Huang anlun biography

An-lun Huang (1949--) As a member of CMC, CLC, a Canadian-Chinese composer, An-lun Huang's compositions have been widely performed and warmly received globally.
As the composer-in-residence of the Central Opera House of China, he became a member of the China Musician's Association in 1979.
With many of awards and his more than 40 symphonic works, Chinese-Canadian composer An-lun Huang's compositions have been widely performed and warmly.

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An-lun Huang

Biographical Information

Summary:

Imagine that you have just graduated from secondary school. You are excited to go to college, and move on to the next phase of life. Suddenly, your plans are destroyed. You are taken away from the life that you know, and you are instead forced to perform physical labor in the rice fields. Today, An-Lun Huang is an internationally recognized composer from Canada. But back in the 1960’s the scenario that you just imagined was his reality. Huang was born in China. He graduated from the Central Conservatory in Beijing right when Mao Zedong and his “Gang of Four” launched the Cultural Revolution. Huang’s parents were sent to prison and he was sent away to the countryside. These years were filled with sorrow, but they also transformed An-Lun Huang’s perspective on music. He would become an orchestra conductor at the Central Opera in Beijing once the revolution was over. And as a composer, he would create a new musical style that combines Chinese and Western classical music traditions.

Early Life and Young Adulthood:

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An-Lun Huang

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Toronto Ontario43° 39' 12.53" N, 79° 23' 2.16" WArtsMusicPerson

An-Lun Huang is a composer based in the Greater Toronto area.

An-Lun Huang was born in China in 1949, and studied piano at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing. The Chinese Cultural Revolution of the 1960s forced him to abandon his formal studies, but he continued to study independently, and was appointed resident composer and assistant conductor at the Central Opera House of China in Beijing in 1976. He immigrated to Canada in 1980 to study composition at the University of Toronto before continuing his composition studies at Trinity College in London, England, and eventually at Yale University. In 1986, he returned to Ontario where he currently resides.

Career

His symphonic, operatic, ballet, choral, chamber and film works are performed and broadcast internationally, possessing what has been described as a perfect synthesis of Western and Eastern elements. He has been sponsored by the Department of Foreign Affairs as an ambassador for Canadian music to China, and was Presid

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1964-1966

Beijing

3 Piano Arragements

1．【DuiHua】[1964]

2．【A Song to the Sky】[65]

3．【How Great of it】[66]

1965-1969

ZhangJiaKou

7 Pieces for Choral and Vocal

1．【Grow Up like Wang – Chorus for Mixed Voices】[65]

2．【Mao up to the Rostrum Platform--Chorus 】[69]

3．【Build up the Artillery -- Chorus 】[69]

4．【Green Rice Field to the Blue Sky – Female Chorus 】[69]

5．【BADGE】 -- Male solo [69]

6．【Artillery March – Male Chorus 】[70]

7．【Ready to Fight】—Chorus

1969-70

ZhangJiaKou

Four Chinese Dances for Orchestra

1．Double Winds

2．Single Winds

3．Traditional Orchestra

1970

ZhangJiaKou

Two Pieces for Flute Solo

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