CHEN Yeung-ping 陳仰平

 

Yeung-ping Chen is a Hong Kong-born composer. 

Over the course of his career he has been awarded several prestigious prizes, including scholarships from Hong Kong (CASH Music Scholarship for Oversea Studies, and the Hong Kong Jockey Club Music and Dance Fund) and grants from the International Summer Course in Darmstadt, Germany, the Harry and Alice Eiler Foundation, Diane Lin Memorial scholarship from Friends of the International Center at UCSD, Nee Commission Award, and Altius Fellowship from the Asian Cultural Council in the United States.

Chen was composer-fellow for the Ensemble 2010 Project in Darmstadt, the International Ensemble Modern Academy in 2011, and June in Buffalo 2012.  He has worked with Christopher Rountree, Steven Schick, Marino Formenti, Mark Dresser, Susan Narucki, Alice Teyssier, Jessica Aszodi, Yuki Numata, Jeffrey Milarsky, the Mivos Quartet, the JACK Quartet, UMS n' JIP (Switzerland), Tactus Ensemble (Manhattan School of Music), Ensemble Dal Niente (Chicago), Hong Kong New Music Ensemble, La Jolla Symphony Orchestra, and the City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong.

He is currently studying at the University of California, San Diego.  His recent research focuses on telematic musical composition, performative strategies for electro-acoustic music, and hyper-transcriptional composition model. 

Chen is also an experienced instructor who has been giving or assisting various undergraduate courses, graduate seminars and extension program for high school student.  The topics he have taught included, Introduction to Composition, Music Theory and Practice, Fundamentals of Music, Women and Music, Symphony, Telematic Music Performance, and, the Audiovisual: Music's Place in Film, Television and Art.

 

EDUCATION:

Ph.D. Candidate (Composition)
University of California, San Diego

Master of Music (Composition), June 2010
Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts

Professional Diploma (Composition), June 2008
Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts

 

SUPERVISOR:

Lei Liang, Roger Reynolds, Philippe Manoury

Clarence Mak, Wing-fai Law, Christopher Coleman

 

LINK:
http://soundcloud.com/yeung-ping-chen

https://www.newmusicusa.org/profile/yeung-ping-chen/

http://www.asianculturalcouncil.org/our-grantees/grantee/chen_desmond_yeung-ping_348

 

「我希望人們透過欣賞我的作品去取得多維度的音樂體驗。同時，我希望我的作品能透露出聲音美的本質，以及存在於個體的世界。」

 

受東西方多元文化的啟發，陳仰平的作品風格呈現微妙彌漫而又聲響多變的直率美。 同時，他也熱衷於探索實時樂器電子混合音樂的記譜形式，以及現代音樂與傳統廣東粵曲的結合。

 

先後畢業於香港浸會大學和香港演藝學院，陳氏獲得由香港作曲家及作詞家協會 (CASH) , 香港賽馬會音樂及舞蹈信託基金和亞洲文化協會 (ACC) 頒發的獎學金，前往美國加州大學聖地牙哥分校 (UC San Diego) 修讀音樂哲學博士課程。

 

http://soundcloud.com/yeung-ping-chen

https://www.newmusicusa.org/profile/yeung-ping-chen/

http://www.asianculturalcouncil.org/our-grantees/grantee/chen_desmond_yeung-ping_348