Yang Jing (composer)
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Yang Jing 杨静 | |
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| Born | 1963 |
| Known for | Musician, Composer, Pipa Soloist, Improviser |
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Yang Jing (Chinese: 楊靜; pinyin: Yáng Jìng; born 1963) is a composer and pipa soloist.
Her musical training started at the age of 6. At the age of 12 she went to the Henan Opera and Music School. Two years later she was accepted working at the opera ensemble of the Qu Opera Theatre in Xucheng, Henan. In 1986 she graduated from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, where she had undergone four years of training in pipa performance, composition, guqin performance and musical research with the focus on Chinese traditional music. Later she studied pipa with the old masters Lin Shicheng and Wang Fandi in Beijing. At the end of the 1990s she studied composition with Minoru Miki in Tokyo with the support of the Japan International Artists Exchange Scholarship Fund. In 2015 she achieved her master's degree in composition and theory at the Bern University of Arts under Daniel Glaus.
Biography
From 1986, she worked for twelve years as the Pipa soloist at the China National Traditional Orchestra in Beijing. Since 1998 she started to cooperate with arts agencies as a soloist/composer, which allowed her to extend her musical activities internationally while still living in Beijing. Since the late 90ies, she started to search for different ways to develop her music. She founded or co-founded ensembles in Asia and in Europe to develop her own musical language and find her own identity: in a Chinese traditional instrumental quartet, with drums, with organ, e-guitar- and voices. She composed for cooperation of her instrument with jazz musicians, from duo-, to quintet-size and big band as well as for Chinese instruments with western classical choir, orchestras and chamber music ensembles.
As a soloist she premiered many new works for pipa: concertos with orchestra, new western style operas that were written for her by composers from different cultural backgrounds. In 2002 she won the first prize at the «Festa» International Chamber-Ensemble Competition in Osaka, Japan, together with the Tokyo «Yui Ensemble».
Since 1986, her compositions for Pipa such as 'Nine Jade Chains', 'Dance Along the Old Silk Road', 'Disclosure', and ‘Geyser’ not only won composition as well as performing prizes, but also were widely appreciated by listeners from different continents. 'Dance Along the Old Silk Road' was chosen as a compulsory piece for the 2004 China National Pipa Competition.
Over the decades her widely performed solo concerts titled «Along the Old Silk Road», «Eastern Spirit» and «Yang Jing in Concert» journeyed through Asia, Europe, America and Africa. She was co-founder and music-director of different festivals: 2001-2005 Silk Road Festival (annual tours in Japan); 2006-2010 Hokuto International Music Festival (in Japan); 2013-14 Along the New Silk Road] (in Switzerland).
She composes also for different orchestras and ensembles according to work commission's requirements.
Chronological table of her musical categories created
- 1986 Pipa Solo Concert (Traditional Pipa repertory and her compositions)
- 1996 Chinese traditional instrumental Quartet «QMJY» («Evening Poems»)
- 1999 Improvisation Duo with Drummer Pierre Favre (CD : «Moments»)
- 1999 Improvisation Duo with Drummer Max Roach (Film: «Peace» live at Jerusalem music Festival)
- 1999 Tours with symphony orchestra with Minoru Miki's «Pipa Concerto»
- 2000 «Asia Ensemble»
- 2000 Duo with Yodel singer Christine Lauterburg]
- 2002 (Vl. Vc. Marimba/percussion and Pipa)chamber quartet: «Yang Jing and Yui Ensemble»
- 2004 Duo with organist Wolfgang Sieber (DVD «Pipa and Pipes»)
- 2005 Tours with chamber string ensemble «Chamber Soloists Lucerne» /Chamber Orchestra Kremlin
- 2006 Jazz 4tett «Different Song» (Piano: Michel Wintsch; Bass: Baenz Oester; Percussion:Norbert Pfammatter and pipa / Guqin: Yang Jing.
- 2006 Premiere of Minoru Miki's opera «Ai-en»
- 2007 Plucked Instruments «Concert Guitar Trio and Yang Jing»
- 2007 Music for Pipa with Choir
- 2008 «First European Chinese Ensemble»
- 2008 with Christy Doran's Rock Group «New Bag»; Duo with e-guitarist Christy Doran
- 2010 «Yang Jing concert Trio»
- 2013 «Oriental Jazz Ensemble»
- 2014 «Feuer und Erde» (concerto for pipa, string orchestra and percussions)
- 2015 «Erzählungen vom Fluss - Konzert für Sextett und den Siebten»
Festivals
- 2000–2005 annual Festival and tours «Dance along the Old Silk Road» in Japan
- 2005–2010 annual «Hokuto International Music Festival» in Japan
- 2013–14 «Dance along the New Silk Road» in Switzerland
Discography
CD/DVD
- CD： (2014) «Dancing on a Bridge» with Wolfgang Sieber (Pipa and Organ)
- CD： (2013) «No.9» with Christy Doran (Pipa/Guqin and e-Guitar)
- CD： (2012) «Elements» music from American Composers for pipa
- CD： (2012) «Transitions» with Chamber Orchestra and Choir （Arsbraemia）
- CD： (2012) «Step into the Future» with Jazz 4tett- «Different Song»
- CD： (2006) «Live in Moscow» with Chamber Orchestra Kremlin（music for pipa and strings collections）
- CD： (2006) «Two in One» with Pierre Favre (Percussion) (Pipa and Percussion)
- DVD: (2006) «Solo – Live at Moods» DVD （Yang Jing Pipa music）
- CD： (2005) «Yang Jing and Chamber Soloist Lucerne» DVD chamber music（music for pipa with chamber ensemble）
- DVD: (2005) «Pipa and Pipes» DVD with Organ Wolfgang Sieber (Pipa and Organ)
- CD： (2004) «Severed Dream of Dunhuang]»（Yang Jing Pipa music）Dingo
- CD： (2004)«Magic Moments» DVD with Pierre Favre /Dingo
- CD： (2004) «Asia Ensemble» (Tokyo)
- CD： (2004) «Pipa Concerto» with Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra /Camerata Tokyo
- CD： (2003) «Dance along the old Silk Road» Yang Jing pipa music / Dragon Music
- CD：(2001) «Moments» with Pierre Favre / China Records
- CD： (1999) «Disclosure» (Yang Jing pipa music) /China Reccords
- CD： (1999) «Evening Poem» (Chinese traditional instrumental quartet)/ China Records
- CD： (1998) «Village in the Floods被洪水淹没的村庄» with Arthur Mattli, piano (pipa and piano)/China Records
- CD： (1995) «Send my passions in Red Beans» with China National Orchestra and China Central Radio Orchestra
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- cassette：(1986) «Butterfly Dream» Yang Jing pipa solo collections
Composition score books
- scores：(2003) «楊靜琵琶作品集 Yang Jing pipa music»(簡譜 in Chinese traditional notation)（China）
- scores：(2009) «楊靜琵琶作品集 Yang Jing pipa music» (線譜 Five line notation)（Switzerland）
- scores：(2015) Publisher Link
References