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Alex Ho | Founder, ArtistAlex Ho is a Chinese-British composer based in London. One of Sound and Music's 'New Voices 2018', he has had compositions performed by the Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra, Psappha Ensemble, Juice Ensemble, Roderick Williams, and the choirs of Christ Church Cathedral and Merton College, Oxford. His works have featured in festivals including SoundState (London), Hearing China (Shanghai), Sound Festival (Aberdeen), Cheltenham Music Festival, Oxford Lieder Festival, and HighScore Festival (Pavia, Italy). Alex was awarded joint-winner of the Philip Bates Composition Competition in 2016 and is a member of the London Symphony Orchestra's Soundhub scheme for 2018/19. Alex studied Music at Oxford University and graduated with first-class honours, before completing a master’s in composition at Cambridge University with Christian Mason where he was awarded the Arthur Bliss Prize in Composition.
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Reylon Yount | Founder, ArtistReylon Yount is a performer and composer working primarily with the yangqin, a Chinese percussive string instrument. Hailing from San Francisco, Reylon grew up in a bicultural Chinese American household and trained in yangqin performance for sixteen years. He enjoys pushing the boundaries of what his instrument can do by performing contemporary pieces, experimental improvisations, and indie folk songs. In 2014, Reylon became the first American to enter a professional yangqin competition in China, where he won a silver prize at the Baotou International Yangqin Arts Festival. In 2015, he began collaborating with Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Ensemble, and has since performed with them in the U.S., Canada, and China at various venues, including the TED mainstage and Lincoln Center. He appeared as a featured artist on the Silk Road Ensemble's 2017 GRAMMY Award-winning album, "Sing Me Home," making him the first yangqin player to be recognized at the GRAMMYs. Currently, Reylon is pursuing two master's degrees in music in London, supported by a Marshall Scholarship and a Tier 1 Exceptional Talent visa endorsed by Arts Council England.
www.reylonyount.com |
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Beibei Wang | ArtistBeibei Wang is an internationally acclaimed percussion virtuoso based in London. She has been heralded by the Wall Street Journal for her "high-energy virtuosity" and by the New York Times for her "flamboyant" performance style. She was listed in the top 50 Chinese musicians in the “Sound of East” project by the Chinese Ministry of Culture in 2014. In 2015, she was endorsed by Arts Council England, receiving an Exceptional Talent visa from the British Government. Since 2008, Beibei has been featured as a soloist in world-renowned composer Tan Dun's Organic Music Trilogy, collaborating with orchestras worldwide, including the BBC Symphony Orchestra (UK) and the China Philharmonic. Recently, her music was broadcasted on BBC Radio 3 Late Junction. She currently leads a traditional Chinese percussion course at SOAS and University of Birmingham.
www.beibeimusic.com |
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Daniel Shao | ArtistDaniel Shao recently graduated from the Royal Academy, London, with Distinction and DipRAM for Outstanding Final Recital, generously supported by a Hattori Senior Award and the Countess of Munster Trust, who recently placed Daniel on their Recital Scheme. After attending the Purcell School, he read Music at St Catherine's College, Oxford, gaining first class honours. He is a keen orchestral musician, currently a member of the European Union Youth Orchestra, performing across the world and working with renowned conductors. Daniel has won 1st Prizes at the British Flute Society Young Artist and School Performer competitions, Oxford Philharmonic Concerto Competition, and the Sussex Prize of the Royal Overseas League, and twice toured China as concerto soloist. He is passionate about contemporary music and has premiered works by Mark-Anthony Turnage and Judith Weir, and is currently working on a new piece with Mark Simpson.
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Cheng Yu | AdvisorBorn in Beijing and formerly a pipa soloist with the Central Orchestra of Chinese Music in China, Cheng Yu is a renowned pipa lute and guqin zither virtuoso, ethnomusicologist and specialist in Chinese music. She studied the pipa from the age of 7 from her father (a Pudong pipa master) and the guqin zither from the age of 14, graduating with distinction from the Xi’an Conservatory of Music and winning several top prizes for her pipa performances. Based in London since the 1990s, she gained scholarships for her MMus and PhD degrees in ethnomusicology (SOAS, University of London). She is a co-founder of the UK Chinese Music Ensemble (1998), London Youlan Qin Society (2003) and the award winning Silk String Quartet (2007). Besides performing regularly in Europe and the UK, appearing in venues such as the Purcell Room, the Queen Elizabeth Hall, the Royal Opera House and at the WOMAD, WOMEX and Edinburgh Festivals, Cheng Yu has been actively involved in contemporary and cross-culture/genre music collaborations with musicians such as pianist Lang Lang, cellist Matthew Barley, Damon Albarn and composers including Tan Dun, Zhou Long, Philip Glass, Peter Wiegold and Gabriel Prokofiev.
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