Julian Jing-Jun Yu (born 2 September 1957)[1] is a Chinese-Australian composer.
Biography
editJulian Yu was born in Beijing and studied at the Central Conservatory of Music, where he later worked.[2][1] In the early 1980s, he studied at the Tokyo College of Music with Jōji Yuasa.[2] In 1984 he married an Australian and the following year he moved to Australia where he taught at the Queensland Conservatorium.[3] He then moved to Melbourne and studied at La Trobe University for a Master's degree with Keith Humble.[3] With the support of an Australia Council Fellowship, he studied with Hans Werner Henze and Oliver Knussen at Tanglewood in 1988 and received the Koussevitzky Tanglewood Prize.[4][1] He has won over twenty-five prizes, including winning the Paul Lowin Orchestra Prize twice.[5][6]: 175
Prizes
editCompositions
editRecordings of Yu's work
edit- China Wind: Robert Schubert plays the clarinet music of Julian Yu (2012, Move Records, MD 3351, OCLC 849711216)
- For our Natural World: Julian Yu Works (2012, Nippon Acoustic Records, NARD-5039, OCLC 988950247)
- 126 Variations on Twinkle Twinkle Little Star (2015, Move Records, MD 3404, OCLC 1030203922)
- Old and Yu: The Clarinet Music of Julian Yu, Volume 2 (2018, Move Records, MD 3424, OCLC 1086292255)
References
edit- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 McCallum, Peter (2001). "Yu, Julian". Grove Music Online.
- 1 2 Chen, Jia (8 May 2006). "Classical Meets Contemporary". China Daily.
- 1 2 Whiffin, Laurie (1995). "Julian Yu". In Broadstock, Brenton (ed.). Sound Ideas: Australian composers born since 1950. The Rocks, NSW: Australian Music Centre. pp. 339–340. ISBN 9780646224978. OCLC 33395013.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Kennedy, Michael (1996). The concise Oxford dictionary of music. Oxford paperback reference (4th ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 807. ISBN 978-0-19-280037-4 – via Internet Archive.
- ↑ "Is Julian Yu tragic? Only to order". The Age. 2003-06-11. Retrieved 2025-10-06.
- 1 2 3 Whiteoak, John; Scott-Maxwell, Aline, eds. (2003). Currency companion to music & dance in Australia. Strawberry Hills, NSW: Currency House Inc. in association with Currency Press, Sydney. ISBN 978-0-9581213-1-6 – via Internet Archive.