Fang Man (composer)

Fang Man （Chinese:方满) is a Chinese-born composer who lives in the United States.

Fang Man 方满

Hailed as “inventive and breathtaking” by New York Times critic, Steven Smith, Fang Man’s original concert music has been performed worldwide by notable orchestras and ensembles such as the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra New Music Group under the baton of Esa-Pekka Salonen, American Composers Orchestra, Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, National Orchestre de Lorraine (France), Minnesota Orchestra, Peabody Symphony Orchestra, Prism Saxophone Quartet, Mimi Stillman, Dolce Suono Ensemble, and Music from China, among others.[1]

She is the beneficiary of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Koussevitzky Foundation Commission, Opera America Discovery Grant, the 47th UWRF Commissioned Composer, the National Endowment for the Arts Award, Siemens Music Foundation Commission, Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra Association commission, an Underwood/ACO New Music commission, Toru Takemitsu Award (Japan), Dolce Suono Ensemble Mahler-Schoenberg Project commission, Prism Saxophone Quartet /Music From China Commission, Meet the Composer Commission, Bank of America Gallery commission, the Darmstadt Stipend-Prize-Award,SACEM Scholarship (France), Kate Neal Kinley Memorial Fellowship, Frank Huntington Beebe Fellowship, Centre Acanthes Bursary Award, Music from China Award, Olin and Sage Fellowships (Cornell University), Cecil Effinger Fellowships (University of Colorado Boulder), AMC Composers Assistant Grant, ASCAPlus Award, among others. Her music has been performed at Carnegie Hall (New York), Walt Disney Hall (Los Angeles), Espace de Projection of IRCAM-Centre Pompidou (Paris), Tokyo Opera City Concert Hall, Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts (Philadelphia), Friedberg Concert Hall (Baltimore), Miller Theater of Columbia University (New York), Bank of America Tower (Seattle), Merkin Concert Hall (New York), Beijing Concert Hall, etc. She has also been asked to new music festivals such as the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, Darmstadt International Summer Course for New Music (Germany), Centre Acanthes (Avignon and Metz, France), Festival Blurred Edges (Hamburg, Germany), Global Ear Festival (Dresden, Germany), Sinus~Ton Festival (Magdeburg, Germany), the Cabrillo Festival (Santa Cruz, USA), Aspen Music Festival (Aspen, USA), Gaudeamus Music Week (Amsterdam, the Netherlands), June in Buffalo (Buffalo, USA), and Bowdoin Summer Music Festival (USA) among others. She has been invited as a resident composer at the Hermitage Artist Retreat in Florida, Aldeburgh Music Centre in the UK, and Civitella Ranieri Music Foundation in Italy.[2]

Steven Stucky and Roberto Sierra were her primary teachers at Cornell University, where she obtained the Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degree and the Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) degree. She was selected to participate in the one-year Computer Music and Composition courses at IRCAM (Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique, Centre Pompidou, where she studied composition with Brian Ferneyhough, Jonathan Harvey, Mauro Lanza, Mikhail Malt, Yan Marez, and Tristan Murail. She has also studied with Richard Toensing and Michael Theodore at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Before she moved to the United States, she obtained the Bachelor of Music degree from Beijing Central Conservatory of Music, where she studied with Du Ming-Xin and Ye Xiao-Gang.[3]

Fang Man is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of South Carolina. She previously held positions as a Composer-in-Residence and Assistant Professor of Music at the Baldwin-Wallace Conservatory of Music, and a Visiting Assistant Professor at Duke University, where she taught a graduate seminar on the music of Toru Takemitsu and Witold Lutoslawski.[4]

Compositions

Orchestral

Chamber

Electronics

External links

References

  1. ↑ "Fang Man, composer". www.fangmanmusic.com. Retrieved 2016-04-28.
  2. ↑ "Fang Man, composer". www.fangmanmusic.com. Retrieved 2016-04-28.
  3. ↑ "Fang Man, composer". www.fangmanmusic.com. Retrieved 2016-04-28.
  4. ↑ "Fang Man, composer". www.fangmanmusic.com. Retrieved 2016-04-28.
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