Hummingbird in Winter 《冬之蜂鳥》
Composer: Rita Ueda 作曲：上田莉塔
Every performer in Hummingbird in Winter plays a character. Can you tell who in the ensemble is the Hummingbird? What about Dragon and his best friend, Phoenix? The three heavenly sisters, Silver Sky, Moonlight, and Winter Wind? Other instruments play the part of Air, Thunder, Raindrop, Hailstone, and Snowflake.
I particularly wanted to write a piece for the BC Chinese Music Ensemble about the hummingbird - the official bird of Vancouver. This wonderful ensemble has been creating new Canadian works for 17 years and counting. BCCME’s commitment to performance, education, community outreach, and intercultural collaboration makes them a treasure in the Canadian cultural landscape.
Rita Ueda is a Canadian composer of orchestral, operatic, and choral works that reflect today’s ever-shifting interactions between cultures in flux. Her recent premieres include collaborations with the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Budapest MAV Symphony Orchestra, Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Prague Modern, Turning Point Ensemble (Vancouver), Little Giant Chinese Chamber Orchestra (Taipei), and the SYC Ensemble Singers (Singapore). Her works have been presented at the Amsterdam Uitmarkt Festival, West Coast New Music Festival (Fukuoka), Prague Conempuls Festival, and the Vancouver Inter-Cultural Orchestra Global Soundscapes Festival.
Applauded as a composer whose ‘poetic is often very delicate and introspective…’ (Guido Barbieri, Warner Classics), Ms. Ueda is the winner of the 2022 Azrieli Commissioning Prize in Canadian Music as well as numerous international prizes including the 2014 Krzysztof Penderecki International ‘Arboretum’ Composers’ Competition, 2011 Estoterics ‘Polyphonos’ Choral Composition Competition, and the 2013 Boston Choral Ensemble Competition. She is also the recipient of numerous grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, BC Arts Council, and the SOCAN Foundation.
Ms. Ueda holds degrees at Simon Fraser University (BFA) and California Institute of the Arts (MFA) where she studied with Rudolf Komorous, Rodney Sharman, Wadada Leo Smith, and David Rosenboom. Her latest recordings are I Solisti Della Scalla - Octets (Warner Classics) and Il Viaggio di Dante (Stingray Classica).
BC Chinese Music Ensemble, Conductor: Jennifer Tham, at the Annex Theatre, Vancouver
庇詩華夏樂團，指揮：譚秀英，攝於Annex Theatre, 溫哥華
BCCME Presents The Breaking Barriers video concert
Producer: Bruce Bai
Project consultant: Mark Armanini
Executive Officer: Dr. Gloria Wong
Project Manager: Annie Lai
Video Produced by Blue House Productions LTD.
Filmed by Maggie Gao, Kenza Chatar, Walid Benouareth
Edited by Maggie Gao
Recorded, Mixed and Mastered by Jeff Wang
4K video with Binaural audio
Special thanks to Canada Council for the Arts | Conseil des arts du Canada, BC Arts Council and City of Vancouver for funding support for BCCME’s project!
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16 сен 2024
