Composer / Conductor: Xing Yu
World premiere in Kraków, Poland

This piece is based on a calligraphic work Shu Pu.
Shu Pu (書譜, also translated as “A Narrative on Calligraphy”or “Treatise on Calligraphy”) is a representative Chinese calligraphic work by the Tang Calligrapher Sun Guoting. The work of about 3500 Chinese characters was written in 687AD and can be currently observed in the National Palace Museum in Taiwan[1]. However, whether this is the whole, part or the preamble of an unfinished work is still in debate.

XING YU - Grassschrift Nr. 1, für Blockflöte, Cembalo und Schlagzeug (revised in 2020)

Dedicated to the 33rd Kraków International Festival of Composers
composer: Xing Yu (China)
flute: Aleksander Olszewski (Poland)
violoncello: Melis Senguler (Turkey）

this work is inspired by the martial arts films culture in China, fixed media provides strong support while the acoustic instruments( Fl. and Vc.) gives colorful oriental characters and contrast by various techniques and live electronic effects.

2021
Krakow, Poland

XING YU - Swordsman, for amplified flute, amplified violoncello and fixed media(2021)

Dialogue, für Marimba Duo
I - Gabriel López
II - Seonghyun Jo
Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg

Xing Yu (Yu Xing)
Composer & Conductor
Master Composition: HfMT Hamburg, Germany.
Bachelor Composition: AMKP Kraków, Poland.

His compositions have got premiered and performed in different concerts and festivals in many different countries including Germany, USA, Poland, Hungary, Slovenia and Philippines, in concert halls such as Carnegie Hall, Kraków Philharmonic etc.

XING YU - Dialogue, for marimba duo(2023)

Grassschrift Nr.2, für Blockflöte und Cembalo (2023)
Blockflöte - Adriano Trarbach
Cembalo - Jing Tang
Hamburg, Germany

Xing Yu (Yu Xing)
Composer & Conductor
Master Composition: HfMT Hamburg, Germany.
Bachelor Composition: AMKP Kraków, Poland.

His compositions have got premiered and performed in different concerts and festivals in many different countries including Germany, USA, Poland, Hungary, Slovenia and Philippines, in concert halls such as Carnegie Hall, Kraków Philharmonic etc.

XING YU - Grassschrift Nr. 2, für Blockflöte und Cembalo(2023)

Composer/conductor: Xing Yu
Hamburg, Germany

Flute: Guangzhe Wang(China）
Viola: Zeynep Duru Sertoglu(Turkey）
Cello: Oskar Meier(Germany)
Piano: Jing Tang(China）
Guzheng: Ruyue Qiu(China）


XING YU - Listening to the Wind, für Kammerensemble(2023)

“Florianka” Hall, Sereno Fenna 15, Kraków, Poland
14.05.2025
WARSAW TRIO
PIOTR THIEU-QUANG – clarinet
MARIA LESZCZYŃSKA-THIEU – cello
PAWEŁ POPKO – piano

37th Krakow International Festival of Composers

Xing Yu:
Composer | Conductor
Master Composition: HfMT Hamburg, Germany.
Bachelor Composition: AMKP Kraków, Poland.

His compositions have got premiered and performed in different concerts and festivals in many different countries including Germany, USA, Poland, Hungary, Slovenia and Philippines, in concert halls such as Carnegie Hall, Kraków Philharmonic etc. 
Since 2025, he has been selected as a lecturer for music composition in Vienna Premier Music Academy in Vienna, Austria.
In October 2024, his commissioned work “Die Kunst des Teufels” for violin, violoncello and piano was premiered in Carnegie Hall in New York City, USA by chamber ensemble Crown Mountain Trio(Trio-CMT). 
Since 2024, he has been invited to be the “Composer in Residence” in Crown Mountain Trio which is based in Atlanta, USA!
In 2024, he dedicated his solo flute piece “Monologue” to his friend, Polish flutist Krzysztof Kaczka, and he also premiered this piece during his concert in Manila, Philippines in March, 2024, and later in the same year he performed this piece in Kranj, Slovenia.
 He also joined the concerts for electroacoustic music during the 31st, 32nd and 33rd “Kraków international festival of composers” in Kraków, Poland.
From 2022, he started to work with Maestro Justus Frantz, as his concert assistant and conducting trainee in his orchestra “Philharmonie der Nationen” in Germany.
 In 2018 his composition “Cursive Script” was commissioned by concert for Warsztat Kompozytorsko-Wykonawczy in class of Prof. dr. hab. Tomasz Sobaniec in Kraków, Poland. This was the reason and opportunity that the piece “Cursive Script” was completed. He also performed this piece as a conductor during the world premiere concert.
 He finished his music composition in Master degree in the University of Music and Drama Hamburg, Germany(HfMT Hamburg) in 2024. Before moving to Germany he finished his music composition in Bachelor degree in Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music in Kraków, Poland(AMKP Kraków) in 2021 in class of Prof. dr. hab. Marcel Chyrzyński, and orchestral conducting with Tomasz Tokarczyk in Kraków opera house(Opera Krakowska) in Poland. He studied electroacoustic and computer music with Prof. dr. hab. Marek Chołoniewski and dr. hab. Mateusz Bień during the years in Poland.
His graduation music composition for Bachelor degree in Poland “The Painted Skin Nr. 2” for soprano, baritone and large chamber ensemble was premiered in May, 2021 in Kraków Philharmonic(Filharmonia Krakowska), and he finished his Master graduation concert in May, 2024 in HfMT Hamburg as both composer and conductor.
About his music, he is focused on developing his music with oriental elements and concepts as an Asian composer. And he is doing his best to make the balance between the timbre and the concept of Asian cultures

XING YU - Die Kunst des Teufels Nr. 2, für Klarinette, Violoncello und Klavier(2025)

XING YU - "The Painted Skin No. 2 (2021)" for soprano, baritone and large chamber ensemble
Kraków Philharmonic

-Conductor: Nadim Husni
-Flute: Deák Juli
-Clarinet: Kinga Patyk
-Bass Clarinet: Dawid Sula
-Trumpet: Nazar Mykytiuk
-Bass Trombone: Michał Sinkowski
-Soprano: Julia Anna Malik
-Bass: Stanisław Duda
-Percussion:
1. Maciej Hałoń
2. Igor Sikorski
3. Cezary Łagan
-Guzheng: Wenyao Lin
-Violin I: Natalia Orszak
-Violin II: Anna Śliwczyńska
-Viola: Barbara Papierz
-Cello: Andrii Vorontsov

“The Painted Skin” is a short story by the Chinese writer Pu Songling collected in Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio in 1740. The story revolves around a Chinese scholar, Wang, who becomes infatuated with a demon disguised as a beautiful young maiden. They develop a romantic relationship which goes awry after Wang discovers her true identity. Thereafter, a Taoist priest's skills are put to the task of exorcising the demon; a fight between good and evil ensues.
The inspiration of this composition comes from the main theme of this tale:
How foolish men are, to see nothing but beauty in what is clearly evil! And how benighted to dismiss as absurd what is clearly well-intended! It is folly such as this that obliges the lady Chen to steel herself to eat another man's phlegm, when her husband has fallen prey to lust. Heaven's Way has its inexorable justice, but some mortals remain foolish and never see the light!
— Pu's postscript

XING YU - The Painted Skin No. 2, for soprano, baritone and large chamber ensemble(2021)

https://nospr.org.pl/pl/kalendarz/koncert-orkiestry-muzyki-nowej-granice-tozsamosci-kulturowej

03. Cristian Lolea - Polaroid

Xing Yu (*1997)
Composer | Conductor
-Publisher: Donemus Publishing.
-Composer in Residence in Hera Trio and Crown Mountain Trio based in Atlanta, USA.
-Master Composition: HfMT Hamburg, Germany. 
-Bachelor Composition: AMKP Kraków, Poland. 

“Sein Sinn für Farben und Effekte ist fantastisch” / 
“His sense of colors and effects is fantastic” 
— — Justus Frantz 

“The works of Xing Yu, despite his young age, are very original, interesting and mature. Each performance of his compositions is met with great enthusiasm by the audience. The composer is an extremely hardworking and reliable person, and his scores are refined down to the last detail. They are prepared very carefully and aesthetically, with attention to the smallest editorial details.” 
— — Prof. Dr. Marcel Chyrzyński 

    The compositions of Xing Yu are distinguished by a unique synthesis of Western avant-garde techniques and traditional Chinese aesthetics. His compositions have got premiered and performed in many different countries including Germany, the USA, Poland, Hungary, Slovenia and the Philippines, in concert halls such as Carnegie Hall, Kraków Philharmonic etc. And he also joined music festivals such as Hamburg Contemporary - The New Music Week in Germany as a conductor for new music and Kraków international festival of composers in Poland as a composer.
    He previously served as concert assistant to the German pianist and conductor Maestro Justus Frantz in his orchestra Philharmonie der Nationen in Germany. 
    Since 2025, most of his compositions have started to be published by the publisher Donemus Publishing in The Hague, Netherlands. He also released Digital Albums of his own works on Spotify, Apple Music and other platforms by Donemus Records where he has made albums titled Sound Calligraphy, The Painted Skin, etc. 
    In 2025, he was a freelance lecturer in music theory for the students in preparatory courses from the Franz Liszt Academy of Music / Béla Bártok Conservatory in Budapest. Xing currently works as a freelance lecturer in composition and music theory, with students from various countries.
    Since 2024, he has been invited to be the Composer in Residence in Hera Trio and Crown Mountain Trio based in Atlanta, USA! In October 2024, his commissioned work Die Kunst des Teufels Nr. 1 for violin, violoncello and piano was premiered in Carnegie Hall in New York City, USA by chamber ensemble Crown Mountain Trio(Trio-CMT). 
    In 2024, he dedicated his solo flute piece Monologue to his friend, Polish flutist Krzysztof Kaczka, and he premiered this piece during his concert in Manila, Philippines in March of 2024, and later in the same year he performed this piece in Kranj, Slovenia. 
    He also joined the concerts during the 31st, 32nd, 33rd and 37th Kraków international festival of composers in Kraków, Poland, where his compositions such as Swordsman(2021) and Die Kunst des Teufels Nr. 2(2025) were premiered. 
    In 2018 his composition Cursive Script No. 1 / Grassschrift Nr. 1 was commissioned by concert Warsztat Kompozytorsko-Wykonawczy in class of Prof. dr. hab. Tomasz Sobaniec in Kraków, Poland. He also performed this piece as a conductor during the world premiere concert. 
    He completed his music composition with Master degree in the University of Music and Drama Hamburg, Germany(HfMT Hamburg) in 2024. Before moving to Germany he completed his music composition with Bachelor degree in Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music in Kraków, Poland(AMKP Kraków) in 2021 in class of Prof. Dr. Marcel Chyrzyński, and he had lessons for orchestral conducting with Tomasz Tokarczyk in Kraków opera house(Opera Krakowska) in Poland. He studied electroacoustic and computer music with Prof. Dr. Marek Chołoniewski and Dr. Mateusz Bień during the years in Poland. 
    His graduation music composition for Bachelor degree in Poland The Painted Skin No. 2, for soprano, baritone and large chamber ensemble was premiered in May, 2021 in Kraków Philharmonic Hall(Filharmonia Krakowska), and he finished his Master graduation concert in May, 2024 in HfMT Hamburg as both composer and conductor. Maestro Justus Frantz attended his Master graduation concert and commented: “His sense of colors and effects is fantastic”.
    The works of Xing Yu are very original, interesting and mature. Each performance of his compositions is met with great enthusiasm by the audience. In his compositions, he puts the main emphasis on sonority, attention to form, explores extended performance techniques and the perception of time is extremely important to him. He is focused on developing the combination between oriental concepts and European contemporary music. He is also doing his best to make the balance between the timbre and the concept of Asian cultures. However, he did it in his own individual way. 
    His scores are refined down to the last detail. They are prepared very carefully and aesthetically, with attention to the smallest editorial details.

XING YU - Grassschrift Nr. 1, für Blockflöte, Cembalo und Schlagzeug (revised in 2020)

Xing Yu (new)