Chen Yi

Chen Yi is the most prominent woman among the renowned group of new wave composers who came to the US from mainland China in the early 1980s. Known for her creative output and a distinctive merging of Chinese and Western influences, Chen built a musical language that references a breathtaking range of sources and crisscrosses geographical and musical borders without eradicating them. Leta E. Miller and J. Michele Edwards provide an accessible guide to the composer's background and her more than 150 works. Extensive interviews with Chen complement in-depth analyses of selected pieces from Chen's solos for Western or Chinese instruments, chamber works, choral and vocal pieces, and compositions scored for wind ensemble, chamber orchestra, or full orchestra. The authors highlight Chen's compositional strategies, her artistic elaborations, and the voice that links her earliest and most recent music. A concluding discussion addresses questions related to Chen's music and issues such as gender, ethnicity and nationality, transnationalism, border crossing, diaspora, exoticism, and identity.

Chen Yi este cea mai proeminenta femeie din renumitul grup de compozitori new wave care au venit in SUA din China continentala la inceputul anilor 1980. Cunoscuta pentru productia ei creativa si o fuziune distincta a influentelor chinezesti si occidentale, Chen a construit un limbaj muzical care face referire la o gama uluitoare de surse si care strabate granitele geografice si muzicale fara a le eradica.