Ming Wang

This fascinating work combines Chinese melodic roots with extreme European complexity.

These twelve piano miniatures, of increasing difficulty, are a magical distillation of Ming Wang's long-desired encounter with the Alpine landscape: Rustling Brook, Two Marmots, Colourful Clouds, The...

Anmerkung des Komponisten Als ich im Winter 2016 mein Heimatland Taiwan besuchte, erhielt ich einen Anruf vom Ensemble Kontrapunkte aus Wien, das mich bat, ihm sofort mitzuteilen, wie der Titel des We...

Inspiriert von den Veränderungen, die die Welt nach drei Jahren Pandemie vollzogen hat, hat dieses Stück den Charakter eines Gebets für die Rückkehr unserer Zivilisation aus der Dunkelheit ins Licht....

Zikadenlarven leben jahrelang unter der Erde, kriechen langsam und friedlich in der Dunkelheit umher, bis zu jenem plötzlichen, wunderschönen kurzen Moment, in dem sie an einem warmen, feuchten Sommer...

Sui: eine Dynastie in China vor 1400 Jahren (581-618 n. Chr.)Gong: KaiserhofEs gibt ein sehr berührendes altes Musikstück, in dem Sehnsucht, Liebe und Leidenschaft im Serail der Sui-Dynastie beschrieb...

The present work features a kind of pentatonic music that is often associated with a far eastern landscape. However, it has no genuine compositional connection with Asian music. In this piece pentaton...

Hoamat — the Bavarian pronunciation of the word 'Heimat' (Home) — was commissioned by the Municipal Music School in the city of Burghausen for their 'Lokalklang' festival. The ten movements make use o...

This work uses one of the most popular Chinese folk melodies. The Little Chinese Cabbage, which withers prematurely in the field, is used as a metaphor for an orphan. This lament reflects the tragic d...

Entfaltung ('Unfolding'), a septet commissioned by the Viennese ensemble Auer's Flutery, fuses the sound worlds of the historical and the modern flute, the two instruments engaging in a dialogue with...

As a work commissioned by Ensemble Reconsil taking South Africa as its theme, this composition conjures up a fantasy landscape by means of its symbolic musical language, its timbres and its quotations...

As a work commissioned by Ensemble Reconsil taking South Africa as its theme, this composition conjures up a fantasy landscape by means of its symbolic musical language, its timbres and its quotations...

Ming Wang's blend of Viennese compositional craft and eastern colour reaches full maturity in her sextet Vision, written especially for Ensemble Reconsil. Vision is about the quick alternation between...

No sooner had Ming Wang completed her apocalyptic chamber work Das siebente Siegel ('The Seventh Seal') than the global Coronavirus pandemic erupted. Individuals and families succumbed to panic: they...