54th Annual Grammy Awards: Nominees
Best Classical Instrumental Solo
Bright Sheng: Flute Moon Listen / Download & Buy
Michala Petri, recorder; Copenhagen Philharmonic; Lan Shui, conductor
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The Bright Sheng Partnership: Composers meet Performers in Hong Kong. The Intimacy of Creativity is pleased to announce its 2012 call for scores and applications!
"Such a program's very existence in Hong Kong challenges the conventional view of the former British colony as … more suited to Hermès … than Handel." read more
— Nicholas Frisch, The Wall Street Journal
"... the city’s most innovative musical experience…and I’m already looking forward to next year." read more
— Ken Smith, Financial Times
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"DSO and multi-talented Sheng forge an epic... the Detroit Symphony Orchestra delivered a concert Friday morning that was everything a modern-day orchestra program should be. It was imaginative, surprising, inspiring and beautiful. read more
The Detroit News
(Bright Sheng's conducting) persnickety attention to detail - and the Des Moines Symphony Orchestra's concentration - resulted in a sound that was more precise than audiences have heard from the group in a while. Their performance was bold, challenging and ultimately rewarding. read more
Des Moines Register
"Sheng as Composer and Conductor with EMF's Youth Symphony Orchestra...The Symphony No. 5 of Peter IlyichTchaikovsky...Sheng's conducting of the third, waltz-like movement was the most memorable I have heard." read more
Classical Voice of North Carolina
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February 3, 2012 World Premiere
-The Singing Gobi Desert
PRISM Quartet and Music from China
Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall, New York, NY
February 3, 2012
-Variation Fugato for Piano
Lara Downes, piano, 13 WAYS of Looking at the Goldberg
El Paso First Baptist Church
El Paso, Texas
February 4, 2012 World Premiere
-The Singing Gobi Desert
PRISM Quartet and Music from China
Philadelphia
February 9, 10, 12, 14, 2012
-Seven Tunes Heard in China for Cello
Camerata Pacifica, California
California, USA
February 11, 2012 World Premiere
-Dance Capriccio for piano and string quartet
Shanghai Quartet with Peter Serkin, Piano
Chamber Music Society of Detroit, MI, USA
February 18, 2012 World Premiere
-Two Folk Songs for professional children’s choir/women’s chorus, perc, and harp
I. Boatmen’s Song
II. Thirty-Mile Village
Young People's Chorus of New York
Zankel Hall, Carnegie Hall, New York, NY
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Newly Published Scores by G. Schirmer, Inc.
Two Poems from the Sung Dynasty
The Stream Flows for Solo Viola
A Tune from Childhood
All Available at Hal Leonard Online
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