World premiere of “The Singing Gobi Desert” took place on February 3rd at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall.
"Mr. Sheng, in introducing “The Singing Gobi Desert,” played down its programmatic title, calling the piece a capriccio or fantasia. Still, like the glassy “singing” sands in the desert of the title, disparate timbres intermingled gently and smoothly in strong melodic themes, which sang out with potency and unambiguous sweetness." read more
Shanghai Quartet and Peter Serkin gave world pmiere of Sheng's Dance Capriccio on February 11th at Chamber Music Society of Detroit.
"Cast in a single, richly concentrated movement of about 12 minutes, ...it is loaded with inspired ideas and drama and it commands attention from beginning to end. The music swings between serenely lyrical, lullaby-like passages and highly rhythmic, fiercely articulated melodic lines that slice the air with wild abandon, leaving the outline of a bacchanal. You get the feeling that the Sherpa really know how to party. Sheng treats the piano and string quartet as equals, an impression furthered by the deeply integrated virtuoso performance..." read more
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The Bright Sheng Partnership: Composers meet Performers in Hong Kong. The Intimacy of Creativity 2012
"Such a program's very existence in Hong Kong challenges the conventional view of the former British colony as … more suited to Hermès … than Handel." read more
— Nicholas Frisch, The Wall Street Journal
"... the city’s most innovative musical experience…and I’m already looking forward to next year." read more
— Ken Smith, Financial Times
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"DSO and multi-talented Sheng forge an epic... the Detroit Symphony Orchestra delivered a concert Friday morning that was everything a modern-day orchestra program should be. It was imaginative, surprising, inspiring and beautiful. read more
The Detroit News
(Bright Sheng's conducting) persnickety attention to detail - and the Des Moines Symphony Orchestra's concentration - resulted in a sound that was more precise than audiences have heard from the group in a while. Their performance was bold, challenging and ultimately rewarding. read more
Des Moines Register
"Sheng as Composer and Conductor with EMF's Youth Symphony Orchestra...The Symphony No. 5 of Peter IlyichTchaikovsky...Sheng's conducting of the third, waltz-like movement was the most memorable I have heard." read more
Classical Voice of North Carolina
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April 26-May 7, 2012
-The Intimacy of Creativity
The Bright Sheng Partnership: composer meet performers in Hong Kong
Hong Kong
April 29, 2012
-Tibetan Dance
-Sweet May Again
Civitas Ensemble, Members from Chicago Symphony,
Chicago, USA
May 1, 2012 The Intimacy of Creativity concert I
-A Night at Chinese Opera
Catherine Leonard, Violin, Trey Lee, Cello,
Hong Kong City Hall Theater
Hong Kong
Other dates: April 30, 2012, Tsang Shiu Tim Art Hall
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
May 6, 2012 The Intimacy of Creativity concert II
-Melodies of a Flute for Flute, Violin, Cello, and Marimba
Beethoven Piano Quartet in C Major, Wo0 36 No.3
Camerata Pacifica, Raman Ramakrishnan, Cello, Ara Gregorian, Viola, Bright Sheng, Piano
Hong Kong City Hall Theater
Hong Kong
Other dates: May 5, 2012, Tsang Shiu Tim Art Hall
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
May 17, 2012
-Dance Capriccio for piano and string quartet
Shanghai Quartet with Peter Serkin, Piano
Freer Gallery, DC, USA
May 19, 2012
-Dance Capriccio for piano and string quartet
Shanghai Quartet with Peter Serkin, Piano
People's Symphony Concerts, NYC, NY, USA
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Newly Published Scores by G. Schirmer, Inc.
Two Poems from the Sung Dynasty
The Stream Flows for Solo Viola
A Tune from Childhood
All Available at Hal Leonard Online
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