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FEATURED WORK: Verge
“A highlight [of New York Philharmonic's Contact!] was Lei
Liang's 'Verge' for 18 strings. With musicians divided into four
sections arranged spatially across the stage, Liang builds on the concept of
lines converging and diverging across several sections.”
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- March 3, 2020: Washington, DC
Garden Eight (for piano solo), Ellen Hwangbo, piano, Constellations Chamber Music
- March 6, 2020: Jacksonville, Florida
Will you come to my dream? (piano four-hand), ZOFOMOMA, Friday Musicale
- March 11, 2020: New York, NY
My Windows(piano solo), Han Chen, piano, City University of New York, Graduate Center
- March 20, 2020: Greenville, North Carolina
World premiere of new work commissioned by North Carolina NewMusic Initiative, East Carolina University
- April 13-16, 2020: Louisville, Kentucky
Residency at the University of Louisville
- June 7-12, 2020: Vienna, Austria
Faculty Composer, Vienna Summer Music Festival
- June 15-16, 2020: Guangzhou, China
Residency at the Chou Wen-chung Center at Xinghai Conservatory
- July 16, 2020: Torrance, CA
Will you come to my dream? (piano four-hand), ZOFOMOMA, El Camino College Center for the Arts
- August 9-16, 2020: Boston, MA
Faculty Composer, Universal Artists Festival
- January 7, 2021: Philadelphia, PA
World premiere of new work for Hsin-Yun Huang (viola) and Wu Man (pipa) co-commissioned by Philadelphia Chamber Music Society
- January 10, 2021: Schenectady, NY
new work for Hsin-Yun Huang (viola) and Wu Man (pipa) co-commissioned by Capital Region Classical
- January 11, 2021: New York, NY
new work for Hsin-Yun Huang (viola) and Wu Man (pipa), Lincoln Center
- March 20, 2021: Boston, MA
new work for Hsin-Yun Huang (viola) and Wu Man (pipa) co-commissioned by Foundation of Chinese Performing Arts
- Summer 2021: Rockport, MA
new work for Hsin-Yun Huang (viola) and Wu Man (pipa) co-commissioned by Rockport Chamber Music Festival
"The performances are, without exception, stellar. But they’d have to be: Lei Liang’s scores seem to demand one delicately constructed dramatic gesture after another. Stephen Drury’s Callithumpian Consort scintillates in the brilliantly colored Aural Hypothesis for small ensemble, and Five Seasons stars Wu Man, rockstar of the lute-like Chinese pipa, alongside the Shanghai Quartet. Passionately, but precisely, these interpreters make a powerful case for Lei Liang as a composer with the ears and the ingenuity to construct a boundless, and boundlessly thrilling, new music.” - Daniel Stephen Johnson, New York Public Radio WQXR Q2, Music Album of the Week (Dec. 24, 2012) Lei Liang presently enjoys a growing reputation as one of the country’s most energizing young composers. - David Denton, David’s Review Corner Lei Liang’s Verge is a gripping and engaging work for 18 solo strings, which are taken full advantage of in their timbre and potential for sound. The music here stands out among many new records for its vitality and directness… -George Adams, American Record Guide, May 2013 |
