Xiaogang YE Mount E’mei Scent of Green Mango Lamura Cuo The Silence of Mount Minshan Wei Lu, Dan Zhu, Violin Shengnan Hu, Percussion Xiaotang Tan, Piano Royal Scottish National Orchestra Gilbert Varga Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz Stefan Malzew Franck Ollu Xiaogang Ye (b. 1955) Mount E’mei • Scent of Green Mango • Lamura Cuo • The Silence of Mount Minshan Born in Shanghai in 1955, Xiaogang Ye is regarded as development of China’s modern music, and the exchange Ensemble Utopik, New European Ensemble, the Mount E’mei for Violin, Percussion and Orchestra, one of China’s leading contemporary composers. From of Chinese and foreign music cultures. Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and the Op. 74 (2015–16) 1978 until 1983, he studied at the composition Ye has composed a large number of works in a NZTrio. In August 2008, his piano concerto Starry Sky department of the Central Conservatory of Music in variety of genres, including symphonic, chamber, dance was premiered during the opening ceremony of the This work was co-commissioned by the Beijing Symphony China, and after graduation was appointed resident drama and opera pieces, as well as film and TV music. Olympic Games in Beijing by Lang Lang. Accompanied Orchestra and Sichuan Philharmonic Orchestra. It was composer and lecturer at the Conservatory. From 1987, His important works include Horizon , The Last Paradise , by dance and light shows, the live broadcast was watched premiered in Beijing in October 2016 as a part of Sichuan he studied at the Eastman School of Music, University of The Song of the Earth , Twilight of the Himalayas , Scent of by three billion people worldwide. Tone Picture . The piece Sichuan Image had previously Rochester in New York. His former teachers include Green Mango , Mount E’mei , Lamura Cuo , Symphony No. Beginning in 2013, the China Story concert series been performed by the Sichuan Philharmonic Orchestra, Mingxin Du, Samuel Adler, Joseph Schwantner, Louis 4 ‘Songs from the Steppe’ , Symphony No. 5 ‘Lu Xun’ , featuring Ye’s music has been presented in venues all and was highly acclaimed. As that work’s companion Andriessen and Alexander Goehr. After he returned Symphony No. 7 ‘The Heroes’ , The Backyard of the over the world, including in Avery Fisher Hall at the volume, Sichuan Tone Picture presents the humanistic home from the US in 1994, Xiaogang Ye served as a Village , Cantonese Suite , Springs in the Forest , Nine Lincoln Center in New York, and in the National Center for sentiments, folk customs, and modernised scenery of professor in the composition department of the Central Horses , Yangzhuoyong Cuo , The Macau Bride and Song the Performing Arts in Beijing. Other concerts have been Sichuan province from another perspective. Mount E’mei Conservatory of Music, a doctoral advisor, the Deputy of Farewell . Ye is also a successful composer of film held in Saarbrücken, Munich, Berlin, San José (Costa is an important geographical landscape within Sichuan. Dean of the composition department and Educational music. He has composed for more than 30 important Rica), Kolkata, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Moscow, Nantes, For thousands of years it has been a famous cultural Inspector of the Conservatory. From 2009 to 2018 he Chinese movies and TV series, and has won the Golden Lima, Dublin and Bydgoszcz. Orchestras that have mountain, and a sacred Buddhist site. It is famed as the worked as one of four vice presidents of the Central Rooster Award three times as well as two other participated in the series include the Detroit Symphony ‘most beautiful mountain in the world’ for its precipitous Conservatory of Music. prestigious film score awards for his efforts in this area. Orchestra, China National Symphony Orchestra, China landscape and steep cliffs. It has subsequently attracted Ye is entrusted with cultural tasks as a standing Although Ye does not consider film music central to his NCPA Orchestra, Deutsche Radio Philharmonie countless tourists from all over the world. In order to write member of the 13th Chinese People’s Political output, it has granted his work unprecedented exposure Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern, National Symphony this work, the composer travelled through almost the Consultative Conference, and he is presently vice in China, leading to him being granted the honorary title of Orchestra of Costa Rica, Royal Scottish National entirety of Sichuan, and it took him one year to compose chairman of the China Federation of Literary and Art ‘Man of China’ in 2005. Since 1995, the world-renowned Orchestra, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, and revise the work. Circles, chairman of the China Musicians Association, publisher Schott has published and served as an agent Russian National Orchestra, Ensemble Utopik, National Mount E’mei is an important birthplace of Chinese vice chairman of the International Music Council, head of for Ye’s works. Symphony Orchestra of Peru, and the RTÉ National civilisation. This work describes and eulogises the great the ISCM (International Society for Contemporary Music) Ye’s music can be heard throughout the world in Symphony Orchestra. This concert series has introduced spectacle of the mountain, and reveals its hidden human Beijing Modern Music Festival Section, professor of leading opera houses and symphony halls, international Ye’s music to diverse international audiences. connections and deeply rooted history through the use of composition at the Central Conservatory of Music, festivals, and on radio and television. Since 1987, Ye’s Ye has been the recipient of many prestigious the violin’s evocative melodies and percussive distinguished professor of the Xinghai Conservatory of works have drawn attention both in East Asia and in the honours including a 2012 Guggenheim Fellowship, a highlighting. If the solo violin introduces the ‘quiet side’ of Music and Shanghai Conservatory of Music, honorary West, where they have been performed by major 2013 China Arts Award, and a Distinguished Alumni the concerto with its long, sustained note, held like a professor of the Ukrainian National Tchaikovsky orchestras and ensembles including the New York citation from the Eastman School of Music in 2011. breath, then the solo percussion endows it with another Academy of Music, international chair in composition at Philharmonic, The Cleveland Orchestra, The Philadelphia Recordings of Ye’s music can be found on several ‘moving side’ through rich rhythms and varied colours. the Royal Northern College of Music, a consultant to The Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Münchner international labels, including EMI Classics, Wergo, Hugo, They respectively depict the work’s static and dynamic Tianjin Juilliard School, and an international honorary Philharmoniker, Bamberger Symphoniker, Philharmonisches Naxos, BIS and Delos among others. artistic conception. Meanwhile, the composer uses many member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Staatsorchester Hamburg, Orchestra del Teatro alla Chinese musical instruments and harmony changes to Ye is the founder and artistic director of the Beijing Scala, New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo Max Yin enable the sounds to create a multi-dimensional picture. Modern Music Festival, Shenzhen Belt & Road Symphony Orchestra, Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Through this, an amazing and fantastic auditory International Music Festival, Tsingtao International Music Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, Macao Orchestra, experience is delivered to the audience. Festival, Guangdong-Hongkong-Macau Dawan District Taiwan Symphony Orchestra, China Philharmonic Music Festival and the International Music Competition Orchestra, China National Symphony Orchestra, Harbin. Ye has been committed to promoting the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble Modern, Scent of Green Mango for Piano and Orchestra, Wei Lu Op. 42 (1998–2014) Wei Lu is concertmaster of the Deutsche Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, professor at the Xinghai Scent of Green Mango is taken from the series of works Conservatory of Music and founder of the European-Chinese Festival Orchestra. He was the named after Asian tropical plants by Xiaogang Ye. This first violin scholar of the Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation, and since 2009 has frequently work was conceived in 1998, but not finished until 2014. performed with her around the world as a soloist and chamber musician. Lu has been invited to The other works from the same series include Enchanted appear as guest concertmaster of the Berliner Philharmoniker, London Symphony Orchestra, Bamboo , Hibiscus , Datura , The Silence of White Poppy Gewandhaus Orchester Leipzig and Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, among other world and Gardenia . In Scent of Green Mango , the composer class orchestras and opera houses. He has performed as a soloist at prestigious venues such as displays the sensitivity, particularity and complexity of the Carnegie Hall, Musikverein Wien and the Philharmonie Berlin. heart of a musician of Southern Chinese origin. The work also reveals the composer’s preference for the comparison of shadow and colour, and his gratitude to nature for granting human beings the refreshing fragrance of the title. Dan Zhu Lamura Cuo for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 69b (2014) Since his Carnegie Hall debut at the age of 18, Dan Zhu has appeared as a Lamura Cuo for Violin and Ensemble was commissioned soloist with the major orchestras of Boston, Florence, Hong Kong, Munich, Paris, in 2014 by Soundstreams, a Toronto-based music Philadelphia, Tokyo and Vienna, under the direction of Christoph