Du Yun
Du Yun (traditional Chinese: ćťśéź», simplified Chinese: ćťśéźµ, Pinyin: DĂą YĂąn, born June 18, 1977) is a Chinese born international composer, multi-instrumentalist and performance artist.
Her opera Angel's Bone won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Music.[1]
Biography
Du Yun was born in Shanghai, China. She began studying piano at the age of four, attending the primary school Shanghai Conservatory of Music for piano. She studied composition at the middle school Shanghai Conservatory of Music. Du later moved to the United States and graduated from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music with a Bachelor of Music degree in composition and received a PhD in music composition from Harvard University.
In 2006, Du Yun joined the composition faculty at the State University of New York-Purchase. In 2017, she joins the composition faculty at the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University.[2] Same year, she is also appointed as the artist-in-residence at the SHCM-Berklee Contemporary Music Institute, a joint establishment between the Shanghai Conservatory of Music and the Berkelee College of Music.[3][4]
For her earlier years growing up in Shanghai, Du recounted, in her contribute to WQXR, that both her parents never went to college and were factory workers in China. [5]
She uses her whole name Du Yun, not Du, for professional and personal uses.
Career
Her works include compositions for solo instruments, electroacoustic music, chamber music, orchestral works, opera, indie pop, theatre, oral tradition music, sound installations, and performance art pieces. Du's works have been performed internationally in venues such as Carnegie Hall, the Guangzhou Opera House, the Salle Pleyel Paris, the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Escola de Música do Estado in São Paulo, the Darmstädter Ferienkurse in Germany. She has written for the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players and solo artists Hilary Hahn and Matt Haimovitz.
In 2014, Du Yun was named the Artistic Director of the MATA Festival in New York City.
On April 10, 2017 she was awarded with Pulitzer Prize for Music for her second opera Angel's Bone.[6][7][8] [9]The citation for the prize reads: "Premiered on January 6, 2016, at the Prototype Festival, 3LD Arts and Technology Center, New York City, a bold operatic work that integrates vocal and instrumental elements and a wide range of styles into a harrowing allegory for human trafficking in the modern world. Libretto by Royce Vavrek."[10]
Collaborations
Du has collaborated with visual artists Shahzia Sikander, flutist Claire Chase, librettist Royce Vavrek and Chinese Kunqu artist Qian Yi.
Critical reception
Du Yun is regarded as one of China's leading young composers[11] and has been described as an "adventurously eclectic composer" and "an indie diva with avant garde edge"[12] by The New York Times.
Fellowships
- Fromm Music Foundation[13]
- Chamber Music America[14]
- Rockefeller Foundation - Bellagio
- Civitella Ranieri Foundation [15]
Awards
- Detroit Symphony Orchestra's Elaine Lebenbom Award[16]
- Pulitzer Prize for Music (2017) - "Angel's Bone"[17][18]
References
- ↑ http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/what-du-yuns-pulitzer-win-means-for-women-in-classical-music
- ↑ http://www.peabody.jhu.edu/communications/PressReleases/NewCompositionFaculty.html
- ↑ http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-05/26/c_136318402.htm
- ↑ https://www.berklee.edu/news/berklee-college-music-and-shanghai-conservatory-music-establish-institute
- ↑ http://www.wqxr.org/story/composers-and-dads-fathers-day-special/
- ↑ http://www.pulitzer.org
- ↑ http://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2017/04/10/523314127/du-yuns-angels-bone-wins-pulitzer-prize-for-music
- ↑ http://www.newmusicbox.org/articles/2017-pulitzers-announced/
- ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/08/arts/music/review-in-angels-bone-terrified-seraphim-at-the-mercy-of-mortals.html?_r=0
- ↑ http://www.pulitzer.org/winners/du-yun
- ↑ Kozinn, Allan (July 2012). "Made in China, With Plenty Of Western Parts". The New York Times.
- ↑ Kozinn, Allan (July 2014). "Peak Performances to Offer 14 Premieres". The New York Times.
- ↑ http://www.music.fas.harvard.edu/fromm.html
- ↑ http://www.chamber-music.org/programs/grants-awards/recipients/408
- ↑ http://www.civitella.org/fellows/fellow/du-yun
- ↑ http://www.dso.org/Page.aspx?page_id=553
- ↑ http://www.pulitzer.org
- ↑ http://www.newmusicbox.org/articles/2017-pulitzers-announced/
External links
- Official Du Yun Website – channelduyun.com
- Profile page at sfcmp.org
- Galli, Brianne (Apr. 2011). ''Composer Du Yun's Daring Music is a Highlight of The Kitchen's 21c Liederabend Art Song Festival. ASCAP. Obtained July 26, 2013.