G. Schirmer, part of the Wise Music Group, is pleased to announce a new long-term publishing relationship with composer Du Yun. Following a five-year term of copyright administration, Du Yun’s concert works and operas are now exclusively published by G. Schirmer.
Winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for her and Royce Vavrek’s opera Angel’s Bone, Du Yun is Professor of Composition at the Peabody Institute, Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, and an active performer and multimedia artist. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2024 and in 2018 she was named a Guggenheim Fellow.
“The trust and collaborative spirit I have had with the team of Schirmer is invaluable,” writes Du Yun. “I am thrilled to be deepening our partnership and building on this foundation for the future.”
“We are thrilled to be expanding our relationship with Du Yun and her work,” writes Peggy Monastra, Vice President of G. Schirmer. “Her creative ideas know no bounds and her music - which can be both wildly extroverted and intensely intimate - has the power to speak to audiences on a global scale. With each and every new work, she explores new terrain and grows immensely as an artist. Supporting her existing catalogue and future projects with a long-term commitment is something we look forward to with great respect and anticipation. “
Upcoming highlights include a commission from Dutch National Opera titled Red Fox (Or, when bathing In the waterfall, memory is of no consequence), which reunites the composer with librettist Royce Vavrek and premieres in 2027; director Kip Williams’ new production of Angel’s Bone, a collaboration between English National Opera, Factory International and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, to be presented in Manchester in Spring 2026; upcoming performances in Philadelphia and Shanghai of Ears of the Book, a pipa concerto written for the superlative Wu Man, commissioned by the Philadelphia Orchestra, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, and Carnegie Hall; and an album of orchestral music out in 2026, featuring Marin Alsop conducting the Peabody Orchestra.
Du Yun's work is infused with the spirit of activism and transnationalism. As the founder of the FutureTradition Initiative, she works with folk musicians from around the world in order to champion more cross-regional collaborations. The latest project from FutureTradition is The Ocean Etched in The Forest, commissioned by Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and the Beijing Music Festival, where it recently premiered. Over the past several years, Du Yun and her collaborator Julian Crouch have worked closely with artists of the Jinuo ethnicity from Yunnan province, including He Guiying, the national inheritor of his people's unique heritage. Living almost entirely isolated from urban society until 1979, the Jinuo people have maintained their distinct culture and ecologically grounded mindset amid modernization. In collaboration with Du Yun and Crouch, Guiying has been recording Jinuo children in Bapiao Village as they perform nearly forgotten local folk songs. These recordings, merged with music from Du Yun’s band OK MISS, represent an original musical tapestry that transcends time and geography, highlighting the intersections of ancient tradition and modern methodology, folk tales and contemporary storytelling, generations living and gone.
Her most recent album, Where We Lost Our Shadows, is the result of a collaboration with Palestinian filmmaker Khaled Jarrar, Japanese-American percussionist Shayna Dunkelman, and Pakistani vocalist Ali Sethi. Originally commissioned by Carnegie Hall, American Composers Orchestra, Southbank Centre, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and CalPerformances, Where We Lost Our Shadows also features the poetry of Ghassan Zaqtan, a Palestinian writer. This multimedia oratorio is emblematic of Du Yun’s commitment to the decolonization of global culture, and to championing voices of resilience from a wide range of communities.
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