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"One
of the most exciting voices in New Music"
(The
Wire)
"Hauntingly
beautiful and sonically colorful"
(The New York
Times)
Lei Liang (b.1972) is a Chinese-born
American composer whose orchestral, chamber and stage works
have been performed throughout the world. The recipient of
a Guggenheim Fellowship and an Aaron Copland Award, Lei
Liang's commissions and performances have come from the New
York Philharmonic, the Heidelberger Philharmonisches
Orchester, the Taipei Chinese Orchestra, the Fromm Music
Foundation, Meet the Composer, Chamber Music America, Mary
Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, the Manhattan Sinfonietta,
the Arditti, Ying and Shanghai Quartets, the Meridian Arts
Ensemble, San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, New
York New Music Ensemble, Boston Musica Viva, pipa virtuoso
Wu Man, percussionist Steven Schick, among others. Lei
Liang’s music is recorded on Telarc, Mode, Innova, GM,
Einstein, Spektral and New World (forthcoming) Records. As
a scholar, he is active in the research and preservation of
traditional Asian music. Lei Liang studied composition with
Sir Harrison Birtwistle, Robert Cogan, Chaya Czernowin, and
Mario Davidovsky, and received degrees from the New England
Conservatory of Music (BM and MM) and Harvard University
(PhD). He was named Junior Fellow at the Society of Fellows
at Harvard University; taught in China as a Distinguished
Visiting Professor at Shaanxi Normal University College of
Arts in Xi'an; served as Honorary Professor of Composition
and Sound Design at Wuhan Conservatory of Music and as
Visiting Assistant Professor of Music at Middlebury
College. He currently serves as Associate Professor of
Music at the University of California, San Diego.