Bright Sheng

Bright Sheng was in South Africa from August - September 2009

 

Why do I compose? & How I came to be a composer and musician?

Interview From The Muse that Sings by Ann McCutchan. Copyright Ann McCutchan and
published by Oxford University Press, Inc. (www.oup.com/us). All rights reserved.

Bright Sheng: New Naxos Orchestral CD and Interview

Click the topic to listen to an interview on Naxos.com with Bright Sheng about his music, his life and his new CD of orchestral music from Naxos.

The featured works are Phoenix, Red Silk Dance, Tibetan Swing, and H'un (Lacerations), recorded by Gerard Schwarz and the Seattle Symphony.

Phoenix, co-commissioned by the Seattle Symphony and Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, was inspired by a Hans Christian Andersen tale, the mythical bird symbolizing for Chinese-American composer Bright Sheng “the muse of all peoples.” Aggressive fervor seeks meditative peace in H’un: In memoriam 1966–1976, hailed by The New York Times as “a searing portrait of the Cultural Revolution in China…deeply affecting.” Sheng’s exquisite Spring Dreams, Three Fantasies and Tibetan Dance are available on Naxos 8.570601, a unique recording using Chinese instruments by the Singapore Chinese Orchestra. China Dreams and Nanking Nanking can be heard on Naxos 8.555866.

 

Podcast: Introducing Bright Sheng New CD Spring Dreams

 

"Sheng work lets symphony tap into Class of '78"

Interviewed by By Janice Steinberg / SanDiego UNION-TRIBUNE