“Hailed as “inventive and breathtaking” by the New York Times, Fang Man is a Chinese-born American composer educated in China, the United States, and Europe. She has been influenced by both Eastern and Western musical and literary traditions, often borrowing materials and ideas from traditional Chinese operas, instrumental music, and folk music, and blending them with Western techniques and forms. 

Her music has been performed worldwide by notable orchestras and ensembles such as the San Francisco Symphony and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra New Music Group under Esa-Pekka Salonen, Camerata Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Mannheimer Philharmoniker, Basel Sinfonietta, American Composers Orchestra, Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, National Orchestre de Lorraine, Minnesota Orchestra, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra etc. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Koussevitzky Foundation Commission, an Underwood/ACO Commission, Toru Takemitsu Award (Japan), Opera America Discovery Grant, the National Endowment for the Arts Award, Siemens Berlin Music Foundation Commission etc.

She obtained a Doctoral degree from Cornell University and a certificate of Computer Music and Composition upon completion of the one-year courses at IRCAM-Paris. She is currently an Associate Professor of Composition at the University of South Carolina School of Music in the United States. “

Séminaire 16 : Sheng! L'orgue à bouche. Couleur, chants d'oiseaux et symétrie - Concertos pour Sheng et orchestre

Le sheng (orgue à bouche) est un instrument riche d’une longue histoire dont le répertoire se partage entre la tradition et le contemporain. Pour accueillir et encourager de prochaines créations, une équipe de chercheurs (France, Allemagne, Autriche, Chine, Taiwan, Japon) va travailler sur l’histoire, les différents modèles d’orgue à bouche, le répertoire, l’étude acoustique, l’analyse gestuelle d’improvisation, la combinaison de doigtés, la notation, et explorer cet instrument historique qui se prête de façon surprenante à la modernité. Toutes ces recherches seront accompagnées par une série de séminaires. Séminaire 16