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Gao Ping

Composer, Performer

Born: 1970

Biography

Gao Ping is a composer-pianist, born in Chengdu, in the Sichuan province of China. He studied in the USA in the 1990s. In demand as a composer, he has received commissions and performances from musicians around the world. The Beijing-based musicologist Li Xi’an has referred to Gao Ping as a leading member of the “sixth generation” of Chinese composers after the “fifth generation” of composers such as Tan Dun and Qu Xiaosong.

Many prestigious venues have presented Gao Ping's works such as the Aspen Music Festival, Dresdener Musikfestspiele, Hibiki Hall Festival (Japan), New Zealand International Arts Festival (Wellington), and the Beijing-Modern International Music Festival. In Europe, his music has been commissioned or performed by groups including the Berlin Piano-Percussion Ensemble, the Zurich-based Ensemble Pyramide, and the Gaudeamus International Music Week in Amsterdam.

While completing his Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati, Gao Ping won the 2003 Auros Compostion Prize (Boston) and was resident at the MacDowell Colony for Artists. In New Zealand, his music has been presented by Michael Houstoun, John Chen, Christchurch International Arts Festival, New Zealand String Quartet, and NZTrio. Gao was the recipient of the 2010 CANZ (Composers Association of NZ) Trust Fund Award.

As a pianist, Gao Ping’s repertoire is extensive; he has performed to acclaim all over the world. In 2008, Gao Ping premiered his Piano Concerto with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Mr. Kenneth Young. The Listener enthusiastically acclaimed the two-movement work as “a major concerto”.

Gao Ping’s two albums released on the Naxos label were critically acclaimed and described as “music which wants to be heard with the ears of a child, full of wonder and amazement…. deep and vulnerable.”

Gao is currently a Professor in Composition at the Conservatory of Music-Capital Normal University as well as a guest professor at the China Conservatory of Music. He previously taught at Canterbury University and Te Kōkī New Zealand School of Music.

Photo credit: Fang Xiang


Composed (30)

Bitter Cold Night

for violin and piano, 10m


Bright Light and Cloud Shadows

for string quartet


Cloud Drama

for pipa and piano, 21m 30s


Concerto for Piano and Orchestra

for piano and orchestra, 30m


Cuo Diao (Split Melody)

for glockenspiel and vibraphone


Daydreams

for piano


Distant Voices

for piano, 14m 6s


Ephemera

for clarinet and string quartet


Feng Zheng

for violin, cello, piano and guzheng


lefTango

for piano (left hand only)


Legend

for bassoon and piano


Mei, Lan, Zhu, Ju

for string quartet and piano, 25m


Movement I of Valley Echoes

for piano (four hands)


Night Alley

for piano, 8m


Outside the Window

for piano, 12m


Perhaps - song at a burial

for vocalising pianist, 7m 30s


Poem

for flute and piano


Questioning the Mountains

for violin and piano, 5m 30s


Shuo Shu Ren - The Storyteller

for flute, oboe, violin, viola, cello and harp, 28m 12s


Si Bu Xiang (The Four Not Alike)

for piano and Chinese instruments


Sonata No. 2 for Cello and Piano, "Departures"

for cello and piano, 20m 47s


The Mountain

for orchestra


Three Poems of Mu Xin

for bass voice and string quartet


Wordless Mantras

for two violins and bowls



Commissioned (1)

Aria

for piano



Performances (11)

Orchestra Wellington: London Symphony

PROGRAMME: Gao Ping | Wild Cherry Tree Mozart | Piano Concerto No. 14 in E-flat Major D...


NZSQ | National Tour 2019 - Blenheim

__PROGRAMME:__ Mozart | __String Quartet No. 1 in G Major, K80/73f__ Gao Ping | __String Qu...


NZSQ | National Tour 2019 - Tauranga

__PROGRAMME:__ Mozart | __String Quartet No. 1 in G Major, K80/73f__ Gao Ping | __String Qu...


NZSQ | National Tour 2019 - Wellington (St Mary)

__PROGRAMME:__ Mozart | __String Quartet No. 1 in G Major, K80/73f__ Gao Ping | __String Qu...


NZSQ | National Tour 2019 - Featherston

__PROGRAMME:__ Mozart | __String Quartet No. 1 in G Major, K80/73f__ Gao Ping | __String Qu...


NZSQ | National Tour 2019 - Devonport

__PROGRAMME:__ Mozart | __String Quartet No. 1 in G Major, K80/73f__ Gao Ping | __String Qu...


NZSQ | National Tour 2019 - Dunedin

__PROGRAMME:__ Mozart | __String Quartet No. 1 in G Major, K80/73f__ Gao Ping | __String Qu...


NZTrio | Legacy 3 (Pah Homestead)

Shortened version of one hour, no interval with selections from: __Schumann Sechs Stücke in ka...


NZTrio | Legacy 3 (Auckland Town Hall)

__Schumann Sechs Stücke in kanonischer Form, Op. 56 arr. for Piano Trio, V & VI__ __Gao P...


NZTrio | Legacy 3 (Wellington)

__Schumann Sechs Stücke in kanonischer Form, Op. 56 arr. for Piano Trio, V & VI__ __Gao P...


NZTrio | Legacy 3 (Waiheke Island)

__Schumann Sechs Stücke in kanonischer Form, Op. 56 arr. for Piano Trio, V & VI__ __Gao P...