About The Artist
Yang Yi He
Yang Yi He (b.1958) is a renowned erhu performer, educator, and musicologist. He is a professor of the School of Music 音乐学院 at Hangzhou Normal University 杭州师范大学 and professor and Ph.D mentor of the Music College 音乐学院 at Nanjing Arts Institute 南京艺术学院. He is the former Vice-Director of the Music School, and Vice-Chief Editor of the School Journal Music and Performance at the Nanjing Arts Institute. He is also a standing council member of China's Association of Educators, member of China Association of Music and Aesthetics, and council member of Jiangsu Provincial Association of Literature and Art Critics.
His solo erhu recordings include Rivers, Lakes and Water, Traditions and New Style, Famous Pieces of Erhu, Liang Zhu (Love Story of Liang Zhu), and Merry Night. He has published several award winning pieces, including Music of the Huai Countryside (erhu solo) and the orchestra piece Ode to the Snowmountain. (a collaboration with Zhuang Yao in three chapters).
Several of his erhu students have won the First, Second or Third Prizes in performance at national and/or provincial levels, among them Jiang Qian (First Prize of the 1993 Nanjing National Folk Musical Instruments Contest) and Wang Xiaoben (2002 "Yellow Bell" International Chinese Erhu Contest). Many Ph.D. and Master's students who attended Prof. Yang's musicology class are now teaching at various colleges and universities in China.
He has published more than 30 academic papers, translations and critical essays, quite a few of which have been reprinted, and five papers of over 10 thousand words on the aesthetics of music performance, which are included in Documentation of 20th Century Chinese Musical Aesthetics. His paper "on the Basis of Re-Creation in Music Performance: from the Perspective of the Way Musical Pieces Exist" was honored as one of the "International Excellent Essays".
Prof. Yang has published two monographs, Performing Aesthetics of Music and Theory of Musical Performing Aesthetics and Its Applications. Performing Aesthetics of Music, the first monograph on this subject in China, won the First Prize for Monographs of Humanities and Social Sciences of China's Higher Educational Institutions. It is now being used as a textbook or reference book for undergraduates and postgraduates in more than ten music colleges in China, including the Central Conservatory of Music (Beijing). and Tainan Conservatory (Taiwan). The academic journal China's Music Almanac remarks that "Performing Aesthetics of Music" is original and pioneering... It transcends the boundary of the performing aesthetics in the usual sense into the realm of the philosophical and the cultural..." In 1996, Prof. Yang was invited to be a special contributor to China's Music Almanac.
Professor Yang has given series of lectures on Music Performing Arts and Aesthetics in such universities as the Central Conservatory Guangzhou Xinghai Conservatory, Xuzhou Normal University, and Nantong Normal University. He is an active participant in both international and national seminars of musicology. He was nominated and recognized as one of the Outstanding Young Teachers of Jiangsu Higher Educational Institutions in 1996, honored as a Trans-Century Talents" for year 2002 in the "3-3-3 Project" supported by Jiangsu Provincial Educational Foundation. He has been a member and chair of the Discipline of Music, Senior Professional Titles Evaluation Committee of Jiangsu Higher Educational Institutions, and executive member of Jiangsu Provincial Senior Evaluation Committee of Higher Educational Institutions.
In September 2002, on an invitation from the German Broadcasting Corporation, Professor Yang attended "The World's Music Festival", during which he played erhu solo and in duet at the Beethovenhalle, a recital which was recorded. He was the troupe leader of Nanjing Arts Institute's "Saints Chorus", which, led by him, gave a performance tour throughout Taiwan. Again by invitation, on May 10, 2008 he began a cultural exchange and lecture tour in Taiwan and Japan.
In recognition of his prestigious contributions and academic positions, Prof. Yang's biography and achievements have been included in Who's Who in the World, The World's Distinguished Artists and similar publications.
1. Moonlight on the River by A-Bing
2. March to the Light by Liu Tianhua
3. River by Folk Song
4. Ballade in Yubei by Liu Wenjin
5. Happy Herders on the Plain by Liu Changfu
6. Fantasy of Great Wall by Liu Wenjin
See Also 二泉映月. 春江花月夜 二胡乐队
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