Projekt mit Yiran Zhao | SILVER
29.11. Gare du Nord (Basel) | 20:00
SILVER is created for various metal objects and instruments, interpreted by six performers in space. The word "silver" has different meanings as a noun, adjective, and verb. It is very inspiring to focus on this one element in its diverse aspects. The whole work is structured in five parts, each part with its own individual character: sometimes with meditative frequencies played by small speaker cones on resonating foils, or silvery timbres from instruments and voices; sometimes with small games using finger and hand gestures, or movements and amplified small metal objects. Yiran Zhao
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29.11. Gare du Nord (Basel) | 20:00
SILVER is created for various metal objects and instruments, interpreted by six performers in space. The word "silver" has different meanings as a noun, adjective, and verb. It is very inspiring to focus on this one element in its diverse aspects. The whole work is structured in five parts, each part with its own individual character: sometimes with meditative frequencies played by small speaker cones on resonating foils, or silvery timbres from instruments and voices; sometimes with small games using finger and hand gestures, or movements and amplified small metal objects. Yiran Zhao
Yiran Zhao (1988, CN)
Yiran Zhao is a composer and performer, living in Berlin. She is music director and composer of OBLIVIA, an experimental music theater company based in Helsinki.
Her works focus on various modes of expression incorporating both musical and performative elements, lighting, visual arts, and other media. With great interest in the physicality of performance, for many years she has been working extensively with the human body and other objects as compositional material.
Zhao studied composition with Guoping Jia, Caspar Johannes Walter, Erik Oña, Carola Bauckholt, and taught at the Anton Bruckner Private University Linz 2020-2021.
She has worked with numerous artistic groups and festivals in Europe, Asia, North and South America; including Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester, Ensemble Musikfabrik, Ensemble Recherche, Ensemble Modern, Klangforum Wien, Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, Ensemble Musikfabrik, Ensemble Garage, Remix Ensemble, Ensemble Asamisimasa, Ensemble Proton, Ensemble Phoenix Basel, Pony Says, KlangLab Ensemble, Ensemble Lemniscate, Ensemble Ö, Theater Bremen, Oper Wuppertal, Espoo City Theatre, Teater Viirus Helsinki, Kiasma Theater, Tampere Workers' Theatre, Schwankhalle Bremen, Theater Rampe Stuttgart, Kölner Philharmonie, Luxembourg Philharmonic, Casa da Música Porto, Eclat, SPOR, Ultima, Münchener Biennale, ZeitRäume Basel, Wien Modern, Darmstädter Ferienkurse, Musiktheatertage Wien, Ultraschall Berlin, Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik, Heroes of sound festival, Musica nova Helsinki and many others.
She has received numerous awards, including the ECHO European Concert Hall Organization - Young Composers Programme 2024-2026, Artist-in-Residence Munich 2024, the Musikfonds fellowship 2023, winner of NOperas 2021, the INITIAL Grant from AdK Berlin 2021, Berlin-Basel fellowship of HGK Basel & AdK Berlin in Atelier Mondial 2019, City Composer in Unna Prize Winner, Berlin fellowship of AdK Berlin 2017, composer-in-residence and concert curator for the “Forum of Younger Composers 2016” at the Bavarian Academy of Arts, winner of Karlsruhe Composition Competition 2015, stipend of the Hochschule für Musik Basel 2014, the Deutschlandstipendium 2013/14, the State Stipend China 2010, Con Tempo Young Chamber Music Competition China 2009.
Zhao’s portrait album was jointly produced by the German Music Council and Deutschlandfunk Kultur and released by WERGO in February 2022, with a portrait concert at Ultraschall Berlin in collaboration with Ensemble Recherche. Her sheet music is published by Verlag Neue Musik.
yiranzhao.net
oblivia.fi
Yiran Zhao is a composer and performer, living in Berlin. She is music director and composer of OBLIVIA, an experimental music theater company based in Helsinki.
Her works focus on various modes of expression incorporating both musical and performative elements, lighting, visual arts, and other media. With great interest in the physicality of performance, for many years she has been working extensively with the human body and other objects as compositional material.
Zhao studied composition with Guoping Jia, Caspar Johannes Walter, Erik Oña, Carola Bauckholt, and taught at the Anton Bruckner Private University Linz 2020-2021.
She has worked with numerous artistic groups and festivals in Europe, Asia, North and South America; including Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester, Ensemble Musikfabrik, Ensemble Recherche, Ensemble Modern, Klangforum Wien, Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, Ensemble Musikfabrik, Ensemble Garage, Remix Ensemble, Ensemble Asamisimasa, Ensemble Proton, Ensemble Phoenix Basel, Pony Says, KlangLab Ensemble, Ensemble Lemniscate, Ensemble Ö, Theater Bremen, Oper Wuppertal, Espoo City Theatre, Teater Viirus Helsinki, Kiasma Theater, Tampere Workers' Theatre, Schwankhalle Bremen, Theater Rampe Stuttgart, Kölner Philharmonie, Luxembourg Philharmonic, Casa da Música Porto, Eclat, SPOR, Ultima, Münchener Biennale, ZeitRäume Basel, Wien Modern, Darmstädter Ferienkurse, Musiktheatertage Wien, Ultraschall Berlin, Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik, Heroes of sound festival, Musica nova Helsinki and many others.
She has received numerous awards, including the ECHO European Concert Hall Organization - Young Composers Programme 2024-2026, Artist-in-Residence Munich 2024, the Musikfonds fellowship 2023, winner of NOperas 2021, the INITIAL Grant from AdK Berlin 2021, Berlin-Basel fellowship of HGK Basel & AdK Berlin in Atelier Mondial 2019, City Composer in Unna Prize Winner, Berlin fellowship of AdK Berlin 2017, composer-in-residence and concert curator for the “Forum of Younger Composers 2016” at the Bavarian Academy of Arts, winner of Karlsruhe Composition Competition 2015, stipend of the Hochschule für Musik Basel 2014, the Deutschlandstipendium 2013/14, the State Stipend China 2010, Con Tempo Young Chamber Music Competition China 2009.
Zhao’s portrait album was jointly produced by the German Music Council and Deutschlandfunk Kultur and released by WERGO in February 2022, with a portrait concert at Ultraschall Berlin in collaboration with Ensemble Recherche. Her sheet music is published by Verlag Neue Musik.
yiranzhao.net
oblivia.fi