Bright Sheng
Composer
1955 –
Who is Bright Sheng?
Bright Sheng is a Chinese-American composer, conductor, and pianist. He has lived in the United States since 1982 and is on faculty at the University of Michigan. In 1999, the White House commissioned Sheng to compose a piece to honor the Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji at a state dinner hosted by President Bill Clinton. In November 2001, Sheng received a MacArthur Fellowship. Sheng is the New York City Ballet's first composer-in-residence.
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, Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, and the China National Symphony. Some of the most notable performers of Sheng's music have included Leonard Bernstein, Yo-Yo Ma, Peter Serkin, Kurt Masur, Emanuel Ax, Leonard Slatkin, Robert Spano, David Zinman, and Neeme Järvi. Sheng's most notable teachers include Leonard Bernstein and Chou Wen-Chung.
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- Born
- Dec 6, 1955
Shanghai - Also known as
- Sheng, Bright
- Nationality
- China
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Queens College, City University of New York
(1982 - ) - Doctor of Musical Arts, Columbia University
Musical composition
( - 1993)
- Queens College, City University of New York
- Employment
- University of Michigan
- Lived in
- Ann Arbor
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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