Julian Yu

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Julian Jing-Jun Yu (born 2 September 1957) [1] is a Chinese-Australian composer.

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Biography

Julian Yu was born in Beijing and studied at the Central Conservatory of Music, where he later worked. [2] [1] In the early 1980s, he studied at the Tokyo College of Music with Jōji Yuasa. [2] In 1984 he married an Australian and the following year he moved to Australia where he taught at the Queensland Conservatorium. [3] He then moved to Melbourne and studied at La Trobe University for a Master's degree with Keith Humble. [3] With the support of an Australia Council Fellowship, he studied with Hans Werner Henze and Oliver Knussen at Tanglewood in 1988 and received the Koussevitzky Tanglewood Prize. [4] [1] He has won over twenty-five prizes, including winning the Paul Lowin Orchestra Prize twice. [5] [6] : 175 

Prizes

Compositions

Recordings of Yu's work

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 McCallum, Peter (2001). "Yu, Julian". Grove Music Online .
  2. 1 2 Chen, Jia (8 May 2006). "Classical Meets Contemporary". China Daily .
  3. 1 2 Whiffin, Laurie (1995). "Julian Yu". In Broadstock, Brenton (ed.). Sound Ideas: Australian composers born since 1950. The Rocks, NSW: Australian Music Centre. pp. 339–340. ISBN   9780646224978. OCLC   33395013.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Kennedy, Michael (1996). The concise Oxford dictionary of music . Oxford paperback reference (4th ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 807. ISBN   978-0-19-280037-4 – via Internet Archive.
  5. ↑ "Is Julian Yu tragic? Only to order". The Age. 2003-06-11. Retrieved 2025-10-06.
  6. 1 2 3 Whiteoak, John; Scott-Maxwell, Aline, eds. (2003). Currency companion to music & dance in Australia . Strawberry Hills, NSW: Currency House Inc. in association with Currency Press, Sydney. ISBN   978-0-9581213-1-6 – via Internet Archive.
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