Pulitzer-Winning Composer Du Yun Releases New Album Dinosaur Scar With ICE On TUNDRA

On Friday, September 28, 2018, Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Du Yun releases her latest collaboration with the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), Dinosaur Scar, on TUNDRA via New Focus Recordings. With Du Yun's signature chameleonic presence, the album revisits foundational works that showcase their ever-evolving partnership. Du Yun is the 2017 recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in Music for her opera Angel's Bone.

Du Yun and the members of the International Contemporary Ensemble forged a lasting connection as students that has flourished over two decades of friendship and artistry. Dinosaur Scar includes these earliest works as an exploration of the ever-changing nature of collaboration. Of the collaboration, Du Yun notes, "For me, ICE and I are like that flowing river, from the streaming start, the dramatic gorges, and to the currents that flood into the ocean. And this album is, precisely, a testament to that."

Live performances of selected works from the album are highlighted on Du Yun's upcoming Composer Portrait at Miller Theatre on Thursday, November 15, 2018 at 8:00pm.

About Du Yun
Pulitzer Prize-winner ?Du Yun?, born and raised in Shanghai and currently based in New York City, is a composer, multi-instrumentalist, performance artist, activist, and curator for new music, working at the intersection of orchestral, opera, chamber music, theatre, cabaret, musical, oral tradition, public performances, sound installation, electronics, visual arts, and noise. Hailed by ?The New York Times ?as a "leading figure in China's new generation of composers" and often cited as a key activist in New York's "new movement in new music," Du Yun's music is championed by some of today's finest performing artists, ensembles, orchestras, and organizations.

Describing her as "protean" and "chameleonic," NPR voted Du Yun one of 100 composers under 40 in 2011 and ?The Washington Post? named her one of the top 35 female composers in classical music. In 2017, she won the Pulitzer Prize in Music for her opera, ?Angel's Bone?. She is a 2018 Guggenheim Fellow, and same year named as one of the 38 Great Immigrants by the Carnegie Foundation.

Du Yun's music can be heard on New Focus, National Sawdust Tracks, Deutsche Grammophon, Pentatone, Oxingale, Shanghai Audio & Video Publishing House and ATMA Classique. Education: The PreCollege of Shanghai Conservatory of Music, Oberlin Conservatory (BM), Harvard University (PhD). Du Yun is currently on the composition faculty at the Peabody Institute and the artist-in-residence at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. She was a founding member of ICE, in 2014-2018 the artistic director of MATA Festival. In order to champion more cross-regional collaborations, she spearheaded the inaugural Pan Asia Sounding Festival in 2018 in New York City, with future iterations in Hong Kong and London.

As an avid performer, she has appeared in many assorted holes and halls, sites and museums. Her onstage persona has been described by ?The New York Times? as "an indie pop diva with an avant-garde edge." She also leads her band, Ok Miss.

As a performance artist, solo engagements include the 2012 Guangzhou Art Triennial at the Guangzhou Opera House, the National Academy Museum (USA), the inaugural Shanghai Project and Contemporary Arts Center Córdoba (Spain). Her ongoing collaboration works with the Pakistani-American visual artist Shahzia Sikander have shown around the world, and as permanent collections at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi.

Du Yun has also worked in the thea?tre. Credit: original music for ?Kung Fu?by David Henry Hwang; composer of the musical ?Dim Sum Warriors?by Yenyen Woo and Colin Goh, on tour in China in 25 major cities in 2018.

For more information, visit http://channelduyun.com.

Dinosaur Scar Track List
1. Du Yun: Impeccable Quake (2004) - 9:54
International Contemporary Ensemble; Ryan Nelson, conductor

2. Du Yun: Dreams-bend (2007) - 3:06
Joshua Rubin, clarinet; David Bowlin, violin; Kivie Cahn-Lipman, violoncello; Du Yun, narrator

3. Du Yun: Improvisation a), The Griffin (2009) - 1:51
Kivie Cahn-Lipman, viola de gamba; Claire Chase, flute; Du Yun, piano

4. Du Yun: Dinosaur Scar (1999) - 9:09
Ryan Muncy, saxophone

5. Du Yun: Air Glow (2006/2018) - 10:55
Gareth Flowers, trumpet; Andrew Kemp, trumpet; Theodore Van Dyck, trumpet; Micah Killion, flugelhorn; Daniel Lippel, e. guitar/ e. bass

6. Du Yun: Vicissitudes Alone (2003/2008) - 6:27
Daniel Lippel, steel string guitar/electric guitar; Du Yun, pre-recorded zheng

7. Du Yun: Run in a Graveyard (2009) - 13:00
Claire Chase, alto flute; Du Yun, electronics

8. Du Yun: "Oboe and Tam-tam Duet" from Angel's Bone (2006/2015) - 6:31
James Austin Smith, oboe; Ross Karre, percussion

9. Du Yun: Improvisation b), The N?ga (2009) - 2:17
Nathan Davis, percussion; David Schotzko, percussion; Daniel Lippel, electric guitar; Du Yun, kazoo / toy harmonica / phone / electronics

10. Du Yun: by, of... Lethean (2007) - 12:57
International Contemporary Ensemble

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