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Yan Da | digital media President/Director @ NovaTrio MFA Digital+Media, Rhode Island School of Design, USA MA Architecture, Tongji University, China BA Visual Communication, Tongji University, China darajan2.com 达彦 | 数字媒体设计 跨媒体设计师。其创作领域涉及新媒体艺术、动态图形、平面设计、声音和建筑摄影。他是北京达哒超媒体工作室和美国Novatrio新媒体重奏团创始人,致力于跨媒介设计整合和古典音乐的新媒体演出。同时担任同济大学设计创意学院客座教授。他曾就任水晶石影视传媒新媒体设计总监,致力于商业新媒体策划。他先后在同济和罗德岛设计学院获得工业设计,建筑学与数字媒体等学位。 Cross Media designer. His practice includes new media design, motion graphic, graphic design, sound and architectural photography. Yan is the founder of Dada Hypermedia Lab and New York based Novatrio New Media Ensemble, which specializes in cross media deign solutions and performance for classical/contemporary music. He is guest professor at College of Design and Innovation Tongji University. He is also former creative director in Crystal CG, working on commercial new media solutions. |
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Bing Shen | piano Vice President/Director @ NovaTrio DMA (candidate), Boston University, USA Master of Music, Manhattan School of Music, USA Artist Diploma, Vancouver Academy of Music, Canada BM, Central Conservatory of Music, China 沈冰 | 钢琴 青年钢琴家,曼哈顿音乐学院硕士,师从教授Jeffrey Cohen, Solomon Mikowsky, 李金星, 杜太航等。 As a performance artist, Bing Shen is enthusiastic in searching for new ways to push the so called "classical music" into a broader field, where all art forms get inspired from each other and create new sparkles and spirits by themselves. Bing has a deep knowledge in contemporary musicology, which led her to combine a wide range of piano repertoire with other practices including composing, photography, writing and painting. Bing is among the first to have classical music recital with integrated reactive media in China. |
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Sichen Ma | piano Bachelor of Piano, The Colburn School, USA 马思晨 | 钢琴 青年钢琴家,落山矶Colburn音乐学院学士, 师从教授 John Perry, 钟慧,杨峻等。 Born in Zhengzhou, China, Sichen started his piano lesson at the age of five. He entered the Music School attached to the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing to begin his professional piano performance training at the age of twelve. During his six-year study with Prof. Yang Jun and Zhong Hui in Beijing, Sichen had performed throughout China as well as on stages of the United States, Canada, Hong Kong, and Germany. He is a prizewinner of numerous competitions including the first prize of the 2002 China Steinway piano competition, Hong Kong Asian Youth International Competition, third prize of the 10th Missouri Southern International Competition and the top prize of Torrance Symphony Young Artist Concerto Competition. Sichen recently has performed the Brahms Piano Concerto in B-flat with the Torrance Symphony Orchestra, and also made his Walt Disney Hall debut performing the Beethoven Piano Concerto in G with Los Angeles Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra. Sichen is also among the first to have classical music recital with integrated reactive media in China. Sichen is currently a student under the tutelage of Prof. John Perry at the Colburn School in Los Angeles. |
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Eneko Vadillo | composer Fulbright Fellowshi, Manhattan School of Music Eneko Vadillo is a Spanish composer born in Malaga in 1975. Mr. Vadillo studied Chemistry and composition and electronic music in Madrid, London (Royal College of Music), Berlin (Der Kunst), Paris (IRCAM Cursus 1) and, in New York City (Manhattan School of Music, Professional Studies) as the recipient of a Fulbright fellowship from the Spanish Ministry of Culture. Other artistic residencies include Acanthes (2005, 2007, 2010), Royamount Voix Nouvelles, Nouvel Ensemble Modern Forum (2002) and Ensemble Aleph Forum (2000). Awards and prizes include: Third Prize at International Composition Contest, BBVA Foundation (2010), Isang Yun International Composition Competition (2007), Rome Prize (2006), Montreal Symphony Orchestra Olivier Messiaen International Composition Competition (2006), and International Queen Sofia Composition Award (2005). |
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Anne Goldberg | composer, choreographer Master of Music, Manhattan School of Music, USA Phi Beta Kappa, Wellesley College and MIT Anne Goldberg is the founder and artistic director of the Synthesis Aesthetics Project, a collaborative between musicians, dancers, multimedia and spoken word artists. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Wellesley College and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and is a M.M. of Classical Composition at Manhattan School of Music in Marjorie Merryman’s studio. In April 2010, Anne presented her undergraduate thesis, composing a contemporary ballet in four movements using acoustic spatialization in combination with visual choreography. She has since been a guest choreographer at the Boston Center for the Arts and for Modern Discomfort, a modern company based in Boston. In 2008, she spent the fall of her junior year abroad to study music at the Accademia Internazionale della Musica in Milan, Italy, studying under Roberto Andreoni. In Boston and New York, Anne is a freelance oboe-English horn player, and played regularly for the New England Philharmonic and Berklee Contemporary Symphony Orchestra. Anne’s music has been premiered in Boston and New York by ensembles such as the Boston New Music Institute, the Firebird Ensemble, and at the Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice at New England Conservatory. While in Boston, she studied under Peter Child, Randall Hodgkinson, and Barbara Lafitte in composition, oboe, and piano, respectively. |
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Juan Calderon | composer Master of Music, Manhattan School of Music, USA New York city based composer and guitarist Juan Calderon (b. 1979) is a native of Ecuador and was raised in Colombia since he was five. He immigrated to Miami, Florida at age 21 for political reasons. The work of Juan Calderon speaks a unique language that blends elements from his early musical experiences in Colombia, as a member of various folk, rock (metal ) ensembles, and his interest in East Asian music fuelled by travels and interaction with musicians and artists in China and Japan. Calderon’s music has been performed throughout South America, the United States and Asia. Although Juan cannot return to his native Colombia, his string duet, “Famous Librarians” (commissioned by Olivia de Prato and Victor Lowrie, was premiered at the Medellín Conservatory of Music in June 2009.) His piece for electric bass and keyboard, “Glue Pain Ghost,” a collaboration with video artist, Jane Hsu, was invited to a world premiere at the GEISAI Art festival in Tokyo, and the Art Basel festival in Miami. Juan Calderon holds a Master’s of music from the Manhattan School of Music, where he studied under the tutelage of Susan Botti in composition and electronic music with Joel Chadabe. He also holds a Bachelor’s of Music degrees from Miami Dade College, where he studied jazz guitar with Tom Lippincott, and the New World School of the Arts, where he studied composition with Susan Epstein. |
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Yana Sakellion | designer MFA Digital+Media, Rhode Island School of Design, USA As a designer and an artist Yana works across mediums including graphic design, interactive media, and video. Her practice emphasizes interdisciplinary approach to a conceptual inquiry, with special interest in Physical Interface design and Interactive Storytelling. Yana was born to a mixed Russian-Greek family and grew up in Uzbekistan, Former Soviet Union. She often takes inspiration in the memories of her upbringing and migratory experiences. She also traveled excessively between the Former Soviet Republics, Europe and the US, and is fluent in Russian. Yana earned your honorary MFA degree from the Department of Digital + Media at the Rhode Island School of Design, and her work has been exhibited and published nationally and abroad, most recently at the Video and Contemporary Art Festival Waterpieces, Riga, Latvia and Oslo Screen Festival, Oslo, Norway. She is currently holding a position of tenure-track faculty in the Graphic Design Department at the American University, Washington, DC. |
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