UMKC composer Chen Yi commissioned to write work for Cleveland Orchestra
Friday, September 03, 2004
Chen Yi has been selected as the second composer sponsored by the Roche Commission to write a work for the Cleveland Symphony (the first was English composer Harrison Birtwhistle). According to an Akron (OH) Beacon Journal article:
This will be the first time that the Cleveland Orchestra has played a work by Chen, who in 1998 became a Distinguished Professor of Composition at the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music. Among her many honors, Chen has received the Charles Ives Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
A recording coming out on Sept. 21 on the Koch International Classics label will include Chen's 1997 work The Golden Flute, composed for James Galway. Performers are the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and flutist Alexa Still.
posted by Brent Hugh at
9/03/2004
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