Composer Huang Ruo has been lauded by The New York Times for having “a distinctive style.” His vibrant and inventive musical voice draws equal inspiration from Chinese ancient and folk music, Western avant-garde, experimental, noise, natural and processed sound, rock, and jazz to create a seamless, organic integration using a compositional technique he calls “Dimensionalism.”
Huang Ruo’s diverse compositional works span from orchestra, chamber music, opera, theater, and dance, to cross-genre, sound installation, architectural installation, multimedia, experimental improvisation, folk rock, and film. His music has been premiered and performed by the New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, National Polish Radio Orchestra, Santa Fe Opera, Washington National Opera, Houston Grand Opera, LA Opera, Seattle Opera, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Royal Danish Opera, Asko/Schoenberg, Ensemble Modern, London Sinfonietta, and conductors such as Wolfgang Sawallisch, Marin Alsop, Andrew Davis, Michael Tilson Thomas, and James Conlon. His opera An American Soldier (with libretto by David Henry Hwang) has recently received its world premiere at the Opera Theatre of St. Louis in June 2018, and was named one of the best classical music events in 2018 by The New York Times. His installation opera Paradise Interrupted was premiered at the Spoleto Festival USA in 2015 and was performed at the Lincoln Center Festival in 2016. Another opera, Dr. Sun Yat-Sen, premiered at the Santa Fe Opera in 2014.
His recent new opera M. Butterfly (with libretto by David Henry Hwang) received its world premiere with the Santa Fe Opera in 2022. His future opera commissions will be for the Met Opera and the San Francisco Opera. He served as the first composer-in-residence for Het Concertgebouw Amsterdam, and was the visiting composer for the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra in Brazil. Huang Ruo was born in Hainan Island, China in 1976 - the year the Chinese Cultural Revolution ended. His father, who is also a composer, began teaching him composition and piano when he was six years old. Growing up in the 1980s and 1990s, when China was opening its gate to the Western world, he received both traditional and Western education at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. As a result of the dramatic cultural and economic changes in China in the 80s and 90s, his education expanded from Bach, Mozart, Stravinsky, and Lutoslawski, to include the Beatles, rock and roll, heavy metal, and jazz. Huang Ruo was able to absorb all of these newly allowed Western influences equally.
After winning the Henry Mancini Award at the 1995 International Film and Music Festival in Switzerland, he moved to the United States to further his education. He earned a Bachelor of Music degree from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, and Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees in composition from the Juilliard School.
Huang Ruo is a composition faculty at the Mannes School of Music in NY, and is the artistic director and conductor of Ensemble FIRE. He was selected as a Young Leader Fellow by the National Committee on United States–China Relations in 2006. Huang Ruo’s music is administered exclusively by European American Music Distributors Company (ASCAP).
Huang Ruo gilt als „einer der weltweit führenden jungen Komponisten“ (New Yorker). Der „unverwechselbare Stil“ (New York Times) seiner dynamischen und originellen Musiksprache ist gleichermaßen von der traditionellfolkloristischen chinesischen Musik wie von der westlichen Avantgarde, Rock und Jazz inspiriert. Die nahtlose und organische Verknüpfung dieser unterschiedlichen Stile bezeichnet er selbst als „Dimensionalismus“. Huang Ruos Oeuvre umfasst Musiktheaterwerke, Orchester- und Kammermusikwerke, Tanz, Klanginstallationen, Multimediawerke, experimentelle Improvisation, Folk Rock und Filmmusik.
Die Musiktheaterwerke von Huang Ruo wurden an der Washington National Opera, der New York City Opera, der Opera Hong Kong und der Houston Grand Opera zur Aufführung gebracht. Seine Kompositionen werden unter anderem von Orchestern wie der New York Philharmonic, dem Philadelphia Orchestra, der San Francisco Symphony, der Seattle Symphony, dem National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, dem Philharmonischen Orchester Kiel, dem Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra und der Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center aufgeführt.
Huang Ruo arbeitete mit Dirigenten wie Wolfgang Sawallisch, Michael Tilson Thomas, James Conlon, Alexander Liebreich, Ilan Volkov, Dennis Russell Davies und Peter Rundel zusammen. Zu den Ensembles, die seine Werke aufführen, zählen das Asko|Schönberg Ensemble, das Nieuw Ensemble, das Remix Ensemble, das Quatuor Diotima und das Ethel Quartet.
Seine Oper Dr. Sun Yat-Sen wurde 2014 an der Santa Fe Oper aufgeführt, 2017 folgt die kanadische Erstaufführung an der Vancouver Opera. Huang Ruos Oper Paradise Interrupted erlebte 2015 beim Spoleto Festival USA ihre Uraufführung. 2016 ist eine weitere Produktion beim Lincoln Center Festival sowie eine anschließende Tournee nach Asien und Europa geplant.
Huang Ruo wurde kürzlich zum Composer-in-residence des Concertgebouw in Amsterdam und des National Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan ernannt. Seine Werke werden von Ricordi verlegt.
Huang Ruo wurde 1976, in dem Jahr, in dem die chinesische Kulturrevolution endete, auf der Insel Hainan in China geboren. Sein Vater, der ebenfalls Komponist ist, erteilte ihm ab seinem sechsten Lebensjahr Kompositions- und Klavierunterricht. Huang wuchs in den 1980er- und 1990er-Jahren auf, also zu einer Zeit, in der China sich kontinuierlich der westlichen Welt öffnete. Sein Studium am Shanghai Conservatory of Music umfasste sowohl traditionelle chinesische als auch westliche Musik.
Aufgrund des tiefgreifenden kulturellen und ökonomischen Wandels China nach der Kulturrevolution beschäftigte sich Huang Ruo während seines Studiums mit Komponisten wie Bach, Mozart, Strawinsky und Lutoslawski, aber auch mit den Beatles, mit Rock´n`Roll, Heavy Metal und Jazz. Als Mitglied einer neuen Generation chinesischer Komponisten sieht Huang sein Ziel darin, westliche und asiatische Musikkultur miteinander zu verbinden und diese unterschiedlichen kulturellen Einflüsse so nahtlos miteinander zu verknüpfen, dass eine neue organische Einheit daraus entsteht.
Nachdem Huang Ruo 1995 den Henry Mancini Award gewonnen hatte, zog er in die USA, um sein Studium fortzusetzten. Nach seinem Bachelorabschluss am Oberlin Conservatory of Music setzte er sein Masterstudium an der Juilliard School fort, an der er abschließend im Fach Komposition promovierte. Derzeit unterrichtet Huang Ruo Komposition am Mannes College of Music der New School in New York. Er ist künstlerischer Leiter und Dirigent des Ensemble FIRE (Future In REverse) und wurde 2006 vom National Committee on United States-China Relations zum Young Leader Fellow ernannt.
1976年,作曲家指揮家黃若⽣於中國海南岛。⽣長於⼋、九○年代的他於上海音樂學院附中同時接受中式傳統教育與西⽅教育,師承鄧爾博教授。1995年,黃若在瑞⼠國際電影音樂節上榮獲亨利‧曼奇尼⼤獎之後,移居美國深造,在奧柏林音樂學院獲得學⼠學位,並於茱莉亞音樂學院獲得音樂碩⼠學位和作曲博⼠學位。黃若現任職於紐約曼尼斯音樂院教授作曲,亦是紅⽕樂團 (Ensemble FIRE) 的藝術總監和指揮,曾於2006年獲美中關係全國委員會選為傑出青年。《紐約客》雜誌譽為「世界最傑出的青年作曲家之⼀」。黃若的歌劇《中⼭逸仙》的美國首演,於2014年由聖塔菲歌劇院舉⾏,並將由溫哥華歌劇院進⾏加拿⼤首演。黃若另⼀部歌劇《驚園》在林肯中⼼藝術節和新加坡国际艺术节上演,隨之將會在2018年在台灣的⾼雄衛武營藝術⽂化中⼼演出。 黃若新歌劇《⼀個美國⼠兵》將於2018年由圣路易斯歌剧院進⾏世界首演。 紐約愛樂,費城交響樂團,三藩市交響樂團,波蘭廣播交響樂團,華盛頓國家歌劇院,休斯頓⼤歌劇院,肯尼迪中⼼,林肯中⼼室内乐团, Asko/Schoenberg Ensemble, Ensemble Modern, London Sinfonietta, 都委約並首演過黃若的作品。 和黄若合作过的指揮家包括Wolfgang Sawallisch, Marin Alsop, Michael Tilson Thomas, James Conlon, 以及Dennis Russell Davies。黃若被任為阿姆斯特丹皇家⼤會堂(Het Concertgebouw Amsterdam)的第⼀位常任作曲家。黃若的作品由Ricordi 出版。
Huang Ruo is the conductor and artistic director of Ensemble FIRE, an adventurous new music group dedicated to the future of music and specialized in multi-media and cross-genre projects. As an inventive interpreter and advocator of new music, Huang Ruo’s conducting engagements have brought him to international-renowned venues and festivals such as Het Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the Lincoln Center, Alice Tully Hall, Singapore Esplanade Theatre, China National Centre for the Performing Arts, Taipei National Concert Hall, Aspen Summer Music Festival, Santa Fe Opera Festival, La Jolla Summer Festival, Beijing Modern Music Festival, Singapore International Festival of Arts, etc. Ensembles he has conducted include Asko/Schoenberg, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, International Contemporary Ensemble, Ensemble Zeitsprung, Chicago Pro Musica, Aspen Contemporary Ensemble, Perspectives Ensemble, just to name a few. His 2016-2017 season highlights include making his conducting debut at Het Concertgebouw Amsterdam with the Asko/Schoenberg, and conducting the Asia premiere of his new opera Paradise Interrupted at the Singapore International Festival of Arts. Huang Ruo has conducted two featured CDs for the Naxos Records. His conducting teacher is professor Huang Xiao-Tong from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music.
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