Works by Jianping Tang
Biography
Tang Jianping
Composer, a professor of composition at the Central Conservatory of Music, and the first Chinese composer to earn a doctoral degree in composition. Tang Jianping has won numerous awards, including the National Symphony Works Competition, the National Culture Award, the "Five-One" Project of the Central Propaganda Department, and the National Stage Art Excellent Creation Project. He has also been awarded the National Excellent Teacher Award, the National Teaching Achievement First Prize, and the Baogang Outstanding Teacher Special Award.
Tang Jianping's music works have been widely performed around the world.
In 2018, his opera "The 170 Days in Nanking/Die Tagebücher von John Rabe" was selected for the Original Creation Award of the 2018 International Opera Awards. He has also performed at the Berlin Opera House in Germany and the Vienna Ronacher Opera House.
His opera "The Dawns Here Are Quiet" was jointly performed by the National Grand Theater of China and the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg and Moscow in October 2018. His opera "The 170 Days in Nanking/Die Tagebücher von John Rabe" has been performed in cities such as Tokyo, Osaka, Nara, Lincoln Center in the United States, and Taiwan（China）. His opera "The Grand Canal" won the Grand Prize at the 2nd China Opera Festival.
His major works including: the operas "The 170 Days in Nanking/Die Tagebücher von John Rabe", "The Dawns Here Are Quiet", "The Grand Canal", "Songs of Youth", "Zheng He" and"Voyage To The East-A Fearless Buddhist Master’s Mission To Japan". He has also composed the dance dramas "Jingwei" and "Shaolin in the Wind"; The musicals "Clouds Over the Mountain" and "Love Warms the Tianshan Mountains"; The large-scale symphony "Shenzhou Harmony"; The epic Mongolian symphony "Genghis Khan"; The national orchestral symphonic poem "The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl" and "Yang Osang"; The cantatas "White Horse Enters the Reed Flowers" and "The Road". The pipa concerto "Spring and Autumn"；The symphonic concerto "Olympic Flame-2008"; The percussion concerto "Cangcai"; The dizi concerto "Feige"; The guqin concerto "Clouds and Water"；The guzheng concerto "Luoshen"；"the first piano concerto"；The national orchestral works "Houtu" and "Tianren"；The nonet "Xuanhuang," and the string quartet "Kuizhuo."