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In 2018, he was awarded a May-First Labor’s Medal from the Shanghai Federation of Trade Unions as an official recognition of his contributions to the city’s cultural life. He made his film-scoring debut for renowned author Liu Zhenyun’s novel-adopted dramatic film, Someone to Talk To (2015). His current oeuvre, in addition to the ten symphonies, includes an oratorio, three piano concerti, a viola concerto, chamber music, solo piano music, and other orchestral pieces. Peng-Peng adopts a tonal and neo-romantic style inspired by his longtime passion and expertise for the Late-Romantic legacy. Every season since, he has produced a full concert of new works to popular and critical acclaim. He returned to study at Juilliard’s composition department with Samuel Adler, won eight consecutive ASCAP Morton Gould Awards, and was appointed Composer-in-Residence for the Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra in 2014. His first symphony, a requiem completed three months after the earthquake, was his first work to be issued by Lauren Keiser Music Publishing, with which he has an exclusive contract. He graduated from the Juilliard School in 2014 and signed with the prestigious Opus 3 Artists agency as a piano soloist, fulfilling solo and orchestral engagements until the age of fifteen, when the emotional blow from China’s 2008 Sichuan Great Earthquake moved him to abandon his early performing career and devote himself completely to composition. Having won national competitions in China, he began his professional path in 2003 while studying at the Juilliard School’s Pre-College Division with pianist Yoheved Kaplinsky and composer Andrew Thomas. His ninth symphony inaugurated the 19th Shanghai International Arts Festival while his tenth was co-commissioned and premiered by the Philadelphia Orchestra. (Born in 1992, Chinese composer and pianist Peng-Peng Gong has completed ten symphonies as of 2018 and is currently in his fourth season as Resident Composer for the Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra. Huang Ruo’s music is published by Ricordi. Huang Ruo is a composition faculty at the Mannes School of Music. He earned a BM degree from the Oberlin College, and MM and DMA degrees from the Juilliard School. Growing up in the 1980s and 1990s when China was opening its gate to the Western world, his education expanded from Bach, Mozart, Stravinsky, and Lutoslawski, to include the Beatles, rock and roll, heavy metal, and jazz. Huang Ruo was born in Hainan Island, China in 1976 - the year the Chinese Cultural Revolution ended. He served as the first composer-in-residence for Het Concertgebouw Amsterdam. BUTTERFLY, PARADISE INTERRUPTED, and AN AMERICAN SOLDIER, which was named one of the best classical music events in 2018 by The New York Times. Louis, Asko/Schoenberg, Ensemble Modern, London Sinfonietta. His music has been performed by the New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, Santa Fe Opera, Washington National Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Opera Theatre of St. Composer-in-residence, China Now Music FestivalĬomposer Huang Ruo has been lauded by The New York Times for having “a distinctive style.” His vibrant and inventive musical voice draws equal inspiration from Chinese ancient and folk music, Western avant-garde, experimental, noise, natural and processed sound, rock, and jazz to create a seamless, organic integration using a compositional technique he calls “Dimensionalism.” Huang Ruo’s diverse compositional works span from orchestra, chamber music, opera, theater, and dance, to cross-genre, sound installation, architectural installation, multi-media, experimental improvisation, folk rock, and film.
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