Pan Shiji
Pan Shiji or Chew Shyh-Ji (Chinese: 潘世姬; born 29 July 1957) is a Taiwanese composer, writer and music educator.
Biography
[edit]Pan Shiji was born in Taipei, and her family emigrated to Canada in 1974. She took piano lessons and studied composition with Hsu Tsang-houei in Taiwan. In Canada, she studied composition with Robert Turner at the University of Manitoba from 1976 to 80 and then in America studying with Chou Wen-chung at Columbia University, New York, from 1980 to 1988. During this time, she worked at the Columbia Center for Ethnomusicology. In 1988, she returned to Taiwan and took a position as professor of composition at the National Academy of the Arts.[1] Her manuscripts are housed in the Liu Collection, Institute of Chinese Studies, University of Heidelberg.[2]
Works
[edit]Selected works include:
Orchestra:
- Dream World, 1979
- Music for Orchestra, 1980
- 3 Pieces, 1982
- Raining Night, 1997–9
Vocal:
- The Lodge Amid the Bamboos, 1980
- Paiju sanshou [3 Haiku], 1991
- 3 Songs (Pan), 1996
- In the Dark (Pan), 1998
- Qiu Lu, 1998
Chamber and solo instrument:
- Music for Hn and Pianoforte, 1979
- Music for Pianoforte, 1979
- Wind Quintet, 1979
- Brass Quintet, 1980
- String Quartet in 1 Movement, 1980
- Ensemble, 1981
- Hudson River Caprice, 1981
- String Quartet, 1981
- Piece, 1984
- String Quartet no.1, 1985
- String Quartet no.2, 1986
- String Quartet no.3, 1988
- Dubai de nigu [The Soliloquy of Pandora], 1990
- Configuration – Transformation – Shape
- Shapes, 1996
- Si, 1997
- String Quartet no.4, 1998
Writings
[edit]- "Wei'erdi de geju yu guojia yishi" [Nationalism in Verdi's operas], Lishi yuekan, xiii/2 (1989)
- "Genji monogatari de yinyue shenghuo: shitan yazhou yinyue wenhua jiaoliu" [Musical life in the Tale of Genji: a study in Asian musical exchange], Yishu pinglun (1990), no.10
- "Anuo Xunbaike xunzhao shi'eryin zuopin hesheng ji qushi de tongyixing" [Schoenberg in search of harmonic and formal unity], Yishu pinglun (1993), no.10; (1995), no.10
- "Ershi shiji yinyue xin shengsi" [New ideas on 20th-century music] Biaoyan yishu zazhi (1994), no.9
References
[edit]- ^ Mittler, Barbara (1997). Dangerous tunes: the politics of Chinese music in Hong Kong, Taiwan and the People's Republic of China since 1949. Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. ISBN 9783447039208.
- ^ Mittler, Barbara (2001). "Pan Shiji [Chew Shyh-Ji]", Grove Music Online. Accessed 4 February 2011. (subscription required). (Online version of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd edition. ISBN 978-0-19-517067-2)
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- Taiwanese classical composers
- 1957 births
- 20th-century classical composers
- 21st-century classical composers
- Taiwanese women classical composers
- Living people
- Taiwanese music educators
- Taiwanese women music educators
- Musicians from Taipei
- 20th-century women composers
- 21st-century women composers
- Taiwanese pianists
- Taiwanese women pianists