Julian Jing-Jun Yu (born 2 September 1957) is a Chinese-Australian composer.
Biography
Julian Yu was born in Beijing and studied at the Central Conservatory of Music, where he later worked. In the early 1980s, he studied at the Tokyo College of Music with JÃ
Âji Yuasa. In 1984 he married an Australian and the following year he moved to Australia where he taught at the Queensland Conservatorium. He then moved to Melbourne and studied at La Trobe University for a Master's degree with Keith Humble. 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. He has won over twenty-five prizes, including winning the Paul Lowin Orchestra Prize twice.
Prizes
- Koussevitzky Tanglewood Prize (1988)
- Irino Prize (1989)
- Paul Lowin Orchestral Prizes (1991, 1994)
- Vienna Modern Masters Recording Award (1992), for Wu-Yu
Compositions
- Impromptu (1982)
- Scintillation II (1987)
- 3 Haiku (1987)
- Scintillation (1987)
- Wu-Yu (1987)
- Medium Ornamental Fuga Canonica (1988)
- Great Ornamented Fuga Canonica (1988)
- Reclaimed Prefu (1989-90)
- The White Snake (1990), a puppet opera
- Reclaimed Prefix II (1991)
Recordings of Yu's work
- Classical Allusion: Selected Works by Julian Yu (2000, Move Records, MD 3207, )
- China Wind: Robert Schubert plays the clarinet music of Julian Yu (2012, Move Records, MD 3351, )
- For our Natural World: Julian Yu Works (2012, Nippon Acoustic Records, NARD-5039, )
- 126 Variations on Twinkle Twinkle Little Star (2015, Move Records, MD 3404, )
- Old and Yu: The Clarinet Music of Julian Yu, Volume 2 (2018, Move Records, MD 3424, )
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