Chamber
Internal Monologue
for violin and piano
2020 January
Duration 7'
performers
violinist Joesph Gray & pianist Coco Chen
Foul Murder
for violin and piano
2019 March
Duration 3'40''
dedicated to
violinist Joesph Gray & pianist Coco Chen
Piano Trio No.1
for piano, violin, cello
2019 February
Duration 6'50''
Score
coming soon
1984
for string quartet
2018 February
Duration 16‘
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Performers:
Kaiyuan Wu & Kexin Ye, violin
Victor, viola
cello, Chiyuan Ma
Date: 4/10/18
San Francisco Conservatory of Music
Program Notes
1984
for string quartet
I.
II.
III.
The book 1984(Nineteen Eighty-Four), was written by George Orwell, which describes a dystopian society. He wrote this book twenty years before the year 1984 to predict the dark future like. The novel is set in Airstrip One, whose residents are victims of perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance, and public manipulation. A mysterious leader known as Big Brother, who enjoys an intense cult of personality, ostensibly oversees the tyranny. The people, who live in there, they can’t have their own thoughts and they can’t fall in love freely just like the main character Winston can’t expose the love that he and Julia have. I wrote this piece to remind people the fact that there are still people suffering from this kind of thought-tyranny around the world. The three movements are like three chapters that follow the story. I didn’t name every movement, but you can guess what they are telling about.
Black Waltz
for Large Chamber ensemble
2017 October
Duration 5'20''
premiere on Nov. 30 at SFCM
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Performers:
Kathleen Shin, flute
Rebecca Shaw, oboe
Cristian Barazal, Clarinet
Kyle Sneden, bassoon
Caitlyn Smith, horn
Christopher Whitley, violin I
Wilton Huang, violin II
Ivo Bokulić, viola
Abigail Monroe, cello
Miles Tsue, contrabass
Michael Kiely, percussion
Colin Martin, piano
Conductor: Maestro Eric Dudley
Date: 11/30/17
San Francisco Conservatory of Music
Expansion
for percussion quartet
2017 October
Duration 4'20''
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Performers:
Diego Becerra, Ryan Fox, Alex Chen, Michael Kiely percussion
Date: April 10th, 2018
Location: San Francisco conservatory of music
Broken silk strings (for L'histoire septet new music ensemble)
2017 Feb.
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Conductor: Yang Chunzi Duan
Performers: Wenqian Li, violin
Te-Hsin Kung, double bass
Ivan Ferguson, clarinet
Jamael Smith, bassoon
Robert Giambruno, trumpet
Jason Hebert, trombone
Diego Bercerra, percussion
Date: April 10th, 2018
Location: San Francisco conservatory of music
Program Notes
Broken Silk Strings
This piece is written for L’historie septet which is a small chamber ensemble with violin, clarinet, bassoon, trumpet, trombone, doublebass, and one percussion. Igor Stravinsky introduced this instrumentation in his composition L'Histoire du soldat (The Soldier's Tale).
The piece is about an ancient Chinese story, which talks about two people who are confidants in music. One them, Boya, plays the Qin, a seven-stringed Chinese instrument. The other is Ziqi, his best friend, who understands his playing and what he means to express. When Ziqi dies, Boya thinks there is no one who can understand his music; he breaks his valuable Qin and never plays again. Therefore, Boya broke his valuable Qin and never played the Qin again in the rest of his life. I wrote this piece to convey the pure friendship between them.
Conductor: Edward Hong
Performers: Clare Amenante, violin
Miles Tsue, bass
Kevin Xu, clarinet
Jamael Smith, bassoon
Matthew Depasquale, trumpet
Nikki Hillis, trombone
Diego Becerra, percussion
Date: March 2, 2017
Location: San Francisco conservatory of music
Undercurrent (for string orchestra)
2016 Oct.
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Performers: San Francisco Conservatory of Music string orchestra
Conductor: Professor Jacques Desjardins
Date: November 11, 2016
Location: San Francisco conservatory of music