梁雷
简介
Lei Liang (b. 28 November 1972, Tianjin). American composer, born in China, of mostly stage, orchestral and chamber works that have been performed throughout the world; he is also active as a musicologist. Mr. Liang is the son of the musicologists Liang Mao-chun (b. 1940) and Cai Liang-yu (b. 1940). He studied piano in China as a child. He later studied composition with Robert Cogan and Lee Hyla at the New England Conservatory in Boston, Massachusetts from 1992–98, where he earned his BMus and MMus in composition with distinction in performance. He later studied composition with Sir Harrison Birtwistle, Chaya Czernowin, Mario Davidovsky, Joshua Fineberg, Elliott Gyger, Magnus Lindberg, and Bernard Rands at Harvard University from 2001–06, where he was a Paul 04 and where he earned his PhD. Among his honours are numerous prizes as both a composer and pianist in China while a child (1984–89), a term as a Junior Fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows (1998–2001), a bursary from the Experimentalstudio des SWR in Freiburg im Breisgau (2004), an honourable mention in the Ali nor Awards for music for harpsichord in Washington, D. C. (2004, for Some Empty Thoughts of a Person from Edo), and the George Arthur Knight Prize from Harvard University (2006, for Serashi Fragments). He was later a finalist in the competition for music for saxophone Thailand in Nakhon Pathom (2006, for Parallel Gardens) and received the Guggenheim Fellowship (2009–10) and the Elliott Carter Rome Prize (2011–12). As a musicologist, he is engaged with the preservation of traditional music from Asia and has co-produced historical recordings from Inner Mongolia, China, as well as digital versions of historical recordings for the Music Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Arts in Beijing. In addition, he has recorded an extensive interview with jinghu (2-string fiddle used in Peking opera)-player Ni Qiu-ping for the Archive of World Music at the Loeb Music Library of Harvard University. His articles about his research and other elements of Asian music have appeared in publications in China, South Korea and the USA, including in the journals Renmin Yinyue – People's Music and Yinyue Zhoubao – Music Weekly, both in Beijing, as well as in China and the West – The Birth of a New Music (2007, edited by Edward Green, Contemporary Music Review). He taught as an honorary professor at the Conservatory of Music in Wuhan in 2000 and has taught as Distinguished Visiting Professor at Shaanxi Normal University in Xi'an since 2004. He taught composition, music from China and music theory as a visiting assistant professor of music at Middlebury College in Vermont in 2006–07 and has taught composition and music theory as an assistant professor at the University of California, San Diego since 2007, where he has also served as director of the programme for undergraduate composition since 2007. He has lived in the USA since 1990 and became a citizen of the USA in 2006.
| 别名 | lei liang |
|---|---|
| 原始名称 | 梁雷 |
| 国籍 | 美国 |
| 地区 | 欧美 |
| 类似歌手 | 相似艺人 |
| 精选上位词 | 歌手 |