Huang Ruo, Founding Composer
Composer Huang Ruo’s music has been performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra under Wolfgang Sawallisch, the American Composers Orchestra under Dennis Russell Davies, the Cleveland Chamber Symphony, Chicago Pro Musica, the Nieuw Ensemble of Amsterdam, the Queens Symphony with Cho-Liang Lin, and ICE at the Miller Theatre of Columbia University, where his concert was named one of the “Top Ten Classical Music Concerts of 2003” by the New York Times. Hailed by the Wall Street Journal as “strikingly assured, marked by a descriptive grandeur and gravity,” Huang Ruo has also been honored with multiple ASCAP Young Composer Awards. Huang Ruo holds a BM degree from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, a MM degree from the Juilliard School, and is working with Samuel Adler at the Juilliard School toward a DMA in Composition. A CD of music on the Naxos label will be released in 2005.
"Three Pieces for Orchestra by 24-year-old composer Huang Ruo was most notable for its highly original musical language, pastoral chirping, and the gorgeously mystical touch of asking the orchestra members to chant quietly." — Peter Dobrin (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
" Ruo Huang's Concerto for Eight Instruments, however, stole the show with its brash percussive romps and unexpected (yet totally sensible) Buddhistic chants." (Ranked one of the "10 Best Classical Concerts of the Year") — Ted Shen (The Chicago Tribune)
"Mr. Huang's contribution was strikingly assured, marked by a descriptive grandeur and gravity achieved by exact and economical means. His writing adds a new tint to the orchestra palette, and combines many voices, many lives." — Matthew Gurewitsch (The Wall Street Journal)
"What I know is that Huang Ruo is a hugely gifted young composer. Remember the name." — Peter Burwassser (Philadelphia City Paper)
