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)

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

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