Bright Sheng

Bright Sheng ( Chinese : 盛宗亮 ; pinyin : Shèng Zōngliàng ; born December 6, 1955) is a Chinese and American composer , pianist and conductor . Sheng has earned many honors for his music and compositions, including a MacArthur Fellowship in 2001; he also was a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist. His music has been commissioned and performed by virtually every major American symphony orchestra, in addition to the Orchestre de Paris , Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra , Toronto Symphony Orchestra , BBC Symphony Orchestra , London Sinfonietta , St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra , Russian National Orchestra , Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra , Sydney Symphony Orchestra , National Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan , Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra , Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra , and the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra among numerous others. His music has been performed by such musicians as the conductors Leonard Bernstein , Kurt Masur , Christoph Eschenbach , Charles Dutoit , Michael Tilson Thomas , Leonard Slatkin , Gerard Schwarz , David Robertson , David Zinman , Neeme Järvi , Robert Spano , Hugh Wolff ; the cellists Yo-Yo Ma , Lynn Harrell , and Alisa Weilerstein ; the pianists Emanuel Ax , Yefim Bronfman , and Peter Serkin ; the violinists Gil Shaham and Cho-Liang Lin ; and the percussionist Evelyn Glennie .

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