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Jeffrey Ching
Jeffrey Ching (, born 4 November 1965) is a contemporary classical composer. He was born in the Philippines, to Chinese parents. He is married with the operatic soprano Andión Fernández and has two children. His opera ' was given in the Theater Erfurt in 2009. Selected works *''Concerto da camera (Jeffrey Ching), Concerto da camera'' *''Horologia sinica'' *''Kunstkabinett'' *''Notas para una cartografía de Filipinas'' *''Terra Kytaorum'' *Symphony No. 1 in C major (prem. 1981) *Symphony No. 2, "The Imp of the Perverse" *Symphony No. 3, "Rituals" *Symphony No. 4, "Souvenir des Ming" *Symphony No. 5, "Kunstkammer" References Further reading * Hila, Antonio C. "Understanding the Early Music of Jeffrey Ching: An Erudite Composer", ''Unitas'', Vol. 75, No. 3, Sept. 2002, pp. 454–75. ISSN 0041-7149 * Programme brochure for Weltblech concert, Berlin, 9 January 2001. * Programme brochure for the Kammerorchester Berlin IV. Abonnementkonzert, Berlin, 1 March 2006. * Xu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andión Fernández
Andión Fernández is a Spanish Filipino, Spanish Filipina operatic soprano, born in Manila. A soloist of the Deutsche Oper Berlin since 2001, she graduated with honors from the Hochschule der Künste, Berlin, and has studied voice with Karan Armstrong and Ira Hartmann, and contemporary music with Aribert Reimann. She is a prizewinner of Operalia International Opera Competition (Plácido Domingo World Opera Contest, Hamburg) and the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition, Cardiff Singer of the World competition. The major international opera houses she has sung in include the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin, the Nuremberg Opera, the Gulbenkian Auditorium in Lisbon, the Festwochen Herrenhausen in Hannover, the Schloß Sanssouci in Potsdam, the Kallang Theatre and Victoria Theatre in Singapore, the Festspielhaus in Baden Baden, and the Liceu, Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona. Among her major roles are Susanna (''The Marriag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theater Erfurt
The Theater Erfurt is a German municipal theatre located in Erfurt, the capital of Thuringia. The main stage is in a building in the Brühlervorstadt, completed in 2003. The theatre offers musical theatre and concerts, played by the Philharmonisches Orchester Erfurt. Ballet and plays are offered by guest performances. The company organizes the annual open air festival '' DomStufen''. The theatre's current ''Generalintendant'', Guy Montavon, has held the post since 2002. Stages The main venue is in a new house, ''Großes Haus''. The large hall seats 840 visitors, a ''Studio'' 200 visitors, which can be reduces as ''Salon im Studio'' for events for up to 100 people. The courtyard holds the stage ''Theatrium''. Events can also be held in the rehearsal hall for the orchestra. The festival ''DomStufen'' takes place on the ''Domplatz'' (Cathedral Square) of Erfurt, seating up to 2000 spectators. The company also holds events at the ''Rathaus'' (Town Hall) and the ''Thomaskirche''. Prem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Concerto Da Camera (Jeffrey Ching)
''Concerto da camera'' is a composition for solo guitar, solo violoncello, soprano, and twenty strings, by the contemporary Chinese-British composer Jeffrey Ching. Analytical Description The composer describes the composition as a ‘quintuple concerto’ for the five nationalities of its original begetters: German for the guitarist Reinbert Evers; Lithuanian for his wife, the pianist Igina Mauzaite (although the concerto never included a piano part); Brazilian for the ‘cellist Matias de Oliveira Pinto; the Spanish ancestry of the composer’s wife, the soprano Andión Fernández; and the composer’s own Chinese parentage. Composed in Berlin between 2 March and 2 July 2008 and revised in 2011-2012, the concerto is about half an hour in duration, and divides into a slow and a quick movement, in each of which the five musical races combine in diverse ways: The opening " Passacaglia à la sarabande" alternates three statements of a “V-I-L-N-I-U-S” motto (A-A-E-G-A-G-Eb) with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horologia Sinica
''Horologia sinica'' (渾天昏君) is a composition by the contemporary Chinese-British composer Jeffrey Ching. It was commissioned by the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra, who premiered it under Yan Huichang on 6 March 2012 during the 40th Hong Kong Arts Festival at a concert marking the fiftieth anniversary of Hong Kong City Hall. The soprano soloist was Andión Fernández. The piece lasts approximately twenty minutes. Title and Analytical Description "Horologia sinica" means "Chinese clocks" in Latin. The Chinese title ''Huntian hunjun''「渾天昏君」is an untranslatable pun on ''huntian'' (渾天) meaning "astronomical clock", and ''hunjun'' (昏君) meaning "foolish ruler". According to the composer, the first 'clock' is the water-powered astronomical clock-tower built by the court official Su Song (蘇頌) in Kaifeng during the Northern Song dynasty. An ensemble of water sounds, woodblocks, and other unpitched percussion accurately mark the seconds, minutes, quarters, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kunstkabinett
''Kunstkabinett'', a German term for a cabinet of curiosities (literally "culture room"), is a chamber work by the contemporary classical composer Jeffrey Ching. It was composed in Berlin on 05-28 June 2007, immediately after the completion of the first draft of the opera ''The Orphan'', with which it shares both compositional approach and musical material (see below). Like its much larger sibling, Ching's '' Symphony No. 5, "Kunstkammer"'' (2006), it is an assemblage of musical objets d'art not obviously related in any way except by the personal taste of their collector. World premiere and instrumentation ''Kunstkabinett'' was premiered by the Modern Art Ensemble and the composer's wife, the soprano Andión Fernández, in Berlin on 16 September 2007. It is scored for seven players (flute/contrabass flute, clarinet/contrabass clarinet, percussionist, piano, violin, viola, 'cello) and soprano. Sections of the work The work is in three continuous movements of about fifteen minutes' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Notas Para Una Cartografía De Filipinas
''Notas para una cartografía de Filipinas'', subtitled ''Prelude, Toccata, and Fugues for piano and gangsa, one player'', is a work by the contemporary classical composer Jeffrey Ching (Chinese name in Piny''in: Zhuang Zŭxin 莊祖欣, 庄祖欣). It was completed in Berlin on 19 December 2007. The first performances were given by Kyoko Okuni in Münster on 30 September 2008 and by Abelardo Galang II in Osaka on 5 October 2008. Origin of the title The Spanish title, meaning "Notes for a cartography of the Philippines", was taken from this sentence in a scholarly journal: Between 1903 and 1907 Blair and Robertson incorporated numerous photoengraved reproductions of early maps in their well-known corpus of Philippiniana (Emma Helen Blair and James Alexander Robertson, ''The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898'', 55 vols. leveland 1903-1907, and Robertson at the same time evaluated some of these maps as historical evidence, but the first attempt at a cartographical analysis was made b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terra Kytaorum
{{Use dmy dates, date=January 2024 ''Terra Kytaorum'' (Land of the Cathayans) is a work for brass ensemble and percussion by the contemporary classical composer Jeffrey Ching. Its subtitle is ''Souvenir des Yuan'', which incorporates it into that composer's series of musical ''souvenirs'' based on melodic material from various Chinese dynasties: ''Souvenir des Tang'' (1997), ''Souvenir des Song'' (1994), and ''Souvenir des Ming'' (2002). The present work was completed in London on 31 December 2000. World premiere and instrumentation ''Terra Kytaorum (Souvenir des Yuan)'' was commissioned by Weltblech (World Brass), who premiered an abridged version in Berlin on 9 January 2001. It is scored for 4 trumpets, horn, 3 trombones, bass trombone, tuba, and 2 percussionists. Played uncut, the complete work, unique in scale in the brass ensemble repertoire, would last over an hour. Pseudo-historical background The work is premised on fictitious events from mediaeval history which exis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Symphony No
A symphony is an extended musical composition in Western classical music, most often for orchestra. Although the term has had many meanings from its origins in the ancient Greek era, by the late 18th century the word had taken on the meaning common today: a work usually consisting of multiple distinct sections or movements, often four, with the first movement in sonata form. Symphonies are almost always scored for an orchestra consisting of a string section ( violin, viola, cello, and double bass), brass, woodwind, and percussion instruments which altogether number about 30 to 100 musicians. Symphonies are notated in a musical score, which contains all the instrument parts. Orchestral musicians play from parts which contain just the notated music for their own instrument. Some symphonies also contain vocal parts (e.g., Beethoven's Ninth Symphony). Etymology and origins The word ''symphony'' is derived from the Greek word (), meaning "agreement or concord of sound ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kammerorchester Berlin
The Kammerorchester Berlin has been in existence since 1945 and its first director was the conductor Helmut Koch. Already in the 1950s, the orchestra succeeded in making a name for itself. Among other awards it received the ''Japanese Record Prize'' and the Grand Prix du Disque für Vivaldi's '' Juditha triumphans'', '' L’Orfeo'' by Claudio Monteverdi and Mozart's ''Betulia liberata'' as well as the . In the 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s, the Berlin Chamber Orchestra was associated with the tenor and conductor Peter Schreier, with whom it toured extensively; several CD and television productions were made. Among other things, all of Johann Sebastian Bach's secular cantatas have been produced for German television. During this time, the orchestra worked with the trumpeter Ludwig Güttler, with Vittorio Negri and the conductors Kurt Masur, Heinz Schunk and Jeffrey Tate. From 1995 to the present day, the Berlin Chamber Orchestra has worked primarily with the artistic directors M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
21st-century Classical Composers
The 1st century was the century spanning AD 1 ( I) through AD 100 ( C) according to the Julian calendar. It is often written as the or to distinguish it from the 1st century BC (or BCE) which preceded it. The 1st century is considered part of the Classical era, epoch, or historical period. The 1st century also saw the appearance of Christianity. During this period, Europe, North Africa and the Near East fell under increasing domination by the Roman Empire, which continued expanding, most notably conquering Britain under the emperor Claudius (AD 43). The reforms introduced by Augustus during his long reign stabilized the empire after the turmoil of the previous century's civil wars. Later in the century the Julio-Claudian dynasty, which had been founded by Augustus, came to an end with the suicide of Nero in AD 68. There followed the famous Year of Four Emperors, a brief period of civil war and instability, which was finally brought to an end by Vespasian, ninth Roman emper ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Filipino Classical Composers
Filipino may refer to: * Something from or related to the Philippines ** Filipino language, standardized variety of 'Tagalog', the national language and one of the official languages of the Philippines. ** Filipinos, people who are citizens of the Philippines or are of Filipino descent. Other uses * Filipinos (snack food), branded cookies manufactured in Europe See also * * * Filipinas (other) Filipinas may refer to: * ''Filipinas, letra para la marcha nacional'', the Spanish poem by José Palma that eventually became the Filipino national anthem. * The original Spanish name, and also used in different Philippines languages including ... {{disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
