Villa Aurora Grant Recipients | 2025

Jan, Feb, Mar

Ying Wang | Composition

Ying Wang | Image: Maria Frodl
Ying Wang | Image: Maria Frodl
Ying Wang studied composition with York Höller, Rebecca Saunders, and Johannes Schöllhorn at the HfMT Cologne. She studied electronic composition with Michael Beil and at IRCAM. While studying in Cologne, she was able to establish herself as a composer who stands for advanced, critically conceived chamber and orchestral music. The contrast between her former places of residence in Shanghai and Beijing and her new home in Berlin is reflected in her compositions thematically as well as musically. In her work, she constantly explores interfaces with other media and art forms, such as dance, video, digital art, light, visual art, and performance. In her compositions, Ying Wang deals with topics such as environmental pollution, global social grievances, political persecution or human relationships with technology. She has received numerous prizes and scholarships. The ensembles and orchestras she has worked with include some of the most renowned musicians in Europe and Asia.

During her residency, Ying Wang will work on a multimedia, music-theatrical piece that interweaves the stories of five women with violin, electric guitar, ensemble, voice, video and electronics. Different musical genres and female perspectives tell the women’s stories about their resistance and transform anger into revolutionary waves. The project aims at an artistic, journalistic, and historical examination of current forms of active resistance from a female perspective in the medium of new music, which is still dominated by male networks.


Selected Works
2022/21 | 528HZ for symphony orchestra, 20 min., https://vimeo.com/693537954
2021 | Copyleft for string quartet, 16 min.
2020 | RE:Wilding for chamber orchestra, 21 min., https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymnTgi8dNv4  
2019 | Schmutz for ensemble, 12 min., https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBUyzfk9N_8
2017/16 | LTD for orchestra, 13 min.
2013 | Unermüdlich strömend, nahezu transparent for orchestra, 16 min.

Selected Awards
2017 | City of Heidelberg Music Prize for female composers
2014 | Irino Prize for Chamber Orchestral Composition
2013 | Giga-Hertz Production Prize
2012 | Composer Prize of the 5th Brandenburg Biennale for Orchestral Composition
2008 | Prize of the Composition Competition of the Cologne University of Music and Dance

Website:
www.yingwang.de

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