Yang Jing (musician)
| Yang Jing 杨静 | |
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| Born | China |
| Known for | Swiss- Chinese Composer |
Yang Jing (Chinese: 楊靜; pinyin: Yáng Jìng; born China) is a composer and Pipa soloist. She works in Switzerland since 2000.
Yang's musical training started at the age of 6. In 1976 she went to the Henan opera music school at age of 12. Two years later she was chosen to work at the opera ensemble in Henan. A 1986 graduate of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, where she undertook four years Chinese traditional music composition studies with Hu Dengtiao; two years traditional music research and Guqin study with Lin Youren; four years Pipa study with Ye Xuran. From 1986 she worked 12 years as the Pipa soloist of the China Central Traditional Orchestra in Beijing. Additionally she studied Pipa from Lin Shicheng and Wang Fandi in Beijing and made two years composition study under Minoru Miki which had been supported from the Japan International Artists Exchange Scholarship founds. Since 1998 she started to co-operating with Japan Arts Co. and Minoru Miki expanding her career as an active soloist worldwide. Since 2003 until today she based her home in Switzerland. She did a full-time Master in composition study in Bern.
From 1986 to 1998, Yang was the pipa soloist at the China National Traditional Orchestra in Beijing. In 1998, Yang was represented by arts agencies as a soloist and composer. This allowed her to pursue international musical opportunities while continuing to live in Beijing. Since then, Yang has founded and co-founded musical ensembles in Asia and in Europe. These progressive ensembles are instrumental quartets, Duos with drums, organ, electric guitar, vocalists and Asian /western Instrumental Ensembles. YANG Jing won the Chinese National Pipa performing Prize in Beijing 1989 by playing the ancient piece in her performing score 'Ambush from Ten Sides' and Composition Price for her composition 'Nine Jade Chains'.
YANG Jing has worked with many composers, conductors and orchestra musicians such as: Minoru Miki, Daniel Schnyder, Mo Fan, Tan Dun, Chen Yi, Thüring Bräm, Kudo Takeo, Zhou Long, Wen Deqing, Donald Reid Womack, Thomas Osborne (musician), Julian Philips, Kurt Masur, Naoto Otomo, Muhai Tang, Misha Rachlevsky, Peter Siegwart; Wolfgang Sieber, Daniel Dodds; Irina Ungureanu, Maruta Staravoitava, Florian Arnicans, Angela Koeck, Hr-Sinfonieorchester, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, chamberorchestrakremlin, Zürcher Kammerorchester, Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen, Template:New National Theater Tokyo,Template:Theater und Orchester Heidelberg and others.
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