Discipline: Music Composition

Gao Ping

Discipline: Music Composition
Region: Cincinatti, OH
MacDowell Fellowships: 2004

While at MacDowell, Gao Ping continued work on, "Friend" a piano-duo piece for Ursula Oppens and Frederic Rzewski. "Concerto for pipa and viola" will receive a China premiere with Beijing Symphony Orchestra 2004. "12 Hour Bridge", a piece for flute and piano, will be premiered in Amsterdam in November, 2004. A "composer portrait" CD will be recorded by the pyramide Ensemble and myself in Switzerland this year.

Studios

Watson

Gao Ping worked in the Watson studio.

Built in 1916 in memory of Regina Watson of Chicago, a musician and teacher, this studio was donated by a group of her friends, along with funds for its maintenance. Originally designed to serve as a composers’ studio with room for performance, Watson was used as a recital hall for chamber music for a…

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