The fabulous cellist Rhonda Rider, who is on the faculty of Boston Conservatory and Boston University, has an upcoming CD, The Grand Canyon Project, to be released by MSR Classics laster this year. As part of the commissioned works for this project, Yu-Hui’s Rio del Tizon is included in this fascinating album. Rio del Tizon, which […]
Yu-Hui's new work In Thin Air – for violin, piano, and percussion, was premiered by Dinosaur Annex in a successful three-concert series at Harvard University, Syracuse University, and Eastman School of Music. The program also included works by Annie Gosfield, Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon, Daniel S. Godfrey, and Steven Stuckey. The critics called In Thin Air "… the high point […]
After Meet the Composer became New Music USA, Yu-Hui’s Pu Songling’s Bizarre Tales project is now moved to New Music USA’s “Musicians Stories” page.
Date: June 11, 2012Venue: Dennis Gallagher Arts Pavilion, San FranciscoPerformers: Stacey Pelinka, flutes; Kurt Rohde, viola; Michael Goldberg, guitar
Yu-Hui’s Being – Two Collins Songs for a cappella chamber choir is included in Volti‘s upcoming CD “House of Voices“. Also on the CD are works by Ted Hearne, Donald Crockett, Eric Moe, Wayne Peterson, and Mark Winges. Go to the Innova Recordings page to read the reviews and to purchase the CD. The recordings are also available at iTunes. […]
Dinosaur Annex, the new music ensemble that Yu-Hui co-directs with Sue-Ellen Hershman-Tcherepnin, has been invited to the 10th International Beijing Modern Music Festival in May 2012. New works by Chinese composers Xu Suya, Qu Xiaosong, and Wang Feinan, along with pieces by John Harbison, Scott Wheeler and Yu-Hui, will be performed by the Dinosaur Annex […]
Yu-Hui spent a wonderful week with a group of genuine, thoughtful composers while she was a guest composer at the Composers Conference at Wellesley this summer. Here are two photos: A bunch of composers tried to look contemplative but failed… Mario said: ” I WAS smiling!!“
Meet The Composer Studio’s Three City Dash Festival last April was a huge success! Yu-Hui’s new piece, Pu Songling’s Bizarre Tales, was premiered at the Symphony Space by Music From China, with Yu-Hui conducting.You can see the final video about the process of writing Pu Songling’s Bizarre Tales, created by the Meet The Composers Studio:
Yu-Hui’s Tangled in Smoke, written for the fantastic pianist Amy Briggs, was included in Briggs’ “Tangos for Piano” CD. Mark Lehman in the 2011 March/April issue of the American Record Guide wrote: “Amy Brigg’s beguiling anthology of 22 concert tangos explores both approaches to the form… Nostalgic recreations of tango include Stravinsky’s 1940 Tango…and […]
Yu-Hui is to be a Guest Composer at the Wellesley Composers Conference this July. Directed by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Mario Davidovsky for nearly 40 years, the Composers Conference is an annual two-week workshop for composers. For more information, check out the Conference’s website at <http://www.composersconference.org/>.