He Xuntian

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This is a Chinese name; the family name is 何 (He).

He Xuntian (何训田) (born in 1953 in Suining, Sichuan) is a modern Chinese composer and also a music composition professor at Shanghai Conservatory of Music. He studied music theory by himself from the age of eight and composition followed. In 1982, he graduated from the Composition Department of the Sichuan Conservatory of Music.

He is famous for his compositions done for Dadawa, whose breakthrough was Sister Drum - an international bestseller that sold more than 2 million copies. He has been collecting Tibetan music for twenty years and this has heavily influenced his compositions.

Awards

  • International New Music Composer Competition - The Outstanding Musical Achievement Award in USA (1989-1990)
  • The Gold Tripod Award in Taiwan (1995)

Major works

  • "Four Dreams" (symphony)
  • "Telepathy" (symphony)
  • "Two of the Earthly Branches" (chamber music)
  • "Phonism" (chamber music)
  • "Imagine the Sound" (chamber music)
  • "Caprice of Dabo River" (folk orchestral)
  • "The Sign", a soundtrack to a 3D MMORPG game, with Chen Kaige as the art director

Discography

  • Yellow Children (黄孩子) (1992)
  • Sister Drum (阿姐鼓) (1995)
  • Warrior Lanling (兰陵王) (1995)
  • Voices from the Sky (央金玛) (1997)
  • Paramita (波罗密多) (2002)
  • Miracle (神迹) (2005)
  • Seven Days (七日谈) (2006)
  • Mystical Scent (神香) (2007)
  • Tathāgata (如來如去) (2009)

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