Organic Music Tears of Nature - Music Concert for Tan Dun Works March 30, 2008

Time: 2008/3/31
Venue: The National Centre for the Performing Arts-Music Hall
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Oscar-winningChinese musician Tan Dun said at an ongoing arts festival that he isgoing to employ "organic music" - produced by basic natural elementssuch as water and paper - in his rock-and-roll production for the 2008Beijing Olympics.

-- Xinhua

Theconceptual and multifaceted composer/conductor Tan Dun has made anindelible mark on the world’s music scene with a creative repertoirethat spans the boundaries of classical, multimedia, Eastern and Westernmusical traditions.
A winner of today’s mostprestigious honors—the Grawemeyer Award for classical composition,Grammy Award, Academy Award, and Musical America’s
“Composerof The Year” —Tan Dun’s music has been played throughout the world bythe leading orchestras, opera houses, international festivals, and onradio and television. His latest work, Secret Land for Orchestra and Twelve Violoncelli for the Berlin Philharmonic and Sir Simon Rattle premiered in June 2004 in Berlin.Tan Dun’s current commissions include a new opera for the MetropolitanOpera to premiere in December 2006, and a new work for pianist LangLang to premiere in 2008.Tan Dun’s primary interest lies in creatingnew works and programs that reach a new and diverse audience, and thosethat break the boundaries between the classical and non-classical, Eastand West, avant-garde and indigenous art forms. As a conductor, he hasled many of the world’s most renowned orchestras including the RoyalConcertgebouw Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre Nationalde France, Philadelphia Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, MontrealSymphony Orchestra, NHK Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre National de Lyon,Sydney Symphony Orchestra, and the London Sinfonietta.

Based in New York, Tan Dun was born in Hunan, China. Having served as a rice-planter and performer of Peking opera during the Cultural Revolution, he later studied at Beijing’sCentral Conservatory. There he encountered Western classical music forthe first time, discovering a range of 20th-century repertoirepreviously suppressed in China. Tan Dun soon became the leading composer of the “New Wave” of contemporary music in China, which embraced a new cultural pluralism in the arts that began to develop in the early 1980s. Tan Dun moved to New York in 1986 upon receiving a scholarship from Columbia University, where he completed his Doctor of Musical Arts degree (1993).

TanDun was elected by Toru Takemitsu for the Glenn Gould Prize in MusicCommunication, and by Hans Werner Henze for the Munich InternationalMusic Theatre Award. Tan Dun was the music director of the TanglewoodContemporary Music Festival in 1999 andartistic director of the London Barbican Centre’s internationalfestival in 2000. Currently, he is the music director of a multimediafestival with the Orchestre de la Radio Flamande.Tan Dun records for Deutsche Grammophon and Sony Classical. Hisrecordings have garnered many accolades, including a Grammy Award(Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), Japan’sRecording Academy Awards 2003 for Best Contemporary Music CD (WaterPassion after St. Matthew) and the BBC's Best Orchestral Album (Deathand Fire).