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Luo, Jing Jing
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Jing Jing Luo, born 1953 in Beijing, China who, after her father’s death at 40 during the Cultural Revolution, was forced to work in a physical labor camp in the middle of the Gobi desert, until the age of sixteen, when she walked out of the desert on foot one moonlit night. Following her escape, she became a nurse aid, and at the age of eighteen entered the nursing school at an Army hospital in the South of China. A year later, again at the hand of the government, she was sent to study music at the Conservatory of Music in Shanghai, where she majored in piano performance and composition. Jing Jing would never forget her teachers like Chengang and Sang Tong, whom she respected highly. She learned to play the traditional Chinese wind instrument ‘Xun’ and plucked string instrument ‘Chin’, the techniques of which she often integrates into her chamber works. By a stroke of luck, she was chosen as the Rockefeller Fellowship recipient, and came to United States in her late 20’s and was quickly identified as part of the first generation of Mainland Chinese Avant Garde composers, along with Tan Dun, in the early 1980s. Since then, she has been the winner of numerous important awards, grants and prizes for composition, and has made her mark both as a composer and performer.
Luo’s personal life is a drama, and her ability to transform this happiness and anguish into each musical work… dark and melancholy, fantastical and uplifting… has dazzled many music producers, directors and musicians around world. |
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www.jingjingluo.com
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