YE Guohui

• Professor of Composition and PhD candidate supervisor at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music

composer, professor and supervisor of Ph.D at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. YE’s music has extensive influence in the contemporary music scene of China. His works, which are presented at important festivals internationally, has received positive reviews.
YE’s musical language is characterized by an instinctive perception of sounds and their attributes, reflecting attention to various factors such as the nature of music itself, spatial effects, Chinese elements, modern compositional techniques, and their integration. His main works include: Late Autumn, Music From the Tang Dynasty, China Overtures, Looking Far to the Mainland, Pictures of Music and Dance, Impression of Beijing Opera，etc. In 2007, Late Autumn for orchestra won the European Composers Award, the only awarded prize among the works commissioned by the Young Euro Classic Festival in Germany.