Lei Liang
Lei Liang (born November 28, 1972 in Tianjin, China) is a Pulitzer Prize-nominated Chinese-born American composer, living in San Diego, California.[1] He is Professor of Music and Acting Chair of the Music Department at the University of California, San Diego.
Early life and Education
Liang is the son of musicologists Liang Mao-chun (b. 1940) and Cai Liang-yu (b. 1940) and studied piano as a child.[2]
He came to the USA in 1990 for further studies, receiving BM and MM degrees from the New England Conservatory of Music, both with academic honors and distinction in performance, and a Ph.D. from Harvard University.
Career
Liang was the winner of the 2011 Rome Prize and the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and an Aaron Copland Award. His concerto Xiaoxiang (for alto saxophone and orchestra) was named a finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Music. He was commissioned by the New York Philharmonic and its music director Alan Gilbert for the inaugural concert of the CONTACT! new music series. He studied composition at New England Conservatory of Music, where he received both a BM and a MM and then took his PhD at Harvard University as a recipient of The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans. During this time, his teachers included a number of notable composers, including Sir Harrison Birtwistle, Robert Cogan, Chaya Czernowin, and Mario Davidovsky.
Also a musicologist, Liang is especially interested in the preservation of traditional Asian music. He served as Honorary Professor of Composition and Sound Design at Wuhan Conservatory of Music,[3] as Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Shaanxi Normal University College of Arts in Xi'an, and as Visiting Assistant Professor of Music at Middlebury College.[2] His music is recorded on Naxos Records, Bridge Records, Mode Records and New World Records. His works are published by Schott Music.
References
- ↑ "Interview with Lei Liang", WQXR-FM, Wednesday, January 25, 2012
- 1 2 "Bio: Lei Liang", The Living Composers Project website
- ↑ Wuhan Conservatory of Music – website
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