Yang Jing (musician)

This is a Chinese name; the family name is Yang.
Yang Jing 杨静
Born China
Known for Composer, Pipa Soloist &instrumentalist on Guqin, Guzheng; Improviser

Yang Jing (Chinese: 楊靜; pinyin: Yáng Jìng; born 1963, Henan, China) is a composer, improviser and pipa soloist &instrumentalist on Guqin, Guzheng & Daruan; lives in Switzerland

Musical education

Yang's musical training started at the age of 6. In 1976 she went to the Henan opera music school at age of 12. Two years later she was chosen to work at the opera ensemble in Henan. A 1986 graduate of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, where she undertook four years Chinese traditional music composition studies with Hu Dengtiao; two years traditional music research and Guqin study with Lin Youren; four years Pipa study with Ye Xuran. From 1986 she worked 12 years as the Pipa soloist of the China Central Traditional Orchestra in Beijing. Additionally she studied Pipa from Lin Shicheng and Wang Fandi in Beijing and made two years composition study under Minoru Miki which had been supported from the Japan International Artists Exchange Scholarship founds. Since 1998 she started to co-operating with Japan Arts Co. and Minoru Miki expanding her career as an active soloist worldwide. Since 2003 until today she based her home in Switzerland. She did a full-time Master in composition study in Bern.

Career

From 1986 to 1998, Yang was the pipa soloist at the China National Traditional Orchestra in Beijing. In 1998, Yang was represented by arts agencies as a soloist and composer. This allowed her to pursue international musical opportunities while continuing to live in Beijing. Since then, Yang has founded and co-founded musical ensembles in Asia and in Europe. These progressive ensembles are instrumental quartets, Duos with drums, organ, electric guitar, vocalists and Asian /western Instrumental Ensembles. YANG Jing won the Chinese National Pipa performing Prize in Beijing 1989 by playing the ancient piece in her performing score 'Ambush from Ten Sides' and Composition Price for her composition 'Nine Jade Chains'.

YANG Jing has worked with many composers, conductors and orchestra musicians such as: Minoru Miki, Daniel Schnyder, Mo Fan, Tan Dun, Chen Yi, Thüring Bräm, Kudo Takeo, Zhou Long, Wen Deqing, Donald Reid Womack, Thomas Osborne (musician), Julian Philips, Kurt Masur, Naoto Otomo, Muhai Tang, Misha Rachlevsky, Peter Siegwart; Wolfgang Sieber, Daniel Dodds; Irina Ungureanu, Maruta Staravoitava, Florian Arnicans, Angela Koeck, Hr-Sinfonieorchester, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, chamberorchestrakremlin, Zürcher Kammerorchester, Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen, Template:New National Theater Tokyo,Template:Theater und Orchester Heidelberg and others.

As a composer J.Yang has premiered many new works for pipa such as concertos and operas which have been composed for her by composers of various different cultural backgrounds, such as Minoru Miki's opera: «Aien»«爱怨». Yang's: «Along the Old Silk Road», «Eastern Spirit» and «Yang Jing in Concert» solo concerts have toured in Asia, Europe, America and Africa. In 2002, in name «YANG Jing and YUI Ensemble» she won «Traditional Music Contribution prize» at the Festa International Chamber-Ensemble Competition in Osaka, Japan.

From 2001 to 2005, Yang was the co-founder and musical director of the Silk Road Festival which toured Japan. From 2006 to 2010, also in Japan together with composer Minoru Miki worked for the «Hokuto International Music Festival» as international music director.

She is very active in collaboration with Jazz musicians, such as: Max Roach, Pierre Favre, Arnie Lawrence, Christy Doran, Norbert Pfammatter, Bänz Oester, Michel Wintsch, Daniel Pezzotti, Gerry Hemingway and many others. Yang did a master study in Jazz composition and arrangement with Frank Sikora among other Professors in Bern.

Composition

Her compositions for Ensembles, orchestras, choir, musical theater, concertos and Bands, as well as for film music have been premièred in Japan, Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom, China and United States.

Yang's earliy compositions for pipa include

Compositions and premieres by year

The Symphony Hall Osaka;

Conductor:Jean-Marc Grob

Hansjakob BECKER

work for Cohir and pipa «A Traveller's Chant» Calmus Ensemble (DE); work for Quintet: «Der Grosse Wagen 北斗七星» Sopran: Ungureanu Irina Flöte: Cevik Murat, Cello: Rohn Florian, Perkussion: Borioli Luca, Pipa/Komposition: Yang Jing; «Pipa in Garden»;

Discography

Scores

See also

References

  1. ↑ Oriental Jazz Ensemble
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  3. ↑ Accessed May 2016.
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