Fang Man (composer)
Fang Man 方满 (born November 11, 1977) is a Chinese-born composer who lives in the United States.
Hailed as “inventive and breathtaking” by New York Times critic Steven Smith, Fang Man’s original concert music has been performed worldwide by notable orchestras and ensembles such as the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra New Music Group under the baton of Esa-Pekka Salonen, American Composers Orchestra, Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre National de Lorraine (France), Minnesota Orchestra, Peabody Symphony Orchestra, Music from China, among others.
She is the recipient of a Los Angeles Philharmonic Association commission, an Underwood/ACO New Music commission, Toru Takemitsu Award (Japan), Dolce Suono Ensemble Mahler-Schoenberg Project commission, Asian Young Composers commission (Taiwan), Bank of America commission, the Darmstadt Stipend-Prize-Award, SACEM Scholarship (France), Kate Neal Kinley Memorial Fellowship, Frank Huntington Beebe Fellowship, Centre Acanthes Bursary Award, Music from China Award, Olin and Sage Fellowships (Cornell University), Cecil Effinger Fellowships (University of Colorado Boulder), AMC Composers Assistant Grant, ASCAPlus Award, among others. Her music has been performed at Carnegie Hall (New York), Walt Disney Concert Hall (Los Angeles), Espace de Projection of IRCAM-Centre Pompidou (Paris), Tokyo Opera City Concert Hall, Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts (Philadelphia), Friedberg Concert Hall (Baltimore), Miller Theater of Columbia University (New York), Bank of America Tower (Seattle), Merkin Concert Hall (New York), Beijing Concert Hall, etc. She has been invited to new music festivals such as the Darmstadt International Summer Course for New Music (Germany), Centre Acanthes (Avignon and Metz, France), Festival Blurred Edges (Hamburg, Germany), Global Ear Festival (Dresden, Germany), Sinus~Ton Festival (Magdeburg, Germany), the Cabrillo Festival (Santa Cruz, USA), Aspen Music Festival (Aspen, USA), Gaudeamus Music Week (Amsterdam, the Netherlands), June in Buffalo (Buffalo, USA), and Bowdoin Summer Music Festival (USA) among others. She has been invited as a resident composer at the Hermitage Artist Retreat in Florida as well as at the Aldeburgh Music Centre in the UK.
Fang Man's primary teachers include Steven Stucky and Roberto Sierra, at Cornell University, where she obtained the Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degree in 2006 and the Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) degree in 2010. She was chosen to participate in the one-year Computer Music and Composition courses at IRCAM between 2006 and 2007, where she studied composition with Brian Ferneyhough, Jonathan Harvey, Mauro Lanza, Mikhail Malt, Yan Marez, and Tristan Murail. She has also studied with Richard Toensing and Michael Theodore at the University of Colorado at Boulder between 2000 and 2002. Before she moved to the United States in 2000, she obtained the Bachelor of Music degree from Central Conservatory of Music, Beijing where she studied with Du Mingxin and Ye Xiaogang.
In 2010, Fang Man has been appointed as Composer-in-Residence and Assistant Professor of Music at Baldwin-Wallace Conservatory of Music. In the fall of 2010, she has also been appointed as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Duke University, where she teaches a graduate seminar on the music of Toru Takemitsu and Witold Lutoslawski . Fang Man is a member of the ASCAP and the American Music Center.
Compositions
Orchestral
- Deluge 洪水 for Large Ensemble with Live Electronics (2008-9)
- Resurrection 重生 for Clarinet and Chamber Orchestra with Live Electronics (2008-9)
- Sketch 素描 for Orchestra (2008)
- Noir 黑 for Orchestra (2005)
- Aqua 水蓝 In Memoriam Toru Takemitsu for Large Orchestra (2003-4)
- Lavender 薰衣草 for Soprano and Chamber Orchestra (2004)
- Who will bell the cat? 谁去系铃 for Children Band (1998)
Chamber
- Tao 道 for sheng and violoncello (2009–10)
- Images of 7 Flowers ANNETTE Suite 花之印象 for Organ (2006)
- Maroon 棕栗色 for Sextet (2005–06)
- Larkspur 飞燕草 for Flute, Viola and Harp (2004)
- Thirsty Stone II 渴石 II for Violin Duo (2004)
- Dark Blue 深蓝 for Piano four-hands and Tape (2003)
- Pure White 纯白 for Mallet Quartet (2002)
- Thirsty Stone 渴石 for Violin Duo and Drumset (2002)
- Big Red II 大红 II for Piano Duo (2001)
- Folk Songs 民歌 for Solo Cello (2001)
- String Quartet No.1 第一弦乐四重奏 for String Quartet (1999)
- To one unnamed 鼓孤桐 for 7 Chinese Instruments (1998)
- Ban Qiang Melody 板腔调 (Big Red) for Piano Solo (1996)
Electronics
- Deluge 洪水 for Large Ensemble with Live Electronics (2008-9)
- Resurrection 重生 for Clarinet and Chamber Orchestra with Live Electronics (2008-9)
- Ambush From Ten Sides 十面埋伏 for Guitar(s) and Live Electronics (2007)
External links
- Composer's website
- New York Times Review
- Composer Portrait at Carnegie Hall
- American Composers Orchestra Interview
- American Music Center Interview