Professor and Master's Degree Supervisor
Director of China Chorus Association
Expert of Literary and Artistic Creation Center of Propaganda Department of Yunnan Provincial Party Committee
Special Expert of Flying Over the Rainbow of Shenzhen Pinehurst Growing Up and Caring Foundation
Artistic Director of Poet's Song Book Chorus
"I know Mr. Xiaogeng is a very real composer who is exceptionally devoted to and loves folk music. His musical works don't pay much attention to the kind of musical structures and compositions such as ABA or ABACA that are taught in textbooks. Each of his musical works has a story, and he places great emphasis on the plots of his musical works and pays more attention to the details of the performance, and he skillfully gives his works a spiritual life through the massive messages acquired in the wind-pickings, combined with the concepts and means of creation that he has accumulated over the years. He is good at digging out the musical style and language characteristics of ethnic minorities, and knead these musical elements into the musical works, with the original flavor with the fragrance of the earth and belonging to the language characteristics of a certain ethnic minority, so that the works have the vitality of penetrating time and space.
He loves ethnic music, and believes that ethnic music never lacks cultural heritage and artistic charm, but only lacks a bole to discover them and a platform to let them shine. As Mr. Xiaogeng said, you can recognize the good things, just like the music hidden in the mountains, they do not have traffic, can not immediately bring economic value, but their precious need to be seen.
That's what I came across, the famous folk music composer - Prof. Liu Xiaogeng."
Musical Biography
Born in 1955 in Yunnan, China, he entered the Yunnan Arts Institute in 1978, where he studied composition under Mr. Zhao Kuanren, and then studied polyphony with Prof. He Guowen at the Sichuan Conservatory of Music in 1983, and composition and conducting with Dr. Francisco F. Feliciano at the Asian Academy of Liturgical Music in the Philippines in 1996. From his student days to now, **** has composed dozens of musical works of different genres, including: symphony, dance drama, chorus, soloists, soloists, movies, television, large square music, etc.. Some of them have been published in national publications, and some have been awarded national and provincial prizes by the Central Propaganda Department, the Ministry of Culture, and the Ministry of Radio, Film and Television. His instrumental and dance music, such as "Double Trapeze Achang shoot the sun" and "Fantasia in 2000", have been performed in the U.S.A., Spain, Japan, Singapore and South Korea for many times, and have won high reputation. 1997, he participated in the 18th General Assembly of Asian Composers' Union in Manila and was commissioned by the Association to create a choral and percussion music, "Tattoo", for the General Assembly's Opening Ceremony. In July 2008, he presented his chamber music "Opera "Wang Fu Yun" and Minorities" at the "Jeong Rul Sung International Music Festival" held in Gwangju, South Korea, and its international symposium with the theme of "Jeong Rul Sung's Opera "Wang Fu Yun" and Minorities".
In 2003, he assumed an important role in the historical period of building a cultural province in Yunnan Province. In 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, four consecutive CCTV National Youth Singers Grand Prix, as a composer and organization of training and other important work. A number of new works represented by "A Nest of Sparrows" have been sung throughout the country and around the world, and have won honor for the people of Yunnan, as well as cultivating a number of excellent creative and performing talents for Yunnan Province, and have been honored by the provincial government. He was awarded the "Yunnan Literature and Art Contribution Award", the Second Prize for Outstanding Professional and Technical Talents with Outstanding Contributions in Yunnan Province, the title of "Outstanding Allied Member of the China Democratic League in Yunnan Province", and the title of "Outstanding Art Worker for the Disabled". " and other honorary titles.
Main representative works and awards
Symphony "Dosha Apo";
Trio "A Nest of Sparrows" (co-operation) won the "Five One Project" award;
Chorus "Sarilao" and "Water Hen" won the eighth China Music Golden Bell Award for outstanding works;
Children's chorus "Sarilao" won the eighth China Music Golden Bell Award for outstanding works;
Children's chorus "Sarilao" won the eighth China Music Golden Bell Award for outstanding works. Children's Chorus "Sariluo" won the gold medal for composition in CCTV 2012 Children's Song Contest;
Chorus "Drunk in the Cloud Homeland" and "Beautiful White Clouds" won the Third Prize of the Seventeenth National Musical Works of the Ministry of Culture;
Chorus "Tattoo" (for the twentieth anniversary of the Shenzhen Lilies Chorus); "A Thin Jumping to the Moon";
"Jumping A Wa"; "Naxi Ancient Tune - Seeking;
"Going Home"; "Ritual of Water";
Choral Suite "Rhythm of the Mountain";
Album of Musical Compositions "Songs of the River";
Collection of Choral Compositions "Echoes of Yunnan";
Horn Solo "Short Song of Jingpo";
Large-scale Ethnic Light Music "The Ritual of the Long Knife". (presented to the Queen of England by the Yunnan Provincial Government in 1985);
Piano solo piece "Sani Fantasy" was selected as the repertoire of the 1997 Hong Kong Piano Competition.
The large-scale folk dance drama "Water Festival" won the Outstanding Drama Award of the Sixth China Arts Festival;
The dance poem "Mother River" won the Silver Prize of the Lotus Flower Cup;
The Lisu People won the Bronze Prize of the Lotus Flower Cup for the dance poem. The bronze award for "Lisu People" won the "Lotus Cup" for dance drama and dance poem.
Mr. Xiaogeng was born in 1955 in Eshan County, Yuxi, Yunnan Province, the hometown of musician Nie Er's mother. He was exposed to music earlier than many people of his time, and had already established his dream of playing music at a very young age.
Mr. Xiaogeng studied at Kunming Huashan Elementary School, where he was taught music by Mr. Sun Jibin, and it was his favorite class. Every day in music class, Mr. Sun would spend 15 minutes telling the children the story of a musician. From his teacher, Mr. Xiaogeng learned about Bach, Beethoven and other famous people in the music industry.
In fact, before Mr. Sun, Mr. Xiaokong had another teacher who inspired him. When he first learned music, he was particularly interested in the erhu, morning and evening non-stop practice, until one day, he was walking down the street, saw a blind man in the street playing the violin song "north wind blowing", he was very surprised, ran to the blind man carefully look at the violin, he did not understand that a small violin flow out of the music how to be so beautiful. From then on he dreamed of owning a violin. The blind man who played the violin could not have imagined that he became the first music teacher of this little boy.
Liu Xiaogeng teacher's love of music is from the heart, do not need to take a stick in the hands of parents to keep around, and do not need parents to send their own bicycles to the teacher's home in the wind and rain, he began to learn to play the violin, there is no textbook, there is no teacher, and pulling pulling, but also actually pulled down the popular demo theater melody. The first time I saw this, I was in the middle of a long journey, and it was a long time before I was able to get to a place where I was able to get to the top.
One day, when he was working on the school farm, a few Beijing-speaking people came to the Beijing people unexpectedly, in the far southwest of Kunming, there was a review of the theater troupe, in those who keep the gongs and drums, the erhu and yangqin of the orchestra, in order to transplant the model opera, the need to add a few people engaged in Western instruments.
So, only 15 years old, or a high school student Xiaogeng teacher defied his father's objections, hiding from his father into the Kunming City Opera Troupe, became a violinist in the troupe.
Professor Liu Xiaogeng: Creating music to reach out to the people
When Mr. Liu Xiaogeng was admitted to the Kunming Appraisal Opera Troupe to become a violinist, he escaped from going to the countryside to become a professional musician. 1978 after the resumption of the college entrance examination, he succeeded in crossing the threshold of the university at the age of 24 by virtue of his own hard work, and he learned to compose music under the tutelage of Mr. Zhao Kuanren. He was a diligent student and rarely took a holiday, even in the Spring Festival, he still stayed at school alone to practice and write, and his classmates called him "the old red army with two black heads" (Mr. Xiaogeng's name was Liu Hongjun when he was in college).
If the violin started Mr. Xiaogeng's musical path, then Mr. Zhao Kuanren's approach of doing fieldwork in ethnomusicology and music research from a cultural perspective has influenced his entire creative career. More than the specific compositional techniques, this method is like a brand engraved into his subsequent creation, the creation of a number of works.
When he was about to graduate, Mr. Xiaogeng wrote the symphony Dosha Abo, which tells the legendary story of a Yi heroine. After graduation he was assigned to teach at the Yunnan Art Institute. At that time, he wanted to go out especially strongly, so he went to the Sichuan Conservatory of Music for further study. At that time, the creative theory of Sichuan Yin was very avant-garde, and a group of new wave composers such as Gao Weijie, He Xuntian, Jia Daqun, and Zhu Shirui gathered in Sichuan Yin, and Mr. Xiaogeng followed Mr. He Guowen to specialize in the four major pieces of composing: harmony, polyphony, orchestration, and composition. "
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After a year and a half, he returned to Kunming. At that time, China's new wave of music was developing rapidly, and the humanistic spirit of colleges and universities was very strong. Mr. Xiaogeng felt that he had learned so many compositional techniques that it was time to produce good works. At that time, Yunnan's audio-visual publishing industry was very active, and Wang Fei's first albums "Where Does the Wind Come From" and "Charming Kale" were arranged by Mr. Xiaogeng for her. The large-scale folk music "Long Knife Ritual" created by Mr. Xiaogeng was sent to the Queen of England as a gift from the Yunnan Provincial Government.
From then on, Mr. Xiaogeng embarked on a creative path in the mountains and fields. For decades, he has devoted himself to excavating, organizing, researching and creating Chinese folk music.
With the rapid development of the commodity economy, the rich and colorful Chinese folk music is facing a very serious situation, and some precious varieties are on the verge of rapid extinction. How to determine the direction of one's own creation, keep the traditional roots, and develop folk music? Ethnic music and world music are one step away from each other, so where is the way to cross this step? When he traveled all over the mountains and waters of Yunnan and collected those songs sung by the folk, he was pleasantly surprised to find that the roots of his creation were in the lofty mountains and fields, between the mountains, water, sky, earth, people and gods. And he wants to write these ancient songs into a chorus so that it will continue to be passed on.
Creating music, promoting the development of folk music
In the dozens of years of Mr. Xiaogeng's creative career, he has crossed the boundaries of almost all musical genres: symphony, dance drama, chorus, soloists, soloists, film, television, large square music ......
In the process of creating, Mr. Xiaogeng In the process of creation, Mr. Xiaogeng attaches great importance to "refining the mother tongue" in folk music. The so-called "refinement of mother tongue" means that the composer, on the basis of in-depth field research, conducts effective notation and acoustic analysis of folk music, and then crumbles, refines and reorganizes the most nationally distinctive elements of the mother tongue in the music. For example, in the process of composing the "Snail Picking Song", Mr. Xiaogeng made detailed records of the pronunciation and mouth shape of the native language in the singing of the Li ethnic group through many field surveys, and then decomposed and reorganized each Li vocabulary word into the chorus of the liner notes. Such a practice may seem simple, but it is very much a test of the composer's ability to refine the musical material to transform and innovate.
"Ethnic," "local," and "international" have been the focus of Mr. Xiaogeng's thinking throughout his decades of creative journey. "This is the direction of future music creation". In his choral works, we not only hear the diversity and intermingling of national cultures, but also experience the forward-looking nature of creation. Each piece is y charming and each sound is extremely powerful. This fusion of local Chinese cultural experience with Western musical compositional techniques, and the unification of traditional musical materials with modern aesthetics, presents a powerful force that can only emerge from having one's feet y rooted in the soil of one's own culture.
In recent years, Mr. Xiaogeng has been doing two things: 1) building a Po Nha Song Book Choir in the native language of the Zhuang ethnic group; after ten winters and summers, this choir formed by the most ordinary grassroots amateurs has participated in various competitions and special performances both at home and abroad, and has achieved good results and gained wide acclaim. 2) Participating in the Flying over the rainbow project of the Shenzhen Pinewood Foundation of Growing Up and Caring for the Children in the border areas to establish a choir with the mother tongue of each ethnic group. Border areas to establish children's choirs based on the mother tongues of various ethnic minorities, has begun to bear fruit, more children in remote mountainous areas out of the mountains, to the metropolis elegant art hall, to show the beauty of their own national culture.
The mother tongue is like the root of a tree buried deep in the ground, and when people see the branches and leaves flourish, no one pays attention to what is happening underneath the tree. Relying on the mother tongue of the creation is a long and arduous road, the composer wrote on paper symbols is only the source of the work of art, the final presentation is inseparable from the conductor, chorus members of the *** with the efforts, therefore, continue to drill the ravine, as an "art farmer", to complete one after another the mother tongue of the creation of Mr. Xiaogeng firmly believe that: along the way, will eventually reach the other side of the art! The first time I saw this is when I was in the middle of the night, and I was in the middle of the night!
As the famous Chinese conductor Yang Hongnian said: "Xiaogeng has gathered the essence of the music of all the ethnic groups in Yunnan with his diligent exploration and integrated it into the river of world ethnic music, which is like a stream of living water, touching and beautiful. It is like a source of living water, touching and beautiful. It also makes us feel the fresh wind on the plateau when we listen to his works with all our hearts, and Xiaogeng's artistic creation will surely continue to win a timeless life".
Works Appreciation
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