衛武營國家藝術文化中心 National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts (Weiwuying)

2022 Weiwuying International Music Festival Artistic Director Unsuk CHIN, in the curatorial discussion, promised, "we will have an intense dialogue with the international music world and use the festival as a platform for Taiwanese musicians and new artistic creation." Embracing such expectation, the festival specially arranges the Weiwuying Contemporary Ensemble allowing Taiwanese performers to connect to the global music industry by performing new works.

In the two performances, Taiwanese composers are commissioned to create new composition, and there will be Taiwan premieres of iconic works by Austrian composer Bernd Richard DEUTSCH.  Also, a new commission Ornithomancy for Weiwuying International Music Festival by Brazilian-American composer Paulo BRITO will be performed.

DEUTSCH's Mad dog performed on the first day was inspired by Italian artist Giacomo BALLA's painting Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash. The second day's performance, DEUTSCH's Dr. Futurity, was inspired by the novel of the same title written by American science fiction writer Philip K. DICK. The audience will hear a story of time and space travel in colorful and lively sounds.

  Post-talk  

2022/4/13(Wed)、4/14(Thu) After performance at Recital

  Program  

4/13(Wed) Mad dog

CHANG Wan-yu: Silent world for String Quartet and Pipa

CHAO Li-wei: Soughing for mixed ensemble

Paulo BRITO: Ornithomancy (World Premiere, commissioned by Weiwuying)

Bernd Richard DEUTSCH: Mad Dog (Taiwan Premiere) 

4/14(Thu) Time and Space Voyage

HSIUNG Jen-yueh: Winter Footsteps

HSU Ching-tung: Residual Waves for 7 instrumentalists

CHEN Yi-hsien: Subtle Influx for ensemble

Bernd Richard DEUTSCH: Dr. Futurity for ensemble (Taiwan Premiere)

  Creative and Production Team  

Conductor｜YANG Su-han

Weiwuying Contemporary Music Ensemble 

  Artists Introduction  

Conductor｜YANG Su-han

YANG Su-han currently serves as Associate Conductor of Taiwan Philharmonic. He won first prize in the 10th International Grzegorz Fitelberg Competition for Conductors in 2017 and received numerous invitations to collaborate with the Silesian Philharmonic, the Polish Baltic Philharmonic, the Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Brandenburger Symphoniker, and many others. Since 2016 he regularly works with the Camerata Taiwan. In August 2022 he will conduct performances of “Hänsel und Gretel” at the National Taichung Theater. His appearance at music festival includes the Taiwan International Festival of Arts, the Taipei International New Music Festival, the Asian Composers League's Conference and Festival, the Classica Nova in Gdynia, and the Festival of Polish Music in Kraków. He was one of the two conductors selected for the Mentoring Program of Peter EÖTVÖS Contemporary Music Foundation in 2018. In 2017 he was invited to study with Jun MÄRKL at the Conducting Academy of Pacific Music Festival. He was chosen as conductor to work with Riccardo Muti on the production of VERDI’s Falstaff at the Italian Opera Academy in 2015. He graduated from the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin, the National Taiwan Normal University, and the Tunghai University, where he studied conducting with Christian EHWALD, Hans-Dieter BAUM, Apo HSU, and Annie CHUNG.

Birmingham Contemporary Music Group 

Birmingham Contemporary Music Group is one of the world's foremost new music ensembles. Over three decades, BCMG has developed the music of today for the audiences of tomorrow. The ensemble has commissioned over 175 pieces of music from the world's finest composers and emerging international talent. Many of the works have been commissioned through its innovative pioneering Sound Investment crowd-funding scheme to which over 500 donors have contributed more than £300,000; many of these works have subsequently found their way into worldwide repertoire.

BCMG was founded by Simon CLUGSTON and Ulrich HEINEN, musicians from the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, in 1987, with Sir Simon RATTLE as Founding Patron. Since then, BCMG has reached over 10 million people in concert and through broadcasts. The Group performs regularly at CBSO Centre, Symphony Hall and Town Hall Birmingham, Wigmore Hall in London and at the BBC Proms and Aldeburgh Festival. To this day, BCMG maintains a close link to the CBSO and regularly works with CBSO's Music Director, Mirga Gražinytė-TYLA.

International tours have included visits to the USA (Library of Congress), Mexico, India and venues across France, Germany, the Netherlands and Austria. The Group is regularly heard in concert on BBC Radio 3, and has recorded extensively. Recordings include discs of works by Thomas ADÉS, Mark-Anthony TURNAGE and Benjamin BRITTEN, and a Grammy Award-nominated recording of Gerald BARRY's opera, The Importance of Being Earnest, for NMC Recordings. Recent releases include Wilde Lieder Marx.Music on Coviello and Howard SKEMPTON's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, a series of recordings devoted to British composers including BCMG's late Artist-in-Association Oliver KNUSSEN, Julian ANDERSON and Charlotte BRAY (all on NMC) and a disc of the works of Elliott CARTER on Ondine.

BCMG's work both inside and outside the concert hall has earned it many awards and accolades. Over the last decade it has been shortlisted for: ITV's South Bank Show's Classical Music Award; the Royal Philharmonic Society's Ensemble Award and BBC Music Magazine's Chamber Award. Its long-established Learning and Participation programmes actively engage young people in composing and performing, and have earned BCMG nationwide recognition (in 2016, the Group was highly commended in the Family Arts Festival Awards).

In partnership with Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, BCMG has created the NEXT Music Study Programme in Contemporary Performance, an innovative programme of study which supports early career musicians who want to dedicate their professional career to contemporary music. It is the only programme in the UK providing intensive, year-long training in contemporary music performance practice, offering musicians an unprecedented opportunity to learn from some of the most exciting performers and composers working today.

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