This is the first solo concert of Yifan Shao. He will be premiering his latest work Colors of the Wind and Love Letter. Get ready to embark on a spiritual journey.
Artist Bio:
Yifan Shao (b.2003) is a Chinese composer, vocalist, photographer, painter, poet, and performance artist.
Yifan Shao’s music is fluid, relational, and nonlinear. Instead of directly developing certain melodic, harmonic, or timbral motifs, he manipulates the relationship between the elements via various approaches of permutation, fission, diffusion, compression, and extension with the inspirations from his diverse background in music, visual art, performance art, and literature to achieve a delicate dynamic equilibrium. While running rigorous experiments of microtone, micropolyphony, and polyrhythm, he also involves improvisation, interaction, and aleatoricism on appropriate occasions. His voice is also a powerful weapon: he sings over five octaves, ranging from profound undertone to radiant overtone, magnificent bel canto to ethereal folk, and acrobatic leap to subtle microinterval.
As a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary artist, Yifan Shao tirelessly seeks for diverse voices. His work has been performed or exhibited all over the world, including but not limited to Carnegie Hall, Center for New Music (San Francisco), Foreign Cinema Modernism West Gallery, Blank Wall Gallery, Huntington Beach Art Center, and Artly Mix Espaço Cultural. His poems have been published by Columbia Journal of Asia and Beyond Words Literary Magazine.
Yifan Shao is the recipient of the Emerging Composer Award from Tribeca New Music, and has been in residence at Nordingrå Konstby in Sweden and Musical Life Foundation in Carnegie Hall, United States. He is a PhotoVogue photographer and a member of ArtSpan.