Du Yun

Du Yun (traditional Chinese: 杜韻, simplified Chinese: 杜韵, Pinyin: Dù Yùn, born June 18, 1977) is a Chinese born international composer, multi-instrumentalist and performance artist.

Her opera Angel's Bone won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Music.

Du Yun was born in Shanghai, China. She began studying piano at the age of four, attending the primary school Shanghai Conservatory of Music for piano. She studied composition at the middle school Shanghai Conservatory of Music. Du later moved to the United States and graduated from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music with a Bachelor of Music degree in composition and received a PhD in music composition from Harvard University.

In 2006, Du Yun joined the composition faculty at the State University of New York-Purchase. In 2017, she joins the composition faculty at the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University. Same year, she is also appointed as the artist-in-residence at the SHCM-Berklee Contemporary Music Institute, a joint establishment between the Shanghai Conservatory of Music and the Berkelee College of Music.

For her earlier years growing up in Shanghai, Du recounted, in her contribute to WQXR, that both her parents never went to college and were factory workers in China.

She uses her whole name Du Yun, not Du, for professional and personal uses.

Her works include compositions for solo instruments, electroacoustic music, chamber music, orchestral works, opera, indie pop, theatre, oral tradition music, sound installations, and performance art pieces. Du's works have been performed internationally in venues such as Carnegie Hall, the Guangzhou Opera House, the Salle Pleyel Paris, the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Escola de Música do Estado in São Paulo, the Darmstädter Ferienkurse in Germany. She has written for the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players and solo artists Hilary Hahn and Matt Haimovitz.

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