| Jan | 11, | 2006 |
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National Taipei University of the Arts
Taipei, Taiwan Description:
-Yuan-Chen Li's composition recital for the degree of Master of Music, Taipei University of the Arts.
Music: Tideleaf, Adagio for Promenade, Intermezzo: Tsan, and Cat's Romp. |
| Apr | 13, | 2006 |
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National Concert Hall
Taipei, Taiwan Description:
Series: 台灣真美系列--客家風情畫」，由國家實驗國樂團委託，就客家歌謠編給國樂團、民間歌手：
Music: 《上山採茶》、《山歌仔》、《半山謠》、《正月牌》、《娘親渡子歌》；以及根據新創歌謠編給國樂團與合唱團：《坐下來》、《快樂在農家》、《枋寮介香火射四方》、《萬古留名比花香》
Played by: National Chinese Orchestra,http://192.192.14.59 |
| May | 09, | 2006 |
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紫藤蘆
Taipei, Taiwan Description:
Hosted by NCO (National Chinese Orchestra), for the previous concert " Hakka Music". The interview was then published in the magazine.
http://192.192.14.59/book_show.asp?id=10 |
| May | 25, | 2006 |
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Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique
Paris, French Description:
Music: Remembrance,commissioned by Tsai Chien-Chieh for her graduation recital
Instrumentation: Double Bass & Piano
http://www.cnsmdp.fr/ |
| Jun | 11, | 2006 |
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Music Forum
Taipei, Taiwan Description:
-Music: The Morning Bell and the Evening Drum
-Commissioned by Music Forum
-Instrumentations: Percussion Duet
-十方樂集擊樂十週年「擊樂嬉遊祭--入戲的鼓手，音樂劇場之夜」首演擊樂二重奏《晨鐘暮鼓》
Concert Press
http://blog.sina.com.tw/ytwper/article.php?pbgid=10366&entryid=13726
Music Forum Ensemble
http://www.musforum.com.tw/ |
| Jul | 29, | 2006 |
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Tsang-Houei Hsu Cultural and Arts Fundation
Taipei, Taiwan Description:
Music: Hy-
Instrumentation: Piano Solo
Tsang-Houei Hsu Cultural and Arts Fundation
http://www.hthfund.org.tw/ |
| Dec | 21, | 2006 |
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8:00 PM Description:
I see this music as a composition generated by my lessons and my spirits during this fall term. Musically, rhythm and the interaction between Oboe and ensemble are foreground. The title “, A Bubble or a Shadow,” was not the controlling idea or the object depicted by the composer, but was given after I completed the piece. Whether this composition or the title would be a consequence or an anticipation, the music will reveal its meaning in its own way
Yi-Ting Chen, violin
Anna Pelczer, viola
Peter Rosenfeld, bass
Justin Berrie, flute
James Smith, oboe
Claire Happel, harp
Becky Lu, piano
Svetoslav Stoyanov, percussion
Darrell Ang, conductor
Premiered in the New Music New Haven series, at Sprague Hall, School of Music, Yale University.
http://www.yale.edu/music/concerts/News/06.12.21.html |
| Feb | 22, | 2007 |
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8:00 PM Location:
New Haven CT Description:
Three poems by Rabindranath Tagore
LIV
LXX
LXVII
for Soprano, flute, piano, and cello
Aleksandr Haskin, Flute
Adelaide Muir, Soprano
Yuan-Chen Li, Piano
Huili Zhai, Cello
premiere at:
Sprague Hall, Yale University School of Music
Februry 22nd, 2007
http://www.yale.edu/music/concerts/News/07.02.22.html |
| May | 03, | 2007 |
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Belonged to the family of chordophones, Zheng (also named Guzheng) is a plucked, half-tube zither with movable bridges and 21 strings tuned to a pentatonic scale giving four octaves. The original Cat’s Rump I was a commission for solo Zheng by Yi-Jie Lai in 2003. Except the conventional performing manner, the composition adapts singspiel, microtone scale, graphic notation and visual elements like position and body language by the performer. Moreover, the purpose of this music is trying to create an ambience that audience could enjoy without learned-musical language.
Cat’s Romp II is also a commission by Prof. Hao-Yin Huang, a cat lover naturalized after her constantly playing the solo edition. The idea of the commission is to collaborate a pianist to play with her without modifying the original version. To make these two distinguished roles vividly challenges the piano into a new status. Different from the Zheng with its tuning movability, the well-tempered piano reshapes the romping cat which brought me a lot of fresh experiences while composing for it.
The version performed on May 3rd is by tape (zheng) and piano.
Piano, Yuan-Chen Li
New Music New Haven, Yale School of Music, Sprague Hall
http://www.yale.edu/music/concerts/News/07.05.03.html |
| May | 11, | 2007 |
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Alaska Center for the Performing Arts
Anchorage AK Description:
Asian Culture Night
Anchorage Alaska, Alaska Center for the Performing Arts, Atwood Concert Hall
May 11, 2007 7:00
Cat's Romp I
Zheng / Wen-Ting Shu
http://www.alaskapac.org/CalendarEventView.asp?id=998 |
| Aug | 04, | 2007 |
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Norfolk
Norfolk CT Description:
A new work for the Summer School, Norfolk Festival, by Yale University School of Music. The instrumentation is Piano Quintet (wind).
http://www.yale.edu/norfolk |
| Sep | 13, | 2007 |
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Ballhaus Naunynstrase, Naunynstrase 27,
Berlin, Germany 10997 Description:
Soundbridges - Taiwan heute, Asien-Pazifik-Wochen Berlin 2007
-Playing: Adagio for Promenade, for Flute/Piccolo, Violin, Harp, and Akkordian
-www.kammerensemble.de |
| Sep | 26, | 2007 |
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Sprague Hall, Yale University
New Haven CT Description:
Butterfly, for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, and piano |
| Oct | 26, | 2007 |
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National Concert Hall
Taipei, Taiwan Description:
-Listening to the 21st century, Taiwanese Emerging Composers Concert
-【傾聽廿一世紀】臺灣新銳作曲家聯展
- Playing: Intermezzo: Tsan, for Ensemble for Qin and 10 Western Instruments, conducted by Paul Jiang
-Previewed by Hsien-Sheng Lien, http://www.books.com.tw/exep/prod/magazine/mag_retail.php?item=R030011096。 |
| Nov | 09, | 2007 |
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Woolsey Hall, Yale University
New Haven CT Description:
Playing: Like A Dream, An Illusion, for orchestra, organ, flute, violin, and harp, played by Yale Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Julian Pellicano. |
| Feb | 07, | 2008 |
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Symphony Space, Thalia Theatre
New York NY Description:
Music: Hy-
Instrumentation: Piano Solo
Pianist: Tanya Bannister
Series: Concert Artists Guild |
| Feb | 12, | 2008 |
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Luce Auditorium, Yale University
New Haven CT Description:
-Yuan Play Qin!
-Chinese Zither (Guqin) Music Performance featuring Yale students Yuan-Chen Li and Ms. Shin-Yi Yang, founder of the Boston Guzheng Ensemble. Come meet members of the championship Yale Chinese Debate Team and hear festive traditional Chinese music. |
| Apr | 02, | 2008 |
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Sprague Hall, Yale University
New Haven CT Description:
Music: Migoh
Instrumentation: Piano Solo
Pianist: Timothy Andres |
| Oct | 25, | 2008 |
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Taipei Description:
Duet for Zheng and piano, composed during the year of 2007. Premiered by Hao-Yin Huang and Chao-Hui Chen in National Recital Hall, Taipei. The program is directed by National Chang Kai Shek Cultural Center.
《民族音樂學堂－琴與箏的對話》
http://192.192.14.59/program_show.asp?id=200 |
| Nov | 12, | 2008 |
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Kaosiung, Taipei Description:
Percussion Quartet, commissioned by Forum Music. Premiered in Kaosiung (11/12) and Taipei (11/22).
See complete information at
http://www.wretch.cc/blog/forummusic/9209781 |
| Nov | 16, | 2008 |
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Taipei Description:
Hosted by Forum Music, "Cat's Romp" is the feature of the 22nd forum discussed by Yang Tsung-Hsien and Hsiao Chien-Yu. |
| Nov | 18, | 2008 |
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1:30 PM Location:
Center of Audio and Visual Experiment
Hsin-Chu Description:
Lecture: Inspiration by Literature in My Music.
Workshop: Three Poems by Tagore; Bubble or Shadow
AT: Institute of Music, National Ciao-Tong University: Center of Audio and Visual Experiment |
| Nov | 28, | 2008 |
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10:30 AM Location:
Taipei University of the Arts
Taipei Description:
Introducing music by Yale Composers: Chris Cerrone, Naftali Schindler, Ted Hearne
Michael Klingbeil, and Yuan-Chen Li. |
| Dec | 06, | 2008 |
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45 Crown St.
New Haven CT 06510 Description:
a group of nine composer/pianists, each of whom performs one of their own pieces...@ Firehouse 12 |
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Yuan-Chen Li / Composer [World, Classical]
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Biography
Yuan-Chen Li (b.1980, Taiwan, R.O.C.)
As a Jacob Druckman Scholarship recipient, Yuan-Chen Li received the Artist Diploma from Yale University School of Music in 2008 and which she studied with Ezra Laderman and Martin Bresnick. She also receives MA and BA from Taipei University of the Arts which she studied with Tsung-Hsien Yang (Ph.D. Brandeis) and Chung-Kun Hung (DMA, Yale). Before entering to the college, Li had been studying composition with Ting-Lien Wu (Ph.D. UCLA) for ten years. Major awards and honors include Ezra Laderman Prize for best vocal music (2007), Rena Greenwalk Memorial Prize for the best piano writing (2008), First prize of Literature and Art Creation Award (2005), Chang-Hui Hsu Memorial Prize of Asian Composers League (2003), and Scholarship of Arts from Tzu Chi Foundation (2000).
Parts of Li’s compositions have been published and included into the contemporary music repertory in Taiwan; represent one of the emerging generations of Taiwanese composers and receive reviews and studies by scholars and students. Li’s music is programmed in many concert series and festival: New Music New Haven (Yale, 2006-08), The Female Form: Women Composers (New York, 2008) by pianist Tanya Bannister, Listening to the 21st Century -- Works by Emerging Composers of Taiwan (Taipei, 2007), Soundbridges: Neue Musik Aus Suedostasien Und Taiwan (Berlin, 2007), Young Artist Recital -- Norfolk Chamber Music Festival (Norfolk, 2007), Tune in to Taiwan 2003 (Taipei, 2003), Asian Music Festival (Tokyo, 2003), New Ideal Dance Festival (Taipei, 2003), Kuan Du Musical Soiree (Taipei, 2001).
Contact
yuanchen.li[at]yahoo.com
List of Work
Orchestra:
Like A Dream, An Illusion, orch (with Orgl, Hp, Vln, and Fl), 2007;
Awakening, 2003;
Prelude for Seh, 2001.
Chamber:
Double Bass quartet, (commissioned by Tsai Hsien-Chieh, work in progress), 2008;
Zhong (Bell) Perc. Sextet (commissioned by Forum Music, work in progress), 2008;
Butterfly, pf, fl, ob, cl, bsn (commissioned by Norfolk Chamber Music Festival), 2007;
Cats’ Romp II, zheng & pf (commissioned by Hao-Yin Huang), 2007;
A Bubble or A Shadow, fl, ob, perc, hp, pf, vn, vla, kb, 2006;
Reminiscence, kb & pf (commissioned by Hsien-Chieh Tsai), 2006;
The Morning Bell and the Evening Drum, percussion duet, (commissioned by Forum Music for Ten Anniversary Concert Series), 2006
Adagio for Promenade, fl, hp, orgl, vn, 2005
Intermezzo: Tsan, fl, ob, cl, vib, hp, pf, cel, qin, vn, vla, kb, 2005
Aqua- II, perc. Quartet, 2004
Saying (Yanchih), Str Qt, pipa, 2003
Can? (Nen?), Str Qt, 2001
Chant for An Enjoyable Evening (Liang Siau Yin), pf, vc., 2001
The Funeral (Tsang), ob, pipa, perc, kb, 2000
Solo:
Migoh (Song of Rice), pf (commissioned by Chih-Long Hu), 2007;
Tideleaf, pipa solo, 2005
Three Portraitures of a Common Calla, vla solo
Cat’s Romp, Zheng solo, 2003
The Source (Yuan), vla solo, 2001
Regret (Han), pf solo, 2001
Seh, pf solo, 1998
Vocal:
Mong Huan Pao Ying (Dream-Illusion-Bubble-Shadow), 4S4A4T4B and four percussionists, 2008;
Three Poems by Rabindranath Tagore, sp, fl, pf, vc, 2007;
Three Poems from Shyi Mu-Rong, sp, pf, 2000
The Heart Sutra (Hsin Jin), choral for sp solo, 2S, A, T, hp, kb
Arrangement & Incidental:
Hakka Folk Song Cycle, Cn Orch, 2006; Lin Ji Geh, Cn Orch Ens, 2004.
Duet, vn, vc, incidental music for Drama-reading “Les Fenêtres,” 2003
The Rain, Darkness, and Blooming (Yu Yeh Hwa), vla, pf, Folksong arrangement, 1999
Tamsui’s Dusk, vc, pf, Folksong arrangement, 1998
“Les Miserables”, orch and female chori, rearrangement, 1998
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