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Zhang Ying
3111 Harriet Ave. S.
Minneapolis, MN 55408
(612) 823-6942
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As a boy of 12 in China, Zhang Ying heard traveling flute master Liu Guan-Yeh give a concert. Entranced by the sound of the bamboo flute, he begged to be accepted as a student. Forty-one years later, Zhang won China's highest national art award, the Wen Hua Prize, for his musical compositions in the classical Chinese style.
Honored with the title of First Rank composer in the Register of Great Musicians in 1988, Zhang was recognized as one of the composers and musicians who make China's ancient musical traditions extend into the present. His 300-some compositions, which include the soundtracks for two movies, have won more than 40 awards in the People's Republic of China. More than 20 recordings have been made of his work.
Zhang is also a soloist on 11 different Chinese woodwinds. He has performed in China, Russia, Poland, Romania, France, Belgium, Switzerland, and the United States. Since moving to the U.S. in 1993, Zhang has received a 1995 McKnight Composer's Fellowship and a 1997 Bush Artist Fellowship Grant. He has premiered 13 compositions with the Minnesota Chinese Music Ensemble in addition to serving as a guest conductor and soloist.
His lectures and demonstrations have been presented at the University of Minnesota, Augsburg College, Macalester College, Metropolitan University, the University of St. Thomas, and the Minnesota Arts High School.
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St. Paul, MN
CAAM Chinese Dance Theater celebrated the Year of the Dragon with an unprecedented production of music and dance that welcomed the arrival of Minnesota's first Chinese dragon. This Millennial Celebration featured "Descendants of the Dragon," a newly commissioned dance-drama by two of Minnesota's premier Chinese artists, composer Zhang Ying and choreography by Shen Pei.
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