Daqun Jia: Chamber Works, Vol. 2

Featuring

Ensemble Les Amis Shanghai
Han Quartet
Daqun Jia

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Compositional Technique

JIA Daqun's work "Counterpoint of Times" uses four types of serial sequences, including the Fibonacci sequence, where each number from the third onwards is the sum of the preceding two.

Performer Biography

The Han Quartet, founded by faculty members from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, is the only Asian quartet accepted into the European Chamber Music Academy (ECMA).

Performer Biography

Ensemble Les Amis Shanghai (ELA), founded by violist and pedagogue Professor Jensen Sin-Lam in 2009, is the only professional chamber music ensemble in Shanghai included in the Directory of Chinese Music for External Recommendation by the Ministry of Culture.

Composition History

The work "The Prospect of Coloured Desert" was commissioned by the Silk Road Project in 2000 and is a musical representation of two poems: "West of the Desert" and "The Silk Road."

Composer's Artistic Vision

JIA Daqun studied painting for eight years, which allowed him to connect musical concepts like lines, harmony, and timbre with visual plastic arts, considering them crucial to his compositional process.

Composer Biography

JIA Daqun, the composer, is a Senior Professor of Composition and Theory at Shanghai Conservatory of Music and enjoys special government allowances from the State Council of China.

Compositional Technique

The serial sequences used in "Counterpoint of Times" have percentage values between numbers that are very close to the Golden Section Ratio, a concept found in both mathematics and art.