Shih
Shih ( born November 29, 1950 in Taipei, Taiwan) is a native of Taipei composer. Shih lives and works since 1974 in Vienna. On his full name ( Shih Chieh施 捷) he renounced because of incorrect spelling and pronunciation.
Life
His career choice has led in 1974 to Austria Shih. At the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, he studied harp and composition, and in 1983 completed with a diploma in composition. Since 1984 he is an Austrian citizen.
Shih has worked as a freelance composer and music teacher, since 2002. Well as artistic director and founder of the Pacific Youth Orchestra Vienna He has also acquired as a mediator of contemporary Austrian music to China Special merit. His own works - chamber music, ballet music, songs, large orchestral works, opera and oratorio - have been performed in many European and Asian countries and in the United States.
The international criticism was first aware of Shih 1994: as in the Leipzig Opera with resounding success his chamber opera " parricide " came out ( after its premiere in Dresden, followed by performances in Nuremberg, Erlangen, Vienna and Berlin). Other important steps: the first performed in Münster and re-enacted in the Netherlands oratorio " Lebend'ges country " and the series " A clock for ... " (eg " A clock for Clarinet and Piano" ), with the Shih style of his own a form- skeptical - abstinent translation of emotional states and processes found in the praises criticism especially weightlessness, turning away from external effect and a high degree of interpretatorischem space. Among his CDs in the first place the ORF hold the chamber opera to call " parricide ".
Style
The " people lexicon Austria " (2001) judges Shih's style: ". Opponents of a formalistic manner of composition, which is mainly concerned with the expression of psychological processes " And the musicologist Dr. Christian Baier explains: "It's hard, the compositions Shih in classify the drawers of Western music reception. Too controversial is his work to allow normative definitions. Search form and at the same time form of skepticism, diversity of expression and at the same absolute restriction and abstinence are at work on an equal footing. "
Shih himself states: "My music is not traditional, but probably steeped in tradition, the composer is part of a long tradition He stands in this tradition and has to deal with it Of course I can retire, adopt the tradition and me all the. .. experiment indulge. lonely But then you quickly, not only human but also artistic., it is necessary to be aware of the long cultural and historical past, in order to reach an artistic, ie individual present. " ( Shih )