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	Bright Sheng
		Bright Sheng (See Bio) is the Composer and Conductor of Chi-Lin, a Ballet choreographed by Helgi Tomasson, Artistic Director of the San Francisco Ballet, and presented in April, 2002, in San Francisco.
		Bright Sheng is a world-renowned classical composer, who weaves his heritage of China into his vast classical music expertise.
		Bright Sheng and is the subject of this inside perspective.
	www.exploredance.com /insideperspectives101202.html (514 words)

	Chinese composer visiting Pitt bears witness to history
		Sheng will perform and lecture, and his music also will be performed by others, highlighted by a concert by the Takacs Quartet.
		Sheng has an extended history with the quartet and it commissioned the work by Sheng that will be performed on its program, his String Quartet No. 3.
		Sheng doesn't want to be a full-time spokesman for his culture, but he finds it hard not to.
	www.post-gazette.com /magazine/20000323sheng7.asp (880 words)

	'Think of Stravinsky,' Says City Ballet's New Composer - New York Times
		Sheng said, explaining his decision to accept the residency, in addition to plentiful commissions and his teaching duties at the University of Michigan, where he is the Leonard Bernstein Distinguished University Professor of Music.
		Sheng has never composed a ballet score, he describes his music as rooted in the folk dance rhythms that he learned in his teens, when Mao's Cultural Revolution took him from his native Shanghai to work for the music and dance troupe of Qinghai Province, on the Tibetan border.
		Sheng's only stipulation was that the residency period should last two years, rather than one, as has been the case until now.
	www.nytimes.com /2006/01/14/arts/music/14shen.html?ex=1294894800&en=0ab5174af933500f&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss (1168 words)

	Silk Road Project - Music - Silk Road Artists
		Sheng was born in Shanghai, China, and began studying the piano with his mother at the age of four.
		Sheng is active as a pianist and conductor and has performed in many of the world’s most prestigious musical centers, including Carnegie Hall and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
		Bright Sheng is an advisor to the Silk Road Project.
	www.silkroadproject.org /music/artists/sheng.html (317 words)

	New York City Ballet Names Bright Sheng First-Ever Composer in Residence - New York City Ballet
		Sheng is a composer of stage, orchestral, chamber and vocal works that have been performed throughout the world, and is also active as a conductor and pianist.
		Sheng’s residency is part of New York City Ballet’s Artist in Residence program, which was begun in 2000 to bring artists of various disciplines to the Company for an extended period of time.
		Sheng enjoys an active career as a conductor and concert pianist and frequently serves as music advisor and artistic director to orchestras and festivals.
	www.nycballet.com /news/press/pr010306.html (716 words)

	Present Music
		Sheng has received numerous awards and prizes, most recently from the MacArthur Foundation, as well as from the National Endowment for the Arts, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, the Illinois Council on the Arts, The Naumburg Foundation, The Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, and the Guggenheim Foundation.
		Sheng is the former composer-in-residence of the Lyric Opera of Chicago, where his opera, The Song of Majnun, set to a libretto by Andrew Porter, premiered in April 1992.
		Sheng's recent premieres include: Tibetan Dance for the Verdehr Trio in March 2001, Nanking Nanking by the NDR Symphony and Red Silk Dance, a piano concerto for Emanuel Ax and the Boston Symphony, both in January 2000, and String Quartet No. 4 (Silent Temple), for the Shanghai Quartet in March 2000.
	www.presentmusic.org /composers.detail.php?id=36 (412 words)

	Bright Sheng
		These are the words used to describe Bright Sheng, the 2001 recipient of the MacArthur Foundation’s "Genius Award." Steeped in the tradition of Western classical music, Sheng’s compositions draw from the fount of late 20th-century contemporary ideas, and the folk music of China and the surrounding-famed Silk Road region.
		Sheng was also the composer in residence at the 2006 Saratoga Chamber Music Festival (NY), where Charles Dutoit and the Philadelphia Orchestra participated in a performance of The Phoenix, sung by Lauren Flanigan.
		Sheng’s future collaborations with the Philadelphia Orchestra include the forthcoming world premiere of their commissioned piece Concerto for Orchestra: Zodiac Tales to be conducted by Christoph Eschenbach.
	www.schirmer.com /composers/sheng_bio.html (545 words)

	Online NewsHour: Madame Mao at the Opera -- September 4, 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		BRIGHT SHENG, Compose: In her life, you have betrayal, lust, sex, politics, and revenge, and repression, and murder.
		JEFFREY BROWN: The composer of "Madame Mao" the opera, is 47- year-old, Chinese-born bright Sheng.
		BRIGHT SHENG: The career choice during the cultural revolution for a young person was farming or in how biz, so to speak.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/entertainment/july-dec03/opera_09-04.html (1168 words)

	Bio of Bright Sheng
		Bright Sheng, born in Shanghai, China on 6 December 1955, started piano studies with his mother at the age of four.
		Sheng was the artistic director of the San Francisco Symphony's "Wet Ink 93" Festival and composer-in-residence with the 1993 Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival.
		Sheng's recent premieres include Prelude for Orchestra for the Houston Symphony in November of 1994, China Dreams for the Seattle Symphony in September of 1995, and Seven Tunes Heard in China, for Yo-yo Ma in October 1995.
	www-personal.umich.edu /~cyoungk/shengbio.htm (807 words)

	Bright Sheng's Music, July 16, 2002
		Sheng wasn't sure that an amalgam was possible; indeed, the consensus of his teachers at Queens College and Columbia University was that he should choose one style and stick with it.
		Sheng was commissioned to write the work for performances at the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival in 1997, his idea was to write "something really small and portable." He had recently met Mr.
		Sheng was living (he now lives in Ann Arbor, where he teaches at the University of Michigan), and they had agreed to look for a project they could work on together.
	www.nyjpw.org /ev071602.htm (1580 words)

	Young People's Chorus: Articles
		I was drawn to this particular event, because of a very positive memory of Bright Sheng, composer, who was involved with San Francisco Ballet a couple of years ago in a splendid rendition of a unique score.
		Sheng, on the faculty of the University of Michigan, mentioned an upcoming piece, which will be performed in Philadelphia and Carnegie Hall.
		Sheng spoke about this piece onstage and mentioned merging dance rhythms at the beginning and the funereal references at the end.
	www.ypc.org /spotlight/articles2005.html (1312 words)

	BMOP :: Bright Sheng
		Sheng's compositions are noted for their lyrical, limpid melodies inspired by the folk music of China, a Bartokian sense of rhythmic propulsion, and musical and theatrical gestures borrowed or derived from Chinese opera.
		Sheng's importance in the international music community is evidenced by the numerous commissions he has received: Red Silk Dance (2000), a piano concerto for Emanuel Ax and the Boston Symphony; Nanking!
		In addition to composing, Sheng enjoys an active career as a conductor and concert pianist, and frequently serves as music advisor and artistic director to orchestras and festivals.
	www.bmop.org /musicians/composer_bio.aspx?cid=144 (347 words)

	NewMusicBox
		Composer Bright Sheng has been named one of this year's 23 recipients of MacArthur Fellowships granted by The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
		Sheng recalls the last time he was this angry -- when Chinese troops opened fire on the student demonstrators in Tiananmen Square in 1989.
		Also in the music field, 39-year-old British concert pianist Stephen Hough was recognized for "revealing masterworks from the pens of less well known composers from the past and challenging compositions from those of the present." His 1998 release, "New York Variations," featured the first recordings of John Corigliano's Etude Fantasy and George Tsontakis's Ghost Variations.
	www.newmusicbox.org /page.nmbx?id=31nw05 (865 words)

	Music to dance to / Shanghai-born composer premieres work for Ballet
		Sheng became an American citizen in 1986 -- the same year he completed "H'un (Lacerations)," a sound impression of the Cultural Revolution that was premiered in 1987 -- rapidly made the rounds of American orchestras and secured his reputation.
		Sheng finds the eclecticism of the American scene encouraging: "In this country, there are no specific agendas for composers; you don't have to fall into one camp or the other.
		Sheng's style, a blend of Asian and Western elements, all anchored in tonality, has proved an enormously expressive medium, and he evinces enormous curiosity about the music of others.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/04/01/DD21613.DTL (937 words)

	Bright Sheng
		Bright Sheng (surname Sheng, born Shèng Z?ngliàng, ???, in Shanghai, China, December 6, 1955) is a Chinese-American Composer, conductor, and pianist.
		Sheng's compositions have been performed by most major American Orchestras as well as many European, and Asian Orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, and the China National Symphony.
		These are the words used to describe the music of Bright Sheng, the 2001 recipient of the MacArthur Foundation?s "Genius Award." Steeped in the tradition of...
	folks.mab-x-music.com /bright-sheng.html (1075 words)

	INKPOT#100 CLASSICAL MUSIC REVIEWS: SHENG Flute Moon. China Dreams. Postcards. Bezaly/Singapore SO/Shui (BIS)
		Bright Sheng comes from the generation of Chinese-American artists who lived through and survived the Cultural Revolution.
		By his own admission, Sheng has said that these works are "very difficult"; intellectually, interpreting this would be even more difficult on the part of Lan Shui, the conductor.
		The ambience of the recording adds a softer, sadder edge than Sheng might have otherwise intended, but this is not necessarily a bad thing.
	inkpot.com /classical/shengdreams.html (1225 words)

	UM School of Music - Bright Sheng
		Professor Sheng is a composer, conductor, and pianist.
		Sheng received a special commission from the White House to create a new work for a state dinner, hosted by the president, honoring the Chinese Premiere Zhou Rongji.
		Sheng’s music is exclusively published by G. Schirmer, Inc. and records on the Sony Classical, Delos, Koch International, New World, and Grammofon AB BI labels.
	www.music.umich.edu /faculty_staff/sheng.bright.lasso (307 words)

	Bright Sheng
		In April of 1999, at the invitation of President Clinton, Bright Sheng received a special commission from the White House to create a new work for a state dinner, hosted by the president, honoring the Chinese Premiere Zhou Rongji.
		Bright Sheng has collaborated with distinguished musicians such as Leonard Bernstein, Kurt Masur, Christoph Eschenbach, Gerard Schwarz, Leonard Slatkin, David Zinman, Neeme Järvi, Arthur Fagen, Robert Spano, Hugh Wolff, Bramwell Tovey, Yo Yo Ma, Peter Serkin, Emanuel Ax, Chao-Liang Lin, to name just a few.
		Bright Sheng, born in December 1955 in Shanghai, China, started piano study with his mother at the age of four.
	www.ccm.uc.edu /musicx/Bios/Sheng.html (721 words)

	INKPOT#89 CLASSICAL MUSIC REVIEWS: SINGAPORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA - 22 Jan 2000
		Before the performance, Bright Sheng, himself looking and sounding very at home on top of the VCH stage, explained that in the piece, the piccolo represented the female essence while the string orchestra symbolised the male.
		The unique Bright Sheng sound is coloured further by the entrance of a pssage for upper strings and tuned percussion, before the jittery, grotesque solo piccolo part enters.
		Bright was quite excited about the SSO playing the music because, by his own admission, it was "very difficult".
	inkpot.com /concert/sso000122.html (2098 words)

	The Columbia Orchestra - Program Notes (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Bright Sheng was born Sheng Zong-Liang in Shanghai in 1955 and came to the United States in 1982.
		In this work, Sheng remembers the China of his childhood—an exercise in very complex nostalgia, as he and his family as “westernized” musicians lived in dread of the Red Guards that attempted to purge China of “foreign” and “decadent” influences in the near-Holocaust of the Cultural Revolution.
		Just as Bright Sheng grew up during the Cultural Revolution, Carlos Chavez was a child of the Mexican Revolution, and emerged a fervent Mexican nationalist, which he explained in his own description of the Sinfonia India:
	www.columbiaorchestra.org /programnotes-011505.shtml (1091 words)

	Bright Sheng's 'Madame Mao' powerful, courageous and bold
		SANTA FE, N.M. - When Chinese-American composer Bright Sheng heard in 1991 that Madame Mao had hanged herself in prison, he knew it was the stuff of opera.
		Sheng planned not to write a "CNN opera," such as John Adams' Nixon in China, but to try to get inside the head of Jiang Ching, a woman who rose from B-grade actress to the most powerful - and feared - woman in China.
		Sheng's eclectic musical language ranged from tongue-in-cheek, Ravel-like waltzes (one, a dance of lust, in which Chairman Mao's dance partners stripped down to their bras and slips) to moments that echoed Bernstein.
	www.enquirer.com /editions/2003/08/03/tem_mao03review.html (911 words)

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		Shanghai-born composer Bright Sheng's Music Alive residency in May 2001 will coincide with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra's Pacific Rim Festival, a music festival being mounted by the Symphony in conjunction with the Seattle Art Museum's exhibition entitled Encompassing Heaven and Earth: Ancient Chinese Art from Sichuan.
		Sheng's H'un (Lacerations), a work expressing the anguish of the Chinese spirit, which made such a profound impact when it was premiered by Mr.
		Sheng, who is currently a faculty member at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, served as composer-in-residence with the Seattle Symphony from 1992 to 1994 and as artist-in-residence at the University of Washington from 1994 to 1995.
	www.newmusicbox.org /news/feb00/mtcasol_ss.html (235 words)

	Fall 1998 Michigan Today---Bright Sheng, Composer
		Sheng's gifts of adaptability and openness were nurtured and steeled in his youth, as he struggled to maintain his passion for music in the anti-cultural climate of the Cultural Revolution.
		Sheng's one-act opera The Song of Majnun with librettist Andrew Porter was recorded on the Delos label by the Houston Grand Opera.
		Bright, so I thought it might be good to be known as Bright Sheng where people speak English.
	www.umich.edu /~newsinfo/MT/98/Fal98/mt13f98.html (1708 words)

	Seattle Symphony (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Bright Sheng was born in Shanghai on December 6, 1955, and now lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
		Among them is Bright Sheng, who served as Composer in Residence with the Seattle Symphony from 1992 to 1994.
		Sheng began piano studies at the age of four with his mother.
	www.carnegiehall.org /article/box_office/events/evt_3516_pf.html (2690 words)

	April Concert - Oakland East Bay Symphony
		Bright Sheng is an innovative composer who has become famous for successfully mixing Asian and Western musical idioms.
		Born in Shanghai, where he studied piano and composition, and worked in a folk music and dance troupe during the “Cultural Revolution”, Sheng moved to New York in 1982.
		In addition to composing, Sheng is an active conductor and pianist, and has performed in many of the world¹s most important music venues, including Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center.
	www.oebs.org /page/apr23.htm (199 words)

	Bright Lights on a Powerful Woman
		For Sheng, who came of age and learned his craft during the Cultural Revolution, this is not a foreign topic.
		Here, Sheng’s imagination knows no bounds, as he uses a large battery of percussion and an otherwise traditional western orchestra to create an impressive variety of sounds which imitate and expand on the traditional sounds of Chinese music.
		At his best, Sheng has so effectively managed the fusion of Western and Eastern sounds that the music ceases to be either; it is his own.
	www.newmusicon.org /v11n3/powerful_woman.html (1119 words)

	An Interview with Bright Sheng, Bridging East and West Through MUSIC (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Sheng moved to the United States in 1982.
		Sheng is associate professor of music at the University of Michigan.
		Bright and I decided to use that as my first name.
	www.beloit.edu /~pubaff/events/sheng.html (2363 words)

	Bright Sheng Biography - famous Bright Sheng Classical collection and Bright Sheng Music Reviews.
		Bright Sheng was born in Shanghai, China on 6 December 1955.
		Declared..a fresh voice in cross-cultural music by the MacArthur Foundation Committee., Bright Sheng was awarded the Genius Award, The MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in November 2001.
		In 1999, Bright Sheng received a commission from President Clinton for a piece that was played during a State Dinner at the White House by Wu Man and Yo-Yo Ma in honor of the Chinese Premiere Zhou Rongji.
	www.naxos.com /composerinfo/3944.htm (165 words)

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