Man-Ching Donald Yu

Yu Man Ching (Chinese: 余文正) is a Hong Kong composer, pianist and theorist. His music has been actively performed internationally. The style of his recent music is characterized by the blending of post-impressionistic gestures, micropolyphonic techniques, and oriental colours.

Life and career

As a prolific composer, his more than hundreds compositional oeuvre ranges from chamber, vocal, electroacoustic, and Chinese instrumental works to opera, concerti, choral works, and symphonies. His works have been featured at various festivals and venues throughout the North and South America, Europe, and Asia such as the 24th International Review of Composers (Serbia), the Expo Milano 2015 (Italy), the International Festival of Modern Music "Kyiv Music Fest", the International Festival of Modern Art Two Days and Two Nights of New Music at the Odessa Philharmonic Theater, and the International Spring Orchestra Festival at the Manoel Theatre, etc. Music has received commissions and/or performances from the Uzhgorod Philharmonic, Senza Sforzando Ensemble, Mixed String Quartet (Serbia), the Opera Hong Kong Chorus with Hong Kong Chamber Orchestra, Icarius Ensemble (Italy), Duo Pianistico di Firenze (Italy), MusicOrba (France), and many others. His music is published by Edizioni Sconfinarte (Italy), Helm & Baynov Verlag (Germany), Verlag Vierdreiunddreissig (Germany), Scherzo Editions (Netherlands), Ablaze Records "the 6th Millennial Masters Series," Zimbel Records, the 2006 first personal album "Illusion" and Albany Records, the 2012 second personal album "Surrealistic Soundscapes." As a music theorist, his music theory papers have been selected at various international music theory conferences including the 2015 Keele Music Analysis Conference (U.K.), the 2016 International Conference "Orient in Music, Music of the Orient" in Grazyna and Kiejstut Bacewicz Academy of Music in Poland, as well as selected for publication in various scholarly book and peer-reviewed academic music journals.

Selected Works: Discography

• Sonata No. 1 "Grand Concert Fantasy" for piano (ZR 113, Zimbel Records)
• Sonata No. 2 "Humoresque" for piano (ZR 113, Zimbel Records)
• Sonata No. 4 "Chaos" for piano (ZR 113, Zimbel Records)
• Hell and Heaven for piano (ZR 113, Zimbel Records)
• Dark Rhapsody for cello and piano (ZR 113, Zimbel Records)
• Illusion for oboe and piano (ZR 113, Zimbel Records)
• Five Japanese Lyrics for soprano and piano (ZR 113, Zimbel Records)
• Uncertainty for piano (ZR 113, Zimbel Records)
• Fantasy on "The Lady of Shalott" for piano (ZR 113, Zimbel Records)
• Five Miniatures for piano (ZR 113, Zimbel Records)
• William Shakespeare's Sonnet No. 104 for piano (ZR 113, Zimbel Records)
• First Symphony for orchestra (TROY 1378, Albany Records)
• From the Depth for soprano, chorus and orchestra (TROY 1378, Albany Records)
• Octet for strings (TROY 1378, Albany Records)
• Sunset in My Homeland for violin, clarinet, and piano (TROY 1378, Albany Records)
• Disintegration for piano and electronics (TROY 1378, Albany Records)
• Explosion for piano (TROY 1378, Albany Records)
• Two Poems by Ya Hsien for baritone and piano (TROY 1378, Albany Records)
• Breeze for flute (TROY 1378, Albany Records)
• The Maximum Speed of Raphael's Madonna for flute and piano (TROY 1378, Albany Records)

External links

• Yu page at Classical Composers Database
• Yu page at Classical Archives