MUS Talks | The Complete Musician–Integration of Music Theory Analysis and Performance
Theme: The Complete Musician–Integration of Music Theory Analysis and Performance
Language: Chinese
Speaker: Prof. Yiwen Shen
Host: Prof. Zhuosheng Jin
Date&Time: Oct. 30, 2024 (Wed.) 19:00
Venue: Lecture Classroom 102, Teaching Building(MUS)
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Abstract
Music students often do not recognize the particular relevance between their music theory analysis courses and daily practice on their instruments. Consequently, it may cause a negative effect on their attitudes towards academic courses, and their music making and interpretation lacks theoretical and analytical understanding and foundation. This talk attempts to reveal how music theory and analysis can (and must!) inform music playing, resulting in an integration of music theory analysis in performance.
About the Speaker
Dr. Yiwen SHEN, composer, conductor, and pianist, is currently an Assistant Professor at the School of Music, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen.
Hailed as "a jaunty, vibrantly scored canvas" and "with a lucid, economical lyricism" by the New York Times, SHEN's compositions have been performed in all six habitable continents. His awards include the ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composers Award; Gena Raps String Quartet Award; Arthur Friedman Prize; first prize from SCI/ASCAP Composition Commission; second prize from the First China Clarinet Composition Competition; winner of the Nashville Symphony's Composer Lab, Minnesota Orchestra's Composer Institute, and Albany Symphony's Composer to Center Stage Competition; two top prizes from Chinese National Composition Competitions, Chinese Golden Bell Award, and Distinguished Achievement of the Year in Music Composition in Shanghai.
Other highlights include major orchestral premieres with the Minnesota Orchestra, Nashville Symphony, American Symphony, Albany Symphony, Beijing Symphony, Shanghai Symphony, Shanghai Opera House Orchestra, Bowling Green Philharmonic, Juilliard Orchestra, and Bard Conservatory Orchestra for its first international tour of China. He has successfully collaborated with renowned conductors, including Osmo V?nsk?, Giancarlo Guerrero, David Alan Miller, Leon Botstein, Emily Freeman Brown, Jeffrey Milarsky, Zhang Guoyong, Zhang Yi, Zhang Jiemin, and Lin Daye.
His full-length ballet, The Crane Calling, premiered in 2015 and was commissioned by the National Ballet of China, following the great success of a preceding collaboration Hamlet in 2014. The Crane Calling toured over 30 cities in China and received its European debut in 2017 and North American debut in 2018. He has also had works commissioned by and premiered at the Carnegie Hall. In 2018, he was commissioned by the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra and the MISA Festival to launch the first self-produced symphonic film concert "The Book of Heaven." His music has also been commissioned and performed by ensembles such as Aeolus String Quartet, Omer String Quartet, Colorado String Quartet, Da Capo Chamber Players, Music from China Ensemble, TALEA Ensemble, Dal Niente Ensemble, The New York Virtuoso Singers, among others.
As a conductor, SHEN received the 1st Prize at The Second Hiroshima International Conductors Competition, along with the "Orchestra Award", "Audience Award", and "Hosokawa Award." He is also the 1st prizewinner of the Vienna International Conducting Competition "Wiener Schule," the Los Angeles Conducting Competition, and the Atlanta International Conductors Competition, the top prize winner of the BMI Bucharest International Conducting Competition, and the recipient of the President's Award from European Music Academy. He has conducted the Shenzhen Symphony, National Ballet of China Symphony, Hiroshima Symphony Orchestra, Hiroshima Wind Orchestra, Hiroshima Festival Orchestra, Silesian Philharmonic, North Czech Philharmonic, Karlovy Vary Symphony, M?V Symphony, Orchestra of Magna Graecia, Royal Camerata, Bucharest Philharmonic, Bucharest Symphony, Brasov Philharmonic, Joseph Haydn Symphony, Juilliard Orchestra, Tianjin Juilliard Orchestra, Prince George's Philharmonic (MD), University of Maryland's Symphony and Repertoire Orchestras, as well as the Monteux Festival Orchestra.
SHEN holds a dual bachelor's in composition and German studies from Bard College and its conservatory, a master's in conducting from the University of Maryland, and a master's and a doctorate in composition from Juilliard. Before joining the School of Music, CUHK-Shenzhen, SHEN taught at New York Juilliard and Tianjin Juilliard and served as Tianjin Juilliard's inaugural Assistant Dean of Performance Activities.
