Posts Tagged ‘Lei Liang’
Pipa Virtuoso Wu Man Feted at UC San Diego
The UC San Diego Music Department offered a celebration of Chinese culture Tuesday with a celebration that honored the pipa virtuoso Wu Man.
Read MoreUC San Diego Celebrates the Music and Influence of Chou Wen-Chung
Under the direction of Steven Schick, UC San Diego’s bravura contemporary ensemble “red fish blue fish” offered in their Wednesday, February 19, concert a fitting homage to the influential late Chinese composer Chou Wen-Chung
Read MoreUC San Diego: the Elysian Fields of Percussion Performance
Wednesday, February 27, at UC San Diego’s Conrad Prebys Concert Hall, virtuoso percussionist Steven Schick gave an impressive solo recital of recent works as part of the university’s week long “Cross-Wired,” a festival of concerts and masterclasses dedicated to cutting edge percussion music and its performers.
Read More2018: A Year of Winning Musical Collaborations Across the City
In 2018, the key players of San Diego’s classical music scene struck gold by collaborating with each other. Enlisting some 10 musical organizations in its month-long “It’s About Time Time” festival in January, the San Diego Symphony set a high bar of cooperation for the coming year, but other organizations readily took up the challenge with rewarding results.
Read MoreLei Liang’s Opera ‘Inheritance’ Premieres in La Jolla
San Diego composer Lei Liang has turned the eccentric heiress Sarah Winchester and her strange obsessions into a one-act chamber opera, titled “Inheritance,” which received its premiere last week in the Experimental Theatre at UC San Diego’s Conrad Prebys Music Center.
Read MoreA Sumptuous Banquet of Lin’s Favorites at La Jolla SummerFest
The August 14 SummerFest concert offered an embarrassment of riches, from the warmth and allure of Joaquin Turina’s “Escena Andaluza,” to Claude Debussy’s profound yet unsentimental Cello Sonata, to Lei Liang’s extravagantly exciting new “Vis-à-vis” for Pipa and Percussion, to Gustav Mahler’s transcendent Rückert-Lieder song cycle to Alberto Ginestera’s breathtaking String Quartet No. 1.
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