Four Fragments
For Solo Cello
by Huang Ruo
Chamber Music - Sheet Music

Chamber Music Solo Cello

SKU: PR.114414300

For Solo Cello. Composed by Huang Ruo. Sws. Contemporary. Performance Score. With Standard notation. 12 pages. Duration 13 minutes, 30 seconds. Theodore Presser Company #114-41430. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.114414300).

ISBN 9781598064551. UPC: 680160594481. 9x12 inches.

Cast in four continuous movements, FOUR FRAGMENTS is a ravishing and theatrical showpiece that maximizes the cellist’s lyricism and fire, overflowing with declamatory and cadenza-like soliloquys clearly inspired by the composer’s cultural multi-dimensionalism. Ilona Oltuski at blogcritics.org writes, New York Times critic Alan Kozinn, who keeps a close watch on Ruo’s artistic development, describes the relationship between East and West in Ruo’s music: 'As in many of his scores, Chinese articulation styles – sliding notes and gracefully bending tones – mingle freely with Western moves and diatonic harmonies.' For advanced cellists. Duration: 13'30_______________________________________From the scanned back cover:Four Fragments for solo Cello (154-40017)Cast in four continuous movements, FOUR FRAGMENTS is a ravishing and theatrical showpiece that maximizes the cellist’s lyricism and fire, overflowing with declamatory and cadenza-like soliloquys clearly inspired by the composer’s cultural multi-dimensionalism.HUANG RUO has been cited by The New Yorker as “one of the most intriguing of the new crop of Asian-American composers.” His vibrant and inventive musical voice draws equal inspiration from Chinese folk, Western avant-garde, rock, and jazz to create a seamless, organic integration using a compositional technique he calls “dimensionalism.” Huang Ruo’s writing spans from orchestra, chamber music, opera, theater, and modern dance, to sound installation, multi-media, experimental improvisation, folk rock, and film.Huang Ruo was born in Hainan Island, China in 1976, the year the Chinese Cultural Revolution ended. His father, a well-known composer in China, began teaching him composition and piano at age 6. Growing up in the 1980s and 1990s when China was opening its gates to the Western world, he received both traditional and Western education at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. He was admitted into its composition program, studying with Deng Erbo at 12. After winning the Henry Mancini Award at the 1995 International Film and Music Festival in Switzerland, he moved to the United States to further his education. Since then, he has earned a B.M. degree from the Oberlin Conservatory, and M.M. and D.M.A. degrees in composition from The Juilliard School. Huang Ruo is currently a member of the composition faculty at SUNY Purchase, and artistic director and conductor of Future In REverse (FIRE).Ensembles who have premiered and performed his music include the New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and other major ensembles and performers throughout Europe and Asia. He has received awards and grants from the ASCAP Foundation, Presser Foundation, Jerome Foundation, Argosy Foundation, Greenwall Foundation, Meet The Composer, NYSCA, Chamber Music America, American Music Center, Aaron Copland Award, and Alice M. Ditson Award.Huang Ruo’s Chamber Concerto cycle was released on Naxos in February 2007; Leaving Sao for Orchestra and Chinese Folk Voice was released on Albany Records with his own singing in 2008; and Divergence came out on Koch International in 2009. Huang Ruo’s film credits include soundtracks for Jian-Fu Garden and Stand Up. The latter was named the Official Selection for the Rhode Island International Film Festival and the Atlanta International Film Festival.Recent commissions include a cello concerto, People Mountain People Sea, for Jian Wang, co-commissioned by the ASCAP Foundation; Real Loud, a chamber work co-commissioned by the La Jolla Music Society’s SummerFest and the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival; and The Color Yellow, a concerto for sheng, written for Wu Wei and the Albany Symphony under David Alan Miller.Aside from being an avant-garde composer, he is also a conductor and Chinese folk-rock singer, and has performed at Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall. Also noted as an author, Huang Ruo has published “Selection of Classic Chinese Folk Songs” with the Zhong Shan University Press.