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“Hawking Radiation” Premiere by BMOP
April 24, 2024 4:02 am Leave your thoughtsYu-Hui’s latest orchestral piece “Hawking Radiation” will be premiered by Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP) on May 25 at Jordan Hall in Boston. Also on the program are pieces by Leonard Bernstein, Harold Shapero, and Henri Lazarof. Conceived when the first black hole image was released in 2019, and completed during the time when the […]
“Mind Like Water” album to be released by New Focus Recordings
January 4, 2024 3:07 pm Leave your thoughtsYu-Hui’s new “Mind Like Water” album is set to be officially released on January 19, 2024, under the New Focus Recordings label. This album showcases four chamber/solo works that focus on the dialogues between a composer and her work, between different musical ideas, and between a soloist and her instrument. The recording features performances by […]
Volti performing “Being: Two Collins Songs” in the California Festival
November 10, 2023 10:06 pm Leave your thoughtsVolti, a professional vocal ensemble based in San Francisco, revisited Yu-Hui’s “Being: Two Collins Songs” in a series of concerts between 11/3 – 11/5, 2023, in the Bay Area as part of the California Festival: A Celebration of New Music. Commissioned and premiered by Volti in 2010, “Being: Two Collins Songs” is an a cappella […]
Charles Neidich performing “Three Fantasias” in Taipei
November 14, 2022 11:20 pm Leave your thoughtsEminent clarinetist Charles Neidich is performing Yu-Hui’s “Three Fantasias” at the Eslite Performance Hall in Taipei on November 13, 2022, as part of the Taipei Symphony Orchestra’s chamber music concert series. Also on the program is his own composition “Firefly”, plus chamber pieces by Prokofiev and Brahms (with members of Taipei Symphony Orchestra). This concert […]
Winsor Music Commission and Premiere
November 2, 2022 12:40 am Leave your thoughts“Germinate” West Coast premiere
October 12, 2022 12:31 am Leave your thoughts“Germinate” received its west coast premiere in October 2022 at the beautiful Ann E. Pitzer Center, UC Davis. The Empyrean Ensemble, directed by composer Sam Nichols, gave a superb performance under the baton of conductor Matilda Hofman. Yu-Hui was also invited to give a talk in UCD’s Valente Lecture series.
“Mind Stretch” in pianist Jihye Chang’s BOSTON ETUDES project
March 1, 2022 5:01 pm Leave your thoughtsBOSTON ETUDES is a project initiated by pianist Jihye Chang, for which she commissioned 8 Boston-based composers to each write a new piano étude for a series of virtual premieres on YouTube during the Covid-19 pandemic. As part of this project, Yu-Hui’s “Mind Stretch” is not only an exercise of the pianist’s physical virtuosity, but […]
Collage New Music’s “The Composer Speaks” series
April 13, 2021 1:34 pm Leave your thoughtsAs one of the featured composers in Collage New Music’s “The Composer Speaks” series, Yu-Hui was interviewed by conductor David Hoose, and their lively conversation included topics ranging from musical identity to composition advice. The entire interview is posted on Collage’s YouTube channel. Several other composers are also presented in this series, including Peter Child, […]
“Saving Faces” interview
November 2, 2020 4:32 pm Leave your thoughtsYu-Hui’s new work “Saving Faces” for 6 vocalists and 6 instrumentalists was successfully premiered live in a series of sold-out concerts in Germany during October 2020. While Yu-Hui was prevented from attending due to Covid travel restrictions, Klangforum Heidelberg, which commissioned and performed this new work, recorded an interview session between Yu-Hui and musicologist Dr. […]