Berlin Fellowship 2017 — Music
Yiran Zhao
1988
born in Qingdao, China
2007–2011
Central Conservatory of Music, Beijing (Composition and technological theory of composition / degree)
2012–2014
Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst, Stuttgart (Composition / Master’s degree)
2014–2016
Hochschule für Musik, Basel (Composition / Master of Arts, FHNW, specialisation in musical performance)
Yiran Zhao lives in Linz, Austria.
// Fellowships, Grants, Awards (selection)
2017
Berlin Fellowship, Akademie der Künste, Berlin
2015
Award from the Internationaler Kompositionswettbewerb Karlsruhe (international competition), Karlsruhe, Germany
2014
Scholarship, Hochschule für Musik Basel, Switzerland
2013–2014
Scholarship programme in Germany
2010
National Scholarship, China
2009
1st Prize, ConTempo Composition Youth Competition (Chamber Music), China
// Concerts, Festivals, (selection)
2016
International Malaysian Contemporary Percussion Festival 2016 (IMCPF), Kuala
Lumpur, Malaysia
Curator: Forum junger Komponisten 2016, Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste, Germany
First International Art&Music Festival “Hearing Art Seeing Sound” HASSFEST, Armenian Center of Contemporary and Experimental Art, Yerevan, Armenia
2015
ZEIT RÄUME BASEL Biennale für neue Musik und Architektur, Switzerland
FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL ZARAGOZA CONTEMPORÁNEA, Festival Internacional de Percusión FIP, Spain
Women Composers Festival of Hartford, USA
2014
Recital: “Feuer!”, Philharmonia Chor Stuttgart, Germany
2013
Fluxus-Kooperationsprojekt, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart & Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart, Germany
2012
aXes neue Musik Festival, Kraków, Poland
// List of Works (selection)
2016
OBSERVABLES, for performers, light and audience
2015–16
Fluctuation Ia, for an ensemble
TOUCH II, for an ensemble
2015
SHH I, solo for one head
2014–15
Ohne Stille II, for a large drum and light
Piep, for two KORG MA-1 metronomes
2014
AnnA, for two actresses
2012
Verwickelte Synästhesie, for a quartet of conductors