Leilei Tian: was born in 1971
in China. She began to study piano at the age of six. From 1988 to 1995,
she studied composition in Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing with Zhenmin Xu and got her
Master's Degree. In 1997, she went to Sweden to study with Ole Lützow-Holm in the Conservatory of Music in Göteborg and got her postgraduate diploma in 2001. From
2002 to 2003 she has attended the one-year master class for
electro-acoustic music in Ircam in Paris. Since
then she lives in Paris.
She has composed more than 30 works
commissioned by leading music institutions, festivals and ensembles. Her
music has been widely performed and well received internationally. Performers including Zürich Concert Hall
Symphony Orchestra, Göteborg Symphony Orchestra,
Stockholm Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Gulbenkian
Symphony Orcehstra of Lisbon, Strasbourg
Philharmonic Orchestra, Ensemble Intercontemporain
of Paris, Nieuw Ensemble of Amsterdam, Nouvelle
Ensemble Moderne of Montreal, Ensemble Earplay of San Francisco, KammarensembleN
of Stockholm etc during international Festivals
such as ISCM World Music Days , Huddersfield
Contemporary Music Festival, Festival Agora in Paris, International Gaudeamus Music week, Stockholm New Musik,
La Biennale Venice etc.
From 2006-2008, she is the residence
composer of CoMA Contemporary Music Center in
Sweden.
She is the also winner of several
prestigious competitions such as International Gaudeamus
Competition, Besançon International Composition
Competition for orchestra, International Contemporary Music Contest "Citta' di Udine" in Italy ,
International Composition Competition of GRAME and ISCM Cash Young
Composer’s Award of “World Music Days ” in Zürich.
In Leilei Tian’s music, she successfully integrates those
seemingly opposite aspects into a harmonic unity. There is no more boundary
between tradition and modernity, occident and orient, masculine and
feminine, drama and poetry, imagery and abstraction. For her, musical
creation is not just a composition of sounds with various techniques, nor a
mere esthetical product of a particular culture, but far beyond is the
intuitive manifestation of one’s inner experience and content, namely one’s
profound philosophical and spiritual expression that is universal and
timeless in nature. Her pursuit for transcendental spirituality is the essential
source that provides her inspiration, creativity, dynamic and meaning to
her artistic works.
OTHER
STUDIES (master classes, etc)
2002 Composition Workshop at Centre Acanthes in Avignon (France), with Brian Fernerhough and Arditt
Quartet
2000 Composition Course “Voix Nouvelles”
at Royaumont (France), with Brian Fernerhough
2000 6th International Young Composers meeting in Apeldoorn (Netherlands),
with Louis Andriessen
1999 40. Internationale Ferienkurse
Darmstadt in Germany, with Salvatore Sciarrino
1998 Summer workshop in IRCAM, Paris
1998 “Avantgarde Schwaz”
International Academy for New Composition and Audio-Art in Austria, with Boguslaw Schaeffer
COMPOSITION
PRIZES
2005 Selection prize, 32nd International
Competition for Electronic Music of Bourges, France
2004 CASH Young Composer’s Award by ISCM (International Society for
Contemporary Music) during
“World Music Days” in Zürich, Switzerland
2002 1st Prize, IV International Contemporary Music Contest "Citta' di Udine" in Italy
2002 1st Prize, 4th International Composition Competition of GRAME in Lyon,
France
2000 1st Prize (Grand Prix), 10th International Composition Competition of Besançon for orchestra piece in France
1999 Honorable Mention, International Gaudeamus
Competition for Young Composers in
Amsterdam, Netherlands
SCHOLARSHIPS
AND FELLOWSHIPS
2009 STIM-stipendier
(STIM-scolarship) awarded by the Swedish
Performing Rights Society
2008 STIM-stipendier (STIM-scolarship)
awarded by the Swedish Performing Rights Society
2004 Alvar Kraft-stipendier
awarded by Society of Swedish Composers
2003 STIM-stipendier (STIM-scolarship)
awarded by the Swedish Performing Rights Society
2002 STIM-stipendier (STIM-scolarship)
awarded by the Swedish Performing Rights Society
2001 Anders Sandrews Music Scholarship
2001 Byggnads Culture Scholarship
1999 Frimuraresamhällets Music Grant
1998 Anders Sandrews Music Scholarship
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