中央音樂學院

姚晨的音樂語言根植于東方和西方的音樂傳統，同時充分運用了當代作曲技法的開放性融合了二者。他對音樂時間、音色、律動、結構及表情的感知都處于許多臨界地帶：新與舊，東與西，非理性的神秘與理性的邏輯感。同時，對獨立電影和實驗劇場的涉獵也有效地拓寬了他的音樂種類和風格。這些感知體驗深深滲透在他的創作之中，體現了他對新音樂創作在世界當代多元文化發展中的觀點和態度。這種跨文化的審美，在他的樂隊作品《詩兩首》，器樂劇場《波羅密多》， 戲劇空間《琵琶彈戲：西廂記三折》，中西混合室內樂《駿》、《滄浪》、《嬋娟》等作品中都有集中的呈現，他們充分展示了作曲家在處理音樂戲劇性、混合不同音樂材料風格等方面的創作才能。

作為一個活躍的青年作曲家，姚晨和許多的中美音樂家都有著密切的合作。這些音樂家包括美國指揮家 Cliff Colnot, Rei Hotoda，法國指揮家Jacques Mercier，紐約大都會歌劇院首席長笛演奏家Denis Bouriakov，法國室內交響樂團長笛首席Clara Novakova，美國科羅拉多交響樂團長笛首席Brook Ferguson，新加坡小提琴演奏家蕭麗君，舊金山音樂學院小提琴教授何為，中提琴演奏家徐沛珺，瑞士巴塞爾交響樂團中提琴首席Veit Hertemstein，法國巴黎廣播樂團豎琴首席Nicolas Tulliez，中國愛樂樂團豎琴首席郭悅， 以色列單簧管演奏家Guy Yehuda，琵琶演奏家楊惟、蘭維薇，古琴演奏家陳雷激，古箏演奏家王于真，馬林巴演奏家林威震，竹笛演奏家張維良、王華，巴揚手風琴演奏家Stanislav Venglevski、羅漢，低音提琴演奏家張達尋、Michael Cameron、陳翰叡，中國昆曲藝術家呂佳和蕭向平，等等。

他的作品也被許多重要的大型演奏團體演奏過，這包括獲得格萊美古典大獎的美國Saint Paul室內交響樂團、美國Pacifica弦樂四重奏團和美國eighth blackbird六重奏團。此外，還有著名的美國St. Luke’s 交響樂隊，法國Lorraine國家交響樂團，加拿大Winnipeg交響樂團， 美國 Promusica 室內交響樂團 ，芝加哥交響樂團麾下的Civitas Ensemble， 美國Tanglewood 音樂節New Fromm Players，法國Diotima Quatuor弦樂四重奏團，新加坡唐弦樂四重奏團，以色列當代音樂團, 香港新音樂團，美國Camerata和Quintet of the Americas木管五重奏團等均成功演繹過姚晨的音樂作品。

他的音樂也常出現在許多世界頂級的音樂節和音樂廳。美國Tanglewood音樂節，美國Aspen音樂節，日本太平洋國際音樂節，在斯洛文尼亞舉辦的國際當代音樂協會World Music Days音樂節， 法國Centre Acanthes當代音樂節， 莫斯科國際手風琴大賽，法國巴黎Festival Presences，亞洲作曲家聯盟音樂節（以色列，新加坡，日本），意大利soundSCAPE 音樂節，波蘭波茲南之春音樂節， 瑞典Stode Musicveckai音樂節，德國Deutsch-Chinesisches古典音樂節，美國June In Buffalo當代音樂節，美國芝加哥SoundField音樂節和Contempo音樂會系列，美國路易威爾大學新音樂節，臺灣高雄國際打擊樂節，中國北京現代音樂節，中國中央音樂學院民族音樂節，中國天津國際手風琴藝術節等等，均呈現過姚晨的音樂作品。

許多國際音樂組織曾授予姚晨諸多榮譽、獎項和委約，包括美國作曲家、作家及出版商協會（ASCAP），美國新音樂（New Music USA），美國哈佛大學Fromm音樂基金會，芝加哥大學梅隆（Mellon）藝術實踐與學術合作獎，法國國家廣播電臺 (Festival Presences 和 Alla Breve)，紐約WQXR電臺，美國匹茲堡交響樂團，美國Orpheus室內交響樂團，芝加哥藝術學院，美國Barnett家族基金會音樂比賽，美國中華才藝協會國際作曲比賽，加拿大Winnipeg交響樂團，希臘國際作曲比賽，中國TMSK劉天華中國民樂作曲比賽，美國東卡羅萊納大學交響樂隊作曲比賽，北京現代音樂節和中國廣東民族樂團。另外，他也曾擔任美國Salvatore Martirano國際作曲比賽和Red Note國際作曲比賽的評委，還曾受邀擔任2014伊利諾伊州立大學Red Note新音樂節的藝術總監。 近幾年，他也接受世界著名藝術院校的邀請給予專題講座，比如巴黎國立高等音樂舞蹈學院，米蘭威爾第音樂學院， 美國加利福尼亞大學伯克利分校音樂系，北京電影學院攝影系，等等。

姚晨出生于中國廣東，成長于中國大西北，曾在廣州星海音樂學院附中和中央音樂學院接受嚴格的作曲訓練。在美國芝加哥大學攻讀作曲博士學位期間及之后，他先后執教于美國芝加哥大學音樂系、美國伊利諾伊大學香檳分校音樂學院、美國伊利諾伊州立大學音樂學院及中國蘇州大學音樂學院。目前為中國北京中央音樂學院作曲系副教授。更多信息請訪問www.yaochenmusic.com

The music of YAO Chen strikes audiences with its innovative ways of bringing the traditions of Chinese and Western music and its poetic telling of the composer's innermost thoughts.　 His perceptions on musical time, timbre, intonation, pulsation, and expression are always at frontiers: between the old and the new, between the East and the West, between irrational mysticism and rational logic.　 While devoting himself mainly to the field of contemporary art music, YAO also experiments with other genres, writing music for films and theatre productions.　 Cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary concepts permeate his creative inspiration and compositional output, presenting his understanding of the value of new music in enlivening global cultures.　

His creative vision and aesthetic pursuit have resulted in his many compositions, such as Two Poems for orchestra, the instrumental theatre piece Paramita,the three-act environmental theatre piece Playing the Opera on Pipa: Romance of the Western Chamber, and many Chinese-Western mixed instrumental works including Tsanglang…Tsanglang for flute, zheng and viola, Yearning for zheng and double bass, Jun for pipa and double bass. These pieces not only demonstrate his talent in navigating situations covering a wide emotional spectrum and dramaturgical elements in music writing, but also reveal his versatility in structuring musical forms that embrace mixed instruments, musical languages and styles.

In recent years, his music has received a significant amount of recognition in many distinguished international arenas.　 His music has been performed by the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra (Grammy winner), Orchestre National de Lorraine, Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra of St. Luke's, ProMusica Chamber Orchestra, Pacifica String Quartet (Grammy Winner), Quatuor Diotima, eighth blackbird (Grammy winner), Tang Quartet, Civitas Ensemble (from Chicago Symphony Orchestra), Camerata Woodwind Quintet, Quintet of the Americas, New Fromm Players, Earplay Ensemble, Israel Contemporary Players, Conundrum, Wild Rumpus New Music Collective, New Music Concerts in Canada, TianYing Chinese Ensemble, Beijing New Music Ensemble, etc.　 YAO has collaborated with countless artists, including conductors Cliff Colnot, Jacques Mercier and Rei Hotoda, violin virtuoso Siow Lee-Chin and He Wei, viola virtuoso Xu Peijun and Veit Hertemstein double bassists DaXun Zhang, Michael Cameron and Chen Han-Jui, sopranos Tony Arnold and Allison Angelo, flutists Denis Bouriakov and Clara Novakova, pianist Nareh Arghamanyan, bayan-players Luo Han and Stanislav Venglevski, harpist Nicolas Tulliez, Chinese pipa-players Yang Wei and Lan Weiwei, marimba virtuoso Wen-Chen Lin, Chinese bamboo flutist Zhang Weiliang, zheng player Yu-Chen Wang, Kun Opera singer Lu Jia and Xiao Xiangping.

He has also received commissions, awards and fellowships from many prestigious organizations such as the Fromm Music Foundation at Harvard University, New Music USA, Radio France (Festival Presence and Alla Breve), ASCAP, Barnett Family Foundation Flute Competition, Leonard Bernstein Fund, Art Institute of Chicago & Silk Road Chicago Project, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, TMSK Liu Tianhua Composition Competition, Greece International Composition Competition, East Carolina University Orchestral Composition Competition, Aspen Music Festival, Chinese Fine Arts Society International Composition Competition, Viacom-Sumner M. Redstone Foundation in China, Central Conservatory of Music, University of Chicago, etc.

YAO has shared his music with audiences at many music festivals throughout the world, including the Radio France’Festival Présences, Tanglewood Music Festival, Aspen Music Festival, ISCM’s World Music Days (Slovenia), Centre Acanthes Festival, Pacific Music Festival in Japan, Asian Composers League Festival (Israel, Singapore and Japan), Moscow International Accordion Competition, International Tianjin Accordion Festival, Deutsch-Chinesisches Classic Music Festival (Germany), Stode Musicveckai (Sweden), Beijing Modern Music Festival, Chicago Contempo Concerts, June In Buffalo Contemporary Festival, Poznan Musical Spring Festival (Poland), SoundField Music Festival (Chicago), soundSCAPE Music Festival (Italy), Random Access Music New Music Festival and the Music of Now Marathon Festival in New York City, East Carolina University New Music Festival, University of Louisville New Music Festival.

YAO embarked on his lifelong musical journey in the People's Republic of China.　 He received training in composition at Xinghai Conservatory of Music and Central Conservatory of Music.　He received in his Ph.D in Composition from the University of Chicago.　 He is currently associate professor in Composition at Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing.　In the past, he has hold professorships at the University of Chicago Music Department, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign School of Music, the Illinois State University School of Music, and the Soochow University School of Musicin China.　YAO is his surname, and Chen is his first name.　For more information, please visit www.yaochenmusic.com