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Qigang Chen ( [tʂʰə̌n t͡ɕʰǐ.kɑ́ŋ]; Chinese: 陈其钢; pinyin: Chén Qígāng; born 8 August 1951) is a Chinese-French composer who has lived in France since 1984 and obtained French citizenship in 1992. Biography. Coming from an intellectual family, Qigang Chen was born in Shanghai and began his musical studies as a child.
00:00 Calm and expressive - a trumpet solo opens onto gorgeous impressionist harmonies. More sinister harmonies slowly sneak in03:12 The tension builds with ...
Qigang Chen was studying music as a teenager at the Central Conservatory of Music at the outbreak of the Cultural Revolution in 1966. He was confined for three years and underwent “ideological re-education”, yet went on learning composition despite social and political anti-cultural pressures.
Political Turmoil & Personal Tragedy Inform Composer Qigang Chen’s Emotional New Violin Concerto. By Greg Cahill. Over the years, Qigang Chen has composed numerous works—from symphonies and chamber pieces to film scores and songs—to become one of China’s foremost composers.
Learn about the composer Qigang Chen, who studied Western classical music in Paris and was influenced by Olivier Messiaen. Discover his orchestral work Enchantements oubliés, which explores the natural beauty and nostalgia of his Chinese heritage.
Qigang Chen is also one of the living contemporary composers who collaborate with Virgin Classics/EMI for his monographic albums. Elected ’World’s Best Classical Musician in the Chinese Language’ by the Chinese press in 2004 and 2012, he received the SACEM Grand Prize for Symphonic Music in 2005.
Qigang Chen is a leading Chinese composer, who shares his working life between Beijing and Paris * works show marked influence of traditional Chinese folk music, blended into idiomatic orchestral writing in an entirely organic way * exquisite orchestral textures and dramatic gestures, best represented in the celebrated work Iris dévoilée * ...
