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Du Yun

Du Yun (traditional Chinese: 杜韻, simplified Chinese: 杜韵) is a Chinese-born American composer, performer, vocalist and performance artist. She won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Music for her opera Angel's Bone, with libretto by Royce Vavrek.[2] She was a 2018 Guggenheim Fellow.[3] Du Yun was named as one of the 38 Great Immigrants by the Carnegie Corporation of New York in 2018,[4] and received a 2019 Grammy nomination in the category of Best Classical Contemporary Composition for her work Air Glow.[5][6][7] In its decade review, UK's Classic FM listed Du Yun's winning of the Pulitzer as No. 6 in "10 ways the 2010s changed classical music forever."[8] Rolling Stone Italia named her as one of the women composers who defined the 2010s.[9]

Du Yun
杜韵 (Simplified Chinese), 杜韻 (Traditional Chinese)
Du Yun at Daguan theatre, at Shanghai Project opening
Background information
Born (1977-06-18) June 18, 1977 (age 46)[1]
Shanghai, China
GenresAvant-garde, experimental, punk, classical, crossover, folk, electronic, alternative rock, pop, World
Occupation(s)
  • composer
  • musician
  • performance artist
  • producer
Years active2000–present
LabelsModern Sky, National Sawdust Tracks, Oxingale, Pentatone, New Focus Records, Deutsche Grammophon
Websitechannelduyun.com

Early life and education edit

 
Du Yun

Du Yun was born in Shanghai, China. She began studying piano at the age of four, attending the primary school Shanghai Conservatory of Music for piano. She studied composition at the middle school Shanghai Conservatory of Music with Deng Erbo. Du Yun later moved to the United States and graduated from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music with a Bachelor of Music degree in composition, under Randolph Coleman, and received a Ph.D. in music composition from Harvard University with Bernard Rands and Mario Davidovsky.

On her earlier years growing up in Shanghai, Du Yun recounted, in her contribution to WQXR, that neither of her parents went to college and both were factory workers in China.[10]

When Du Yun studied in junior high school in Shanghai, she collected cassette tapes from singer Faye Wong, Chen Sheng, Dou Wei, Pink Floyd and Michael Jackson. She counts Dou Wei and Faye Wong among the Chinese pop musicians who have had the most influence on her musical life. She credits filmmakers Wong Kar-Wai and Quentin Tarantino as some of the major influences on her style.[11]

When she studied in high school, she spent pocket money on CDs that had impactful covers. Pink Floyd, Cocteau Twins, Björk, Sinead O'Connor, and Kraftwerk entered her world all at once. She indulged in Krautrock and psychedelic rock.

During her first year of college, British band Portishead released a new album, and Du Yun fell into the world of trip hop. Her psychedelic style was later used in many of her works, and in 2012, she released her first studio album, Shark in You, which featured a variety of styles, from experimental dance music to cabaret and jazz electronic music.

Director Stan Lai has collaborated with Du Yun twice. He said her music not only has the background of classical music, but also is multifaceted, influenced by pop and folk music.[12]

Career edit

I think artists should have the absolute freedom to work with however they want and however they wish to express. I also think that creating works engaging social topics is equally important and those things are not exclusive. More and more, I am concerned about human condition. Art just happen to be the means I know how to engage.

– Du Yun[13]

Du Yun won the Pulitzer Prize for Music for her opera Angel's Bone in 2017, making her the first Asian woman to win this prize in music.[14] The opera's production in Hong Kong in 2018 won the best of the performances of the year by the South China Morning Post.[15]

In 2006, Du Yun joined the composition faculty at the State University of New York-Purchase. In 2017, she joined the composition faculty at Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University.[16] She is the Professor of Composition at Peabody.[17] In 2017, she was also appointed as the distinguished visiting professor at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music.[18][19]

From 2014 to 2018, Du Yun was the Artistic Director of the MATA Festival in New York City.

An avid performer, Du Yun's engagements include the 2018 Lahore Biennial (Pakistan), the 2012 Guangzhou Art Triennial (Guangzhou Opera House, China), the National Academy Museum (USA), the inaugural Shanghai Project (China).[20] She also leads her band Ok Miss, which exists as both rock band and chamber music ensemble.

In 2020, China's leading record label, Modern Sky, announced its three-year record deal with Du Yun.[21]

Du Yun lives and works from New York City. She uses her whole name, Du Yun, not Du, for professional and personal uses.

Compositions edit

Her works include compositions for solo instruments, electroacoustic music, chamber music, orchestral works, opera, indie pop, punk, theatre, oral tradition music, sound installations, and performance art pieces. Du's works have been performed internationally in venues such as Carnegie Hall, the Guangzhou Opera House, the Salle Pleyel Paris, the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Escola de Música do Estado in São Paulo, the Darmstädter Ferienkurse in Germany, and London's Southbank Centre. She has written for the New York Philharmonic, the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, the LA Philharmonic, and the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, as well as solo artists Hilary Hahn and Matt Haimovitz.

On April 10, 2017, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Music for her second opera, Angel's Bone.[22][23][24][25] The citation for the prize reads: "Premiered on January 6, 2016, at the Prototype Festival, 3LD Arts and Technology Center, New York City, a bold operatic work that integrates vocal and instrumental elements and a wide range of styles into a harrowing allegory for human trafficking in the modern world. Libretto by Royce Vavrek."[26]

She is the composer of the musical Dim Sum Warriors, based on a graphic novel and bilingual iPad app series about Kung Fu-fighting dumplings by the Singaporean filmmaker, satirist, and cartoonist Colin Goh and Yenyen Woo.[27] Dim Sum Warriors was made into a Chinese musical which was produced by Stan Lai. The musical debuted on August 11, 2017, to sold-out audiences at Theatre Above in Shanghai, and went on to tour in 25 major cities in China the following year.[28]

Her work with the Palestine artist Khaled Jarrrar, "Where We Lost Our Shadows", is based on a trip that Khaled took with a family of Syrian refugee from Greece to Berlin. The work was co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall, London's Southbank Centre, the Kennedy Center, American Composers Orchestra and CalPerformances. Its documentary was on the National Geographic's Human Journey series. The work is for three soloists, orchestra and video.[29]

In 2020, her site-specific opera Sweet Land, co-composed with composer Raven Chacon, premiered in LA with the opera company The Industry, directed by Yuval Sharon and Cannupa Hanska Luger. Sweet Land is a double-team work, with libretto by Aja Couchois and Douglas Kearney. The Los Angeles Times named it a best classical music moment in 2020, a parable of, and fantasia on, manifest destiny.[30] It won the Best 2021 New Opera by The Music Critics Association of North America.[31] The album, released in 2021, was a Notable recording of 2021 by The New Yorker.[32]

Du Yun's concert music is published by G. Schirmer, Inc.[33]

Performing artist edit

 
Du Yun at rehearsal

Du Yun's performing persona on stage has been called "utterly extraordinary, unrestrained performance."[34]

Du Yun leads the band Ok Miss. According to The New Yorker, "the one predictable thing about Du Yun … is her unpredictability. Dig deeper, though, and you can sense the conjoined strands of curiosity and compassion that run through everything she makes. On the first two nights of her Stone residency, her art-pop band, OK Miss, ventures through breathy Chinese pop, seductive trip-hop, and metallic skronk."[35]

Visual art edit

Du Yun has done works for the Guangzhou Triennial,[36] The Shanghai Project,[37] Cordoba Contemporary Arts Center,[38] and the Sharjah Biennial.

Social work edit

Du Yun is an advocate for women, racial equality and social justice. In an interview with NPR on gender in classical music, she said: "I think this is the issue — larger and deeper than the debate of discrimination at hand. Any sustainable and viable career paths cannot and should not depend on a few people's luck."[39] Speaking to Foreign Policy on art's power in politics, she said: "A lot of times politics, global issues, are very black and white... There is a place for that, but it's also fantastic to have art side by side, from different viewpoints open for interpretations."[40]

Du Yun founded and curated the Pan Asia Sounding Festival at National Sawdust in March 2018, as part of the Spring Revolution.[41] "I want to demystify Asian culture. I want to question who owns the culture and bring together the divisions we have in society," she told the New York News Channel PIX11.[42]

Du Yun started a global initiative, FutureTradition, to advocate folk arts and promote cross-regional collaborations. The works involve many collaborations across regions.[43] When All About Jazz covered her keynote speech for the European Jazz Conference in 2019, Ian Patterson wrote:

Du highlighted Chinese opera and the Indian raga as examples of art forms whose traditions have been built on cultural and linguistic hybridity—the ever-evolving influence of geography and time. She could just as well have been talking about jazz. Culture, Du intimated, has always been about the embrace of new ideas. It was no contradiction in terms when Du called for both reverence and irreverence towards folk traditions.[44]

Critical reception edit

The music of Du Yun, who won the Pulitzer Prize for music in 2017, is difficult to classify, including aspects of, to quote her own website, "orchestral [music], opera, chamber music, theatre, cabaret, pop music, oral tradition, visual arts, electronics and noise."

James Manheim, Allmusic.com[45]

Du Yun is regarded as a "leading force on the New York Scene,"[46] and "one of China's leading young composers."[47] Her onstage performing persona has been described as "adventurously eclectic" and "an indie diva with avant garde edge"[48] by The New York Times. She has been selected by NPR as one of the 100 most influential young composers under 40 in 2011.[49] She was named one of the top 35 female composers in classical music by The Washington Post.[50] Her work for Jennifer Koh, Give Me Back My Fingerprints, is listed as Top 25 Classical Music Tracks of 2019 by The New York Times.[51] Her studio albums Angel's Bone, Dinosaur Scar, A Cockroach's Tarantella and Sweet Land are listed as Notable Recordings of The Year in 2017, 2018, 2020, and 2021 respectively, by The New Yorker.[52][53][54]

In its decade review, UK's Classical FM listed Du Yun's winning of Pulitzer as No. 6 in "10 ways the 2010s changed classical music forever."[8] Rolling Stone Italia named her as one of the women composers who defined the 2010s.[9]

Works edit

Discography edit

Studio albums
Compilations

Collaborations edit

Notable collaborations include with visual artist Shahzia Sikander, flutist Claire Chase, librettist Royce Vavrek, and pipa player Wu Man.

Honors and recognitions edit

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External links edit

  • Official website
  • Profile page at sfcmp.org April 21, 2017, at the Wayback Machine
  • Galli, Brianne (Apr. 2011). "Composer Du Yun's Daring Music is a Highlight of The Kitchen's 21c Liederabend Art Song Festival". ASCAP. Obtained July 26, 2013.

traditional, chinese, 杜韻, simplified, chinese, 杜韵, chinese, born, american, composer, performer, vocalist, performance, artist, 2017, pulitzer, prize, music, opera, angel, bone, with, libretto, royce, vavrek, 2018, guggenheim, fellow, named, great, immigrants,. Du Yun traditional Chinese 杜韻 simplified Chinese 杜韵 is a Chinese born American composer performer vocalist and performance artist She won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Music for her opera Angel s Bone with libretto by Royce Vavrek 2 She was a 2018 Guggenheim Fellow 3 Du Yun was named as one of the 38 Great Immigrants by the Carnegie Corporation of New York in 2018 4 and received a 2019 Grammy nomination in the category of Best Classical Contemporary Composition for her work Air Glow 5 6 7 In its decade review UK s Classic FM listed Du Yun s winning of the Pulitzer as No 6 in 10 ways the 2010s changed classical music forever 8 Rolling Stone Italia named her as one of the women composers who defined the 2010s 9 Du Yun杜韵 Simplified Chinese 杜韻 Traditional Chinese Du Yun at Daguan theatre at Shanghai Project openingBackground informationBorn 1977 06 18 June 18 1977 age 46 1 Shanghai ChinaGenresAvant garde experimental punk classical crossover folk electronic alternative rock pop WorldOccupation s composermusicianperformance artistproducerYears active2000 presentLabelsModern Sky National Sawdust Tracks Oxingale Pentatone New Focus Records Deutsche GrammophonWebsitechannelduyun wbr com In this Chinese name the family name is Du Du YunTraditional Chinese杜韻Simplified Chinese杜韵TranscriptionsStandard MandarinHanyu PinyinDu Yun Contents 1 Early life and education 2 Career 2 1 Compositions 2 2 Performing artist 2 3 Visual art 2 4 Social work 3 Critical reception 4 Works 4 1 Opera 4 2 Orchestral 4 3 Soloist s and orchestra 4 4 Chamber music 4 5 Solo with or without electronics 4 6 Performance art 4 7 Musical 4 8 Theatre 4 9 Collaborations with Shahzia Sikander 5 Discography 6 Collaborations 7 Honors and recognitions 8 References 9 External linksEarly life and education edit nbsp Du Yun Du Yun was born in Shanghai China She began studying piano at the age of four attending the primary school Shanghai Conservatory of Music for piano She studied composition at the middle school Shanghai Conservatory of Music with Deng Erbo Du Yun later moved to the United States and graduated from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music with a Bachelor of Music degree in composition under Randolph Coleman and received a Ph D in music composition from Harvard University with Bernard Rands and Mario Davidovsky On her earlier years growing up in Shanghai Du Yun recounted in her contribution to WQXR that neither of her parents went to college and both were factory workers in China 10 When Du Yun studied in junior high school in Shanghai she collected cassette tapes from singer Faye Wong Chen Sheng Dou Wei Pink Floyd and Michael Jackson She counts Dou Wei and Faye Wong among the Chinese pop musicians who have had the most influence on her musical life She credits filmmakers Wong Kar Wai and Quentin Tarantino as some of the major influences on her style 11 When she studied in high school she spent pocket money on CDs that had impactful covers Pink Floyd Cocteau Twins Bjork Sinead O Connor and Kraftwerk entered her world all at once She indulged in Krautrock and psychedelic rock During her first year of college British band Portishead released a new album and Du Yun fell into the world of trip hop Her psychedelic style was later used in many of her works and in 2012 she released her first studio album Shark in You which featured a variety of styles from experimental dance music to cabaret and jazz electronic music Director Stan Lai has collaborated with Du Yun twice He said her music not only has the background of classical music but also is multifaceted influenced by pop and folk music 12 Career editI think artists should have the absolute freedom to work with however they want and however they wish to express I also think that creating works engaging social topics is equally important and those things are not exclusive More and more I am concerned about human condition Art just happen to be the means I know how to engage Du Yun 13 Du Yun won the Pulitzer Prize for Music for her opera Angel s Bone in 2017 making her the first Asian woman to win this prize in music 14 The opera s production in Hong Kong in 2018 won the best of the performances of the year by the South China Morning Post 15 In 2006 Du Yun joined the composition faculty at the State University of New York Purchase In 2017 she joined the composition faculty at Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University 16 She is the Professor of Composition at Peabody 17 In 2017 she was also appointed as the distinguished visiting professor at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music 18 19 From 2014 to 2018 Du Yun was the Artistic Director of the MATA Festival in New York City An avid performer Du Yun s engagements include the 2018 Lahore Biennial Pakistan the 2012 Guangzhou Art Triennial Guangzhou Opera House China the National Academy Museum USA the inaugural Shanghai Project China 20 She also leads her band Ok Miss which exists as both rock band and chamber music ensemble In 2020 China s leading record label Modern Sky announced its three year record deal with Du Yun 21 Du Yun lives and works from New York City She uses her whole name Du Yun not Du for professional and personal uses Compositions edit Her works include compositions for solo instruments electroacoustic music chamber music orchestral works opera indie pop punk theatre oral tradition music sound installations and performance art pieces Du s works have been performed internationally in venues such as Carnegie Hall the Guangzhou Opera House the Salle Pleyel Paris the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki Escola de Musica do Estado in Sao Paulo the Darmstadter Ferienkurse in Germany and London s Southbank Centre She has written for the New York Philharmonic the Seattle Symphony Orchestra the Detroit Symphony Orchestra the LA Philharmonic and the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players as well as solo artists Hilary Hahn and Matt Haimovitz On April 10 2017 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Music for her second opera Angel s Bone 22 23 24 25 The citation for the prize reads Premiered on January 6 2016 at the Prototype Festival 3LD Arts and Technology Center New York City a bold operatic work that integrates vocal and instrumental elements and a wide range of styles into a harrowing allegory for human trafficking in the modern world Libretto by Royce Vavrek 26 She is the composer of the musical Dim Sum Warriors based on a graphic novel and bilingual iPad app series about Kung Fu fighting dumplings by the Singaporean filmmaker satirist and cartoonist Colin Goh and Yenyen Woo 27 Dim Sum Warriors was made into a Chinese musical which was produced by Stan Lai The musical debuted on August 11 2017 to sold out audiences at Theatre Above in Shanghai and went on to tour in 25 major cities in China the following year 28 Her work with the Palestine artist Khaled Jarrrar Where We Lost Our Shadows is based on a trip that Khaled took with a family of Syrian refugee from Greece to Berlin The work was co commissioned by Carnegie Hall London s Southbank Centre the Kennedy Center American Composers Orchestra and CalPerformances Its documentary was on the National Geographic s Human Journey series The work is for three soloists orchestra and video 29 In 2020 her site specific opera Sweet Land co composed with composer Raven Chacon premiered in LA with the opera company The Industry directed by Yuval Sharon and Cannupa Hanska Luger Sweet Land is a double team work with libretto by Aja Couchois and Douglas Kearney The Los Angeles Times named it a best classical music moment in 2020 a parable of and fantasia on manifest destiny 30 It won the Best 2021 New Opera by The Music Critics Association of North America 31 The album released in 2021 was a Notable recording of 2021 by The New Yorker 32 Du Yun s concert music is published by G Schirmer Inc 33 Performing artist edit nbsp Du Yun at rehearsal Du Yun s performing persona on stage has been called utterly extraordinary unrestrained performance 34 Du Yun leads the band Ok Miss According to The New Yorker the one predictable thing about Du Yun is her unpredictability Dig deeper though and you can sense the conjoined strands of curiosity and compassion that run through everything she makes On the first two nights of her Stone residency her art pop band OK Miss ventures through breathy Chinese pop seductive trip hop and metallic skronk 35 Visual art edit Du Yun has done works for the Guangzhou Triennial 36 The Shanghai Project 37 Cordoba Contemporary Arts Center 38 and the Sharjah Biennial Social work edit Du Yun is an advocate for women racial equality and social justice In an interview with NPR on gender in classical music she said I think this is the issue larger and deeper than the debate of discrimination at hand Any sustainable and viable career paths cannot and should not depend on a few people s luck 39 Speaking to Foreign Policy on art s power in politics she said A lot of times politics global issues are very black and white There is a place for that but it s also fantastic to have art side by side from different viewpoints open for interpretations 40 Du Yun founded and curated the Pan Asia Sounding Festival at National Sawdust in March 2018 as part of the Spring Revolution 41 I want to demystify Asian culture I want to question who owns the culture and bring together the divisions we have in society she told the New York News Channel PIX11 42 Du Yun started a global initiative FutureTradition to advocate folk arts and promote cross regional collaborations The works involve many collaborations across regions 43 When All About Jazz covered her keynote speech for the European Jazz Conference in 2019 Ian Patterson wrote Du highlighted Chinese opera and the Indian raga as examples of art forms whose traditions have been built on cultural and linguistic hybridity the ever evolving influence of geography and time She could just as well have been talking about jazz Culture Du intimated has always been about the embrace of new ideas It was no contradiction in terms when Du called for both reverence and irreverence towards folk traditions 44 Critical reception editThe music of Du Yun who won the Pulitzer Prize for music in 2017 is difficult to classify including aspects of to quote her own website orchestral music opera chamber music theatre cabaret pop music oral tradition visual arts electronics and noise James Manheim Allmusic com 45 Du Yun is regarded as a leading force on the New York Scene 46 and one of China s leading young composers 47 Her onstage performing persona has been described as adventurously eclectic and an indie diva with avant garde edge 48 by The New York Times She has been selected by NPR as one of the 100 most influential young composers under 40 in 2011 49 She was named one of the top 35 female composers in classical music by The Washington Post 50 Her work for Jennifer Koh Give Me Back My Fingerprints is listed as Top 25 Classical Music Tracks of 2019 by The New York Times 51 Her studio albums Angel s Bone Dinosaur Scar A Cockroach s Tarantella and Sweet Land are listed as Notable Recordings of The Year in 2017 2018 2020 and 2021 respectively by The New Yorker 52 53 54 In its decade review UK s Classical FM listed Du Yun s winning of Pulitzer as No 6 in 10 ways the 2010s changed classical music forever 8 Rolling Stone Italia named her as one of the women composers who defined the 2010s 9 Works editOpera edit In Our Daughter s Eyes Sweet Land Angel s Bone Zolle with A Cockroach s Tarantella Orchestral edit Slow Portraits Kraken Mantichora Hundred Heads Impeccable Quake Soloist s and orchestra edit Where We Lost Our Shadows 2019 55 Thirst 2018 56 Ears Of The Book Concerto for Pipa and Orchestra 2024 Chamber music edit Vicissitudes No 1 by of Lethean Your eyes are not your eyes Air Glow A Few Stops on the N Train A Few Stops on the 7 Train Tattooed in Snow Every Grass A Spring Solo with or without electronics edit give me back my fingerprints The Veronica Run in a Graveyard When a Tiger Meets a Rosa Rugosa An Empty Garlic San Dinosaur Scar Ixtab 10pm Performance art edit How are you doing the future that has never left 57 How are you doing the past that comes around the corner Run 58 Musical edit Dim Sum Warriors book by Colin Goh Theatre edit Love in a Fallen City 傾城之戀 2021 in Mandarin written by Eileen Chang directed by Timmy Yip 葉錦添 Writing in Water 水中之書 2016 in Mandarin written dir by Stan Lai 賴聲川 Kung Fu written by David Henry Hwang 黃哲倫 Collaborations with Shahzia Sikander edit Disruption as Rapture 59 60 Parallax 61 62 Singing Suns The Last Post 63 Discography editStudio albums Sweet Land 2021 Industry Records A Cockroach s Tarantella 2020 Modern Sky Du Yun JACK Quartet Dinosaur Scar 2018 Tundra International Contemporary Ensemble Du Yun Air Glow Grammy Nomination for Best Classical Contemporary Composition 2019 64 Angel s Bone 2017 VIA Records label name changed to National Sawdust Tracks in 2017 Lead cast Abigail Fischer Kyle Pfortmiller Jennifer Charles Kyle Bielfield The Choir of Trinity Wall Street Julian Wachner conductor FA Angel s Bone 65 Shark in You 2012 New Focus Recordings CD digital and vinyl 66 Shark in You 67 Compilations Retrospective 2018 Deutsche Grammophon Hilary Hahn violin Overtures to Bach 2016 Oxingale Records Pendatone Matt Haimovitz cello Juno Award Nomination for Classical Album of the Year 2017 68 Orbit 2015 Oxingale Records Pendatone Matt Haimovitz cello In 27 Pieces the Hilary Hahn Encores 2013 Deutsche Grammophon Hilary Hahn violin Cory Smythe piano Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Small Ensemble Performance 2014 69 Figment 2009 Oxingale Records Matt Haimovitz cello Aliento 2009 New Focus Recordings Claire Chase flute and electronics Abandoned Time 2008 New Focus Recordings International Contemporary EnsembleCollaborations editNotable collaborations include with visual artist Shahzia Sikander flutist Claire Chase librettist Royce Vavrek and pipa player Wu Man Honors and recognitions edit2023 Harvard Centennial Medal 70 2023 Vilcek Prize in Music 71 2022 Creative Capital Award 72 2021 Best 2021 New Opera Music Critics Association of North America Award for Best New Opera Sweet Land 73 2021 Asia Society Hong Kong Center Honoree in Performing Arts 74 2021 American Academy in Berlin Berlin Prize 75 2021 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Music Sound 76 2019 Beijing Music Festival Artist of the Year 77 2019 BraVo International Professional Music Award Moscow Best Classical Composition 78 2018 Great Immigrants Carnegie Foundation 79 2018 Guggenheim Fellowship 80 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Music Opera Angel s Bone 22 24 2017 Asian Cultural Council 2016 New York Foundation for the Arts Sound fellow 81 2015 Civitella Ranieri Foundation 82 2011 Detroit Symphony Orchestra s Elaine Lebenbom Award 83 2011 Philadelphia Music Project Pew Charitable Trusts 84 2009 Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio 2008 Chamber Music America 85 2007 Fromm Music Foundation 86 References edit Chen Nan September 1 2020 Birthday gift China Daily Retrieved January 16 2022 Robin William April 13 2017 What Du Yun s Pulitzer Win Means for Women in Classical Music The New Yorker Archived from the original on October 27 2017 Retrieved January 1 2018 via www newyorker com Guggenheim Foundation Announces 2018 Fellows www artforum com April 5 2018 Retrieved October 14 2019 York Carnegie Corporation of New Great Immigrants Carnegie Corporation of New York 61st GRAMMY Awards Full Nominees amp Winners List GRAMMY com December 7 2018 Retrieved October 14 2019 2019 GRAMMY Nominations See the Complete List Entertainment Tonight December 7 2018 Retrieved October 14 2019 2019 Grammys The full list of winners and nominees Los Angeles Times December 7 2018 Retrieved October 14 2019 a b Macdonald Kyle May 19 2014 10 ways the 2010s changed classical music forever classicfm a b Todesco Claudio December 31 2019 E stato il decennio delle compositrici RollingStone Italy 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