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YUAN PEIYING AWARDED COMPOSITION FELLOWSHIP AT WELLESLEY COMPOSERS CONFERENCE SUMMER 2009 IN MASSACHUSETTS, US
YEAR 2009
Wellesley Composers Conference Summer 2009 will be held from 19 July to 2 August at Wellesley College, Massachusetts where Peiying's composition Mutability for large ensemble will be rehearsed, premiered and recorded by professional musicians of the highest calibre. She will also attend lessons with Pulitzer prize-winning composer and Conference Director Mario Davidovsky, as well as the conference's two distinguished guest composers, Roberto Sierra and Tania León Currently a Master of Music in Music Composition student at the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) Conservatory of Music, Peiying was recently awarded a second prize in the 2009 Beethoven Club of Memphis/Luna Nova Composition Competition for her piece Five Elements. Her work was chosen from an international call for scores for composers under the age of 30. As part of her prize, Five Elements will be performed by the Luna Nova New Music Ensemble at the Belvedere Chamber Music Festival on 26 June in Memphis, Tennessee. Five Elements has also been selected for performance at the International Alliance for Women Composers Annual Concert (IAWM) later in November this year. She is now working on a commission from the Kansas City Electronic Music and Arts Alliance (KCEMA) for a piece for bass clarinet and electronics. BACK TO LATEST AT THE CONSERVATORY |
