In this episode of Emerging Voices, Dr Felicity Wilcox interviews composer, multi-instrumentalist, performance artist, activist, and curator Du Yun. This interview was recorded in July 2023 at the Darmstadt Summer Course.
https://channelduyun.com Du Yun, born and raised in Shanghai, China, and currently based in New York City, works at the intersection of opera, orchestral, theatre, cabaret, musical, oral tradition, public performances, electronics, visual arts, and noise. Her body of work is championed by some of today’s finest performing groups and organizations around the world. Known for her “relentless originality and unflinching social conscience” (The New Yorker), Du Yun’s second opera, Angel’s Bone (libretto by Royce Vavrek), won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in Music. She was nominated for a Grammy Award in the Best Classical Composition category for her work Air Glow. Her collaborative opera Sweet Land with Raven Chacon (for opera company The Industry) was the 2021 Best New Opera by the North America Critics Association.
Emerging Voices is hosted by composer and Senior Lecturer in Music and Sound Design at the University of Technology Sydney, Dr Felicity Wilcox. This podcast forms part of Emergence – a Discovery Early Career Researcher Award Project, funded by the Australian Research Council and University of Technology Sydney.
Emerging Voices is recorded and edited by Felicity Wilcox and produced by Elizabeth Jigalin
Trailer and Closer music by Felicity Wilcox, text by Alana Valentine, from the new opera Emergenc/y.
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