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'''Du Yun''' ([[Traditional Chinese characters|traditional Chinese]]: 杜韻, [[Simplified Chinese characters|simplified Chinese]]: 杜韵) is a Chinese-born American [[composer]], [[performer]], [[vocalist]] and [[performance art]]ist. She won the 2017 [[Pulitzer Prize for Music]] for her opera ''[[Angel's Bone]] |
'''Du Yun''' ([[Traditional Chinese characters|traditional Chinese]]: 杜韻, [[Simplified Chinese characters|simplified Chinese]]: 杜韵) is a Chinese-born American [[composer]], [[performer]], [[vocalist]] and [[performance art]]ist. She won the 2017 [[Pulitzer Prize for Music]] for her opera ''[[Angel's Bone]]'', with libretto by [[Royce Vavrek]].<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/what-du-yuns-pulitzer-win-means-for-women-in-classical-music|title=What Du Yun's Pulitzer Win Means for Women in Classical Music|first=William|last=Robin|magazine=The New Yorker |date=April 13, 2017|accessdate=January 1, 2018|via=www.newyorker.com|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171027182148/https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/what-du-yuns-pulitzer-win-means-for-women-in-classical-music|archivedate=October 27, 2017}}</ref> She was a 2018 [[Guggenheim Fellowship|Guggenheim Fellow]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.artforum.com/news/guggenheim-foundation-announces-2018-fellows-74905|title=Guggenheim Foundation Announces 2018 Fellows|website=www.artforum.com|date=April 5, 2018 |accessdate=October 14, 2019}}</ref> Du Yun was named as one of the 38 Great Immigrants by the [[Carnegie Corporation of New York]] in 2018,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.carnegie.org/awards/award/great-immigrants/|title=Great Immigrants|first=Carnegie Corporation of New|last=York|website=Carnegie Corporation of New York}}</ref> and received a 2019 [[Grammy]] nomination in the category of [[Best Classical Contemporary Composition]] for her work ''Air Glow''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.grammy.com/grammys/news/2019-grammy-awards-nominations-complete-nominees-and-winners-list|title=61st GRAMMY Awards: Full Nominees & Winners List|date=December 7, 2018|website=GRAMMY.com|accessdate=October 14, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.etonline.com/2019-grammy-nominations-see-the-complete-list-114740|title=2019 GRAMMY Nominations: See the Complete List|website=Entertainment Tonight|date=December 7, 2018 |accessdate=October 14, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/la-et-ms-2019-grammy-winners-nominations-2019-story.html|title=2019 Grammys: The full list of winners and nominees|date=December 7, 2018|website=Los Angeles Times|accessdate=October 14, 2019}}</ref> In its decade review, UK's [[Classic FM (UK)|Classic FM]] listed Du Yun's winning of the Pulitzer as No. 6 in "10 ways the 2010s changed classical music forever."<ref name="Macdonald">{{Cite web|url=https://www.classicfm.com/discover-music/2010s-classical-music-decade-review/|title=10 ways the 2010s changed classical music forever|first=Kyle|last=Macdonald|website=classicfm|date=May 19, 2014 }}</ref> ''[[Rolling Stone]] Italia'' named her as one of the women composers who defined the 2010s.<ref name="Todesco">{{Cite web|url=https://www.rollingstone.it/musica/e-stato-il-decennio-delle-compositrici/494353/#yun|title=È stato il decennio delle compositrici|website=RollingStone Italy|first=Claudio|last=Todesco|date=December 31, 2019}}</ref> |
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== Early life and education == |
== Early life and education == |
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Du Yun was born in [[Shanghai]], China. She began studying piano at the age of four, attending the primary school [[Shanghai Conservatory of Music]] for piano. She studied composition at the middle school Shanghai Conservatory of Music with Deng Erbo. Du Yun later moved to the United States and graduated from the [[Oberlin Conservatory of Music]] with a Bachelor of Music degree in composition, under [[Randolph Coleman]], and received a Ph.D. in music composition from [[Harvard University]] with [[Bernard Rands]] and [[Mario Davidovsky]]. |
Du Yun was born in [[Shanghai]], China. She began studying piano at the age of four, attending the primary school [[Shanghai Conservatory of Music]] for piano. She studied composition at the middle school Shanghai Conservatory of Music with Deng Erbo. Du Yun later moved to the United States and graduated from the [[Oberlin Conservatory of Music]] with a Bachelor of Music degree in composition, under [[Randolph Coleman]], and received a Ph.D. in music composition from [[Harvard University]] with [[Bernard Rands]] and [[Mario Davidovsky]]. |
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On her earlier years growing up in Shanghai, Du Yun recounted, in her contribution to WQXR, that neither of her parents went to college and both were factory workers in China.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wqxr.org/story/composers-and-dads-fathers-day-special/|title=Composers and Their Dads: A Father's Day Special|website=wqxr.org|accessdate=January 1, 2018|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170924182205/http://www.wqxr.org/story/composers-and-dads-fathers-day-special/|archivedate=September 24, 2017}}</ref> |
On her earlier years growing up in Shanghai, Du Yun recounted, in her contribution to WQXR, that neither of her parents went to college and both were factory workers in China.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wqxr.org/story/composers-and-dads-fathers-day-special/|title=Composers and Their Dads: A Father's Day Special|website=wqxr.org|date=June 18, 2017 |accessdate=January 1, 2018|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170924182205/http://www.wqxr.org/story/composers-and-dads-fathers-day-special/|archivedate=September 24, 2017}}</ref> |
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When Du Yun studied in junior high school in Shanghai, she collected cassette tapes from singer [[Faye Wong]], [[Bobby Chen|Chen Sheng]], [[Dou Wei]], [[Pink Floyd]] and [[Michael Jackson]]. She counts |
When Du Yun studied in junior high school in Shanghai, she collected cassette tapes from singer [[Faye Wong]], [[Bobby Chen|Chen Sheng]], [[Dou Wei]], [[Pink Floyd]] and [[Michael Jackson]]. She counts Dou Wei and Faye Wong among the Chinese pop musicians who have had the most influence on her musical life. She credits filmmakers [[Wong Kar-Wai]] and [[Quentin Tarantino]] as some of the major influences on her style.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.inmediahk.net/node/1060599|title=Man is the weaker sex:《天使之骨》的人性平庸與邪惡 | 鄭子健|website=香港獨立媒體網|date=November 14, 2018 |accessdate=October 14, 2019}}</ref> |
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When she studied in high school, she |
When she studied in high school, she spent pocket money on CDs that had impactful covers. Pink Floyd, [[Cocteau Twins]], [[Björk]], [[Sinéad O'Connor|Sinead O'Connor]], and [[Kraftwerk]] entered her world all at once. She indulged in [[Krautrock]] and [[psychedelic rock]]. |
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During her first year of college, British band [[Portishead (band)|Portishead]] released a new album, and Du Yun fell into the world of [[trip hop]]. Her psychedelic style was later used in many of her works, and in 2012, she released her first studio album, ''Shark in You'', which featured a variety of styles, from experimental dance music to [[cabaret]] and jazz electronic music. |
During her first year of college, British band [[Portishead (band)|Portishead]] released a new album, and Du Yun fell into the world of [[trip hop]]. Her psychedelic style was later used in many of her works, and in 2012, she released her first studio album, ''Shark in You'', which featured a variety of styles, from experimental dance music to [[cabaret]] and jazz electronic music. |
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In 2006, Du Yun joined the composition faculty at the [[State University of New York at Purchase|State University of New York-Purchase]]. In 2017, she joined the composition faculty at [[Peabody Institute]] of [[Johns Hopkins University]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.peabody.jhu.edu/communications/PressReleases/NewCompositionFaculty.html |title=Pulitzer Winner du Yun and Felipe Lara will join Peabody Conservatory Composition Faculty |accessdate=June 21, 2017 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170811183457/http://www.peabody.jhu.edu/communications/PressReleases/NewCompositionFaculty.html |archivedate=August 11, 2017 }}</ref> She is the Professor of Composition at Peabody.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://peabody.jhu.edu/faculty/du-yun/|title=Du Yun | Peabody Institute|accessdate=October 14, 2019}}</ref> In 2017, she was also appointed as the distinguished visiting professor at the [[Shanghai Conservatory of Music]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-05/26/c_136318402.htm|title=Top Chinese, U.S. music schools team up for contemporary music institute – Xinhua – English.news.cn|website=news.xinhuanet.com|accessdate=January 1, 2018|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170620073537/http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-05/26/c_136318402.htm|archivedate=June 20, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.berklee.edu/news/berklee-college-music-and-shanghai-conservatory-music-establish-institute|title=Berklee and Shanghai Conservatory of Music Establish Institute – Berklee College of Music|website=www.berklee.edu|accessdate=January 1, 2018|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171016122027/https://www.berklee.edu/news/berklee-college-music-and-shanghai-conservatory-music-establish-institute|archivedate=October 16, 2017}}</ref> |
In 2006, Du Yun joined the composition faculty at the [[State University of New York at Purchase|State University of New York-Purchase]]. In 2017, she joined the composition faculty at [[Peabody Institute]] of [[Johns Hopkins University]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.peabody.jhu.edu/communications/PressReleases/NewCompositionFaculty.html |title=Pulitzer Winner du Yun and Felipe Lara will join Peabody Conservatory Composition Faculty |accessdate=June 21, 2017 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170811183457/http://www.peabody.jhu.edu/communications/PressReleases/NewCompositionFaculty.html |archivedate=August 11, 2017 }}</ref> She is the Professor of Composition at Peabody.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://peabody.jhu.edu/faculty/du-yun/|title=Du Yun | Peabody Institute|accessdate=October 14, 2019}}</ref> In 2017, she was also appointed as the distinguished visiting professor at the [[Shanghai Conservatory of Music]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-05/26/c_136318402.htm|title=Top Chinese, U.S. music schools team up for contemporary music institute – Xinhua – English.news.cn|website=news.xinhuanet.com|accessdate=January 1, 2018|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170620073537/http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-05/26/c_136318402.htm|archivedate=June 20, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.berklee.edu/news/berklee-college-music-and-shanghai-conservatory-music-establish-institute|title=Berklee and Shanghai Conservatory of Music Establish Institute – Berklee College of Music|website=www.berklee.edu|accessdate=January 1, 2018|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171016122027/https://www.berklee.edu/news/berklee-college-music-and-shanghai-conservatory-music-establish-institute|archivedate=October 16, 2017}}</ref> |
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From 2014 to 2018, Du Yun was the Artistic Director of the [[MATA Festival]] in New York City. |
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An avid performer, Du Yun's engagements include the 2018 Lahore Biennial (Pakistan), the 2012 Guangzhou Art Triennial (Guangzhou Opera House, China), the National Academy Museum (USA), the inaugural Shanghai Project (China).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Du Yun {{!}} Peabody Institute |url=https://peabody.jhu.edu/faculty/du-yun/ |access-date=2023-01-28 |language=en-US}}</ref> She also leads her band Ok Miss, which exists as both rock band and chamber music ensemble. |
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⚫ | In 2020, China's leading record label, [[Modern Sky]], announced its three-year record deal with Du Yun.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Birthday gift – Chinadaily.com.cn |url=http://epaper.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202009/01/WS5f4d9f90a310d95bf733ed3f.html |website=epaper.chinadaily.com.cn}}</ref> |
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=== Compositions === |
=== Compositions === |
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Her works include compositions for [[Solo (music)|solo instruments]], [[electroacoustic music]], [[chamber music]], [[orchestral music|orchestral works]], [[opera]], [[indie pop]], [[punk rock|punk]], [[theatre]], [[oral tradition|oral tradition music]], [[sound installation]]s, and [[performance art]] pieces. Du's works have been performed internationally in venues such as [[Carnegie Hall]], the [[Guangzhou Opera House]], the [[Salle Pleyel]] Paris, the [[Sibelius Academy]] in Helsinki, Escola de Música do Estado in São Paulo, the [[Darmstädter Ferienkurse]] in Germany, and London's [[Southbank Centre]]. She has written for the [[New York Philharmonic]], the [[Seattle Symphony Orchestra]], the [[Detroit Symphony Orchestra]], the [[LA Philharmonic]], the [[San Francisco Contemporary Music Players]], as well as solo artists [[Hilary Hahn]] and [[Matt Haimovitz]]. |
Her works include compositions for [[Solo (music)|solo instruments]], [[electroacoustic music]], [[chamber music]], [[orchestral music|orchestral works]], [[opera]], [[indie pop]], [[punk rock|punk]], [[theatre]], [[oral tradition|oral tradition music]], [[sound installation]]s, and [[performance art]] pieces. Du's works have been performed internationally in venues such as [[Carnegie Hall]], the [[Guangzhou Opera House]], the [[Salle Pleyel]] Paris, the [[Sibelius Academy]] in Helsinki, Escola de Música do Estado in São Paulo, the [[Darmstädter Ferienkurse]] in Germany, and London's [[Southbank Centre]]. She has written for the [[New York Philharmonic]], the [[Seattle Symphony Orchestra]], the [[Detroit Symphony Orchestra]], the [[LA Philharmonic]], and the [[San Francisco Contemporary Music Players]], as well as solo artists [[Hilary Hahn]] and [[Matt Haimovitz]]. |
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On April 10, 2017, she was awarded [[Pulitzer Prize for Music]] for her second opera, ''Angel's Bone''.<ref name="auto">{{cite web|title=The Pulitzer Prize|url=http://www.pulitzer.org |website=www.pulitzer.org|accessdate=January 1, 2018|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080224184433/http://www.pulitzer.org/|archivedate=February 24, 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2017/04/10/523314127/du-yuns-angels-bone-wins-pulitzer-prize-for-music|title=Du Yun's 'Angel's Bone' Wins Pulitzer Prize For Music|website=npr.org|accessdate=January 1, 2018|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170708040309/http://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2017/04/10/523314127/du-yuns-angels-bone-wins-pulitzer-prize-for-music|archivedate=July 8, 2017}}</ref><ref name="newmusicbox.org">{{cite web|url=http://www.newmusicbox.org/articles/2017-pulitzers-announced/|title=Du Yun Awarded 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Music|date=April 10, 2017|website=newmusicbox.org|accessdate=January 1, 2018|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170701043352/http://www.newmusicbox.org/articles/2017-pulitzers-announced/|archivedate=July 1, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite |
On April 10, 2017, she was awarded the [[Pulitzer Prize for Music]] for her second opera, ''Angel's Bone''.<ref name="auto">{{cite web|title=The Pulitzer Prize|url=http://www.pulitzer.org |website=www.pulitzer.org|accessdate=January 1, 2018|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080224184433/http://www.pulitzer.org/|archivedate=February 24, 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2017/04/10/523314127/du-yuns-angels-bone-wins-pulitzer-prize-for-music|title=Du Yun's 'Angel's Bone' Wins Pulitzer Prize For Music|website=npr.org|date=April 10, 2017 |accessdate=January 1, 2018|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170708040309/http://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2017/04/10/523314127/du-yuns-angels-bone-wins-pulitzer-prize-for-music|archivedate=July 8, 2017|last1=Flanagan |first1=Andrew }}</ref><ref name="newmusicbox.org">{{cite web|url=http://www.newmusicbox.org/articles/2017-pulitzers-announced/|title=Du Yun Awarded 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Music|date=April 10, 2017|website=newmusicbox.org|accessdate=January 1, 2018|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170701043352/http://www.newmusicbox.org/articles/2017-pulitzers-announced/|archivedate=July 1, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/08/arts/music/review-in-angels-bone-terrified-seraphim-at-the-mercy-of-mortals.html|title=Review: In 'Angel's Bone,' Terrified Seraphim at the Mercy of Mortals|first=Corinna da|last=Fonseca-Wollheim|newspaper=The New York Times |date=January 1, 2018|accessdate=January 1, 2018|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171028042728/https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/08/arts/music/review-in-angels-bone-terrified-seraphim-at-the-mercy-of-mortals.html|archivedate=October 28, 2017}}</ref> The citation for the prize reads: "Premiered on January 6, 2016, at the [[Prototype Festival]], 3LD Arts and Technology Center, New York City, a bold operatic work that integrates vocal and instrumental elements and a wide range of styles into a harrowing allegory for human trafficking in the modern world. Libretto by Royce Vavrek."<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.pulitzer.org/winners/du-yun|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170918134402/http://www.pulitzer.org/winners/du-yun|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 18, 2017|title=The Pulitzer Prizes|date=September 18, 2017|accessdate=October 14, 2019}}</ref> |
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She is the composer of the musical ''Dim Sum Warriors'', based on a graphic novel and bilingual iPad app series about Kung Fu-fighting dumplings by the Singaporean filmmaker, satirist, and cartoonist [[Colin Goh]] and Yenyen Woo.<ref>{{cite web|title=Dim Sum Warriors|url=http://colinandyenyen.com/wordpress/dimsumwarriors/|website=Colin and Yen Yen|accessdate=September 15, 2014|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140915184102/http://colinandyenyen.com/wordpress/dimsumwarriors/|archivedate=September 15, 2014}}</ref> ''Dim Sum Warriors'' was made into a Chinese musical which was produced by Stan Lai. The musical debuted on August 11, 2017, to sold-out audiences at Theatre Above in Shanghai, and went on to tour in 25 major cities in China the following year.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.straitstimes.com/lifestyle/arts/kungfu-dim-sum-musical-written-by-singaporean-couple-takes-off-in-shanghai|title=Kungfu dim sum musical written by Singaporean couple takes off in Shanghai|last=hermesauto|date=August 19, 2017|website=straitstimes.com|accessdate=January 1, 2018|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170828111830/http://www.straitstimes.com/lifestyle/arts/kungfu-dim-sum-musical-written-by-singaporean-couple-takes-off-in-shanghai|archivedate=August 28, 2017}}</ref> |
She is the composer of the musical ''Dim Sum Warriors'', based on a [[graphic novel]] and bilingual iPad app series about Kung Fu-fighting dumplings by the Singaporean filmmaker, satirist, and cartoonist [[Colin Goh]] and Yenyen Woo.<ref>{{cite web|title=Dim Sum Warriors|url=http://colinandyenyen.com/wordpress/dimsumwarriors/|website=Colin and Yen Yen|accessdate=September 15, 2014|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140915184102/http://colinandyenyen.com/wordpress/dimsumwarriors/|archivedate=September 15, 2014}}</ref> ''Dim Sum Warriors'' was made into a Chinese musical which was produced by Stan Lai. The musical debuted on August 11, 2017, to sold-out audiences at Theatre Above in Shanghai, and went on to tour in 25 major cities in China the following year.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.straitstimes.com/lifestyle/arts/kungfu-dim-sum-musical-written-by-singaporean-couple-takes-off-in-shanghai|title=Kungfu dim sum musical written by Singaporean couple takes off in Shanghai|last=hermesauto|date=August 19, 2017|website=straitstimes.com|accessdate=January 1, 2018|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170828111830/http://www.straitstimes.com/lifestyle/arts/kungfu-dim-sum-musical-written-by-singaporean-couple-takes-off-in-shanghai|archivedate=August 28, 2017}}</ref> |
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Her work with the Palestine artist Khaled Jarrrar "Where We Lost Our Shadows" is based on a trip that Khaled took with a family of Syrian refugee from Greece to Berlin. The work was co-commissioned by |
Her work with the Palestine artist Khaled Jarrrar, "Where We Lost Our Shadows", is based on a trip that Khaled took with a family of Syrian refugee from Greece to Berlin. The work was co-commissioned by [[Carnegie Hall]], London's [[Southbank Centre]], the [[Kennedy Center]], [[American Composers Orchestra]] and CalPerformances. Its documentary was on the [[National Geographic]]'s Human Journey series. The work is for three soloists, orchestra and video.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/12/arts/music/american-composers-orchestra-review.html|title=Review: A Refugee Journey Inspires a Musical Collaboration|first=Anthony|last=Tommasini|newspaper=The New York Times |date=April 12, 2019|accessdate=October 14, 2019}}</ref> |
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In 2020, her site-specific opera |
In 2020, her site-specific opera ''[[Sweet Land (opera)|Sweet Land]]'', co-composed with composer [[Raven Chacon]], premiered in LA with the opera company The Industry, directed by [[Yuval Sharon]] and [[Cannupa Hanska Luger]]. ''Sweet Land'' is a double-team work, with libretto by Aja Couchois and Douglas Kearney. The ''Los Angeles Times'' named it a best classical music moment in 2020, a parable of, and fantasia on, [[manifest destiny]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Review: An Opera Erases and Rewrites the American Myth |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/09/arts/music/sweet-land-opera-review.html|last=Woolfe |date=March 9, 2020|website=[[The New York Times]]|accessdate=April 15, 2020}}</ref> |
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It won the [[Music Critics Association of North America Award for Best New Opera|Best 2021 New Opera]] by The [[Music Critics Association of North America]]<ref>{{cite web|title=MCANA Announces 2021 Best New Opera Winner |
It won the [[Music Critics Association of North America Award for Best New Opera|Best 2021 New Opera]] by The [[Music Critics Association of North America]].<ref>{{cite web|title=MCANA Announces 2021 Best New Opera Winner |
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|url=https://operawire.com/mcana-announces-2021-best-new-opera-winner.html|accessdate=August 22, 2021}}</ref> The album released in 2021, was a Notable recording of 2021 by |
|url=https://operawire.com/mcana-announces-2021-best-new-opera-winner.html|accessdate=August 22, 2021}}</ref> The album, released in 2021, was a Notable recording of 2021 by ''[[The New Yorker]]''.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Notable Performances and Recordings of 2021 |
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Du Yun's performing persona on stage has been called "utterly extraordinary, unrestrained performance."<ref>{{cite news|last=Lentjes|first=Rebecca|title=A Catalyst, an interview with Du Yun|work=Van Magazine|date=November 2, 2017|url=https://van-us.atavist.com/a-catalyst}}</ref> |
Du Yun's performing persona on stage has been called "utterly extraordinary, unrestrained performance."<ref>{{cite news|last=Lentjes|first=Rebecca|title=A Catalyst, an interview with Du Yun|work=Van Magazine|date=November 2, 2017|url=https://van-us.atavist.com/a-catalyst}}</ref> |
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Du Yun leads the band Ok Miss. According to '' |
Du Yun leads the band Ok Miss. According to ''The New Yorker'', "the one predictable thing about Du Yun … is her unpredictability. Dig deeper, though, and you can sense the conjoined strands of curiosity and compassion that run through everything she makes. On the first two nights of her [[The Stone (music space)|Stone]] residency, her art-pop band, OK Miss, ventures through breathy Chinese pop, seductive trip-hop, and metallic skronk."<ref>{{Cite magazine|last=Smith|first=Steve|date=|title=Du Yun|url=https://www.newyorker.com/goings-on-about-town/classical-music/du-yun|access-date=November 20, 2020|magazine=The New Yorker|language=en}}</ref> |
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=== Visual art === |
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Du Yun has done works for the Guangzhou Triennial,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.e-flux.com/announcements/33745/the-unseen-the-fourth-guangzhou-triennial|title=The Unseen: the Fourth Guangzhou Triennial – Announcements – e-flux|website=www.e-flux.com|accessdate=January 1, 2018|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171226073829/http://www.e-flux.com/announcements/33745/the-unseen-the-fourth-guangzhou-triennial/|archivedate=December 26, 2017}}</ref> The Shanghai Project,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.shanghai-project.org/researcher/du-yun|title=Du Yun – 上海种子|website=shanghai-project.org|accessdate=January 1, 2018|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171226073855/http://www.shanghai-project.org/researcher/du-yun/|archivedate=December 26, 2017}}</ref> Cordoba Contemporary Arts Center,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.c3a.es/actividades/detalle/-/asset_publisher/pQ0PxnELFHyj/content/de-la-densidad-a-lo-tenue-du-yun-y-claire-chase-en-concierto|title=De la densidad a lo ténue. Du Yun y Claire Chase en concierto – Actividad – Centro de Creación Contemporánea de Andalucía|website=www.c3a.es|accessdate=January 1, 2018|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171226021144/http://www.c3a.es/actividades/detalle/-/asset_publisher/pQ0PxnELFHyj/content/de-la-densidad-a-lo-tenue-du-yun-y-claire-chase-en-concierto|archivedate=December 26, 2017}}</ref> and the [[Sharjah Biennial]]. |
Du Yun has done works for the Guangzhou Triennial,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.e-flux.com/announcements/33745/the-unseen-the-fourth-guangzhou-triennial|title=The Unseen: the Fourth Guangzhou Triennial – Announcements – e-flux|website=www.e-flux.com|accessdate=January 1, 2018|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171226073829/http://www.e-flux.com/announcements/33745/the-unseen-the-fourth-guangzhou-triennial/|archivedate=December 26, 2017}}</ref> The Shanghai Project,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.shanghai-project.org/researcher/du-yun|title=Du Yun – 上海种子|website=shanghai-project.org|accessdate=January 1, 2018|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171226073855/http://www.shanghai-project.org/researcher/du-yun/|archivedate=December 26, 2017}}</ref> Cordoba Contemporary Arts Center,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.c3a.es/actividades/detalle/-/asset_publisher/pQ0PxnELFHyj/content/de-la-densidad-a-lo-tenue-du-yun-y-claire-chase-en-concierto|title=De la densidad a lo ténue. Du Yun y Claire Chase en concierto – Actividad – Centro de Creación Contemporánea de Andalucía|website=www.c3a.es|accessdate=January 1, 2018|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171226021144/http://www.c3a.es/actividades/detalle/-/asset_publisher/pQ0PxnELFHyj/content/de-la-densidad-a-lo-tenue-du-yun-y-claire-chase-en-concierto|archivedate=December 26, 2017}}</ref> and the [[Sharjah Biennial]]. |
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=== Social work === |
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Du Yun is an advocate for women, racial equality and social justice. In an interview with [[NPR]] on gender in classical music, she said: "I think this is the issue — larger and deeper than the debate of discrimination at hand. Any sustainable and viable career paths cannot and should not depend on a few people's luck."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/sections/deceptivecadence/2017/05/05/526968527/looking-for-womens-music-at-the-symphony-good-luck|title=Looking For Women's Music At The Symphony? Good Luck!|website=npr.org|accessdate=January 1, 2018|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171023021108/http://www.npr.org/sections/deceptivecadence/2017/05/05/526968527/looking-for-womens-music-at-the-symphony-good-luck|archivedate=October 23, 2017}}</ref> Speaking to ''[[Foreign Policy]]'' on art's power in politics, she said: "A lot of times politics, global issues, are very black and white... There is a place for that, but it's also fantastic to have art side by side, from different viewpoints open for interpretations."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/04/12/opera-composer-du-yun-human-trafficking-victims-global-spotlight-arts-culture-social-justice-pulitzer-prize/|title=Opera Composer Thrusts Grim World of Human Trafficking Back Into the Spotlight|website=foreignpolicy.com|accessdate=January 1, 2018|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170905063145/http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/04/12/opera-composer-du-yun-human-trafficking-victims-global-spotlight-arts-culture-social-justice-pulitzer-prize/|archivedate=September 5, 2017}}</ref> |
Du Yun is an advocate for women, racial equality and social justice. In an interview with [[NPR]] on gender in classical music, she said: "I think this is the issue — larger and deeper than the debate of discrimination at hand. Any sustainable and viable career paths cannot and should not depend on a few people's luck."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/sections/deceptivecadence/2017/05/05/526968527/looking-for-womens-music-at-the-symphony-good-luck|title=Looking For Women's Music At The Symphony? Good Luck!|website=npr.org|date=May 5, 2017 |accessdate=January 1, 2018|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171023021108/http://www.npr.org/sections/deceptivecadence/2017/05/05/526968527/looking-for-womens-music-at-the-symphony-good-luck|archivedate=October 23, 2017|last1=Huizenga |first1=Tom }}</ref> Speaking to ''[[Foreign Policy]]'' on art's power in politics, she said: "A lot of times politics, global issues, are very black and white... There is a place for that, but it's also fantastic to have art side by side, from different viewpoints open for interpretations."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/04/12/opera-composer-du-yun-human-trafficking-victims-global-spotlight-arts-culture-social-justice-pulitzer-prize/|title=Opera Composer Thrusts Grim World of Human Trafficking Back Into the Spotlight|website=foreignpolicy.com|date=April 12, 2017 |accessdate=January 1, 2018|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170905063145/http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/04/12/opera-composer-du-yun-human-trafficking-victims-global-spotlight-arts-culture-social-justice-pulitzer-prize/|archivedate=September 5, 2017}}</ref> |
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Du Yun founded and curated the Pan Asia Sounding Festival at [[National Sawdust]] in March 2018, as part of the Spring Revolution.<ref>{{cite news|last=Simon|first=Alexandra|title=Sounds of spring: Composer creates a Pan-Asian music festival|work=Brooklyn Paper|date=March 2018|url=https://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/41/9/24-spring-revolution-national-sawdust-2018-03-02-bk.html}}</ref> "I want to demystify Asian culture. I want to question who owns the culture and bring together the divisions we have in society," she told the New York News Channel PIX11.<ref>{{cite news|last=Hickey|first=Magee|title=Pan Asia Sounding Festival celebrates the voices of multicultural women|work=PIX11|date=March 10, 2018|url=https://pix11.com/2018/03/10/pan-asia-sounding-festival-celebrates-the-voices-of-multicultural-women/}}</ref> |
Du Yun founded and curated the Pan Asia Sounding Festival at [[National Sawdust]] in March 2018, as part of the Spring Revolution.<ref>{{cite news|last=Simon|first=Alexandra|title=Sounds of spring: Composer creates a Pan-Asian music festival|work=Brooklyn Paper|date=March 2018|url=https://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/41/9/24-spring-revolution-national-sawdust-2018-03-02-bk.html}}</ref> "I want to demystify Asian culture. I want to question who owns the culture and bring together the divisions we have in society," she told the New York News Channel PIX11.<ref>{{cite news|last=Hickey|first=Magee|title=Pan Asia Sounding Festival celebrates the voices of multicultural women|work=PIX11|date=March 10, 2018|url=https://pix11.com/2018/03/10/pan-asia-sounding-festival-celebrates-the-voices-of-multicultural-women/}}</ref> |
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Du Yun started a global initiative FutureTradition to advocate folk arts and promote cross |
Du Yun started a global initiative, FutureTradition, to advocate folk arts and promote cross-regional collaborations. The works involve many collaborations across regions.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://dailytimes.com.pk/519354/ali-sethi-to-feature-in-times-square-christmas-display|title=Ali Sethi to feature in Times Square Christmas display|website=|date=December 13, 2019 |accessdate=December 30, 2019}}</ref> When ''[[All About Jazz]]'' covered her keynote speech for the European Jazz Conference in 2019, Ian Patterson wrote: |
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{{blockquote|Du highlighted Chinese opera and the Indian raga as examples of art forms whose traditions have been built on cultural and linguistic |
{{blockquote|Du highlighted Chinese opera and the Indian raga as examples of art forms whose traditions have been built on cultural and linguistic hybridity—the ever-evolving influence of geography and time. She could just as well have been talking about jazz. Culture, Du intimated, has always been about the embrace of new ideas. It was no contradiction in terms when Du called for both reverence and irreverence towards folk traditions.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allaboutjazz.com/european-jazz-conference-2019-massimo-urbani-by-ian-patterson.php|title=European Jazz Conference 2019|website=|date=September 26, 2019 |accessdate=October 30, 2019}}</ref>}} |
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== Critical reception == |
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Du Yun is regarded as "leading force on the New York Scene,"<ref>{{Cite |
Du Yun is regarded as a "leading force on the New York Scene,"<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/08/arts/music/classical-music-in-nyc-this-week.html|title=8 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend|first=David|last=Allen|newspaper=The New York Times |date=November 8, 2018|accessdate=October 14, 2019}}</ref> and "one of China's leading young composers."<ref>{{cite news|last=Kozinn|first=Allan|title=Made in China, With Plenty Of Western Parts|work=The New York Times|date=July 2012|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/22/arts/music/guo-wenjings-feng-yi-te-mixes-east-and-west.html|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170708224240/http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/22/arts/music/guo-wenjings-feng-yi-te-mixes-east-and-west.html|archivedate=July 8, 2017}}</ref> Her onstage performing persona has been described as "adventurously eclectic" and "an indie diva with avant garde edge"<ref>{{cite news|last=Kozinn|first=Allan|title=Peak Performances to Offer 14 Premieres|work=The New York Times|date=July 2014|url=http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/07/13/peak-performances-to-offer-14-premieres|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140718025525/http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/07/13/peak-performances-to-offer-14-premieres/|archivedate=July 18, 2014}}</ref> by ''[[The New York Times]]''. She has been selected by [[NPR]] as one of the 100 most influential young composers under 40 in 2011.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/2011/04/23/135473622/the-mix-100-composers-under-40|title=The Mix: 100 Composers Under 40|website=NPR.org|date=April 17, 2011 |last1=Ambrose |first1=Alex }}</ref> She was named one of the top 35 female composers in classical music by ''[[The Washington Post]]''.<ref>{{cite news|last=Midgette|first=Anne|title=The top 35 female composers in classical music|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=August 2017|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/the-top-women-comp.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181127234411/https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/the-top-women-comp.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 27, 2018}}</ref> Her work for [[Jennifer Koh]], ''Give Me Back My Fingerprints'', is listed as Top 25 Classical Music Tracks of 2019 by ''The New York Times''.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/12/arts/music/best-classical-music.html|title=The 25 Best Classical Music Tracks of 2019|first1=Anthony|last1=Tommasini|first2=Zachary|last2=Woolfe|first3=Joshua|last3=Barone|first4=Seth Colter|last4=Walls|first5=David|last5=Allen|newspaper=The New York Times |date=December 11, 2019}}</ref> Her studio albums ''Angel's Bone'', ''Dinosaur Scar'', ''A Cockroach's Tarantella'' and ''Sweet Land'' are listed as Notable Recordings of The Year in 2017, 2018, 2020, and 2021 respectively, by ''[[The New Yorker]]''.<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/2018-in-review/notable-performances-and-recordings-of-2018|title=Notable Performances and Recordings of 2018|first=Alex|last=Ross|magazine=The New Yorker}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/2017-in-review/notable-performances-and-recordings-of-2017|title=Notable Performances and Recordings of 2017|first=Alex|last=Ross|magazine=The New Yorker |date=December 11, 2017|via=www.newyorker.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/2020-in-review/notable-performances-and-recordings-of-2020|title=Notable Performances and Recordings of 2020|first=Alex|last=Ross|magazine=The New Yorker |date=December 12, 2020|via=www.newyorker.com}}</ref> |
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In its decade review, UK's Classical FM listed Du Yun's winning of Pulitzer as No.6 in "10 ways the 2010s changed classical music forever."<ref name="Macdonald"/> ''[[Rolling Stone]] Italia'' named her as one of the women composers who defined the 2010s |
In its decade review, UK's Classical FM listed Du Yun's winning of Pulitzer as No. 6 in "10 ways the 2010s changed classical music forever."<ref name="Macdonald"/> ''[[Rolling Stone]] Italia'' named her as one of the women composers who defined the 2010s.<ref name="Todesco"/> |
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* ''In Our Daughter's Eyes |
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* ''[[Sweet Land]] |
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* ''[[Angel's Bone]] |
* ''[[Angel's Bone]]'' |
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* ''Zolle'' with ''A Cockroach's Tarantella'' |
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* ''Where We Lost Our Shadows'' (2019)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.kennedy-center.org/calendar/event/MTNMA|title=Where We Lost Our Shadows (part of DIRECT CURRENT) – The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts|website=www.kennedy-center.org|accessdate=October 14, 2019}}</ref> |
* ''Where We Lost Our Shadows'' (2019)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.kennedy-center.org/calendar/event/MTNMA|title=Where We Lost Our Shadows (part of DIRECT CURRENT) – The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts|website=www.kennedy-center.org|accessdate=October 14, 2019}}</ref> |
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* ''Thirst'' (2018)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://bachtrack.com/review-chen-chan-los-angeles-philharmonic-february-2019|title=Review: LA Phil celebrates Chinese Year of the Pig with a French-Chinese menu|first=Laurence|last=Vittes|date=February 14, 2019|accessdate=May 1, 2019|via=bachtrack.com}}</ref> |
* ''Thirst'' (2018)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://bachtrack.com/review-chen-chan-los-angeles-philharmonic-february-2019|title=Review: LA Phil celebrates Chinese Year of the Pig with a French-Chinese menu|first=Laurence|last=Vittes|date=February 14, 2019|accessdate=May 1, 2019|via=bachtrack.com}}</ref> |
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*''Shark in You'' (2012, New Focus Recordings), CD, digital and vinyl<ref>{{cite web|url=https://nmbx.newmusicusa.org/sounds-heard-du-yun-shark-in-you/|title=Sounds Heard: Du Yun—Shark In You|date=May 31, 2011|website=newmusicusa.org|accessdate=January 1, 2018|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171016070807/https://nmbx.newmusicusa.org/sounds-heard-du-yun-shark-in-you/|archivedate=October 16, 2017}}</ref> |
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* Shark in You<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bj3LQKTqzrw|title=Shark In You: Shark in You|accessdate=October 14, 2019|via=www.youtube.com}}</ref> |
* Shark in You<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bj3LQKTqzrw|title=Shark In You: Shark in You|accessdate=October 14, 2019|via=www.youtube.com}}</ref> |
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Notable collaborations include with visual artist [[Shahzia Sikander]], flutist [[Claire Chase]], librettist [[Royce Vavrek]], and pipa player [[Wu Man]]. |
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==Honors and recognitions== |
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*2023: [[Harvard Centennial Medal]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Du Yun: 2023 Centennial Medal Citation |
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*2023: [[Vilcek Prize]] in Music <ref>{{cite web|title=Announcing the 2023 Vilcek Foundation Prizewinners |
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*2022: [[Creative Capital]] Award<ref>{{cite web|title=Creative Capital Announces $2.5 Million in Grants |
*2022: [[Creative Capital]] Award<ref>{{cite web|title=Creative Capital Announces $2.5 Million in Grants |
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*2021: Best 2021 New Opera - [[Music Critics Association of North America Award for Best New Opera]] - ''Sweet Land''<ref>{{cite web|title=MCANA Announces 2021 Best New Opera Winner |
*2021: Best 2021 New Opera - [[Music Critics Association of North America Award for Best New Opera]] - ''Sweet Land''<ref>{{cite web|title=MCANA Announces 2021 Best New Opera Winner |
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*2021: [[Asia Society]] Hong Kong Center – Honoree in Performing Arts<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.asiasociety.org/sites/default/files/inline-files/Arts%20and%20Culture%20Virtual%20Gala%20Sponsorship%20Pack_4.pdf|title=Asia Society Hong Kong Thirty Years|website=www.asiasociety.org/sites/default/files/inline-files/Arts%20and%20Culture%20Virtual%20Gala%20Sponsorship%20Pack_4.pdf.html|accessdate=June 19, 2021}}</ref> |
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*2021: [[American Academy in Berlin]] – Berlin Prize<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.americanacademy.de/the-2020-21-class-of-berlin-prize-fellows|title=Berlin Prize Fellows|website=www.americanacademy.de|accessdate= May 18, 2021}}</ref> |
*2021: [[American Academy in Berlin]] – Berlin Prize<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.americanacademy.de/the-2020-21-class-of-berlin-prize-fellows|title=Berlin Prize Fellows|website=www.americanacademy.de|date=May 14, 2020 |accessdate= May 18, 2021}}</ref> |
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*2021: [[Foundation for Contemporary Arts]] – Music/Sound<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.foundationforcontemporaryarts.org/recipients/du-yun |title=Grants to Artists Award|website=www.foundationforcontemporaryarts.org|accessdate=February 12, 2021}}</ref> |
*2021: [[Foundation for Contemporary Arts]] – Music/Sound<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.foundationforcontemporaryarts.org/recipients/du-yun |title=Grants to Artists Award|website=www.foundationforcontemporaryarts.org|accessdate=February 12, 2021}}</ref> |
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*2019: [[Beijing Music Festival]] – Artist of the Year<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/aFBkGnM3NYBDML734AbBLA|title=《今日音乐》专访 BMF年度艺术家 杜韵|website=MusicToday.cn|accessdate=October 30, 2019}}</ref> |
*2019: [[Beijing Music Festival]] – Artist of the Year<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/aFBkGnM3NYBDML734AbBLA|title=《今日音乐》专访 BMF年度艺术家 杜韵|website=MusicToday.cn|accessdate=October 30, 2019}}</ref> |
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*2015: [[Civitella Ranieri Foundation]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.civitella.org/fellows/fellow/du-yun|title=Du Yun – Fellows – Civitella Ranieri|last=exhibit-e.com|website=www.civitella.org|accessdate=January 1, 2018|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180101140134/http://www.civitella.org/fellows/fellow/du-yun|archivedate=January 1, 2018}}</ref> |
*2015: [[Civitella Ranieri Foundation]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.civitella.org/fellows/fellow/du-yun|title=Du Yun – Fellows – Civitella Ranieri|last=exhibit-e.com|website=www.civitella.org|accessdate=January 1, 2018|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180101140134/http://www.civitella.org/fellows/fellow/du-yun|archivedate=January 1, 2018}}</ref> |
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*2011: [[Detroit Symphony Orchestra]]'s Elaine Lebenbom Award<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dso.org/Page.aspx?page_id=553|title=Elaine Lebenbom Award Winners|website=www.dso.org|accessdate=January 1, 2018|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303234955/http://www.dso.org/Page.aspx?page_id=553|archivedate=March 3, 2016}}</ref> |
*2011: [[Detroit Symphony Orchestra]]'s Elaine Lebenbom Award<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dso.org/Page.aspx?page_id=553|title=Elaine Lebenbom Award Winners|website=www.dso.org|accessdate=January 1, 2018|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303234955/http://www.dso.org/Page.aspx?page_id=553|archivedate=March 3, 2016}}</ref> |
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*2011: Philadelphia Music Project – [[Pew Charitable Trusts]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://pew.org/1Q70359|title=Philadelphia Music Project Awards Grants to 19 Local Music Organizations|website=pew.org|accessdate=October 14, 2019}}</ref> |
*2011: Philadelphia Music Project – [[Pew Charitable Trusts]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://pew.org/1Q70359|title=Philadelphia Music Project Awards Grants to 19 Local Music Organizations|website=pew.org|date=April 21, 2009 |accessdate=October 14, 2019}}</ref> |
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*2009: [[Rockefeller Foundation]] – Bellagio |
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*2008: [[Chamber Music America]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chamber-music.org/programs/grants-awards/recipients/408|title=Classical Commissioning Program – Chamber Music America|website=www.chamber-music.org|accessdate=January 1, 2018|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171016070733/http://www.chamber-music.org/programs/grants-awards/recipients/408|archivedate=October 16, 2017}}</ref> |
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Du Yun 杜韵 (Simplified Chinese), 杜韻 (Traditional Chinese) | |
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Background information | |
Born | [1] Shanghai, China | June 18, 1977
Genres | Avant-garde, experimental, punk, classical, crossover, folk, electronic, alternative rock, pop, World |
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Years active | 2000–present |
Labels | Modern Sky, National Sawdust Tracks, Oxingale, Pentatone, New Focus Records, Deutsche Grammophon |
Website | channelduyun |
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Du Yun (traditional Chinese: 杜韻, simplified Chinese: 杜韵) is a Chinese-born American composer, performer, vocalist and performance artist. She won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Music for her opera Angel's Bone, with libretto by Royce Vavrek.[2] She was a 2018 Guggenheim Fellow.[3] Du Yun was named as one of the 38 Great Immigrants by the Carnegie Corporation of New York in 2018,[4] and received a 2019 Grammy nomination in the category of Best Classical Contemporary Composition for her work Air Glow.[5][6][7] In its decade review, UK's Classic FM listed Du Yun's winning of the Pulitzer as No. 6 in "10 ways the 2010s changed classical music forever."[8] Rolling Stone Italia named her as one of the women composers who defined the 2010s.[9]
Early life and education
[edit]Du Yun was born in Shanghai, China. She began studying piano at the age of four, attending the primary school Shanghai Conservatory of Music for piano. She studied composition at the middle school Shanghai Conservatory of Music with Deng Erbo. Du Yun later moved to the United States and graduated from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music with a Bachelor of Music degree in composition, under Randolph Coleman, and received a Ph.D. in music composition from Harvard University with Bernard Rands and Mario Davidovsky.
On her earlier years growing up in Shanghai, Du Yun recounted, in her contribution to WQXR, that neither of her parents went to college and both were factory workers in China.[10]
When Du Yun studied in junior high school in Shanghai, she collected cassette tapes from singer Faye Wong, Chen Sheng, Dou Wei, Pink Floyd and Michael Jackson. She counts Dou Wei and Faye Wong among the Chinese pop musicians who have had the most influence on her musical life. She credits filmmakers Wong Kar-Wai and Quentin Tarantino as some of the major influences on her style.[11]
When she studied in high school, she spent pocket money on CDs that had impactful covers. Pink Floyd, Cocteau Twins, Björk, Sinead O'Connor, and Kraftwerk entered her world all at once. She indulged in Krautrock and psychedelic rock.
During her first year of college, British band Portishead released a new album, and Du Yun fell into the world of trip hop. Her psychedelic style was later used in many of her works, and in 2012, she released her first studio album, Shark in You, which featured a variety of styles, from experimental dance music to cabaret and jazz electronic music.
Director Stan Lai has collaborated with Du Yun twice. He said her music not only has the background of classical music, but also is multifaceted, influenced by pop and folk music.[12]
Career
[edit]I think artists should have the absolute freedom to work with however they want and however they wish to express. I also think that creating works engaging social topics is equally important and those things are not exclusive. More and more, I am concerned about human condition. Art just happen to be the means I know how to engage.
– Du Yun[13]
Du Yun won the Pulitzer Prize for Music for her opera Angel's Bone in 2017, making her the first Asian woman to win this prize in music.[14] The opera's production in Hong Kong in 2018 won the best of the performances of the year by the South China Morning Post.[15]
In 2006, Du Yun joined the composition faculty at the State University of New York-Purchase. In 2017, she joined the composition faculty at Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University.[16] She is the Professor of Composition at Peabody.[17] In 2017, she was also appointed as the distinguished visiting professor at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music.[18][19]
From 2014 to 2018, Du Yun was the Artistic Director of the MATA Festival in New York City.
An avid performer, Du Yun's engagements include the 2018 Lahore Biennial (Pakistan), the 2012 Guangzhou Art Triennial (Guangzhou Opera House, China), the National Academy Museum (USA), the inaugural Shanghai Project (China).[20] She also leads her band Ok Miss, which exists as both rock band and chamber music ensemble.
In 2020, China's leading record label, Modern Sky, announced its three-year record deal with Du Yun.[21]
Du Yun lives and works from New York City. She uses her whole name, Du Yun, not Du, for professional and personal uses.
Compositions
[edit]Her works include compositions for solo instruments, electroacoustic music, chamber music, orchestral works, opera, indie pop, punk, theatre, oral tradition music, sound installations, and performance art pieces. Du's works have been performed internationally in venues such as Carnegie Hall, the Guangzhou Opera House, the Salle Pleyel Paris, the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Escola de Música do Estado in São Paulo, the Darmstädter Ferienkurse in Germany, and London's Southbank Centre. She has written for the New York Philharmonic, the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, the LA Philharmonic, and the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, as well as solo artists Hilary Hahn and Matt Haimovitz.
On April 10, 2017, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Music for her second opera, Angel's Bone.[22][23][24][25] The citation for the prize reads: "Premiered on January 6, 2016, at the Prototype Festival, 3LD Arts and Technology Center, New York City, a bold operatic work that integrates vocal and instrumental elements and a wide range of styles into a harrowing allegory for human trafficking in the modern world. Libretto by Royce Vavrek."[26]
She is the composer of the musical Dim Sum Warriors, based on a graphic novel and bilingual iPad app series about Kung Fu-fighting dumplings by the Singaporean filmmaker, satirist, and cartoonist Colin Goh and Yenyen Woo.[27] Dim Sum Warriors was made into a Chinese musical which was produced by Stan Lai. The musical debuted on August 11, 2017, to sold-out audiences at Theatre Above in Shanghai, and went on to tour in 25 major cities in China the following year.[28]
Her work with the Palestine artist Khaled Jarrrar, "Where We Lost Our Shadows", is based on a trip that Khaled took with a family of Syrian refugee from Greece to Berlin. The work was co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall, London's Southbank Centre, the Kennedy Center, American Composers Orchestra and CalPerformances. Its documentary was on the National Geographic's Human Journey series. The work is for three soloists, orchestra and video.[29]
In 2020, her site-specific opera Sweet Land, co-composed with composer Raven Chacon, premiered in LA with the opera company The Industry, directed by Yuval Sharon and Cannupa Hanska Luger. Sweet Land is a double-team work, with libretto by Aja Couchois and Douglas Kearney. The Los Angeles Times named it a best classical music moment in 2020, a parable of, and fantasia on, manifest destiny.[30] It won the Best 2021 New Opera by The Music Critics Association of North America.[31] The album, released in 2021, was a Notable recording of 2021 by The New Yorker.[32]
Du Yun's concert music is published by G. Schirmer, Inc.[33]
Performing artist
[edit]Du Yun's performing persona on stage has been called "utterly extraordinary, unrestrained performance."[34]
Du Yun leads the band Ok Miss. According to The New Yorker, "the one predictable thing about Du Yun … is her unpredictability. Dig deeper, though, and you can sense the conjoined strands of curiosity and compassion that run through everything she makes. On the first two nights of her Stone residency, her art-pop band, OK Miss, ventures through breathy Chinese pop, seductive trip-hop, and metallic skronk."[35]
Visual art
[edit]Du Yun has done works for the Guangzhou Triennial,[36] The Shanghai Project,[37] Cordoba Contemporary Arts Center,[38] and the Sharjah Biennial.
Social work
[edit]Du Yun is an advocate for women, racial equality and social justice. In an interview with NPR on gender in classical music, she said: "I think this is the issue — larger and deeper than the debate of discrimination at hand. Any sustainable and viable career paths cannot and should not depend on a few people's luck."[39] Speaking to Foreign Policy on art's power in politics, she said: "A lot of times politics, global issues, are very black and white... There is a place for that, but it's also fantastic to have art side by side, from different viewpoints open for interpretations."[40]
Du Yun founded and curated the Pan Asia Sounding Festival at National Sawdust in March 2018, as part of the Spring Revolution.[41] "I want to demystify Asian culture. I want to question who owns the culture and bring together the divisions we have in society," she told the New York News Channel PIX11.[42]
Du Yun started a global initiative, FutureTradition, to advocate folk arts and promote cross-regional collaborations. The works involve many collaborations across regions.[43] When All About Jazz covered her keynote speech for the European Jazz Conference in 2019, Ian Patterson wrote:
Du highlighted Chinese opera and the Indian raga as examples of art forms whose traditions have been built on cultural and linguistic hybridity—the ever-evolving influence of geography and time. She could just as well have been talking about jazz. Culture, Du intimated, has always been about the embrace of new ideas. It was no contradiction in terms when Du called for both reverence and irreverence towards folk traditions.[44]
Critical reception
[edit]The music of Du Yun, who won the Pulitzer Prize for music in 2017, is difficult to classify, including aspects of, to quote her own website, "orchestral [music], opera, chamber music, theatre, cabaret, pop music, oral tradition, visual arts, electronics and noise."
James Manheim, Allmusic.com[45]
Du Yun is regarded as a "leading force on the New York Scene,"[46] and "one of China's leading young composers."[47] Her onstage performing persona has been described as "adventurously eclectic" and "an indie diva with avant garde edge"[48] by The New York Times. She has been selected by NPR as one of the 100 most influential young composers under 40 in 2011.[49] She was named one of the top 35 female composers in classical music by The Washington Post.[50] Her work for Jennifer Koh, Give Me Back My Fingerprints, is listed as Top 25 Classical Music Tracks of 2019 by The New York Times.[51] Her studio albums Angel's Bone, Dinosaur Scar, A Cockroach's Tarantella and Sweet Land are listed as Notable Recordings of The Year in 2017, 2018, 2020, and 2021 respectively, by The New Yorker.[52][53][54]
In its decade review, UK's Classical FM listed Du Yun's winning of Pulitzer as No. 6 in "10 ways the 2010s changed classical music forever."[8] Rolling Stone Italia named her as one of the women composers who defined the 2010s.[9]
Works
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Opera[edit]
Orchestral[edit]
Soloist(s) and orchestra[edit]
Chamber music[edit]
Solo with or without electronics[edit]
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Performance art[edit]
Musical[edit]
Theatre[edit]
Collaborations with Shahzia Sikander[edit]
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Discography
[edit]- Studio albums
- Sweet Land (2021, Industry Records)
- A Cockroach's Tarantella (2020, Modern Sky)
- Du Yun, JACK Quartet
- Dinosaur Scar (2018, Tundra)
- International Contemporary Ensemble, Du Yun
- Air Glow – Grammy Nomination for Best Classical Contemporary Composition, 2019[64]
- Angel's Bone (2017, VIA Records, label name changed to National Sawdust Tracks in 2017)
- Lead cast: Abigail Fischer, Kyle Pfortmiller, Jennifer Charles, Kyle Bielfield
- The Choir of Trinity Wall Street
- Julian Wachner, conductor
- FA Angel's Bone[65]
- Shark in You (2012, New Focus Recordings), CD, digital and vinyl[66]
- Shark in You[67]
- Compilations
- Retrospective (2018, Deutsche Grammophon)
- Hilary Hahn, violin
- Overtures to Bach (2016, Oxingale Records/Pendatone)
- Matt Haimovitz, 'cello
- Juno Award Nomination for Classical Album of the Year, 2017[68]
- Orbit (2015, Oxingale Records/Pendatone)
- Matt Haimovitz, 'cello
- In 27 Pieces: the Hilary Hahn Encores (2013, Deutsche Grammophon)
- Hilary Hahn, violin
- Cory Smythe, piano
- Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance, 2014[69]
- Figment (2009, Oxingale Records)
- Matt Haimovitz, 'cello
- Aliento (2009, New Focus Recordings)
- Claire Chase, flute and electronics
- Abandoned Time (2008, New Focus Recordings)
Collaborations
[edit]Notable collaborations include with visual artist Shahzia Sikander, flutist Claire Chase, librettist Royce Vavrek, and pipa player Wu Man.
Honors and recognitions
[edit]- 2023: Harvard Centennial Medal[70]
- 2023: Vilcek Prize in Music [71]
- 2022: Creative Capital Award[72]
- 2021: Best 2021 New Opera - Music Critics Association of North America Award for Best New Opera - Sweet Land[73]
- 2021: Asia Society Hong Kong Center – Honoree in Performing Arts[74]
- 2021: American Academy in Berlin – Berlin Prize[75]
- 2021: Foundation for Contemporary Arts – Music/Sound[76]
- 2019: Beijing Music Festival – Artist of the Year[77]
- 2019: BraVo International Professional Music Award – Moscow – Best Classical Composition[78]
- 2018: Great Immigrants – Carnegie Foundation[79]
- 2018: Guggenheim Fellowship[80]
- 2017: Pulitzer Prize for Music – Opera Angel's Bone[22][24]
- 2017: Asian Cultural Council
- 2016: New York Foundation for the Arts, Sound, fellow[81]
- 2015: Civitella Ranieri Foundation[82]
- 2011: Detroit Symphony Orchestra's Elaine Lebenbom Award[83]
- 2011: Philadelphia Music Project – Pew Charitable Trusts.[84]
- 2009: Rockefeller Foundation – Bellagio
- 2008: Chamber Music America[85]
- 2007: Fromm Music Foundation[86]
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External links
[edit]- Official website
- Profile page at sfcmp.org Archived April 21, 2017, at the Wayback Machine
- Galli, Brianne (Apr. 2011). "Composer Du Yun's Daring Music is a Highlight of The Kitchen's 21c Liederabend Art Song Festival". ASCAP. Obtained July 26, 2013.
- 1977 births
- Living people
- American musicians of Chinese descent
- Pulitzer Prize for Music winners
- Chinese women classical composers
- 21st-century American classical composers
- Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni
- Oberlin Conservatory of Music alumni
- American women opera composers
- American opera composers
- Chinese opera composers
- Chinese performance artists
- Chinese classical composers
- Peabody Institute faculty
- State University of New York at Purchase faculty
- 21st-century Chinese composers
- Musicians from Shanghai
- 21st-century American women composers