Yao Chen Music / 姚晨音乐

France Musique interview! 30 mins! The interview mainly introduces my Cinq Stades de L’existence, and also surveys my other 5 recent music works including “Tsanglang,Tsanglang”, “Two Poems”, “Yearning”, “Jun”, and “The Supplicant”. Thanks Nicolas Tulliez and Anne Montaron. Thanks every musician who participated, and you are all wonderful! I am indebted.

Emanations of Tara (commissioned by the Harvard University Fromm Music Foundation) is a piece of mine specifically dedicated to Civitas Ensemble. (http://www.civitasensemble.org/).   The piece was premiered by the ensemble on March 15, 2015 at the Nichols Hall of Music Institute of Chicago, and the second performance took place at Galvin Hall of the Northwestern University School of Music on February 26, 2018.

On March 4, 2018, Chicago Symphony Orchestra presents its third performance at the Art Institute of Chicago Fullerton Hall. Musicians include Yuan-Qing Yu (Chicago Symphony Orchestra Assistant Concertmaster), Kenneth Olsen (Chicago Symphony Orchestra Assistant Cello), Lawrie Bloom (Chicago Symphony Orchestra clarient/bass clarinet) , pianist Winston Choi and pipa player Yihan Chen.