An Evening of Chinese Music - Convergence
A Festival Exploring Cross-Cultural Compositions
Thursday, September 29, 2022, 11:30am
Virtual Presentation on ZoomTopic: Writing for the zheng and other Chinese instruments
Featured Guests: Chihchung Chi-Sun Lee, Composer; Sun Yue, Composer; Dr. Mei Han, Director MTSU
Center for Chinese Music and Culture & Performer; Dr. Haiqiong Deng, Performer; Kelly Corcoran, Conductor and Artistic Director, Intersection
Friday, September 30, 2022, 8pm
Free Performance With Scholarly and Cultural Context
Hosted by Dr. Mei Han
Hinton Hall, Wright Music BuildingMiddle Tennessee State UniversitySaturday, October 1, 2022, 3pm
Family Friendly Ticketed Performance
Hosted by Kelly Corcoran & Dr. Mei Han
Casa Azafrán
2195 Nolensville Pike Nashville, TNThe MTSU performance will integrate historic and cultural context into an academically influenced presentation, while the Nashville performance will be designed for families and audiences of all ages including some hands-on activities. The concerts will also include traditional works for zheng and other Chinese musical instruments.
Taiwanese-American composer Chihchung Chi-Sun Lee received her doctoral degree in composition from the University of Michigan. Her work Dots, Lines and Convergence, commissioned by the Harvard Fromm Foundation, presents distinct musical cultures that synthesize and “converge” in the final movement. Sun Yue, a Chinese-born composer who holds a doctoral degree in music composition from Florida State University composed Moon Phase specially for this Festival.
Sun Yue writes of the work “The Moon represents powerful feminine energy, signifying wisdom, intuition, birth, death, reincarnation, and a spiritual connection. We long for its guidance, we look to it for peace, we crave its attention, we feel its power when it illuminates the night, whining upon us.”
PROGRAM
Chihchung Chi-Sun Lee - Dots, Lines and Convergence Sun Yue - Moon Phase for Zheng and 5 instruments **WORLD PREMIERE Additional Repertoire for Solo Qin, Yangqin, Zheng and Zheng duetARTISTS
Kelly Corcoran, conductor Dr. Haiqiong Deng, zheng Dr. Mei Han, zheng Celine Thackston, flute Todd Waldecker, clarinet TBA, percussion Esther Sanders, violin Melissa Bull, violin Sarah Cote, viola Meghan Berindean, cello Sarah Ransom, bassContact:
Dr. Mei Han
ccmc@mtsu.edu
615-904-8121
Hours:
Fall Semester 2024: Weekdays 10:00 am - 3:00 pm or by Appointment.
Physical location:
503A Bell Street, Suite 1600, Murfreesboro, TN 37132
Andrew Woodfin Miller, Sr. Education Center
Mailing address:
MTSU Box 168
1301 E Main Street
Murfreesboro, TN 37132-0001