Boosey & Hawkes signs Qigang Chen and Enrico Chapela
(June 2008)
Boosey & Hawkes is pleased to announce new publishing contracts with Chinese composer Qigang Chen and Mexican composer Enrico Chapela.Qigang Chen (b.1951), who divides his composing life between France and China, this year directs the music at the opening ceremony of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. The new Boosey & Hawkes agreement covers Chen’s future compositions, while his earlier works remain published by Billaudot and Durand.
Recent Chen works that have travelled internationally include Iris devoilée (2001) for orchestra, female voices and Chinese instruments, available on a highly successful Virgin Classics disc (7243 5 45549 2 6), and Raise the Red Lantern (2002), a full-evening ballet for National Ballet of China directed by Zhang Yimou. Future projects include an orchestral work for the Hong Kong Philharmonic and a second ballet.
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Enrico Chapela (b.1974) is one of the most exciting young talents to emerge from Latin America, with a growing number of international performances and commissions. His new agreement with Boosey & Hawkes covers his existing output and future projects including a rock trio concerto for the Dresden Sinfoniker, a new work for the NYDD Ensemble in Tallinn, and a commission from the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
Chapela's musical style fuses different geographic traditions and musical soundworlds, so that contemporary techniques happily coexist with minimalist, jazz or rock idioms. This dialogue of cultures is not ‘world music’, but rather a place where jam sessions can meet complex metrical games, where the anarchic drive of favela buskers can collide with the chants of football fans.
Read more about Enrico Chapela's new contract
For a list of contemporary composers published by Boosey & Hawkes visit our Contemporary Music area.
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