{"id":2977,"date":"2023-08-07T01:37:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T01:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/synthase.cc\/?page_id=2977"},"modified":"2023-09-16T16:35:23","modified_gmt":"2023-09-16T16:35:23","slug":"synapse-workshop","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/synthase.cc\/synapse-workshop\/","title":{"rendered":"Synapse Workshop 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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2023 Synapse Workshop<\/h1>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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Featuring Artists from the Chinese Music Ensemble of New York<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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Connecting aspiring composers to acclaimed musicians around the world and exploring the joy of music making in a safe space.<\/h4>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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The 2023 Synapse workshop application is now closed.<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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We will announce the results shortly.\u00a0 For future opportunities, please join our email list<\/a>.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Yueqin \u2018Eugenie\u2019 Chen \u9648\u73a5\u99f8<\/strong> is a classically trained ruan<\/em> and liuqin<\/em> artist based in New York. Born and raised in Shanghai, she started playing ruan<\/em> at the age of five and liuqin<\/em> at age nine. Chen was admitted into the Shanghai Conservatory of Music in 2003 and studied ruan<\/em> and liuqin<\/em> performance with Professor Wu Qiang. In 2007, her ensemble Jin Qi (\u91d1\u8c48\u7ec4\u5408) took first place in the National Classical Chinese Music Competition. She continued to perform and record after moving to New York and has since appeared in Carnegie Hall, the Lincoln Center of Performing Arts, and the 2015 Met Gala with Rihanna. Chen has been a member and featured soloist of the Chinese Music Ensemble of New York since 2013 and served as the organization\u2019s Artistic Director from 2018 to 2021. <\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Sulwyn Lok<\/strong> (non-binary he\/him) is an NYC-based Singaporean composer who advocates the <\/span>human connection in music and going beyond cultural boundaries. He weaves folk and contemporary music elements from his extensive work across Southeast Asia and NYC. Winner of Universal Music’s UCompose competition and Best Original Music at the National Youth Film Awards (Singapore), Sulwyn’s works have premiered at the Cannes and Busan film festivals and toured festivals globally. His commissions include Samsung, <\/span>the <\/span>arts councils of New York and Singapore, <\/span>the<\/span> Singapore Chinese Orchestra, and the Singapore Symphony Orchestra. Sulwyn graduated from NYU’s Screen Scoring masters program, and is a recipient of the New York State Council on the Arts grant award (2023) for a multi-movement site-specific work exploring Asian identity.<\/span><\/p>\n

Associate editor of “Anthology of Singaporean Ruan Compositions”, Sulwyn is also resident composer of the Singapore Ruan Ensemble; executive member of the Singapore Chinese Music Federation Youth Chapter; co-founder and conductor of the Victoria Chinese Orchestra; ruan musician with the Chinese Music Ensemble of New York; and a member of the Society of Composers and Lyricists (USA).<\/span><\/p>\n

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Opening Concert<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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September 9, 2023, at 2 pm Pacific\/5 pm Eastern on YouTube Live<\/a><\/strong><\/p>

Come hear the unique sound of \u962e(<\/span>ruan<\/span><\/i>) and enjoy music written for this special traditional Chinese instrument! This 60-minute live virtual concert is free and open to anyone who is interested. Our free music showcase is offered synchronously via YouTube livestream, and features acclaimed<\/span> ruan<\/span><\/i> soloist Yueqin Chen from the Chinese Music Ensemble of New York.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

Bring your questions! Yueqin will play a few of their popular repertories and talk about the background of those pieces, along with live Q&A breaks throughout the entire showcase.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Workshop Faculty<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Haibei Wang<\/strong> is a Chinese composer who has written music for film, music theater, video game and the concert stage. Her compositions incorporate elements of classical orchestral music, electronic music, jazz music, and Eastern folk influences. Her film scores have been presented at the WorldFest Houston International Film Festival, TIFF, AFMA, NYFA, and more. In late 2020, she worked with Academy Nominated director Chen Kaige to score his short film <\/span>Baobeier<\/span><\/i>, which was screened in the Chinese TV show <\/span>Everybody Stand By<\/span><\/i> S2. In 2021, she worked for Grammy nominated composer Frank Wildhorn on his Musical <\/span>No Longer Human<\/span><\/i> as a music copyist. In the same year, <\/span>Oblivio<\/span><\/i>, a Sci-fi short she scored, was released by Dust company. In 2022, she won the New Work Grants from Queens Council on the Arts, from which she collaborated with Yueqin Chen on the ruan and piano duo \u201cFarewell Kiss for the Night\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

Now based in New York City, Haibei completed a Master’s degree in composition with a concentration in Screen Scoring from New York University in 2019. She also holds degrees in Concert Composition (B.M.), Organ Performance (B.M.) and Concert Composition (M.M.) from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

To learn more about Haibei\u2019s works, visit: <\/span>https:\/\/www.haibeiwang.net<\/span><\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Rachel C. Walker<\/strong> writes poetic, timbre-sensitive works drawing from her ongoing immersion in and research on Chinese folk music, musical time, and language. She engages in long-term collaborations with living writers, exploring the philosophical connections between transcription and translation within abstract musical syntaxes.<\/span><\/p>

Her music has been heard across the US, China, Germany, Austria, Sweden, Poland, Portugal, Canada, Colombia, and Australia, including performances during Festival Mujeres en la M\u00fasica Nueva, PASIC, Hangzhou Contemporary Music Festival, Kuandu Arts Festival, Svensk Musikv\u00e5r, Kalv Festivalen, Sound of Stockholm, Warsaw Autumn, Bludenzer Tage zeitgem\u00e4\u00dfer Musik, Festival de Royaumont, Beethovenfest Bonn, Unerh\u00f6rte Musik, Sommer in Stuttgart and Tage Neuer Musik Regensburg. Recent commissions include pieces for Radio France, Trio Abstrakt, airborne extended, Ensemble Ascolta and others.<\/span>
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Synthase founder Nate May<\/strong> (b. 1987) is a versatile American composer, keyboardist, and educator whose music has been heard across four continents: in jazz clubs and DIY spaces, on national television, in museums and modern dance venues, and on mainstage classical events at New York\u2019s Sheen Center and the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. His chamber, choral, and orchestral music, characterized by textural intricacy, rhythmic drive, and repurposed sounds, has been performed by the International Contemporary Ensemble, Ensemble Dal Niente, Wild UP, the Yale Philharmonia, Patchwork Duo, and Quartetto Indaco. Also an award-winning educator, he has served as a teaching artist with the American Composers Orchestra and taught courses at Yale University, Cincinnati\u2019s College-Conservatory of Music, Montclair State University, the Walden School, and the Thurnauer school. He holds a doctorate in composition from Yale, supported in part by a Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He also earned degrees from Cincinnati\u2019s College-Conservatory of Music (M.M., Composition) and the University of Michigan (B.F.A., Jazz and Contemplative Studies). His teachers have included Aaron Jay Kernis, David Lang, Christopher Theofanidis, Geri Allen, Stephen Rush, and Michael Fiday.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Huijuan (Susie) Ling<\/strong> is a composer and keyboardist currently based in Durham, NC. She likes to draw her inspiration outside the boundaries of the wobbly concept of Western art music and enjoys the process of discovering and negotiating a sound world that feels authentic both to her and her collaborators. Her music has been performed by ensembles and musicians such as the Utari Duo, Cracow Golden Quintet, Ciompi Quartet, Yarn\/Wire, Imani Winds, JACK Quartet, Line Upon Line Percussion, and others. In 2022, her woodwind quintet \u201cToward a Rediscovery\u201d won the first prize in the fifth International \u201cNew Vision\u201d Composition Competition from the New York Dance & Arts Innovations; in 2021, she was awarded the William Klenz Prize in Composition from Duke University; in 2020, she was among the recipients of the Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; and in 2019, her harpsichord solo \u201cThose Cold Winter Rains\u201d won the third prize in the SIMM 2019 International Harpsichord Composition Competition. Huijuan joined Synthase in 2022, and has been an avid educator who advocates for a supportive and friendly creative space.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

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A rare opportunity for aspiring composers to engage with professionals in traditional Chinese music, this year\u2019s Synapse workshop will guide you through the process of creating and bringing to life a brand new work for the <\/span>ruan, <\/span><\/i>a plucked instrument that is a common component of a Chinese ensemble. Over the course of two months, you\u2019ll join virtually with notable mentors and like-minded composers, and develop a brand new piece that will be professionally recorded.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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