan, China and the U.S.A. Commissions and funding for Dr. Chen’s compositions have come from a variety of sources including the American Composers Forum’s Jerome Composer Commissioning Program, The American Music Center, Meet the Composer, Chamber Music America, MGQ/Jerome Foundation Commissioning Project, Kronos Quartet, Silk Road Foundation, NFAA, Tokyo Concerts, Inc. and movie studios, television stations, ensembles and orchestras worldwide.

As a professional musician, Dr. Chen is also a dedicated music educator and advocator.

His music teaching experience can be retrieved back in 1984 when he served as a teaching fellow teaching solfeggio and ear training in Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, China during his graduate study in the same institution. He then was admitted as a lecturer in CCM after he completed his graduate degree program and taught courses including Composition, Electronic and Computer Music, Music Theory until 1991 he left to U.S.A to pursuit his Doctor degree. He was a reliable teaching assistant during the years from 1991 to 1995 when studied at SUNY at Stony Brook in the United States.

He had been invited to serve as a guest professor of Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing from 2002 to 2012. As a visiting composer, he also gave lectures at institutions in the States, such as Peabody Conservatory of Music and Oregon University, School of Music. He is a private tutor for composition, violin, piano and music theory students in all ages as well.

Dr. Chen is a guest conductor of Melody of China, a San Francisco-based professional Chinese music ensemble. He currently is the artistic director/conductor of the Concord Chorus, a community chorus based at Queens, New York with most members aged from their 40s to 70s. He understands the old adults and develops his effective ways to communicate and teach the group. He leads the chorus active at concerts hold at venues such as Queens Library, Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association, Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, Herald Mission Center. The chorus also participated in Make Music New York 2014, New York Chinese Choir Festival, and won enthusiastic applauds from audients.