Composer Introduction

PhD candidate in composition at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music.

Introduction to the work

The Prayer of Destiny is a mixed ensemble chamber work composed for the Rivers Awards International Composition Competition. It is inspired by classical Chinese philosophical thought and the relationship between time and space in classic poetry - depicting space with time. The work takes "the bright moon and the Floating clouds" as a support, extracts music materials from three periods of modern China (19th - 20th China) as the theme, combines with modern and contemporary compositional techniques, and builds a musical time-space structure with rhythm, timbre and sound corresponding to the tense, showing the transition from "the bright moon and the Floating clouds" to "flowing light and condensing clouds". The music is structured in time and space, showing the transition from "the bright moon swimming in the clouds" to "the flowing light and the Congealed clouds", trying to embody the qualities of classical Chinese aesthetic philosophy in a unique form.