Shen Ye

b. 1977

Chinese

Biography

Shen Ye is Professor of Composition at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. He has been a visiting lecturer at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hamburg (2009), visiting scholar at the Berlin University of the Arts with the support of the Chinese Ministry of Education (2011), and has studied computer-based composition in Paris at the Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM).

His works have frequently been performed in Mainland China, Asia, the US, and Europe. He has collaborated with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, Shanghai Opera House Orchestra, Hong Kong Chinese Traditional Orchestra, ensemble recherche Freiburg, Ensemble Intercontemporain, and has completed commissions for the Witten/Herdecke University (Germany), Finisterra Trio (US), TIMF Ensemble & Klangspuren Festival in Austria, the "Sounding D 2010" new music festival (Germany), Asia-Europe Foundation (the Philippines), Shanghai Spring International Festival, and Shanghai Cultural Development Foundation.