Rehearsal with the New York Philharmonic, Magnus Lindberg conducting
Schott Music announces Lei Liang as its most recent composer joining the publisher. Schott is Liang’s world-wide exclusive publisher. Click here to view his complete catalogue.
Digital scores are available from Project Schott New York.
New York’s Classical Music Radio WQXR interviews Lei Liang in an one-hour program as part of its “China in New York Festival”. Listen here.
Lei Liang will be Guest Composer at soundSCAPE festival in Maccagno, Italy, July 04-16, 2012.
The Scharoun Ensemble of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra presents Lei Liang’s music at the American Academy in Rome, Italy on March 9, 2012.
Lei Liang’s Verge (for string orchestra) receives performances by Berkeley Symphony Orchestra with Jayce Ogren (on Dec 8, 2011), Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble with Timothy Weiss (on Dec 9, 2011) and the Palimpsest Ensemble with Steven Schick (on Feb 1, 2012).
PRISM Quartet performs Lei Liang’s saxophone quartet Yuan at the SONiC FESTiVAL in Miller Theatre, Oct 16, 2011. Read more info here.
The American Academy in Rome announces Lei Liang as the 2011 Elliott Carter Rome Prize winner. Read an article here.
ASCAP’s highly-acclaimed Audio Portraits feature Lei Liang. Click here to listen to the interview.
New World Records releases Lei’s portrait CD Milou in April 2011. It features the Manhattan Sinfonietta, the Meridian Arts Ensemble, the Radnofsky Quartet, soloists June Han (harp), Pablo Gómez (guitar), Takae Ohnishi (harpsichord), John Fonville and Jane Rigler (flutes). Find it on Amazon.
The Washington Post reviews Five Seasons (performed by the Shanghai Quartet and pipa superstar Wu Man at the Freer Gallery) as “far, far out of the ordinary was composer Lei Liang who brought pipa and quartet together in a work so brilliantly original and inarguably gorgeous that the two may never be the same.” Read the full review here.
San Diego Tribune profiles Lei Liang and discusses his earlier experience in China and how it affected his art and career. Read the full profile here.