# Lin Wang (composer)

Lin Wang (Chinese: 王琳; pinyin: Wáng Lín (original name), also called Chinese: 王滢乔; pinyin: Wáng Yíng Qíao), is a Chinese composer. Lin Wang was born in Dalian, China, in 1976.

## Biography

Lin Wang studied music composition at Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing (1996–2001). Later she studied composition and music theory at Hochschule für Musik Saar with Theo Brandmüller, and electronic music at IRCAM at the Centre Georges Pompidou in France. She also studied theatrical philosophy in music theater at University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, under Chaya Czernowin.
In 2008, her impromptu chamber ensemble JI LI GU LU was premiered at the 10th Munich Biennale. It was selected for performance again in the same year at the Biennale di Venezia and the Bregenz Festival. In 2010, her opera "Die Quelle" (The Source) was premiered at the 11th Munich Biennale. Lin Wang and Can Xue co-wrote the libretto. In this opera, drying and bubbling-up of the spring symbolize loss and regain of one's own identity. Chinese instruments Sheng, Guzheng and Sanxian were used in its music. An unusual feature is combination of English pronunciation and Chinese intonation in this opera. Her third opera "Oh, wie schön ist Panama!" (Oh, the Beautiful Panama!) was based on an illustrated children book The Trip to Panama [de] by Janosch. It was premiered at Deutsche Oper Berlin in 2013.

## Awards

Lin Wang has won several international music composition competitions:
* First Prize, Musica Femina München Komponistinnen entdecken und foerdern, Germany (2009).
* First Prize, the first Edition of “Franco Donatoni ” International Meeting for Young Composers Composition Competition, International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM), Italy (2008).
* Grand Prize, the Isang Yun International Composition Prize, South Korea (2007).
* First Prize, the First session of International Hamburg Klangwerktage New Musik Festival and Composition Competition, Germany (2006).
* First Prize, European Young Composers Competition in Hochschule fuer Musik FRANZ LISZT Weimar, Germany (2005).
* Special Prize and the Second Prize, the Luxembourg Sinfonietta on the Third Luxembourg International Composition Prize, Luxembourg (2004).

## Selected works

| Premiere | Title | Description | Source, libretto and note |
| 1 February 2003, "China-USA" Landschaftsfotografien von Wolfgang Volz | Ru Yi Si Zhu | Trio for Oboe, Clarinet, and Fagot, 11'40" | |
| 30 May 2003, musikFabrik Ensemble fuer Neue Musik + Spezialisten fuer historische Musikinstrumenten, by Konzert zum Abschluss des Kompositionswettbewerb der Landesmusikakademie NRW Monchengladbach | Dong Xiang Xie Yi (A Sketch of the Dong Nation's Country) | Chamber Orchestra for 15 Instruments, 11'40" | |
| 8 May 2004 Luxembourg Sinfonietta | Lin Lang (A Fine Jade) | Chamber Ensemble, 13'42" | |
| 2004 | Zwei Kraniche unter einer Kiefer (Two Cranes under a Pine Tree) | Piano solo, 11'04" | |
| 6 September 2005, Nieuw Ensemble at Gaudeamus Muziekweek festival, Gaudeamus Foundation | Ba Yin (Eight Sounds) | Chamber Ensemble for Eight Instruments, Voice and Conductor | |
| 2005 Ensemble Modern and Gesellschaft für Neue Musik [de] | Jawohl "Herr Praesident!" I am here!!! | Music Theater, 13' | after a poem by E. E. Cummings |
| 15 November 2006, International Hamburg Klangwerktage New Musik Festival and Composition Competition, Germany | Who Desires the Secret | Quartet | |
| 17 February 2007, IMPULS, International Ensemble and Composers Academy for Contemporary Music. Competition. Festival. Events. | Das Raetsel der Begierde (The Enigma of Desire) | Quartet, 9'30" | inspired by Salvador Dalí's painting My Mother, My Mother, My Mother |
| 15 September 2007, Korean Contemporary Orchestra on the first session of International Isang Yun Music Prize Composition Competition | La...de la me'moire for Chamber Orchestra | Chamber Orchestra | inspired by Salvidor Dali's painting My Mother, My Mother, My Mother |
| 2008 Munich Biennale | JI LI GU LU | Chamber Ensemble, 9'09" | impromptu piece |
| 1 May 2008, Divertimento Ensemble by the first Edition of “Franco Donatoni ” International Meeting for Young Composers Composition Competition | A Secret That is Wanted | Chamber Ensemble | |
| 16 June 2008, ensemble counter)induction, New York | DI LI BA LA | Chamber Ensemble | |
| 9 May 2010, Munich Biennale | Die Quelle (The Source) | Chamber Opera, 85' | libretto by the composer and Can Xue, after a short story The Double Life by Can Xue |
| 10 February 2011, Musica Femina Munich e.V. and Munich Chamber Orchestra e.V. | Jade | Chamber Ensemble | |
| 5 March 2012, Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern | ...To Be Sung in the Wood... | Double Concerto for Symphony Orchestra, Sheng and Zheng, 23' | after Epithalamion (Wedding Song) written by the English poet Edmund Spenser |
| 26 January 2013, Deutsche Oper Berlin | Oh, wie schön ist Panama (Oh! How beautiful is Panama) | Opera/Music Theater, 55' | libretto by Dorothea Hartmann, after an illustrated children's story Oh, wie schön ist Panama [de] written by Janosch |
| 31 March 2017, Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern | Gene and Astrology Series No. 6 - Aquarius-Hulan River (2015) | for female voice and large Orchestra, 21' | conducted by Josep Pon |