This page provides an index to some Chinese composers' and musicians' biographies that I, Elaine Chew, have translated from their original in the Modern and Contemporary Chinese Musicians' Biographies (zhongguo jinxiandai yinyuejia zhuan), edited by Wei Tingge, Spring Wind Cultural Publisher: Shenyang, 1994.

The resources constitutes part of the material I gathered in Beijing, China, in the summer of 1997, when I was on a field trip funded by the MIT Science and Technology Initiative - China program. My goal was to gather information on and scores for contemporary Chinese piano music. Please see the report for trip details and the program for the resulting concert/exhibition, IMPRESSIONS.

I have also attempted to list the websites of some of today's leading Chinese composers and musicians. The list is by no means complete, and comments and suggestions are welcome. -- EC

musicians' biographies translated by EC
oct/nov 2007	CHEN Gang (b.1935) : Releasing Muse's Arrow to the World -- Autobiography of Hui composer Chen Gang
aug 1997	JIANG Wenye (1910 - 1983) : The Unquenchable Fire of Creativity by Yu Yuzhi
aug 1997	WANG Lisan (b.1933) : Scholar of the Chinese People, Genius of the Music Sphere by Zhou Zhuquan
aug 1997	ZHOU Guangren (b.1928) : The Piano Is My Life by Zhao Shimin
selected concerts by EC featuring contemporary chinese music
nov 13, 2007	Franco-Chinese concert: TK Wang, violin; Elaine Chew, piano. Greenleaf House, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
may 12, 2000	Contemporary Chinese and Chinese-inspired Compositions in a concert featuring the Duo Asiatica and Elaine Chew, Jordan Hall. Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts Concert Series. Program included the Boston premiere of CHEN Yi's Ba Ban, and first performances of Ivan Tcherepnin's Variations on Happy Birthday and selections from Peter Child's Doubles III (composed for EC) outside of MIT. This program, and parts thereof, have been presented at other venues such as Lehigh U. (2001), the U. of Edinburgh (2002, Intl Conf on Music and AI), the U. of British Columbia (2005, NIME Conf), the U. of Southern California, and U. of Victoria (2007).
feb 9, 1998	Impressions from the East: a concert of Chinese and French music. Elaine Chew, piano. MIT Killian Hall. This concert, and parts thereof, have been presented at other venues in Washington D.C. as part of the Embassy Series (1999), in the Greater Boston area, including at the Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center (2000), at the MIT Lincoln Labs (1998), and at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Greater Lynn (1998), and in Finland (2001, Intl Conf on Musical Signification).
apr 23-24, 1996	Sino-Soviet concert: Elaine Chew, piano. MIT Killian Hall.
musicological analyses of chinese music
	The PPP Connection: Paintings, Poems, Pieces - An Essay on Wang Lisan's Impressions of Paintings by Higashiyama Kaii by Elaine Chew Presented at the 7th International Congress on Musical Signification, Imatra, Finland (July, 2001), and at the 17th International Musicological Society Conference, Leuven, Belgium (Aug, 2002). To appear in a special issue of Acta Semiotica Fennica.
selected websites of other contemporary chinese composers
	CHOU Wen-Chung (b.1923); CHEN Yi (b.1953); ZHOU Long (b.1953); LAM Bun-Ching (b.1954); Bright SHENG (b.1955); TAN Dun (b.1957); LIANG Lei (b.1972)
other links
	Arts of Asia Magazine Association for Asian Studies CHIME: European Foundation for Chinese Music Research Chinese Music Society of North America Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts

Research for this site was made possible in 1997 by a grant from the MISTI-China Program, and in 2007 by a fellowship from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.