Xu Yi Explained

Xu Yi
Native Name:徐儀
Birth Place:Nanjing, China
Nationality:Chinese, French
Occupation:Composer, Music educator
Education:Shanghai Conservatory of Music
Alma Mater:Conservatory of Music of Paris, IRCAM

Xu Yi (Chinese: 徐儀; born 1963) is a Chinese-born French composer and music educator in France.[1]

Early life

In 1963, Xu Yi was born in Nanjing, China.Xu Yi began playing the Chinese violin, erhu, at a very young age.

Education

Xu Yi was a student at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, where she continued the violin, and later joined the class of composition.

After her arrival in France in 1988, she studied the Cursus of Composition and Computer Music of the IRCAM (1990/1991).[2] She entered the Conservatory of Music of Paris, where she studied with Gérard Grisey and Ivo Malec.[3]

Career

At the age of 22, Xu became a teacher at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music.

Xu Yi won First Prize in composition in Conservatoire de Paris in 1994. She was the winner of the Prix de Rome, winning the honor of living in the Villa Medici in Rome from 1996 to 1998 (she was the first composer of Chinese origin to win this prize). Xu was professor of composition at the Cergy-Pontoise National Conservatory of Music (2001–2003). She is a distinguished Professor at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. Currently, Xu lives in France and is a distinguished Professor at the Wuhan Conservatory of Music.

Xu Yi has received commissions from the French government, Radio France, and many festivals and ensembles. She has composed some 60 works, which have been performed at numerous festivals and broadcast in Europe, China, Japan, the US, Brazil and Canada. Several monographic concerts of Xu's music have been organized in France and in Italy. One monographic disc of her works (MFA-Radio France 1999) was distributed by Harmonia Mundi. Her work "Le Plein du Vide" was selected by the French Ministry of Education for the final high school music exam in 2006 and 2007.[4] Many of her works are published by the music publishing House Henry Lemoine, in Paris.

Works

Discographie

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Xu Yi . 2024-05-08 . brahms.ircam.fr.
  2. Web site: 2010-03-03 . XU Yi (1963) . 2024-05-08 . Centre de documentation de la musique contemporaine . en.
  3. Web site: Xu Yi . xuyi.fr . fr . 24 October 2018.
  4. Web site: Composers. XU Yi . 2024-05-08 . henry-lemoine.com.

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