This joyful suite of pieces for solo cello, based on folk melodies from various regions of the composer's native China, was written for and premiered by Yo-Yo Ma, who has also recorded it for Sony Cla...
Four Movements For Piano Trio' is based on musical materials from 'My Song', a work by Sheng for solo Piano, composed in 1988 which attempted to combine his background in Oriental classical and folk m...
This work is scored for a professional children's choir, or a women's chorus, guiro (s) and harp and is based on a folk song from northern Shaanxi Province in China. The music is a simple rhythmic tow...
M'ai Sang (My Song) can be translated into Pulsating Voices. A 10-minute piece in 3 movements that interprets Chinese folk-music and dance into a Western mold. Written for and recorded by Peter Serkin...
Inspired by Concertino for Clarinet and String Quartet, which draws on fragments of folk tunes from northwestern China. This edition presented for solo clarinet (B flat or A).
Composer Note: In 1990, after eight years in the United States, I wrote my first work for solo piano, titled My Song, commissioned for Peter Serkin. At the time, my primary compositional concentration...
Commissioned by the Taksscs Quartet, Great Performers of Lincoln Center, the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Colorado and the Ensemble Music Society of Indianapolis. Duration c...
