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Yang Jing is a composer, professor and concertist of pipa; she is today one of the most active pipa players and promoter of the pipa instrument internationally.

Biography

Yang Jing's repertoire combines both, traditional and modern Chinese and Western music, and reaches out to Jazz or church organ music. With her performances and compositions, Yang Jing has been one of the most acclaimed promoter of traditional and modern Asian music. In China she is considered as being part of the backbone of Chinese traditional music. She is the co-founder of Asian Ensemble and professor for Chinese music at the music conservatorium in Lucerne. After her music studies in the People's Republic of China, Yang Jing was soloist of the China National Traditional Orchestra for twelve years. She left the Orchestra for an international soloist career.

Yang Jing was born in 1963 in Hunan, People's Republic of China. After her studies at the art school in Xuchang, Henan province, and her work both at the Qu-Opera and Yu-Opera theater in Xuchang, she enrolled in 1982 at the Shanghai music conservatorium and graduated in Chinese traditional music-theory and composition as well as concert pipa-player in 1986. From 1986 to 1998 Yang Jing was the Pipa-soloist of the China National Traditional Orchestra in Beijing. In 1996 she enrolled in an international artists exchange program of the Japanese gouvernment's cultural agency and studied at the Tokyo Music College under the guidance of Minoru Miki. Since 1998, Yang Jing has been active as an international pipa concertist, composer and music teacher.

Eventually Yang Jing settled in 2003 in Lucerne, Switzerland.

In 1999 Yang Jing premiered Japanese composer Minoru Miki's Pipa Concerto with the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Naoto Ohtomo. In 1999 she premiered Julian Philips' pipa concerto Formal Introductions' with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales under conductor Grant Llewellyn. In 2000 she premiered Minoru Miki's opera The Tale of Genji at the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. In 2000 she premiered Minoru Miki's Memory of the Earth with the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra in Tokyo under the direction of Kurt Masur. In 2003 Yang Jing premiered Mo Fan's pipa concert Ballade of the Eternal Sorrow with the Tokyo Geidai Symphony Orchestra with conductor Sato Kotara in Tokyo and with the Boston Newton Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jeffrey Rink. In 2004 she performedd with the Zurich Chamber Orchestra for a series of pipa and orchestra concertos.

Yang Jing has played at venues like the Carnegie Hall in New York, The Barbican Centre in London, The Suntory Hall in Tokyo, the Jerusalem Concert Hall in Israel, the Golden Hall in Vienna and the Beijing Concert Hall, in Beijing. In 1996 Yang Jing formed China's first female music formation, the Qing Mei Jing Yue quartet. in 1996 produced the first Chinese instrumental quartet album entitled Evening Poem. In 2003 she won with the Tokyo Yui Ensemble the Special Prize at the International Chamber Music Competition and Festa in Osaka. Since 2002 she is the musical director of the Asia Ensemble based in Tokyo. In 1986 Yang Jing won at the Shanghai Spring Music Festival for the works and performance of Nine Jade Chains and Disclosure. In 1993 she won the first prize in the National Chamber Music Competition of the PRC for her solo work Dance along the Old Silk Road. Her compositions figures as competition pieces for the National Pipa Competitions in the PRC.

Yang Jing has widely published and recorded her pipa compositions. In 2004 she published Asia Ensemble and her pipa album Pipa Concerto. In 2000 she published a collection of pipa compositions Dance along the old Silk Road. In 1999 she recorded her pipa solo album Disclosure. In 1999 she published with China's first female music formation 'Qing Mei Jing Yue' the album Evening Poem. Jointly with percussionist Pierre Favre, she recorded the album Moments and Two in One. Her first CD was published in 1995 entitled Send my passions in Red Beans. In 1998 she recorded jointly with Arthur Mattli a charity CD Village in the Floods.

Many concerts by and with Yang Jing were recorded and available on DVD such as Magic Moments from Unique Duo with Pierre Favre, Musik für Pipa and Orgel a recording with organist Wolfgang Sieber for pipa and pipes. In 2005 she recorded Yang Jing and Chamber Soloists Lucerne. Other albums are Severed Dream of Dunhuang and Solo-Live at the Moods.

Recordings

• (2006) Live in Moscow with Chamber Orchestra Kremlin • (2006) Tow in One with Pierre Favre • (2006) Solo – Live at Moods DVD • (2005) Yang Jing and Chamber Soloist Lucerne DVD chamber music • (2005) Pipa and Pipes DVD with Organ Wolfgang Sieber • (2004) Severed Dream of Dunhuang Solo DVD • (2004) Magic Moments DVD with Pierre Favre • (2004) Asia Ensemble with Asia Ensemble in Tokyo • (2004) Pipa Concerto with Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra • (2003) Dance along the old Silk Road Pipa Solo selections • (2001) Moments with percussionist Pierre Favre • (1999) Disclosure Pipa Solo selections • (1999) Evening Poem with China's first female music formation 'Qing Mei Jing Yue' • (1998) Village in the Floods with Arthur Mattli • (1995) Send my passions in Red Beans with Chinese National Orchestra and Chinese Central Radio Orchestra

External links

• Asia Music
• Website of Yang Jing