Premiere of "A Long Overdue Sequel"

“A Long Overdue Sequel” was premiered by percussionist Robert Schulz in a concert celebrating composer Eric Chasalow’s 60th birthday. Check out the video!

"Worries Just As Real" on violinist Daniel Stepner's new CD

A new CD by Lydian String Quartet‘s 1st violinist, Daniel Stepner, has been released by the Centaur Records. This album, titled Music at Brandeis, features works for violin and piano by several past and current Brandeis composers, including Yu-Hui’s Worries Just As Real. Also in the album are Harold Shapero and Irving Fine’s sonatas, Yehudi Wyner’s Concert Duo, and David Rakowski’s Pied-à-terre. Joining Stepner on the piano are Sally Pinkas, Yehudi Wyner, and Donald Berman.
Worries Just As Real was commissioned by the National Chiang Kai-Shek Cultural Center (now National Theater and Concert Hall) in Taipei, Taiwan, for violinist Henry Tong.
 

Residency at the University of Utah, Salt Lake

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
On November 24-25, Yu-Hui was featured as the Maurice Abravanel Visiting Distinguished Composer at the University of Utah. During the residency, she gave two public lectures and several private composition sessions. She also enjoyed the hospitality of the School of Music’s faculty and the breathtaking view of the Rockies. In the evening on November 24, the Canyonlands New Music Ensemble presented two of her compositions, Flicker and Worries Just As Real, alongside with music by Kurtág, Kagel, Berio and Xenakis.

"Metamorphosis" for marimba with 6 mallets plus 14 percussion instruments

Marimba virtuoso Pei-Ching Wu is giving a 3-concert tour this November in Taiwan. This is her 13th solo recital, and the 2nd program in which all pieces are for 6-mallet marimba, including Yu-Hui’s “Metamorphosis” (2014), a commission from Wu.
A founding member of the internationally renowned Ju Percussion Group, Pei-Ching Wu has served as principal of the ensemble since she was 18 years old. Wu has performed around the world either as a soloist or with Ju Percussion Group. She has been perfecting the 6 mallets techniques for 20 years. Wu is an Associate Professor of Music at Taipei National University of the Arts.

"Flicker" in New Zealand and Denmark

(NZTrio | photo by John Crawford)

Premiere of "Intersect" by ECCE on May 1 and 15, 2014

Intersect, Yu-Hui’s newly written quintet scored for flute/bass flute, clarinet/bass clarinet, violin, cello and piano, will be premiered by the supremely talented musicians of the East Coast Contemporary Ensemble in May.  The concerts will take place at the Slosberg Recital Hall, Brandeis University (May 1st) and DiMenna Center, New York (May 15th).  This piece is part of a wonderful program that includes works by Mark Andre, Gérard Grisey, John Aylward, Schuyler Tsuda, Wei-Chieh Lin, José Manuel Serrano, and Colin Tucker.
(photo by Faremis Visuals)

A Tribute Concert to D. K. Holoman

The Empyrean Ensemble at UC Davis is giving a tribute concert to Professor D. K. Holoman, an eminent scholar, teacher, and conductor at UCD for more than three decades.  In the concert are works written for this special occasion by Christian Baldini, Ross Bauer, Yu-Hui Chang, Sam Nichols, Pablo Ortiz, Mika Pelo, Laurie San Martin, Kurt Rohde, Steven Mackey, and Darin Wilson.  Also on the program are David Lang’s These Broken Wings and Georg F. Haas’s tri ex uno.
This concert will take place on April 28, 2014, at Vanderhoef Studio Theater, Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts, UC Davis. 

Boston Premiere of "Pu Songling's Bizarre Tales" on 11/23

(Music From China)

NZTRIO 2013 Taiwan Concert Tour, with Yu-Hui's "Flicker"

(photo by John Crawford)

"Rio del Tizon" (2011) on cellist Rhonda Rider's new Grand Canyon CD

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 means Firebrand River, is an old Spanish name for the lower Colorado River, which carved out the Grand Canyon.  Thus differentiates it from the other rivers that are also named Colorado.
Nine other pieces commissioned for this project are also included on this CD, they are written by David Rakowski, John Kennedy, Jan Swafford, Laura Kaminsky, Marti Epstein, Dalit Hadass Warshaw, Howard Frazin, Jeffrey Mumford, and Andy Vores.  Check on MSR Classics’ page for more detail (Rhonda Rider, “The Grand Canyon Project”)