Composers and Performers Featured in Shanghai Spring
Huang Yijun: Chinese- born composer and conductor, credited with the revival of the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra
Featured: Beautiful Flower and Full Moon (Program 1, Part 1)
Lu Qiming: (Lv Qiming) Chinese-born composer for film and television
Featured: Ode to the Red Flag (Program 1, Part 1)
Zhang Chao
Featured: China Dream (Program 1, Part 1)
Wang Aikang: Chinese-born composer, conductor of the Jiangsu Province Performing Arts Group
Featured: Booming Jiangnan (Program 1, Part 2)
Xu Shuya: Chinese-born composer, President of Shanghai Conservatory of Music, and Artistic Director of Shanghai Spring International Music Festival
Featured: Paysage D’Hiver (Program 1, Part 2)
Liu Tianhua: Chinese-born composer, the erhu being his instrument of choice
Featured: A Fine Evening (arr. Huang Yijun) (Program 2, part 1)
Wang Xingyang
Featured: I’ve Heard Jasmine (World Premiere) (Program 2, Part 1)
Shi Shunyi
Featured: Heavenly Road (Program 2, part 2)
Zhu Changyao: Chinese-born composer, erhu player, and former China Musician Association Director
Wang Aikang: Chinese-born composer, conductor of the Jiangsu Province Performing Arts Group
Featured Collaborations: Rafting on Taihu Lake (Program 2, part 2)
Affection for Gusu (Program 2, part 2)
Wang Aikang: Chinese-born composer, conductor of the Jiangsu Province Performing Arts Group
Featured: Autumn Feelings on the Dressing Table, Trad. (Program 3, Part 1)
Cui Xin
Featured: Pavilions in the Misty Rain (Program 3, Part 1)
Cui Anqiang
Featured: Qinhuai River Caprice (World Premiere) (Program 3, Part 1)
Ding Ying: Chinese-born composer and Shanghai Conservatory of Music alumnus
Part of a “fourth wave” of composers that trained in the institution during the ‘90s
Featured: Two Selected Poems of Tagore (World Premiere) (Program 3, Part 1)
Yin Mingwu: Chinese-born composer and professor of composition at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music
Featured: Jasmine Flower (trad, arr. by Yin Mingwu) (Program 3, Part 1)
Gu Guanren: Chinese-born composer and former Artistic Director of the Shanghai Chinese Orchestra.
Featured: New Melodies from Yingzhou (Program 3, Part 2)
Zhou Xianglin: Director of Teaching and Study Affairs at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music
Featured: Jumping Sound (World Premiere) (Program 3, Part 2)
Han Wenhe
Featured: Music From Heaven, in the Heart (Program 3, Part 2)
Zhou Long: Chinese-born, Pulitzer Prize-winning composer
Professor of composition in institutions like Brooklyn College and University of Missouri–Kansas City.
Featured: King Chu Doffs His Armor (Program 3, Part 2)
Zhu Jian’er: One of China’s oldest living composers, known for his works written for the suona
Featured: A Wonder of Naxi (Program 5, Episode 1)
Ulaatug
Featured: Father of Steppe and Mother of River (Program 5, Part 1)
Yang Liqing: Chinese-born composer, former Shanghai Conservatory of Music President (10 year tenure), and composition professor.
Died of cancer in 2013
Featured: Impression of Muqam (Program 5, Part 2)
Chen Gang: Former harmony professor at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music and Artistic Director of the Shanghai Chamber Music Ensemble, best known for his Butterfly Lovers’ Concerto
Featured: Morning of Miao Mountain (Program 6, Part 1)
Xu Jingxin: Shanghai-born film and television composer
Featured: Melody of Ripples (Program 6, Part 1)
Guan Naizhong: Chinese-born composer and conductor, prominent in the 1970s
Featured: Mourning Qiu Jin at the front of the Wind and Rain Pavilion(Program 6, Part 1)
Chen Gang: Former harmony professor at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music and Artistic Director of the Shanghai Chamber Music Ensemble, best known for his Butterfly Lovers’ Concerto
He Zhanhao: Chinese composer and professor at the Shanghai Conservatory, best known for his Butterfly Lovers’ Concerto
Featured Collaboration: The Butterfly Lovers’ Concerto (Program 6, Part 2)
Wang Jianmin: Director of Traditional Music Faculty at Shanghai Conservatory of Music
Featured: China Caprices no. 1 “Oriental Impression” (Program 7, Part 1)
Huang Yijun: Chinese- born composer and conductor, credited with the revival of the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra
Featured: Huahaoyueyuan (Beautiful Flowers and Full Moon) (Program 7, Part 1)
Qiang Weihao: Chinese- born composer and pianist
Featured: Folk Rhyme (Program 7, Part 2)
Xu Changjun: Composer and President of the Tianjin Conservatory of Music
Featured: The Phoenix (2014 version) (Program 8, Part 1)
Ye Guohui: Composer and Dean of Composition at the Shanghai conservatory of Music
Featured: Prelude of Mei Lanfang (Program 8, Part 1)
Zhu Shirui: Composition professor at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music
Featured: Poem of China II (Program 8, Part 1)
Su Xiao: Chinese-born composer, teaches composition at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music
Featured: Inspiration of God (Program 8, Part 1)
Chen Musheng: Chinese-born composer and professor at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music.
Featured: Excerpt from Gusu Melody- Capriccio (Program 8, Part 2)
Ye Guohui: Composer and Dean of Composition at the Shanghai conservatory of Music
Featured: Natural Song (Program 8, Part 2)
Zhu Shirui: Composition professor at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music
Featured: Singing Soul (World Premiere) (Program 8, Part 2)
Xu Zhibin
Featured: Chong Xu (2015 World Premiere) (Program 8, Part 2)
Lu Qiming: (Lv Qiming) Chinese born composer for film and television
Featured: Railway Guerrilla (Program 8, Part 2)