Huang Anlun

Huang Anlun

Huang Anlun, a modern Chinese composer, was born into a musical family in 1949. He began to learn piano with his parents at the age of 5. At the age of 7, he has completed his first piano collection. At that time, Ma Sicong, a master of modern Chinese music, commented that he "had a very rich imagination". In 1961, he entered the music primary school affiliated to Beijing Central Conservatory of music, and then he was promoted to the piano discipline of the secondary school affiliated to Beijing Central Conservatory of music. He successively studied under Lou qianmei and Shao Yuanxin.

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Huang Anlun, a modern Chinese composer, was born into a musical family in 1949. He began to learn piano with his parents at the age of 5. At the age of 7, he has completed his first piano collection. At that time, Ma Sicong, a master of modern Chinese music, commented that he "had a very rich imagination". In 1961, he entered the music primary school affiliated to Beijing Central Conservatory of music, and then he was promoted to the piano discipline of the secondary school affiliated to Beijing Central Conservatory of music. He successively studied under Lou qianmei and Shao Yuanxin. After graduation in 1968, he worked in the farm of Beijing Military Region and Beijing Opera Troupe. During this period of life, especially learning folk music and Opera Composition from composer Chen Zi, had a decisive impact on his writing style. In 1976, Huang Anlun became a member of the Chinese Musicians Association and was employed as a resident composer by the Central Opera House. In 1989, he went to North America and studied in University of Toronto, University of Pittsburgh and Yale University. He won the title of academician of Trinity Conservatory of music in 1983. In addition to winning a full scholarship year after year, he also received a master's degree in music from Yale University in 1986 with the best award. In order to promote Chinese culture overseas, he served three consecutive terms as chairman of the Ontario Chinese Music Association until 1996. Huang Anlun, who has been selected in the world's who's who and Encyclopedia of China, has settled in Canada and is invited to be a member of the Canadian composition League, but he still considers himself a Chinese composer. He has always deliberately combined his creation with the times, based on the foundation of Chinese culture, inheriting the tradition of previous masters, and embodying the composer's artistic conscience and sense of Justice - love over hate, beauty over ugliness is the consistent creative main line of this outstanding composer. His works cover almost all fields of serious music, including opera, ballet, film, chorus, vocal music, chamber music, instrumental solo, Broadway musicals and more than 20 symphonic music. He is one of the most prolific Chinese composers. In today's all kinds of modern music schools, Huang Anlun's creation is still based on melody, and has always been grand momentum, meticulous approach, dynamic harmony, rigorous polyphony, colorful orchestral music and strong national flavor as his unique personal characteristics. British ballet master mark Fontaine once praised her ballet the little match girl "very, very, very good" with tears in her eyes, and immediately made it into a film. In 1992, under the auspices of the Chinese National Culture Promotion Association, his other ballet "Dunhuang dream" was selected as one of the "20th century Chinese Music Classics" and premiered in 1994 by the Taiwan Provincial Symphony Orchestra and the Moscow National Ballet. Huang Anlun's works have been successfully performed by many major orchestras in the world, including those in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, Singapore, New York, Boston, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, Toronto, Vancouver, Canberra, London and Germany. In 1996, Chinese pianist Lang Lang won the first prize in the International Youth Tchaikovsky Piano Competition by taking part in Huang Anlun's "Chinese imagination No. 2" in the final of the International Youth Tchaikovsky Piano Competition. The music scores and records of most of his works have been published. As a famous music educator, Huang's disciples have won many music competitions in Toronto. His conducting activities include successful performances by China Central Orchestra, Central Opera House, China Youth Symphony Orchestra, Moscow Russian Orchestra, Toronto Chinese Philharmonic Orchestra, Vancouver Saint Orchestra and Lincoln Center.

personal works

Huang Anlun is a prolific composer. He composes a wide range of subjects and has a unique style. He composes and directs all the music of the famous TV series Shenzhou. Here is a chronology of some of his works.

Huang Anlun's works

1960s Three Piano Solos Op.1. "To the flowers" and so on, the author premiered in 1964. "Seven choruses" Op.2, chorus and piano. chorus "the green rice seedlings meet the blue sky", Xu Qingdong's Ci, chorus and band, premiered by the 65 military performance team in 1970. "Chinese dance music" Op.3, premiered by Zhang Jiamen Art Troupe in 1970. in the 1970s two choruses, Op.10 chorus and band, premiered by the 65th military performance team in 1970. Two flute solos o, Op.4. "Zhanlongkou", a collective creation of Zhangjiakou Peking Opera Troupe, premiered in the same year. Song of the eagles, Op.6, piano solo. "Daughter of the miner", a collective creation under the leadership of Chen Zi, premiered in the same year by Zhangjiakou literary and Art Troupe. "Saibei Suite No.1" op.15:1, Overture, 2, melody, 3, March, 4, aunt, 5, Saibei dance, premiered by Central Opera House in 1980, directed by Zheng Xiaoying. 12 piano preludes Op.5. thirty pieces of Saibei, op.13, piano solo. "China imagination No.1" Op.12. "two pieces of brass and Orchestra" Op.9.

Huang Anlun

symphonic poem Huang Jiguang Op.11. Symphony poem petrel Op.14. Drama soundtrack "yellow flowers in the battlefield" Op.8, China Railway Art Troupe. two Quartets op.7:1, Miss Beijing; 2, spring of the motherland, the band of Beijing Opera Company premiered in the same year. Rondo Op.16, Violin and piano, premiered by Chang Xifeng in 1973. "Song of the guerrillas" is adapted from He Luting's original work and premiered in Beijing Children's palace in the same year under the command of Huang Feili. "A hill like a Golden Vase" was adapted and premiered in Beijing Children's palace in the same year, directed by Huang Feili. piano Sonata in C minor Op.21. "China imagination No.2" op.18a, piano solo. Liu Shikun premiered in 1977 as prelude and dance. "Five Algerian pieces", premiered by Beijing Opera Troupe and directed by Hu bingxu. "River" string ensemble, premiered by central Orchestra in the same year, directed by Han Zhongjie. "the train is heading for Beijing", Op.19, one act dance drama, premiered by China Railway Construction Group in the same year. three woodwind ensemble, premiered by Beijing Opera Troupe in the same year. ten orchestral ensemble, premiered by Beijing Opera Troupe in the same year. "China imagination No.2" op.18b, premiered by the Central Opera House in 1981, directed by Zheng Xiaoying. Romance, Cello and piano. The violin ensemble "sanshilipu" was premiered by Beijing Opera Troupe in the same year. "Two piano accompaniment songs" azalea mountain ". Deep night (1975), piano solo. "Saibei suite No.2" op.21:1, mountain morning song. 2. The iron horse gallops. 3. Wanli Great Wall, premiered by Central Opera House in 1981, directed by Zheng Xiaoying. piano Sonata in B minor Op.23. Welcome Premier Zhou to our house, a collective creation under the leadership of Wang Fangliang, premiered by the Central Opera House in the same year. four Dunhuang ancient books Op.53. "Symphony Overture No.1" op.25a, premiered by the Central Opera House and the central Orchestra in 1978, directed by Han Zhongjie and Zheng Xiaoying. "The little match girl", Op.24, one act dance drama, script: Zhang Dunyi, premiered by Beijing ballet dance school and the Central Opera House in the same year, directed by Zheng Xiaoying.

Huang Anlun's works

"White haired girl" is a collective creation under the leadership of Chen Zi and performed by China Opera and dance theater in the same year. Liu Hulan, a collective creation under the leadership of Chen Zi and Mao Yuan, was performed by the Central Opera House in the same year. Wei Baqun, created by Chen Zi and Shu Tiemin, was performed in China Opera and dance theater in the same year. "The God of flowers" Op.26, two acts of opera, script: Ouyang Yibing, premiered by the Central Opera House in the same year, directed by Zheng Xiaoying. radio drama soundtrack "our commander" Op.27, Central People's radio. Not for love, Op.28, Emei film studio. In the 1980s, the first piano trio Op.30 was premiered in Toronto by the author, Zhang Liko and Fu Xiaohong in 1981. "Dunhuang dream", Op.29, three act ballet, script; Xu Qingdong. Moscow National Ballet and Taiwan Symphony Orchestra premiered in 1994, with Chen Chengxiong as conductor. Ballet Suite "Dunhuang dream" Op.29, 1, desert, 2, jiletian, 3, Fengshen, 4, Feitian girl, finale, epilogue, premiered by central Orchestra in 1984, directed by Li Delun. "Dance poem No1." Op.31, Cello and piano, the author and tensico premiered in the same year. "Dance poem NO2." op.33 (1981), flute and piano, premiered by the author in the same year. Trio of three chords, premiered by Toronto Chinese Chamber Orchestra in 1982, directed by redwood. "The holy image can be traced" Op.34, chorus and organ: Blake's lyrics, premiered in Toronto in the same year. three electronic synthesizer solos, Op.32, premiered in the same year. Symphony

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