Chen Yi's Publications
Major Compositions
ANCIENT BEAUTY, THE (2006) (2 mvts, 10 minutes) Score & Parts [116-41969]
Dizi (+Xun), Erhu, Pipa, Zheng, and Str Orch
Alt. version: Ruan Ens., Zheng & Str Orch (2010) (3 mvts, 12 minutes)
ANCIENT CHINESE BEAUTY, THE (2008) (3 mvts, 15 minutes) Score & Parts
Recorder and String Orchestra [416-41367] [416-41367L]
ANCIENT DANCES (2005) (3 mvts, 18 minutes) Score [114-41293] [114-41293D]
Pipa and Percussion
…AS LIKE A RAGING FIRE… (2002) (10 minutes) Score & Parts [114-41164] [114-41164D]
Flute, Clarinet, Violin, Cello, Piano.
ANGEL ISLAND PASSAGES (2010) (3 mvts, 15 minutes) Score & Parts [312-41859]
Children’s Chorus and String Quartet
ARIRANG (1994) (3 minutes) Score [312-41747], 1999, $1.40
Mixed Chorus
AS IN A DREAM (1988) (2 songs, 7 minutes) Score
Soprano, Violin, Cello [111-40141S] [111-40141]
Alternate version for Soprano, Pipa, Zheng [111-40185] [111-40185D]
Alternate version for Soprano, Zheng [111-402565] [111-402565D]
AT THE KANSAS CITY CHINESE NEW YEAR CONCERT (2002) (3 mvts, 12 min)
String Quartet (S&Ps) [114-41198]
Blue Dragon Sword Dance (3rd mvt.) [114-41199] [114-411995] [114-41199M]
BA BAN (1999) (6 minutes) Score [114-41198] [114-41198S] [114-41198M]
Also available: Boosey & Hawkes: ISMN [M-051-246174-5], 2000
Eight Visions, A New Anthology for Flute & Piano [414-41193] [414-41193D]
BA YIN (2001) (3 mvts, 20 minutes) Score and Parts on Rental [115-40419]
Saxophone Quartet, String Orchestra [416-41253]
Saxophone Quartet, Wind Ensemble (1111, 1110, 2Perc.) [415-41157] [415-41157L]
BALLAD, DANCE AND FANTASY (2003) (3 mvts, 27 min.) Score & Parts on Rental [116-41931]
Cello, 3333, 4331, Hp, 3 Perc. Str. [416-41297] [416-41297L]
(Alt. version of the 2nd mvt DANCE ON THE SILK ROAD for cello solo)
BAMBOO DANCE (2:04) (2013) Score [110-41805]
Piano Solo for children or Piano Solo
BAMBOO DANCE II (1:40) (2013) Score
Piano Solo for children, published by ABRSM Publishing in Spectrum 5.
BAMBOO SONG (2019) (3 minutes) Score [110-41828]
Piano Solo
BAN (BEAT) (2022) (2:30)
String/Woodwind Quartet, published by Virginia Tech School of Performing Arts in the book Original Etudes for the Developing Conductor (authored by Jonathan Caldwell and Derek Shapiro) in 2023
BEAUTIFUL WEST LAKE, THE (2015) (3 minutes) Score
Mixed Chorus
BIRTHDAY GREETING FOR DRD, AR, SCP, PRISM (2004) (1 minute each)
One Piano Four-hands, 3 instruments, Chamber Ensemble, Sax Quartet (score)
BLUE, BLUE SKY (2012) (10 minutes) Score and Parts on Rental [116-41932]
2(Picc)222, 4331, T 3Perc. Pn, Hp, Str.
BRIGHT MOONLIGHT (2001) (5 minutes) Score [111-40190]
Mezzo-soprano, Piano
BRIL BRILIANT PROSPECT (Piano Concerto Southern Wind) (co-composed with Zhou Long) (2020) (20’)
Piano, 2(Picc)222(Cbsn) 4221 T 3Perc Str
BURNING (2002) (4 minutes) Score and Parts [114-41165] [114-41165D]
String Quartet
CARAMOOR'S SUMMER (2003) (13 minutes) Score & Parts on Rental [116-41933]
2(1 Picc.)-2-2-2; 2-1-1-0; Hp., 3Perc., Str. [416-41296] [416-41296D]
CELEBRATION (2005) (5 minutes) Score & Parts on Rental [416-41295] [416-41295L]
2222, 2221, T 2 Perc. Str.
CELLO PIECES FOR ALISA (1. Mountain Tune; 2. Ancient Song; 3. Spin Dance) (2022) (7’)
Cello Solo
CHINA WEST SUITE (2007) (4 mvts, 12 minutes) Score [110-41777] [110-41777D]
Two Pianos. (Alt. version for marimba and piano, 2009 [114-41346]) Score & Partss
CHINESE ANCIENT DANCES (2004) (2 mvts, 8 minutes) Score & Parts
Clarinet, Piano [114-41262] [114-41262D]
Soprano Saxophone [114-41434] [114-41434D]
Ox Tail Dance (1st mvt.) for Horn, Piano [114-41718] [114-41718D]
CHINESE FABLES (2002) (3 mvts, 13 minutes) Score and Parts [114-41192] [114-41192D]
Erhu, Pipa, Cello, Percussion
CHINESE FOLK DANCE SUITE (2001) (3 mvts, 22 min.) Score and Parts on Rental [416-41252]
2222, 4330, 3 Perc, Violin Solo, Str. (Reduction versions for violin/saxophone and piano)
Reduction Versions for Violin, Piano [114-41928]/Soprano Sax, Piano [114-41929] in 2020
CHINESE MOUNTAIN SONGS (2001) (5 songs, 10 minutes) Score [312-41809], 2002
Treble Chorus [312-41809], 2002, $1.60
CHINESE MYTHS CANTATA (1996) (3 mvts, 36 minutes) Score and Parts on Rental [116-41936]
2(Picc)22(Eb&Bcl)2(C) 4230 4 Perc Erhu Pipa Yangqin Zheng, Male Chorus, Str
CHINESE POEMS (1999) (5 songs, 9 minutes) Score [312-41783], $3.95
Six Girls’ Choruses
CHINESE RAP (2013) (10 minutes) Score and Parts [116-41937]
Violin Solo, 2222 4231, 3P, Str [416-41511] [416-41511L]
COLORS OF NAOBO (2015) (1:40) Score [114-41735] [114-41735D]
A pair of Chinese Cymbals
CONCERTO FOR REEDS for oboe, sheng & chamber orchestra (2008) (14 min.) Score&Parts
1121 1110 P, Oboe Solo, Sheng Solo, Str [116-41938]
DARK MOUNTAINS (2021) (3 minutes) Score [114-42396]
Harp Solo
DISTANCE CAN’T KEEP US TWO APART (2011) (5 min.) Score
Mixed Chorus [312-41863]
Saxophone Quartet [114-41959]
DRAGON RHYME for symphonic band (2010) (2 mvts, 14 min.) Score and Parts [115-40206]
2Picc2Eh2CB Cl (E-flat, 3 B-flat, BC) Sax (AATB) 34311 T+3P
[115-40206] [115-40206F] [115-40206L]
DREAMING OF MY HOMETOWN for guitar and orchestra (2023) (10 min.) Score and Parts
Guitar Solo, 2(Picc/Dizi)222, 2200, P, Hp/Zheng, Str. (+Erhu)
DUNHUANG FANTASY (1999) (12 minutes) Score and Parts on Rental [115-40420]
1121 1110 P, Organ [416-41231] [416-41231L]
DUO YE (1984) (6 minutes) Score
Piano Solo [110-40728], 2000, $8.00
Pipa Solo, Musical Works, Vol.2, Beijing, 1986
DUO YE for chamber orchestra (1985) (7 minutes) Score and Parts on Rental
112(Eb)1, 1000, P, Str [416-41204] [416-41204L]
DUO YE No. 2 for full orchestra (1987) (8 minutes) Score and Parts on Rental
3(2 Picc)3(EH)3(Bcl)3(Cbsn) 4331 T, P(3), Str [416-41153] [416-41153L]
EARLY SPRING for mixed choir and chamber ensemble (2011) (2 mvts, 9 minutes)
Mixed Choir and Chamber Ensemble (fl, cl, vn, vc, pn, perc.) [416-41408] [416-41408L]
ELEANOR'S GIFT (1998) (15 minutes) Score and Parts on Rental [416-41203] [416-41203L]
Cello Solo, 2222, 2220, 3 Perc, Hp, Str.
Pn Reduction with percussion, Score and Parts. [114-41214] [114-41214S] [114-41214P] [114-41214PD]
ELEGY (2020) (3 minutes) [114-42253]
Oboe Solo
ENERGETIC DUO for two violins (2015) (1:40) [114-41734]
Two Violins
FAITH AND PERSEVERANCE (2011) (5 minutes) Score and Parts on Rental [116-41942]
3222, 4331, T, 3 Perc, Hp, Str.
FENG (1998) (Introduction & Rondo, 10 minutes) Score and Parts [114-41052] [114-41052D]
Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, French Horn
(Alt. version FENG II for Sax Solo & Quartet, and Piano) [114-41923S] [114-41923]
FIDDLE SUITE (1997) (3 mvts, 16 minutes) Score and Parts
Chinese Huqin Solo, String Quartet [114-40951] [114-40951S]
Chinese Huqin Solo, String Orchestra [116-41943]
Chinese Huqin Solo, Full Orchestra [116-41944] [416-41202] [416-41202L]
Chinese Instrumental Orchestra
FIRE for 12 players (2019) (6:30) Score and Parts [116-41990]
1110, 1000, 2P, Hp, Pn, 2Vn, Va, Vc
FISHERMAN’S SONG (1979) (4 minutes) Score and Part [114-40950], 1999, $6.00
Violin and Piano [114-40959D]
(Alt. version for flute and piano) [114-42337]
FLYING DANCERS (2024) (4 minutes) Score and Part
Alto Flute, Contrabassoon, Cello
FOUNTAINS OF KC (2011) (10 minutes) Score and Parts [416-41429] [416-41429L]
3333, 4331, 4 Perc. Hp, Str
FOUR SPIRITS (2016) (26 minutes) Score and Parts [416-41595] [416-41595L]
Piano Solo, 2222, 4230, T P(2), Str.
FROM OLD PEKING FOLKLORE (2009) (4 minutes) [114-41373] [114-41373D]
Violin and Piano
FROM THE PATH OF BEAUTY (2008) (7 mvts, 35 minutes) Score and Parts on Rental
Mixed Choir and String Quartet [412-41090] [412-41090L]
The Bronze Taotie for a cappella [312-41853], 4-mvt for string quartet [114-41367] [114-41367D]
GE XU (ANTIPHONY) (1994) (10 minutes) Score and Parts on Rental [416-41205] [416-41205L]
2(Picc)2(E.H.)2(Bcl)2, 4230, T, P(2), Hp, Str
GOLDEN FLUTE, THE (1997) (3 mvts, 18 minutes) Score and Parts on Rental [416-41206L]
Flute Solo, 2222, 4230, T P(2), Str. (Study Score [416-41206])
Reduction for Flute and Piano [114-40949], 1999, $22.50, [114-40949D]
The 3rd Mvt. in Seven Muses, A Contemporary Anthology for Fl & Pn [414-41202] [414-41202D]
GUESSING (1989) (5 minutes) Score [110-40727], 2000, $8.00, [110-40747D]
Piano Solo, Also available: Musical Works, Vol.2, 1990,Beijing.
HAN FIGURINES, THE (2006) (5 minutes) Score & Parts [114-41304] [114-41304S]
Violin, Clarinet, Tenor Saxophone, Double Bass, Piano, Percussion
HAPPY RAIN IN SPRING NIGHT (2004) (12 minutes) Score and Parts [114-41271] [114-41271S]
Flute, Clarinet, Violin, Cello, Piano.
I HEAR THE SIREN’S CALL (2012) (2 minutes) Score [312-41869]
Mixed Choir
IMPRESSIONS FROM CHINESE ZODIAC (1. Roster singing out in the morning; 2. Monkey jumping around in the forest; 3. Tiger walking down from the mountain) (2022) (6’)
Saxophone Solo
IN MEMORY OF STEVE (2017) (1’40”). Score
Piano Solo
IN THE MOUNTAINS for (2013) (5 minutes) Score and Parts
Mixed Choir and String Quartet
INTRODUCtION, ANDANTE AND ALLEGRO for orchestra (2018) (15’), Score & Parts (Rental: TP),
2222, 4331, T, 2P, Str. [116-41989]
JI-DONG-NUO (2005) (4+ minutes) Score [110-41767] [110-41767D]
Piano Solo
JING DIAO for orchestra (2011) (5 minutes) Score and Parts on Rental [116-41949]
33(EH)3(Bcl)3(Cbsn) 4331 T, P(3), Str
JING MARIMBA (2009) (4 min.) Score [114-41393] [114-41393D]
Marimba Solo [Edition Peters No. 68260b]
JINGU SUITE (2018) (4 mvts, 12 min.) Score [114-41937]
Cello Solo
Alt. version for Viola Solo
JOY OF THE REUNION (2001) (4 min.) S&Ps
Oboe, Viola, Cello, Double Bass [114-41332] [114-41332S]
KC CAPRICCIO for wind ensemble & mixed choir (2000) (4 min.) S&Ps on Rental
2222(+b.cl) 3sax 34311 SATB 3P [416-41273] [416-41273L]
Alt. version CAPRICCIO for Chorus, Organ & Percussion (2001) [312-41813]
Alt. version KC CAPRICCIO for orchestra & mixed choir (2009)
KNOW YOU HOW MANY PETALS FALLING (2001) (4 minutes) Score [312-41814]
Mixed Chorus
LAMENT OF THE TWIN STARTS (1996) (5 minutes) Score
Mixed Chorus
LANDSCAPE (2003) (3 minutes) Score [312-41830]
Mixed Chorus
LANDSCAPE IMPRESSION (2023) (10 minutes) Score & Parts
2(Picc)222 4331 Hp. T, P (2), Str
LET’S REACH A NEW HEIGHT (2012) (3 minutes) Score [312-41868]
Mixed Chorus
LINEAR, THE (1994) (12 minutes) Score and Parts [116-41972]
2(Picc)222 4331 Hp. T, P (4), Str
LOOKING AT THE SEA (2006) (4:30). Score [312-41848]
Women's Choir
MEDITATION (1999) (two songs, 6 minutes) Score [111-40203]
Mezzo-soprano and Piano
MEMORY (2010) (4 minutes) [114-41410] [114-41410D]
Violin Solo
Alt. versions for Flute Solo [114-41787] [114-41787D], Viola Solo [114-42238]
Cello Solo [114-41859] [114-41859D]
MOMENTUM (1998) (13 min.) Score and Parts on Rental [416-41184] [416-41184L]
333 4331 Hp. 4 Perc. Str
MONOLOGUE (IMPRESSIONS ON THE TRUE STORY OF AH Q) (1993) (5 minutes)
Clarinet Solo (Bb). [114-40948], 2000
Saxophone Solo (Alto in E-flat/Tenor in B-flat) [114-41561]
MOUNT A LONG WIND (2010) (6’) [416-41461] [416-41461L]
3333 4331 4 Perc. Str
MOUNTAIN SONG (2020) (1 minute) [114-42241]
Oboe Solo
NEAR DISTANCE (1988) (10 minutes) Score and Parts [114-40744] [114-40744S] [114-40744M]
Fl(Alto Fl), Cl(Bcl), Vn, Vc, Pf, Perc
NIAN HUA (2016) (12 minutes) Score and Parts [114-41880]
2 Guitars
NIGHT THOUGHTS (2004) (8 minutes) Score and Parts [114-41248]
Flute, Cello, Piano (Alt. versions for Fl.Sax.Pn [114-41772]/Cl.Vc.Pn [114-42321]/Vn.Vc.Pn/ Fl.Vla.Hp)
NING (2001) (15 minutes) Score and Parts [114-41133] [114-41133D]
Violin, Pipa, Cello.
NORTHERN SCENES (2013) (7 minutes) Score [110-41803]
Piano Solo
NOT ALONE (2014) (14 minutes) Score and Parts [114-41713] [114-41713S]
Saxophone Quartet
ODE TO THE EARTH (2006) (2 mvts, 20 minutes) Score & Parts
Alt. version of BALLAD, DANCE AND FANTASY
2222, 2220, T 2P, Ruan Solo, Strings
OVERTURE (1989) (13 minutes) Score
Chinese Instrumental Orchestra
OVERTURE for orchestra (2009) (9 minutes) [116-41952]
2(1 Picc.)-2-2-2; 4-3-3-0; 4Perc., Str.
OVERTURE No.2 (1990) (15 minutes) Score
Chinese Instrumental Orchestra
PEARL RIVER OVERTURE for full orchestra (2018) (18 minutes). Score and Parts [116-42023]
3333, 4331, T, 3P, Hp, Str.
PERCUSSION CONCERTO (1998) (3 mvts, 20 min.) S&Ps (Study Score [416-41207])
Percussion Solo, 3(1Picc)33(1Bcl)3(1Cbsn), 4331, 3 Perc., Str (S&Ps on Rental) [116-41953]
Alt. version for Percussion and Piano [114-41050]/Percussion Group/Perc & Str Quartet
PIANO CONCERTO (1992) (16 minutes) Score and Parts on Rental [116-41954]
Piano Solo, 3(3 Picc)3(EH)3(Bcl)3(Cbsn) 4331 T, P(3), Str.
PIPA RHYME (1993) (6 minutes) Score and Parts
Pipa and 14 Players
PLUM BLOSSOM (2019) (4 minutes) Score [114-41827]
Piano Solo
POINTS, THE (1991) (9 minutes) Score [114-40946], $10.50
Pipa Solo
PRELUDE AND FUGUE (2009) (21 minutes) [116-41955]
2(Picc)222 2200, Pn, P, Str
PROSPECT OVERTURE (2009) (9 minutes) [116-41956]
33(EH)3(Bcl)3(Cbsn) 4331, P(4), Str
QI (1997) (10 minutes) Score and Parts [114-40901], [114-40901S] 1997
Fl, Cello, Percussion, Piano
REMEMBER (2022) [5 minutes]
Baritone, Trumpet, Trombone, Bass Clarinet
ROMANCE AND DANCE (1998) [2 mvts, 9 min] S&Ps on Rental [416-41208] [416-41208L]
String Orchestra
Alt. version for Violin and Piano [114-41080] [114-41080D], 2001, $17
ROMANCE OF HSIAO AND CH'IN (1995) (4 minutes) Score and Parts on Rental
Two Violins and String Orchestra (Study Score [416-41208])
Alt. version for Cello and Piano [114-41081], 2001, $8.50
RHYME OF FIRE/OLYMPIC FIRE (2008) (12 minutes) Score & Parts [116-41957]
33(EH)3(Bcl)3(Cbsn) 4331, T, P(4), Str
SAKURA (1994) (1 minute) Score [312-41748], 1999, $1.00
Mixed Chorus
SEPTET FOR ERHU, PIPA, PERCUSSION & SAXOPHONE QUARTET (2008) (14’) S&P
Erhu, Pipa, Percussion, Saxophone Quartet [114-413595]
SET OF CHINESE FOLK SONGS, A (1994) (10 songs, 17 minutes)
Unaccompanied Mixed Chorus, with optional Piano part. Score and Parts
Vol.1 312-41731, Vol.2 312-41732, Vol.3 312-41733, 1998, $2.30 each
Alt. version for Children's Chorus and Str.Orch./Quintet (25 min.) S&Ps on Rental
Alternate version for Male Choir (TTBB) a cappella (17 min.) Score [312-41682]
SHADY GROVE (2001) (4 minutes) Score [312-41841]
Mixed Chorus
SHUO (1994) (8 minutes) Score and Parts on Rental [416-41210] [416-41210L]
String Orchestra [416-41210Q], Alternate version for String Quintet
SHUO CHANG (2013) (6:30) Score [114-42214] [114-42214D]
Guitar Solo
SI JI (FOUR SEASONS) (2005) 15 min.) Score and Parts on Rental [416-41292] [416-41292L]
3(+Picc)3(+EH)3(+b.Cl)3(+C.Bsn) 4331 Timp 4 Perc Hp Str
SINGING IN THE MOUNTAIN (2002) (1 minute) [110-41763]
Piano Solo for children, originally published by ABRSM Publishing in Spectrum 4, 2003.
SMALL BEIJING GONG (1993) (1 minute) Score.
Piano Solo for children, TWO CHINESE BAGATELLES [110-40726], 2000, $3.95.
SONG IN WINTER (1993) (8 minute) Score and Parts on Rental [114-40947]
Harpsichord, Di, Zheng [114-41103] [114-41103S]
Alternate version for Flute, Zheng, Piano, Percussion [114-40947] [114-40947D]
Alternate version, Orient and Occident, for Soprano, Zheng, Piano/Harpsichord
SONG OF SPRING (2021) (8 min.) [114-42268]
String Quartet
SONG OF SPRING OUTING (2022) (6 min.)
Solo Piano
SONG OF THE GREAT WALL arr. from a song by Liu Xue-An (1999) (5 min.). Score
Eight French Horns
SOULFUL AND THE PERPETUAL, THE (2012) (2 mvts, 12 minutes). Score and Part
Alto Saxophone, Piano [114-41535] [114-41535D]
SOUND OF THE FIVE (1998) (4 mvts, 20 minutes). Score and Parts [114-41053]
Cello Solo, String Quartet [114-41053S] [114-41053M]
Alt. version for Percussion Solo & String Quartet
SOUTHERN SCENES (2017) (2 mvts, 13 minutes). Score and Parts [116-41962] [416-41645]
Flute, Pipa, 2222 4231 3P Str
SPARKLE (1992) (11 minutes) Score and Parts on Rental [416-41156]
Fl(Picc.), Cl(Eb), Perc 2, Pf, Vn, Vc, Bass
SPRING (2021) (5 minutes) Score and Parts
Chinese Plucked Instrumental Ensemble (4 Liuqin, 12 Pipa, 10 Zhongruan, 6 Daruan, 4 Zheng,
2 Yangqin, 6 Cello, 4 Double Bass, 4 Perc. – High Woodblock, S. Cymbal, Pengling, S&L Tanggu)
SPRING DREAMS (1997) (5 minutes) Score [312-41745], 1999, $1.50
Mixed Chorus
SPRING FESTIVAL (1999) (5’) for middle school band. S&Ps (pbl: AMF Bandquest).
SPRING IN DRESDEN (2005) (14 min.) for violin and orchestra. S&Ps on Rental [116-41963]
2(Picc)222, 4231, Hp, T, P (2), Violin Solo, Str [416-41294] [416-41294L]
SPRING RAIN (2011) (4 minutes) Score [312-41858]
Mixed Chorus
SPROUT (Budding / Meng) (1986) (7 min.) Score and Parts on Rental [114-41200]
String Orchestra (Full Score [416-41152], Large Score [416-41152L])
STRING QUARTET (1982) (3 mvts, 23 minutes) Score and Parts
Vn(2), Va, Vc
SUITE (1991) (3 mvts, 12 minutes) Score
Traditional Chinese Instrumental Ensemble
SUITE FOR CELLO & CHEMBER WINDS (2004) (4 mvts, 20 min.) S&Ps on Rental
1111 1110 P, Cello (Adapted from SOUND OF THE FIVE) [416-41204] [416-41204L]
(Alt. version for cello and Chinese traditional instrumental ensemble)
SUITE FOR VIOLA & CHAMBER WINDS (2013) (4 mvts, 20 minutes)
1111 1110 P, Viola (Adapted from SOUND OF THE FIVE) [114-41964S] [114-41964L]
SUITE FROM CHINA WEST (2007) (4 mvts, 12 min.) Score and Parts in Publication
Wind Symphony [115-40201] [115-40201F] [115-40201L]
Saxophone Quintet [114-41924]
SYMPHONIE ‘HUMEN 1839(2009) (25’) Score and Parts [416-41570] [416-41570L]
33(EH)3(Bcl)3(Cbsn) 4331 Hp, Pn, T, P(3), Str
SYMPHONY No. 1 (1986) (23 minutes) Score and Parts
3(Picc)2(EH)3(Bcl)2 4331 T, P(4), Str
SYMPHONY No. 2 (1993) (18 min.) S&Ps on Rental (Large Score [416-41157])
33(EH)3(Bcl)3(Cbsn) 4331 Hp, T, P(3), Str
SYMPHONY No. 3 (2004) (3 mvts, 23 minutes) S&P on Rental [416-41293] [416-41293L]
33(EH)3(Bcl)3(Cbsn) 4331 Hp, T, P(3), Str
TACHUN (SPRING OUTING) (2021) (1.5 minutes) Score & Parts [114-42268]
String Quartet
TANG POEMS (1995) (4 songs, 12 minutes) Score [312-41694]
Written on a Rainy Night from TANG POEMS
Male Choir [312-41756], Mixed Choir [312-41837]
TANG POEMS CANTATA (1995) (4 mvts, 15 minutes) Score and Parts on Rental [116-41968]
Mixed Chorus (SATB) and Chamber Orchestra (1111 1110 Pn T, Perc. Str.)
THINKING OF MY HOME (2015) (2 minutes)
Treble Clef Choir (SSA) and Piano
THINKING OF MY HOME AT NIGHT (2022) (4 minutes)
Mezzo-soprano and Piano
THREE BAGATELLES FROM CHINA WEST (2006) (3 mvts, 10 minutes) Score & Parts
Flute and Piano [114-41397] [114-41397D], or 2 Flutes [414-41193B] [414-41193BD]
[first published in the flute work collection Eight Visions] [414-41193]
Alt. versions for Cl in B-flat/E-flat & Pn [114-41615] [114-41615D], 2 Cl,
Fl & Cl [114-41611] [114-41611D], DB & Pn [114-41612] [114-41612D],
Fl & Gtr [114-41609] [114-41609D], Vn & Vc [114-41610] [114-41610D],
Vc & Pn [114-42434], Guanzi/Cl & Sheng, Fl & Vc [114-42259], Vc & Pn [114-42434], S.Sax & Pn.
New duet versions for E-flat Cl & S.Sax or B-flat Cl & A.Sax.
3rd mvt (HAPPY TUNE) for 2 Vc [114-41648] [114-41648D], Vn &Va [114-41973], Vn &Vc [114-42301]
THREE DANCES FROM CHINA SOUTH (2014) (3 mvts, 12 minutes). Score and Parts
Dizi/Piccolo, Erhu, Pipa, Zheng [114-41684] [114-41684S]
THREE POEMS FROM THE SONG DYNASTY (1985) (3 songs, 14 minutes)
Mixed Chorus
Score (Musical Works, Vol. 3, 1986 and JCCM, Vol. 2,1986, Beijing)
TIBETAN TUNES (2006) (2 mvts, 12 minutes). Score and Parts [114-41335]
Violin, Cello and Piano
(Alt. versions for Fl.Va.Hp [114-42342]./Vn.Cl.Pn./Cl.Vc.Pn.[114-41977]&[114-41977S])
TIDE, THE (1988) (10 minutes) Score
Traditional Chinese Instrumental Ensemble
TO THE NEW MILLENNIUM (2001) (3 songs, 10 minutes) Score
Mixed Chorus, Soprano and Mezzo-soprano [312-41818], 2002, $5.95
TONE POEM (2012) (8 minutes) Score and Parts [416-41439]
2222 2000, P, Str
TOTEM POLES (2017) (5 minutes) Score [113-40045]
Solo Organ
TRANSPLANTED SEEDS [co-composed with Zhou Long] (2023) (15 minutes) Score and Parts
3(Picc)3(EH)3(Bcl)3(Cbsn) 4331 Hp, T, P(3), Str
TU (2002) (13 minutes) Score and Parts on Rental [116-41974]
3(Picc)3(EH)3(Bcl)3(Cbsn) 4331 Hp, T, P(3), Str
Alt. version for symphonic wind ensemble (2003) (2 Fl, 1 Picc., 2 Ob, 2 Bsn, 1 C.Bsn, 2 Cl, 1 B.Cl,
4 Sax (SATB), 4 FH, 3 Tp (Bb), 2 Trb, Baritones, 1 B.Trb, 1 Tuba , Hp, 4 Perc. D. Basses) [115-40422]
TUNES FROM MY HOME (2007/2008) (3 mvts, 15 minutes) Score and Parts
Violin, Cello and Piano [114-41349] [114-41349D]
TWO CHINESE FOLK SONGS for Mixed Chorus (2003) (6 minutes) Score
A HORSEHERD'S MOUNTAIN SONG [312-41832]
A SINGLE BAMBOO CAN EASILY BEND [312-41833]
TWO CHINESE FOLK SONGS (2008) (5 minutes) (co-arranged with Steven Stucky)
The FLOWING STREAM/THE SUN IS RISING WITH OUR JOY
Mixed Chorus, Score [312-41855]
TWO SETS OF WIND AND PERCUSSION INSTRUMENTS (1986) (10 minutes) S&Ps
Picc, Bcl, 6 Hrns, 4 Trps, 4 Trbs, Tuba, T, P(6)
VARIATIONS ON “AWARIGULI” (1979/2011) (10 minutes) Score [110-41790]
Solo Piano
WEST LAKE, THE (2003) (5 minutes) Score [312-41831]
Mixed Chorus
WIND for wind ensemble (2010) (12 minutes) Score and Parts [115-40208]
2fl, 2ob, 2bsn, 2cl, b.cl, sax (A.T.B.), 3tp, 4fh, 3trb, baritone, tuba, 3 percussion
WITH FLOWERS BLOOMING (2010) (4 minutes) Score [312-41860]
Women’s Chorus
WOODWIND QUINTET (1987) (9 minutes) Score and Parts [114-40745]
Fl, Ob, Cl, Bsn, Hrn
Score (Musical Works, Vol. 1, 1989, Beijing)
WOODWIND QUINTET No. 3 (2008) (3 mvts, 13 minutes) Score and Parts [114-41358]
Fl, Ob, Cl, Bsn, Hrn
(Alt. version SUITE FROM CHINA WEST for Saxophone Enesemble SATBB) [114-41924]
WU YU (2002) (2 mvts, 14 minutes) Score and Parts on Rental [114-41166]
Flute, Clarinet, Bassoon, Violin, Cello, Percussion.
Alt. version for Fl, Ob, Cl, Vln, Vla, VC & CB [114-41167]
XIAN SHI (Viola Concerto) (1983) (14 minutes) Score and Parts on Rental
Va Solo, 2(Picc)222 4320 T, P(2), Str (Large Score [416-41211])
Pn Reduction with percussion, Score and Parts [114-41162]
XIE ZI for 2 Di, Sheng, Liuqin, Zheng, Sanxian (1985) (5 minutes) Score
XUAN (2001) (3 minutes) Score [312-41808], 2002, $1.50
Mixed Chorus
YANG KO (2005) (5 minutes) Score and Parts [114-41272]
Violin, 2 Percussionists (Adapted from the 2nd Mvt of CHINESE FOLK DANCE SUITE)
YU DIAO (1985) (2 minutes) Score
Piano Solo for children. TWO CHINESE BAGATELLES [110-40726], 2000, $3.95
Also available: Chinese Children Piano Pieces, 1985, Beijing
Major Publisher
Theodore Presser Company, 105 Great Valley Parkway, Malvern, PA 19355-1309, Tel. 610-592-1222 <https://www.presser.com/chen-yi-at-70>, <http://library.newmusicusa.org/ChenYi><https://issuu.com/theodorepresser/stacks/65f1b21ef26c40f2a7bb42f04402b1c4>
Selected Discography
Momentum/Chinese Folk Dance Suite/Dunhuang Fantasy/Romance and Dance/Tu (orchestral music of CY), Singapore Symphony/Lan Shui, Momentum, BIS-CD-1352, released 7/03.
Sparkle/As in a Dream/Qi/Duo Ye/Shuo/Song in Winter/Near Distance (chamber music of Chen Yi)
CRI [CD804], released in 2/16/1999. Reissued on New World/CRI Recordings [NWCR804] in Feb. 07
Chinese Myths Cantata/Duo Ye No. 2/Ge Xu (Antiphony)/Symphony No. 2 (orchestral music of Chen Yi)
The Women's Philharmonic, Chanticleer, JoAnn Falletta, conductor. "The Music of Chen Yi," New Albion, NA 090, 2/1/1997.
Sound of the Five, an album of Chen Yi’s chamber music including Sound of the Five, Yangko, Sprout, Burning, Tibetan Tunes, and Happy Rain on a Spring Night, performed by the Third Angle, directed by Ron Blessinger, on New World [80691-2], released in 2009.
Percussion Concerto/Evelyn Glennie and the Singapore Symphony/Lan Shui, in the album Oriental Lanscapes, BIS-CD-1222, released in October 2002, email <info@bis.se>, website <www.bis.se>
Eleanor’s Gift for cello and orchestra, Paul Tobias and Virginia Symphony, JoAnn Falletta, conductor, in the album The American Cello, Label: Albany [Troy 648], released on 4/1/2004.
The Golden Flute for flute and orchestra, Alexa Still & New Zealand Symphony, James Sedares, conductor, in the album Corigliano: Pied Piper Fantasy with Alexa Still, flute. Label: Koch International Classics [KIC 7566], released on 9/21/2004.
Duo Ye for chamber orchestra, Singapore Symphony, Lan Shui cond.
Label: Bis, released in Feb. 2004, in the album Dances of Our Time, CD-1192 [EAN 7318590011928]
Written on a Rainy Night, Wild Grass, from Tang Poems in the album Colors of Love, vocal ensemble Chanticleer, Teldec, 3984-24570-2, released on 5/18/1999, http://www.chanticleer.org, 1999 Grammy!
Wild Grass, from Tang Poems, for male choir
Chanticleer, on Teldec Classics (released on 3/18, 2003, entitled Chanticleer: A Portrait, the 25th Anniversary Collections [0927-49702-2].
Baban for piano solo
The Carnegie Hall Millennium Piano Book, published by Boosey & Hawkes, performed by Ursula Oppens on CD [ISMN M-051-246174-5] <www.worldcat.org/oclc/43768080>
Chen Yi’s chamber works Romance of Hsiao and Ch’in for violin and piano, Chinese Ancient Dances for clarinet and piano, and Monologue for clarinet solo, in the album Wild Grass, performed by Beijing New Music Ensemble (Director Eli Marshall) on Naxos [8.570604], released in April 2009.
Wu Yu, Night Thoughts, and …as like a raging fire… (3 chamber works), performed by the Azure Ensemble, included in the CD album: Chen Yi/Karen Tanaka: Invisible Curve, New World 80683, released in 06/2008.
Chen Yi’s The Ancient Chinese Beauty for recorder and string orchestra, on Michala Petri 50th Birthday Concert with Kremerata Baltica, OUR Recordings [8.226905], Denmark, distributed by NGL Naxos Global Logistics GmbH, released in Jan. 2009.
Ge Xu for orchestra, Women Write Music / David Snell, Foundation Philharmonic, Catalog#: ACD 22199, Label: Atma, Dist: Harmonia Mundi, Release Date: 6/8/99
A Set Of Chinese Folk Songs, Arirang, Sakura, sung by Chanticleer
"Wondrous Love, A World Folk Song Collection", Teldec, 16676-2, 1997
Chanticleer (415) 621-5757, fax: (415) 896-1660
Romance of Hsiao and Ch'in for 2 violins and string orchestra
Compassion, A Tribute to Sir Yehudi Menuhin/Ulf Hoelscher & Nachum Erlich, violins, and Karlsruhe Ensemble/Andreas Weiss Cond. Angel [7243 5 57179 24] London, 6/01
Duo Ye No. 2 for orchestra, in the album A Wonder of Naxi, by Hong Kong Sinfonietta, Tsung Yeh, Cond.
Label: Hugo [HRP7204-2], released in 6/00, Hong Kong <http://www.hugocd.com>.
Duo Ye/Xian Shi/Symphony No. 1/Sprout/Two Sets Of Wind And Percussion Instruments
Lan Shui, En Shao, conductors; Liu Lizhou, viola; Central Philharmonic Orch of China
China Record Corporation (AL-57), Beijing, 1986. Available at Oriental Culture Enterprises Co., Inc. Chinese Books & Gallery, 13-17 Elizabeth Street. 2Fl, NYC 10013, Tel 212-226-8461
Dian (The Points), Wu Man, pipa
Chinese Traditional & Contemporary Pipa Music/Wu Man
Nimbus Records [NI 5368], 1993; [NI 7043/4], 1/1/00, UK
PO Box 7746, Charlottesville, VA 22906-7746
The Points
Min Xiaofen, pipa, in the album The Moon Rising
Cala Records Ltd., (CACD 0504), UK, 1995.
(800) 879-2252 or (518) 783-9079
Duo Ye for pipa solo
Min Xiao-Fen with Six Composers
Avant (Avan 021), Japan, 7/1/1998
Duo Ye
Shi Shucheng, piano
China Record Corporation (CCD90 088), Guangzhou, 1990. Available at Oriental Culture Enterprises Co., Inc. Chinese Books & Gallery, 13-17 Elizabeth Street. 2Fl, NYC 10013, Tel 212-226-8461
Momentum for full orchestra
1999 Contemporary Chinese Composers Retrospective Concerts, Taiwan Symphony Orchestra/David Chen, 2000 [026189890046], <http:twsymorc.gov.tw>.
Chinese Poems: Picking the Seedpods of the Lotus, The Cataract of Mount Lu
Crossroads, San Francisco Girls Chorus / Sharon J. Paul, Conductor
11/2000, SFGC 0001, www.sfgirlschorus.org
Riding on a Mule, Jasmine Flower, Alishan Song (arr. from A Set of Chinese Folk Songs)
The Palm Tree (from Three Song Dynasty Poems)
Asian Choral Works I, Singapore Youth Choir / Jennifer Tham, Conductor
2000, Singapore Youth Choir, Singapore.
Guessing, Riding on a Mule, Song of Alishan (arr. from A Set of Chinese Folk Songs)
A Cappella Chinese Folksongs, Shanghai Philharmonic Chorus / Lim Yau, Conductor
1997, International Music Management Pte Ltd. Singapore, imusicm@vitnet.com.sg
Feng Yang Song, Mayila (arr. from A Set of Chinese Folk Songs)
On The Wings of Song, Johor Bahru Chamber Choir,
12/2000, JBCC 2000, Malaysia, www.jbcc.cc
As in a Dream for soprano, violin and cello, Six Times Solitute, Contemporary Compositions Recital by Soprano Chen Hongyu, China Record Corporation, 1994 [CCD-94/388]
Romance of Hsiao and Ch'in for 2 violins and string orchestra
San Jose Chamber Orchestra, Barbara Day Turner, 12/1/97, BMS SJC01.
As in a Dream for soprano, violin & cello
By Continuum at the International Festival of Contemporary Music on the CD Ilkhom-XX, Selected performances of '02, Uzbekistan, released in '03, by Carol Meyer, Renee Jolles and Kristina Reiko Cooper.
Chen Yi’s Duo Ye No. 2 for full orchestra, performed by Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra conducted by Yip Wing-sie, on the CD of Live Concert Recording at Wien Musikverein, Vienna on 11/25/2001, released in 2002 by China Record Co. Guangzhou [GCD-5179].
Spring Festival for school band
By 2002 Midwest Clinic – Vandercook College of Music Symphonic Band, cond. by Charles Menghini, released on 01/01/2003, Mark Custom recording [4348].
The Spirit of Calligraphy for pipa solo (originally entitled The Pionts)
Jiang Ting, "Voice of the Pipa". Label: M.A.Recordings, ASIN: B0009IB29, 6/10/03, www.marecordings.com
Romance and Dance for violin and piano, by Ho Dong, "Resonance of the Violin III"
Guangzhou, China [ISRC CN-A65-02-562-00/A-J6] Tel. 011-86-20-844622986, Fax 34202496.
Fisherman's Song, Romance and Dance for erhu and piano
Xu Ke, "Think of", XUA Records, XUAR-2350, Japan, 2004.
Duo Ye for piano solo, performed by Li Fan in Chinese Piano Music
Label: Centaur, released on 7/13/3004, Centaur, CRC 2652
Chen Yi's The Points for pipa solo by Huaxia Chinese Chamber Ensemble, soloist Chen Yi-Han, in the album Contemporary Music for Traditional Chinese Instruments.
Label; Delos [DE3299] released on 8/24/2004 <www.delosmusic.com>.
Qi for chamber ensemble, featured on the CD in celebration of Dinosaur Annex Music Ensemble Thirty Years of Adventure (1975-2005), released in Dec. 2004, Boston, MA.
Song in Winter, alternative version: Orient and Occident (adapted from Song in Winter) for soprano, guzheng & piano, text by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), by Ensemble Roter Phienix (Lan Rao, Soprano; Fengxia Xu-Wagner, Guzheng; Micaela Gelius, Piano <www.roterphoenix.de.tf>), released on Cavalli Records [LC05724] in 2004 <www.cavalli-records.de>.
Shuo for string orchestra, performed by Manchester Festival String Orchestra, Ariel Rudiakov, Cond. included in Vision -- Music of the 20th & 21st Centuries, on Eroica, April, 2005 released.
Chinese Folk Dance Suite, included in New Music from Bowling Green Vol. IV, performed by Bowling Green Philharmonic (cond. Emily Freeman Brown) with Penny Thompson Kruse (violin solo), released on May 1, 2005, on Albany Records [Troy 743].
The West Lake, included in Eclectric/Chicago a cappella, Jonathan Miller, Artistic Director, on Centaur [CRC 2752], May, 05.
Ba Ban and Duo Ye for piano solo
Released on ABW Classics [ABW 1001] in 2005, Amy Lin Interprets Contemporary Piano Works.
Singing in the Mountain for piano solo
By Thalia Myers, Spectrum 4 – 66 miniatures for solo piano, an international collection, Usk Recordings [USK 1227CDD], ABRSM Publishing [LC 14240], 2005.
Mayila and Fengyang Song from A Set of Chinese Folksongs
By University of Utah Singers [UUS-003] 2005.
Mo Li Hua (Jasmine Flower) from A Set of Chinese Folk Songs, by The Heidelberg College Chamber Singers, Cond. by Grant W. Cook III, Spring Tour 2006, Soundwaves Recording, Huron, OH, 2006 www.soundwaves.org.
The Point for pipa solo
The Points-Pipa Solo Special Collection of Tianjun, China Wenlian Audio-Visual Publishing House [ISRC CN-A49-04-314-00/A.J6], released on 2/2/2008, Beijing, China www.baiyue-music.com
As in a Dream, two songs for soprano, violin and cello, performed by Judith Kellock, Sham Guibbory and Madeleine Shapiro, in the CD East Meets West on Albany [Troy 885], 2006.
Ji-Dong-Nuo for piano solo, performed by Jane Solose, included in her solo album Array, on Capstone Records [CPS-8766], 2006.
Chinese Poems for women’s choir, in New York State School Music Association 2006: All-State Mixed and Women’s Chorus, Lisa Fredenburgh, Cond. on Mark Records, B001LU93CO, released on 5/22/2006.
At the Kansas City Chinese New Year Concert for string quartet, performed by Ying Quartet, in the CD United States: LifeMusic2, on Quartz [QTZ2055], Feb. 2007, amazon.com.
Spring Festival for school band, performed by Windiana Concert Band on its 2006 China Concert Tour, conducted by Jeffrey Scott Doebler, released on Mark Custom Recording Service, Inc. on 2/7/2007.
Shuo for string quartet, by the Ying Quartet, in the album Dim Sum on Telarc, released on 1/15/2008 [CD 80690].
Fengyang Song, Mo Li Hua and Diu Diu Deng from A Set of Chinese Folksongs, and Japanese folk song Sakura, Sakura, sung by The Singing Sergeants, in the CD album An American Mosaic – Folk Songs of Our Diverse Heritage, The US Air Force Band, March 2008.
Ode to the Earth for Daruan and orchestra, Dance on the Silk Road for Zhongruan and orchestra, in the album Xu Yang Ruan solo concert, A Sage of the Bamboo Grove, with China National Symphony Orchestra (cond. Hu Yongyan), May 2008, Beijing Global Audio-Visual Publishing House <www.hqavc.com>, Beijing, China.
Chen Yi's China West Suite for two pianos, performed by Dennis Russell Davies and Maki Namekawa, in Edition Klavier-Festival Ruhr: Beethoven & Neue Klaviermusik, on Cavi-Music, ASIN: B000ZLNM6S, released on 9/9/2008.
A Set of Chinese Folk Songs, performed by The Studio Orchestra of the Plymouth Canton Symphony Society, on its first commercial CD entitled Magical Tunes & Marvelous Tales, conducted by Nan Harrison Washburn, produced by the PCSS and released on November 1, 2008.
Qi for mixed ensemble, in the CD of Tribute to Chou Wen-chung, Music by His Teacher, His Colleagues and His Distinguished Disciples at the Pacific Rim Music Festival 2003, performed by Empyrean Ensemble, released in 2009 on Albany Records [Double CD: Troy 1064-1065].
Tu for wind ensemble, performed by The DePauw University Band, cond. by Craig Pare in 2008, included on the CD album Starsplitter, on Mark Masters [7871-MCD], Greencastle, IN, 2009.
Chen Yi’s Spring Festival, performed by Gotham Wind Symphony (professional 45-piece wind band in NYC), cond. by Mike Christianson on the CD New Year New Music, released in Feb. 2009 on artistShare.
Chen Yi’s Three Bagatelles from China West, performed by Marya Martin and Colette Valentine, in Eight Visions – A New Anthology for Flute and Piano [Naxos 8.559629], available for streaming and download on 8/28/2009, CD physically released on 12/15/2009.
Chen Yi's Jing Marimba for marimba solo, commissioned by Zeltsman Marimba Festival & dedicated to Nancy Zeltsman, played by Gordon Stout, on Intermediate Masterworks for Marimba (24 New Concert Pieces), on Bridge released on 11/13/2009 [Bridge 9311A/B].
China West Suite for marimba and piano, recorded by piano-percussion duo Strike (Jeffery Meyer and Paul Vailancourt) on Luminescence Records in Chicago, released in fall 2009.
Chen Yi’s Monologue for clarinet solo, in Gregory Oakes clarinet solo album New Dialects on Centaur Records, released in November 2009. www.gregoryoakes.com/
Chen Yi’s Happy Rain on a Spring Night for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, and piano, played by Grup21 Contemporary Music, on Solfa [SR0609280], D.L:GI-129-2010, Spain. <grup21music.com>
Chen Yi’s The Ancient Chinese Beauty for recorder and string orchestra, on Michala Petri Chinese Recorder Concerts East Meets West with Copenhagen Philharmonic, cond. by Lan Shui, OUR Recordings [6.220603], Denmark, distributed by NGL Naxos Global Logistics GmbH, released in June 2010.
Chen Yi’s Looking at the Sea for women’s choir, sung by the Peninsula Women’s Chorus, conducted by Martin Benvenuto, in the album Nature Pictures, on 2010 Location Digital Recording [LDR-1007], released in Nov. 2010, CA.
Chen Yi's Duo Ye for piano solo, on Claire Chiu Piano Recital on New Music by Chinese Composers DVD, China Record Company-Guangzhou, Dec. 2010.
Chen Yi's Happy Birthday to Prism, included in the album Dedication, to celebrate Prism Quartet's 20th anniversary, released on 5/3/2011, on Innova, ASIN: B004WW8FJU.
Chen Yi's Night Thoughts for flute, cello and piano, played by the Meininger-Trio, on the album Voices of the Rainforest, works by Elisenda Fabregas, Libby Larsen, Chen Yi and Kate Waring, released on Profil, Edition Gunter Hanssler [PH11039], Germany, 2011.
Chen Yi's Duo Ye for piano solo, played by Xie Yashuangzi, on the album Chinese Piano Music since 1980, works by Zhu Jianer, Yang Liqing, Chen Yi, Ya Wen, Chen Xiaoyong, Huang Ruo and Wen Deqing, released on SMPH/SLAU, Shanghai, China, 2011.
Chen Yi’s Ba Ban for piano solo, played by Heidi Louise Williams, on the album Drive American, with works by John Adams, Joan Tower, Daniel Crozier, Chen Yi, Augusta Read Thomas, and William Bolcom, released on 10/1/2011, Albany Records [Troy1298].
Chen Yi’s The Golden Flute by Sharon Bazaley and the Singapore Symphony, conducted by Lan Shui, released on Bis [CD 1739], Oct. 2011.
Chen Yi’s Ba Yin by Rascher Saxophone Quartet and Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, released on Bis [CD 1821], Nov. 2011.
Chen Yi’s Joy of the Reunion for Oboe, Violin, Viola and Double Bass, by Mary Ashley Barret and University of North Carolina Greensboro School of Music faculty, in the album “falling still” – Music for Oboe by Women Composers, released on Centaur [CRC3182], in March 2012.
Chen Yi’s The Ancient Beauty for Ruan Ensemble and String Orchestra, performed by CCoM Ruan Ensemble (director Xu Yang) and China Youth Symphony (cond. by Xia Xiaotang), Ruan Concert, TTPCCOM CD released in 2012, Beijing Global Audio-Visual Publishing House www.hqavc.com.
Chen Yi’s Monologue for clarinet solo, in the album Trace: a clarinet and bass clarinet CD played by Laura Carmichael on Karnatic Lab Records in Amsterdam, Netherland, released in Sept. 2012.
Chen Yi’s Dragon Rhyme for wind symphony, on Monuments & Motifs, by CSUF Wind Symphony, conducted by Mitchell Fennell, recorded on 3/8-9/2011, released in 2012. California State University-Fullerton, CA, USA.
Chen Yi’s Distance can’t keep us two apart for mixed choir, on amazon.com, by Arizona State University Symphonic Chorale, cond. by Gregory Gentry, March 1, 2012 in the Pioneer Center, at the ACDA Western Division Conference in Reno, Nevada.<www.amazon.com/Distance-Cant-Keep-Two-Apart/dp/B0080149UI> on Mark Records.
Chen Yi’s Monologue for clarinet solo, in Amanda McCandless clarinet solo album Unaccompanied Clarinet Works by Women Composers on Mark Records [B0092PQoSK], released in 9/4/2012.
Chen Yi’s Dragon Rhyme for wind symphony, by The Hartt School Wind Ensemble, conducted by Glen Adsit, released on September 25, 2012, on Naxos Wind Band, USA.
Chen Yi’s Spring Dreams for a cappella man choir, by Chanticleer, in the album Chanticleer By Request, released in 2012, on Chanticleer Records in USA CR2284.
Chen Yi’s I Hear the Siren’s Call for a cappella man choir, by Chanticleer, released in 2012, on Chanticleer Records in USA CLIC009.
Chen Yi’s Monologue for clarinet solo and Chinese Ancient Dances for clarinet and piano, in the album East Meets West played by Qian Jun on Albany Records in USA [Troy 1377], released in November 2012.
Chen Yi’s Chinese Poems for children’s choirs, on Pure Beauty of Children’s Choirs, by Shenzhen Yantian Foreign Language Primary School Children’s Choir, conducted by Li Xi, released on China Record Company (CRC) [SZCD-12/837], Dec. 2012, China.
Chen Yi’s Let’s Reach a New Height, on 25x25, The 25th Anniversary Celebration of The New York Virtuoso Singers, conducted by Harold Rosenbaum, on Soundbrush Records [SR1027], released in Sept. 2013.
Chen Yi’s Chinese Fables for mixed Chinese quartet, by Central Conservatory of Music Youth Traditional Instrumental Ensemble, on Daren Art Deco Beijing Cultural Development Co., Ltd., recorded in Sept. 2013, Beijing, China.
Chen Yi's Romance and Dance, and YangKo, performed by Linda Wang and Alice Rybak, in CD The Stream Flows, on Equilibrium [CD120] released in Dec. 2013.
Chen Yi’s Mountain Song and Dancing Tune and With Flowers Blooming for children’s choirs, on Pure Beauty of Children’s Choirs, by Shenzhen Yantian Foreign Language Primary School Children’s Choir, conducted by Li Xi, released on China Record Company (CRC) [SZCD-12/911], Dec. 2013, China.
Chen Yi’s Tunes From My Home for violin, cello and piano, recorded by the Weiss-Kaplan-Newman Trio (violinist Mark Kaplan, pianist Yael Weiss and cellist Clancy Newman) in the CD An American Tour, released in April 2014 on Bridge [Bridge 9407].
Chen Yi’s Momentum for full orchestra, recorded by the Tianjin Conservatory Youth Symphony, cond by Jiancheng Zhang, in the album of the Closing Concert of May Festival, Tianjin, 2013, released in March 2014 by China Record Corporation [CCD-3204].
Chen Yi’s China West Suite for 3 guitars, by Manuel Barrueco and Beijing Guitar Duo, in
CD album China West, released on May 27, 2014 on TonarMusic [Tonar 40515].
Chen Yi’s Chinese Ancient Dances for clarinet and piano, performed by Virginia Figueiredo and Fueya Unal of Divan Consort, in the album Refuge, released on April 1, 2014 on Albany Records [Troy1484] (Gold Medal Winner,Global Music Awards)
Dragon Rhyme for wind symphony, in the CD Adirondack Songs by the Crane Wind Ensemble cond. by Brian K. Doyle on Mark Masters [51320-MCD], New York, 2014.
Chen Yi’s Three Bagatelles from China West for clarinet and sheng, performed by Jun Qian and Jianbing Hu, in the album East Meets West II: Clarinet Music by Chinese Composers Overseas, released on Dec. 1, 2014 on Albany Records [ASIN: B00P6NCFAO].
Symphony ‘Humen 1839’ (co-composed with Zhou Long), by New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Darrell Ang, on Naxos [8.570611], Catalogue No: 8.570611, Barcode: 747313061174, released in May 2015. <http://www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp?item_code=8.570611>
Ning for violin, cello, and pipa, recorded on the premiere CD of Bridge Chamber Virtuosi, released on Con line Con Brio Recordings (666449851025) in 2014, and Con Brio [21440] in 2015.
Monologue (Impressions on The True Story of Ah Q) for saxophone solo, adapted and performed by Jeffrey Heisler, in the album “gradient”, on AMP Recordings [AMPREC 017], released in 2015.
Suite for Cello and Chamber Winds, KC Capriccio, Feng, Woodwind Quintet, and Tu, Chen Yi’s music for wind band performed by Texas Tech University Symphonic Wind Ensemble, conducted by Sarah McKoin, on Naxos [8.572838], released in July 2015.
China West Suite for 2 pianos, in the album Western Instruments & Eastern Styles, by Yu Piano Duo (Yu Meina and Fu Hong), on People Music Publishing Co. ISBN[978-7-88724-905-0]released in 2015.
Duo Ye, Ba Ban, Variations on Awariguli, and Ji-Dong-Nuo for piano solo in the collection A Century of Piano Solo Works by Chinese Composers 1913-2013 (Edited by Li Mingqiang) with score and CD recordings, published by the Shanghai Music Publishing House, released in August 2015.
Northern Scenes for piano solo in the album, Piano Recital: Chan, Susan – Zhou, Long/Lam, Doming/Louie, A./Tan, Dun/Chen, Yi (Echoes of China) on Naxos [Catalogue No: 8.570616; Barcode: 747313061679], released in Aug. 2015.
Fisherman's Song for violin and piano in the album Pieces & Passages, played by Scott Conklin and Alan Huckleberry, released on Albany Records [Troy1546], Sept. 2015.
Ning for violin, cello, and pipa, performed by AlexandraGreffin-Klein, AlexisDescharmes, and Sun Jing, released by China Record Corporation in Beijing, China in an album Celebration to the 75th anniversary of the Central Conservatory of Music on 10/31/2015.
Chinese Rap, an album of Chen Yi’s compositions (including Chinese Rap for violin and orchestra, Tu for band, Set of Chinese Folk Songs for choir, Romance and Dance for violin and piano), performed by Kennesaw State University Symphony Orchestra, Wind Ensemble and Chorus, on Centaur Records [CRC3440], released on 6/10/16.
Shuo Chang, in the CD album Songs From Our Ancestors, released on Shakespeare's Globe (Ian Bostridge/Tenor, and Xuefei Yang/Guitar), Sept. 2016 [GlobeMusic-001].
Not Alone for sax quartet, in the CD album Paradigm Lost by Prism Quartet, released on XAS Records, 9/22/2017.
Ge Xu for orchestra, in the CD album Phoenix, performed by Tianjin Conservatory of Music Youth Symphony Orchestra conducted by Xu Zhijun, released on China Record Corporation [CCD 3578], 2017.
Fiddle Suite for huqin and full orchestra, in the CD Wind and Rhythm Erhu Concertos, The Magic Bow, Xu Ke & Deutsches Symponie-Orchester Berlin, Conducted by Shao En [XUAR-17418] released on11/6/17 in Japan.
Three Bagatelles From China West for flute and guitar, by Duo Damiana (Molly Barth and Dieter Hennings-Yeomans) in the CD Castillos De Viento on Innova Recordings #982, released on Feb. 23, 2018.
Chen Yi Concertos for String Instruments (Spring in Dresden, Suite for Cello and Chamber Winds, Fiddle Suite, and Xian Shi) performed by Boston Modern Orchestra Project cond. by Gil Rose, with Lizhou Liu (viola), David Russell (cello), Guowei Wang (huqin), and Mira Wang (violin), on BMOP/sound 1058, released on 7/31/2018.
In Memory of Steve for piano solo, in the CD Garlands for Steven Stucky, Gloria Cheng Piano, on Bridge [Bridge 9509], released on 10/5/2018.
Romance of Hsiao and Ch’in for two violins and string orchestra, Edna Michell’s The Compassion Project, Innova re-released on 11/16/2018, Catalog Number #971, UPC 726708697129, New York, New York
Ba Yin for sax quartet and wind ensemble, by Prism Quartet and UMKC Conservatory Wind Symphony (Steven Davis, conductor), released on XAS Records, released 1/18/2019.
Feng for woodwind quintet, and Woodwind Quintet, by Pan Pacific Ensemble (Sophia Tegart, Keri McCarthy, Shannon Scott, Martin King, and Michael Garza), released on Albany Records on 8/23/2019.
Woodwind Quintet, by Pan Pacific Ensemble (Sophia Tegart, Keri McCarthy, Shannon Scott, Martin King, and Michael Garza), released on Albany Records on 8/23/19.
Meditation for baritone and piano, performed by Brian Arreola (tenor) and Wei-En Hsu (piano) in the album The Boy Who Drew Cats, released on Albany Records [ASIN: B07VTY6C3Q], 9/1/2019.
Witten on a Rainy Night from Tang Poems for a cappella, by Singer Pur in the album Horizons – Der Geist weht, wo er will, released on Oehms Classics [OC1714] in Germany, in the USA on 9/13/2019.
Memory for cello solo, by Julia Tom in the album Origins, Works Drawn from the Past, composed by Robert Schumann, Chen Yi, De Falla, De Kanter, and Tan Dun, on Etcetera Records [KTC 1654] (Belgium), released on 11/6/2019.
Memory for violin solo, performed by Patrick Yim on Navona Records (USA) [NV6268], 1/10/2020.
Night Thoughts for violin, cello, and piano, performed by Civitas Ensemble, Yuan-qing Yu, Kenneth Olsen, and Winston Choi, released on Cedille Records/Cedille Chicago [CDR 90000-193], 1/24/2020.
Romance of Hsiao and Chin for erhu and string quartet, in The Magic Bow, Xu Ke – Heimat with Sara Etelavuri and Ikki Opitz (violins), Christoph Starke (viola), and Stefan Heinemeyer (cello), on XUAR-19118, released in Japan on 2/18/2020.
Shuo Chang, in the double CD albums Sketches of China, released on DECCA, 8/7/2020.
Chinese Ancient Dances for clarinet and piano, by Abby Lloyd and Gail Novak, on Soundset Recordings [195081394541] released on 6/12/2020.
Memory for flute solo performed by Hannah Porter Occena, in the album Confluence recorded at the University of Northern Iowa Jazz Studio released in 2021.
Dark Mountains for harp solo performed by Yolanda Kondonassis as a part of her FIVE MINUTES for Earth Project, released on 4/1/2022 (Earth Day month) on AZICA Records [ACD-71349], 1645 Eddy Road, Cleveland, OH 44112 <azica.com> with Naxos distribution.
Three Bagatelles from China West for two flutes performed by Sophia Tegart and Krista Jobson, Flute Duos by Women Composers, released on 3/15/2022 by Cherry Street Duo, WSU Record Label.
Memory for violin solo performed by Olga Dubossarskaya Kaler in her CD Seven Ways to Say Farewell, released on July 15, 2022, Centaur Records [CRC 3942].
Bamboo Song for piano solo performed by Zou Xiang in his CD <Yong Zhu (Bamboo Song) -- Chinese Contemporary Compositions for Piano Solo> on NCPA Classics [ISBN 978-7-88331-148-5] and released by Apple Music in 2022.
Woodwind Quintet #3 (Suite from China West) performed by Pan Pacific Ensemble in the album Ambiguous Traces on Albany Records [Troy 1903] released on 9/1/2022. https://www.albanyrecords.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=AR&Product_Code=TROY1903&Category_Code=a-NR
From Old Peking Folklore, Fishermans Song, Romance and Dance for violin and piano by Patrick Yim and Kiu Tung Poon, Digital Mist – Works for Violin and Piano, released on Naxos [8.559903], July 2022. https://www.ebay.com/itm/295236822403
Ba Ban for piano solo performed by Jiang Zhifei, Chinese Classics for Piano Solo, CCoM Xiamen Gulangyu Piano School, CD released in June 2022 [ISBN 978-7-88107-515-0], and in 2023 by Beijing Global Audio-Visual Publishing Co., LTD., Beijing, China.
Chen Yi: Ji-Dong-Nuo for piano solo performed by An Tianxu, Chinese Classics for Piano Solo (2), CCoM Xianmen Gulangyu Piano School, CD released in June 2024 by Beijing Global Audio-Visual Publishing Co., LTD., Central Conservatory of Music, Beijing, China.
Chen Yi: Happy Tune for violin and viola, performed by Patrick Yim and Born Lau in the album New Waves on Albany Records [Troy1959] released on 12/23/2023. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTOONr3hfTc&list=OLAK5uy_kft8I-vYjMGncbJuQPCUPkINrkdfwg-Ms&index=1>
Chen Yi: Memory for solo viola, performed by Patrick Yim in the album New Waves on Albany Records [Troy1959] released on 12/23/2023. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xhIujoUrGI&list=OLAK5uy_kft8I-vYjMGncbJuQPCUPkINrkdfwg-Ms&index=2>
Selected Videography
Chen Yi’s lecture on her choral works at the 2022 WCF <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZecUDE6TdA>
Sound and Silence ISCM/Adamov Film (Chamber Music of Chen Yi) <https://youtu.be/A6kZaALbYxo>
Chen Yi plays Luciao Berio’s Violin Duets ISCM/Adamov Film <https://youtu.be/6O76UDLSBsM>
Tang Poems Cantata for choir and orchestra
<https://www.ardmediathek.de/video/ard-klassik/chen-tang-poems-mdr-rundfunkchor/ard/Y3JpZDovL3N3ci5kZS9hZXgvbzE1NjU3NDI/?fbclid=IwAR198e09beeYpfoV93Q32NKXYBWcG8jHW7Sw-x7g-DBOjxhxfUTdPVJeY7Y>
<https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/uxEpgFM1gMnKX5afgGPq8w>
Chinese Myths Cantata for choir and orchestra
1st mvt <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrxNLEF8vx4>
2nd mvt <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7FhI-gPZlA>
3rd mvt <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnySrao9BEs>
Curtain Calls <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lk99SYgXPx0>
Angle Island Passages for treble choir and string quartet
San Francisco Girls Chorus and Cypress String Quartet <https://vimeo.com/14744138>
Ge Xu (Antiphony), performed by Spanish Radio Orchestra cond. by Darrell Ang in 2020
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLNL7YDP2YY>
Tu for wind symphony, by Aulos Sinfonisches Blasorchester (Aulos Wind Band in Switzerland) cond. by José Rafael Pascual-Vilaplana in 2022 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72viV0tXBX8>
Pearl River Overture, by Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra cond. by Yang Yang to celebrate GSO’s 65th Anniversary, <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpyCT2ubZSc>
Introduction, Andante and Allegro, by Zhejiang Symphony cond. by Zhang Chengjie, 12.9.2022
<https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1Ke411P78U/?spm_id_from=333.788.recommend_more_video.17>
The Golden Flute for flute and orchestra, by Eva Ding and the Auckland Youth Orchestra, at Auckland Town Hall, New Zealand, October 8, 2016
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eb128yxa6rE>
Percussion Concerto, performed by Sun Yi & Stony Brook Symphony Orchestra, cond. by Eduardo Leandro at Staller Center for the Arts, Stony Brook U., NY, 10/6/2018
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Da94om5T1Y>
Percussion Concerto, performed by Zhang Jingli & Tianjin Symphony, cond. by Yang Li on 3/1/2014 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOl74Fq7Iek> (published on 1/4/2017)
Percussion Concerto, performed by Zhang Jingli & Ningbo Symphony, cond. by Yang Li on March 8, 2018, https://www.bilibili.com/video/av21422271/ (published on 3/30/2018)
Percussion Concerto, performed by James Koo & USO cond. by Ken Kiesler at U of Michigan-Ann Abor, 3/18/2023. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxIk62AzRoU&t=13s>
Fiddle Suite for Huqin and String Orchestra: I. Singing, II. Reciting, III. Dancing
By Wang Guowei & BostonModernOrchestraProject led by Gil Rose, 2018 BMOP/sound
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYvoDXrK2XU>
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOpHtYeqOF0>
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANxCDhXHbYI>
Fiddle Suite for huqin and full orchestra, 1st mvt: Singing, 2nd mvt: Reciting, 3rd mvt: Dancing, performed by Yan Jiemin & Beijing Sym Orchestra, cond. by Tan Lihua, 2008, CCTV, Beijing.
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zkkTVh9LEA>
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G41ltZfbXoU>
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bB0tIup36nU>
Fiddle Suite for huqin and Chinese orchestra, 1st mvt: Singing, 2nd mvt: Reciting, 3rd mvt: Dancing, presented by Ding Yi Music Company, Chin Yen Choong (soloist), Lim Yau (conductor), in the concert Modern Voices at Esplanade Recital Studio, Singapore,
8/3/2013, <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDUwvChRBTY>, and <https://v.qq.com/iframe/player.html?vid=s01751tbgmm&300&NaN&auto=0>
Fiddle Suite for Huqin and Chinese Orchestra
By Diing Yi Music Company (solo Chin Yen Choong, cond. Lim Yau, Music Director Tay Teow Kiat) at Esplanade Recital Studio, Singapore, 1/14/2014 <https://www.bilibili.com/s/video/BV1i741177Yy>
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDUwvChRBTY>
Piano Concerto, by Chen Sa and the Qingdao Symphony Orchestra, cond. by Hu Yongyan, at Kennedy Center, Washington DC, USA, 2/1/2009.
<http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTQ2MjQxODcy.html?from=y1.2-1-95.3.2-2.1-1-1-1>
(from 2:27 to 19:50)
Chinese Folk Dance Suite, by Gao Can and Central Conservatory Symphony cond. by Chen Lin
I. <https://tv.cctv.com/2021/01/27/VIDEQ88RVuJM4LaWf0RcZfRD210127.shtml>
II.<https://tv.cctv.com/2021/01/27/VIDEjp6Qi3ukA2E1L8eQLYZW210127.shtml>
III.<https://tv.cctv.com/2020/09/24/VIDEQlSY9Xtd88oHASDjAKKM200924.shtml>
Prospect Overture for full orchestra performed by China National Symphony at the CNCPA, CCTV 2009 New Year <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oM4bR-0tBU>
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oM4bR-0tBU&feature=youtu.be>
Xian Shi for Viola and Orchestra performed by Michael Hall & the Chicago Composers Orch led by Matthew Kasper, 6/20/2020 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4f-AMBWEm8>
Duo Ye for chamber orchestra performed by Ensemble Pluma in Denmark, 11/29/2022.
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1vi5eaRYMg>
Chinese Poems (1, 2, 3, 5) by Sc 1819 Heep Yunn School Girls Chorus, Hong Kong <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vt7_ATOLw90dCJN82iJOJigIZZV309uG/view?fbclid=IwAR37fwWr21GbYOFYYFy70oixJceeFtSR08_O7gFs2FHVp5WQjysNEl_8v7Y>
Chinese Poems 1.Up the Crane Tower; 5.The Cataract of Mount Lu, for children’s choir
Let the Peoples Sing 2017 Final: The Musical Originals Singers & Imogen Nicholls (UK), https://areena.yle.fi/1-4256758
Distance Can’t Keep Us Two Apart for mixed choir, by Montclair State University Singers, conducted by Heather Buchanan, at the Veterans Memorial Auditorium, at the ACDA Eastern Division Conference in Providence, Rhode Island, 2/17/2012.
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1kCY-Ojkzk>
Distance Can’t Keep Us Two Apart for mixed choir, by Pacific Lutheran University Choir of the West, conducted by Richard Nance, at the ACDA Northwestern Division Conference in Seattle, Washington, March 2012. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFfQlIQt0xg>
Spring Dreams for choir by Chanticleer <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sK-HwUVxjHs>
Spring Dreams for mixed choir by Dolce Voce Macau, cond. by Maria Vanessa Leao at BMMF at Central Conservatory, Beijing, 5/19/2013 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOB5KiArn9g>
Spring Dreams for choir by Te-Deum Choir <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhiG4ja2Buk>
Spring Dreams for mixed choir by Hong Kong Youth Choir cond. by Christopher Cheng
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrZhWyBmEq4>
Spring Rain for mixed choir by Crescendo Chorus dir. by Christine Gevert, April 2013
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4UwH32fLiw>
The West Lake for mixed choir, performed by “Ba Miao” Eight Seconds Choir (China), cond. by Yan Baolin, 8/8/2019 at CNPAC <https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/iaM5u6JuP59GUqWRWhGJ1g>
The West Lake for mixed choir by Hong Kong Youth Choir cond. by Christopher Cheng
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iqIUaBh2s4>
Landscape for mixed choir by Hong Kong Youth Choir cond. by Christopher Cheng
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uaZ6ZjEL-c>
Let’s Reach a New Height for mixed choir by New York Virtuoso Singers
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O02LHfqR3ZM&feature=relmfu>
Wild Grass from Tang Poems for mixed choir, performed by Chanticleer
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfTbDAB7asA>
Wild Grass from Tang Poems by Phillip Cheah [one singer production]
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?fbclid=IwAR2DO17R5tGGDcaUSHtFZVD4SRPaZjw2FADhKmrXdISLvp7pTx1VooI_oAE&v=gRvZ3ee67qQ&feature=youtu.be>
Tang Poems for mixed choir, performed by C4 Choral Composer/Conductor Collective, conducted by Phillip Cheah on 2/23/08 at Norwegian Seamen's Church, NYC.
II. Written on a Rainy Night <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxMkg36Bi2w>
III. Wild Grass <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDM442Q_IyA&feature=related>
Monologue from Tang Poems for mixed choir, performed by The Esoterics (tenor solo Jonathan You) at Holy Rosary Catholic Church in West Seattle on 5/18/2019.
<https://soundcloud.com/the-esoterics-archive/monologue-from-tang-poems-chen-yi-the-esoterics?fbclid=IwAR0RHNeFG3XjACc4nxhJydEamL-WaRTbwvYuzdrf_2_bT4ns6nWjdxS8dKI >
Xuan for mixed choir, performed by Renwen Philharmonic Choir (China), 2011 Busan International Choral Festival & Competition (Korea), Gold Medal winner of Ethnic Music, cond. Zhou Kai, 11/4/2011 <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JqoktmC0tE>
Xuan for mixed choir, performed by Beijing University Choir (China), 2012
<http://video.tudou.com/v/XMjEzMTM1Njk2MA==.html?__fr=oldtd>
Xuan for mixed choir, performed by Chengdu Philharmonic Choir led by Zhu Xi, 11/6/20
<https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/W2ak-hbRgxAVY-NfWP9ncw>
Thinking of My Home for treble clef choir, commissioned by ACF, world premiere by the Frontier Trail Middle School Choir, Olathe, KS, cond. by Gretchen Harrison (w/score)
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpsOUMfpJZc>
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsgkqT4dE3E>
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khRX4ZB_1bU&list=PL217368E310BA480C&index=52>
Capriccio, for mixed choir, Da Gu (bass drum), and organ (piano, cello, bass & basn),
Yale/Norfolk Chamber Music Festival Choral Conducting Workshop, 8/18/18
<https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KKdRh7nCRSFK2WHaT5JAnrUdT38QNHa7/view>
Japanese folk song Sakura, Sakura arranged by Chen Yi, sung by Chanticleer
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNvM3119PwE>
Korean folk song Arirang arranged by Chen Yi, sung by Chanticleer
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeX_9BZUgCg>
By Seoul Singers 4th Concert 2010,07,12 Seoul Art center Conducted by JungPyo Hong
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Jq16JsqeLE>
Korean folk song Arirang arranged by Chen Yi for mixed choir, performed by Seoul Singers conducted by Jungpyo Hong, 7/12/10 <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Jq16JsqeLE&feature=related>
Two Chinese Folk Songs for mixed choir, arranged by Chen Yi
1. A Single Bamboo Can Easily Bend, by SMU Chamber Choir & SYC Ensemble Singers, published on 8/10/2015 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcotO5VAK68>
2. A Horseherd’s Mountain Song, by Arlington High School Chamber Singers from Riverside, California, on 10/15/2013 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJzK9ntO9tg>
Two Chinese Folk Songs for mixed choir, arranged by Chen Yi, performed by The Esoterics at Holy Rosary Catholic Church in West Seattle, WA on 5/18/2019
1. A Single Bamboo Can Easily Bend <https://soundcloud.com/the-esoterics-archive/a-single-bamboo-can-easily-bend-chen-yi-the-esoterics?fbclid=IwAR0jgNRYfAMLOKuZI_h6oNyZxmDQBaWa_45UXUYbTUGFo6CLiuiE3sRqh3k>
2. A Horseherd’s Mountain Song <https://soundcloud.com/the-esoterics-archive/a-horseherds-mountain-song-chen-yi-the-esoterics?fbclid=IwAR0_Oq6vwJVZQ5mBavestNKl5D5Ep-j9xBavluD2RkvmifU6wUMCU_31rZk>
A Set of Chinese Folk Songs (Feng Yang Song) sung by SYC Ensemble Singers in Singapore 10/19/14 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sGW9enFuLU>
A Set of Chinese Folk Songs (Fengyang Song, Mo Li Hua, Mayila, Flowing Stream, Riding on a mule, Diu Diu Deng), by Choeur du Brouhaha, cond. by Sebastien Lachaume in Eglise St-Edouard, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSBGEQSAhPs&list=PLXhfpaDiFP0YMgvVsgknq0sHz6Mwic9Wk&fbclid=IwAR3YgUjLryeAYyjf3RzbZCtb1DvKvt0TxofI24XzEaVD9qeBAzQBWLVdBvc>
Molihua sung by University of North Texas College of Music A Cappella Choir, conducted by Jerry McCoy at 2010 Texas Music Educators Association Convention
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8YemA2NX1M>
Dark Mountains for harp solo performed by Yolanda Kondonassis from Five Minutes for Earth, Azica ACD 71349 (released April 1, 2022), 7/29/2022
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxdmJbts81I>
Monologue for clarinet solo performed by Gregory Oakes at the New Frontiers Music Festival at the University of Wyoming on 10/15/2008 <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfskMHbC_eE>
Monologue for clarinet solo performed by Andrew Lowy of LA Philharmonic on 3/9/2021
<https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=421926012204819>
Monologue for clarinet solo performed by Yu-Ting Cheng at SUNY-Stony Brook on 5/5/2021
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzEucx-dEnQ&t=44s>
Jing Marimba for marimba solo
By Gordon Stout <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFlzP39tCVU>
By Wei-Chen Lin <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQK4P-iNJ6s>
Jing Marimba for marimba solo, performed by Andrew Chan
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oe-h2gr_R2E&feature=youtu.be>
Mountain Song for oboe solo, performed by Fergus McCready on RAM website & BBC
<https://www.ram.ac.uk/multimedia/mountain-song>
The Points for pipa solo, performed by Yu Jia in Singapore <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCOGaB-7bsQ>
The Points for pipa solo, performed by Jiang Yang shown on CCTV, 1st prize 8th GBC, <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miqCTnmN53o&feature=player_embedded#!>
The Points for pipa solo, performed by Tang Xiaofeng in the 8th Golden Bell Competition in 2011, <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ23u0SV-o0>
The Points for pipa solo, performed by Yang Jing in the 8th Golden Bell Competition in 2011, <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrqi-G8fPyY>
The Points for pipa solo, performed by Chen Yurong, TW National Concert Hall, 5/31/12
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ1Bm0g8tNc>
The Points for pipa solo, performed by Ting-An (Ann) Lin, TW Normal University, 5/2/15 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4IyjYN69E8>
The Points for pipa solo, performed by Zhuang Zihui, 2012 TW High School Music Competition first prize <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ep90yaXurmI>
Memory for violin solo, performed by Chen Xi in Beijing, 6/10/2010
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3AsGhAAkYk>
<http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XODI1MzYzMjA4.html>
Memory for violin solo, performed by Julia Glenn
<http://www.juliaglennviolin.com/listen-watch/> and <https://vimeo.com/216852136>
Memory for violin solo, performed by Patrick T. S. Yim (HKBU), in Nov. 2019 <https://youtu.be/MCE6mTR9q6w>; at Chung Chi College Chapel, CUHK, Hong Kong, 2/18/19 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkYlEMceed8&feature=youtu.be>
Memory for violin solo, performed by Ertan Torgul at Trinity U, San Antonio, TX, 2/11/20.
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B605TjX5u5E&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR0vGeUXNuVR2F7l3Wi5yKrdYN2NTGyWacBmOc2tvPLkjBgzBIczsqNXiFs>
Memory for violin solo, performed by Yvonne Lam on 7/16/2020
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bWFgBjmfv0>
Memory for violin solo, performed by Peixin Jiang posted on 1/1/2017
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUIlQWgyZT0>
Memory for violin solo, performed by Shiyu Liu posted on 12/10/2018
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04n1VoZY60I>
Memory for violin solo, performed by Emily Boone on 5/9/2021 Mother’s Day
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xwu8qqQTHnA>
Memory for violin solo, performed by Tricia Park posted on 5/31/2021
<https://www.isitrecessyet.com/chen-yi-memory-for-solo-violin-2011/?fbclid=IwAR2havnVbV-oTGyvsDz2Jv5IhEVgS2P_eeRZooyN-lhM6GAipd1gDat7oFQ>
Memory for violin solo, performed by Xenia Deviatkina-Loh in June 2021 <https://youtu.be/XZjHFu_QaCw>
Memory for cello solo, performed by Dr. Fang Yijia
<https://www.bilibili.com/video/av62276178/?redirectFrom=h5>
Memory for cello solo, performed by Jacob Mackay on 6/1/2019 at the Mystic Activity Center, Mystic River Housing Development, Somerville, MA, videography by Greg Liszt
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-eo6LxBcaQ>
Memory for flute solo, performed by Hannah Porter Occena posted on 11/6/2020
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8noZZWLor7E>
Memory for flute solo, adapted and performed by Mary Holzhausen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHFrxgSqcXk
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfcyUPrOOXk> (teaching video)
Memory for viola solo, performed by David Rose, U Fredonia, 9/17/2022
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RDrCFKN7qI> [1:11:03]
Piano Solo Works of Chen Yi <https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV16D4y1S72a/>
(Resource: <https://repository.asu.edu/items/15884>, <https://youtu.be/LYc3Ef1EFi4>,
and <https://youtu.be/-HTaOn-igdI>)
00:00 Variations on Awariguli (by Qing Nadia Feeken)
10:22 Two Chinese Bagatelles: 1) Yu Diao (by Qing Nadia Feeken)
11:45 Two Chinese Bagatelles: 2) Small Beijing Opera Gong (by Qing Nadia Feeken)
12:23 Ba Ban (by Qing Nadia Feeken)
19:16 Duo Ye (by Qing Nadia Feeken)
26:00 Guessing (by Qing Nadia Feeken)
30:27 Singing in the Mountains (by Qing Nadia Feeken)
31:50 Ji-Dong-Nuo (by Qing Nadia Feeken)
35:26 Northern Scenes (by Susan Chan)
42:40 Bamboo Dance II (by Thalia Myers)
Piano Solo Works of Chen Yi (with Score Follower)
Duo Ye <https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1o5411G7XC/> (by 1. Chen Min; 2. Qing Nadia Feeken)
Ba Ban <https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV16Z4y1g7WK/?spm_id_from=333.788.recommend> (by QNF)
Ji-Dong-Nuo <https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV13f4y1e7rR/?spm_id_from=333.788.recommend_more_video.12> (by 1. Chen Min; 2. Qing Nadia Feeken)
Guessing <https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1FK411g7gJ/?spm_id_from=333.788.recommend> (by QNF)
Variations on Awariguli<https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1Mt4y1k7YV/?spm_id_from=333.788.recommend >.
(by 1. Gulimina Mahamuti; 2. Qing Nadia Feeken)
Variations on “Awariguli” for solo piano, performed by Gulimina Mahamuti on CD
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zPBGVaaLM0>
Duo Ye for piano solo
By Yumi Suehiro ????at Composer’s Voice-New York Women Composers concert, 3/24/2013 at the Jan Hus Church, New York City. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=jZHpN-vAu_g>
Duo Ye for piano solo and dance
By Anran Qian (piano) and Can Wang (dance) at Paul Hall, The Juilliard School, 2017.
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bJYXPT2qFs&feature=youtu.be>
Ba Ban for piano solo
By Wynona Yinuo Wang in 2020 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHm8OiRTGeU>
Ba Ban for piano solo
By Kiu Tung Poon at Monday Oasis Concert Series at Chung Chi Chapel, CUHK, 10/23/2017 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=43&v=uExYjtNCvF4&feature=emb_logo>
Ba Ban for piano solo
By Jonathan Keener at the James Madison University Contemporary Music Festival, 2010 <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GUf9eA2TFY>
Ba Ban for piano solo
By Yudi (Sissi) Zhang, at the University for the Arts in Bremen, Germany in Dec. 2013 and posted on 1/26/14 <http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNjY2NTc0MDgw.html>
Ba Ban for piano solo
By Chia-Ching Shen (recorded on 9/12/2013 (International Music Foundation on Classical connect.com, published on YouTube 11/15/2014), FSU Class of 2011.
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TL1DzDvnSOQ>
Singing in the Mountain for piano solo (Spectrum 4), ABRSM Piano 2009-2010 Grade 1 C4, by Alan Chan in 2011 <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOu3nhHx2nk>
Bamboo Dance II for piano solo (Spectrum 5 with 15 pieces), performed by Thalia Myers on Usk Recordings in 2016 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HTaOn-igdI>
Bamboo Dance for piano solo performed by Elizabeth G. Hill, Corona Chronicles A-Z: Week 25, 9/7/2020 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bQgJtBW7ec>
Ji-Dong-Nuo for piano solo (2005) performed by Jane Solose
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9QhXUSUU0M>
Ji-Dong-Nuo for piano solo (2005) performed by Kiu Tung Poon, 11/5/2017
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCP-WrbWmCU>
Ji-Dong-Nuo for piano solo (2005) performed by Dale Tsang, 3/8/2020
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIv_YI3isl0&feature=youtu.be>
Northern Scenes for piano solo performed by Clara Yang
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKiJJRF4nJ4>
Northern Scenes for piano solo performed by Shuai Wang
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfiUYjOh7b0>
Plum Blossom for piano solo performed by Shi Wenting at Hong Kong City Hall Concert Hall, 2nd prize winner of the 5th Hong Kong International Piano Competition on 10/14/19 [from 00:39:00]
<https://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNDYxOTMzNTc1Ng==.html?spm=a2h0c.8166622.PhoneSokuUgc_1.dtitle>
Plum Blossom for piano performed by Tingyuan Luo in 2021 <https://youtu.be/4QgX8ydm7ZU>
Colors of Naobo for a pair of small Chinese cymbals
By Braden Sharp at U of North Alabama on 4/30/21 <https://youtu.be/zCl03-gOJRE>.
Duo Ye for piano solo played by Chen Min on bilibili
<https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1o5411G7XC/?spm_id_from=333.788.recommend_more_video.-1>
Variation on Awariguli for piano solo played by Gulimina Mahamuti on bilibili
<https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1Mt4y1k7YV/?spm_id_from=333.788.recommend_more_video.3>
Guessing for piano solo played by Qing Nadia Feeken on bilibili
<https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1FK411g7gJ/?spm_id_from=333.788.recommend_more_video.7>
Jingu Suite for solo cello played by Cora Swenson Lee
1st mvt The Ning Garden <https://studio.youtube.com/video/-shwguaWMyo>
2nd mvt The Stilt-walking <https://studio.youtube.com/video/esRUkPWUthg>
3rd mvt Dance with Flying Cymbals <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RX2f1yzIduY>
4th mvt The Haihe River <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MypnRsGi3YI>
China West Suite for two pianos, by Liang-He Duo (Xiaomin Liang & Jue He)
1st mvt: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGmNpxzQDyw&feature=share>
2nd mvt: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkVqErl3MIQ>
3rd mvt: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iZIanVUN0c&feature=related>
4th mvt: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9BLLSkCh5Q&feature=related>
The 3rd prize winner of “Liszt 200 Chicago International Two-Piano Competition”
(Oct. 2011, Chicago)
China West Suite for two pianos, by DUO Stephanie and Saar, pianos, 12/1/2021
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6daKMVUuB8>
Miao Dance from China West Suite for two pianos by Piano Duo Specchio (Victoria-Fjoralba Kiazimi/Jenny Soulkouki) in Municipal Conservatory of Volos, Greece, 1/27/16
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfzB348zZpY&feature=share>
China West Suite by Jiaru Dong & Yang Yang https://youtu.be/CKwKViiIV4U
Three Bagatelles from China West for flute and cello (3 mvts) new version premiered by Eva Ding and Emma Kato at Music in Action, Heritage Against Hate, 4PM EDT, 5/23/2021, presented by PROTESTRA in partnership with Asian Musical Voices of America & Colors of Classical Music, at 114 E. 35th Street, New York, NY. Posted on 6/26/2021 <https://youtu.be/Rr09Rr0CIoU>
3rd mvt is Happy Tune for flute and cello, which starts at 6:00.
Three Bagatelles from China West for flute and piano performed y Ziqing Guan and Claudio Olivera at Recital Hall, U of South Carolina School of Music, SC, 2/17/22 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4q_Ecyw-RqU&t=2390s>
The Soulful and the Perpetual for alto saxophone and piano, commissioned and premiered by Jessica Heller Knopf at the WSCXVI on 7/14/2012 at St. Leonards Auditorium in St. Andrews, Scotland. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnxM1qXMxGE>
Romance and Dance for violin and piano by Julia Glenn and Mika Sasaki
<http://www.juliaglennviolin.com/listen-watch/>
Romance and Dance for violin and piano/string orchestra
I. http://www.wqxr.org/#/programs/cuedup/2011/nov/13/ by Colin Jacobson on NPR
II. http://www.umkc.edu/news/Chenyiprofile/workingchenyi.html by Cho-liang Lin on Bis
Romance and Dance for violin and piano by Linda Wang and Alice Rybak
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puP64rbFnGo>
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDWua-vmi-s>
Romance and Dance for violin and piano by Helen Kim and Robert Henry on Centaur
<http://www.instantencore.com/music/details.aspx?PId=5123714>
Romance of Hsiao and Ch’in for cello and piano
By Kristen Yeon-Ji Yun (cello) and Arthur Houle (piano) at MPAC Love Recital Hall at Colorado Mesa University, Grand Junction, CO on 4/27/2017.
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hef7NEsvd70>
Romance of Hsiao and Ch’in for cello and piano
By Natasha Farny and Eliran Avni at U Fredonia, NY on 9/17/2022
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RDrCFKN7qI> [45:03]
From Old Peking Folklore for violin and piano
By Xenia Deviatkina-Loh & Xiao Chen <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGQchnc2AVc>
The Golden Flute for flute and piano
By Eva Ding at the 2015 National Concerto Competition in Christchurch in December,
Auckland, New Zealand. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX8d8Y79IGs>
Chinese Ancient Dances for clarinet and piano, played by Yu-Ting Cheng and Yifei Xu,
4/28/2021 at SUNY-Sony Brook <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNtnEOohMWY>
Chinese Ancient Dances for clarinet and piano, played by Jackie Glazier and Daniel Linder in “Reflections” – The music and stories of Chinese women composers presented by Fred Fox School of Music at The University of Arizona, posted on 11/29/2021 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x08dPV3L2wo> [33:05]
Chinese Ancient Dances for clarinet and piano, played by Andrew Seigel and I-Fei Chen, 9/17/2022, U Fredonia, NY <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RDrCFKN7qI> [51:20]
Chinese Ancient Dances adapted for soprano saxophone and piano, played by Zach Shemon and Jiyoun Chung (Midwest Premiere) at UMKC on 10/3/2013
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jIvU51XTzQ>
<http://instantencore.com/music/details.aspx?PId=5109053>
Chinese Ancient Dances adapted for soprano saxophone and piano, played by Eric Zheng at Murray Recital Hall at Michigan State University, 3/26/2021 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wrr13ePJ_gE>
Chinese Ancient Dances for clarinet and piano, played by Wang Mingzhe and Jessica Osborne at Sprague Hall, Yale University, Dec. 2011
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EPhtjTw3h4>
Chinese Ancient Dances adapted for soprano saxophone and piano, played by Gao Xin and Greg Hankins at Edge Recital Hall, University of Georgia-Athens, Hugh Hodgson School of Music, 10/30/13 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwq6YGzvmSc>
(first mvt); with Inara Zandmane at Guildford College, Greensboro, NC, 11/8/2013
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BcuJXi-V-A>
As in a Dream for soprano and zheng, by Feinan Wang & Yu-chen Wang at UMKC Musica Nova concert <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P741JvtdvAI>
Bright Moonlight for mezzo-soprano and piano by Fleur Barron and Myra Huang, recorded at Skillman Music, Brooklyn, New York
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVHx9OCe3KM>
Bright Moonlight for mezzo-soprano and piano by Fleur Barron and Joseph Middleton in Dreams, Homeland and Childhood, Recital live from Leeds Town Hall for Leeds Lieder Festival, hosted by BBC presenter Tom McKinney on 4/24/2021 (featured on IDAGIO in July 2021). <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkgddnHKcP4>
Bright Moonlight for female voice and piano by Leslie Bickle and Zhu Jialiang
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClXNS7gdqA8>
Meditation: Two Songs: Know you how many petals falling?/Monologue
Kerry Holahan, Soprano; Lesi Mei, Piano, 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuEm4AoMR1o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ri_9Z7EfJp4
Monologue from Meditation for mezzo-soprano and piano
Fleur Barron and Joseph Middleton in Dreams, Homeland and Childhood, Recital live from Leeds Town Hall for Leeds Lieder Festival, hosted by BBC presenter Tom McKinney on 4/24/2021 (featured on IDAGIO in July 2021) <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdvT14kCVt4>
The Fisherman’s Song for violin and piano by Scott Conklin and Alan Huckleberry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndqC7UPGlAI
The Fisherman’s Song for violin and piano by Lin Haoli and Huang Yinan at the SEC-AAS 60th Conference virtual recital, 1/15/2021 <https://youtu.be/UuBdbjcSl4k>
Nian Hua for two guitars by Beijing Guitar Duo (Yameng Wang and Meng Su)
The Second Movement: Five Boys Snatch Lotus Seed Pods <https://www.bilibili.com/s/video/BV1mQ4y1N7zA>
Chinese Folk Dance Suite for saxophone and piano by Prof. Xin Gao and Casey Dierlam Tse on 9/15/2022 at the Truman State University, MO.
<https://livestream.com/trumanmusic/events/10611965/videos/232937466?fbclid=IwAR0akpZBsFHCrNaI4G067L68fIrx44wq0M7eO1q7BKp-7B_7vApO5tNbnHA> (from 13:16)
Night Thoughts for flute, cello, and piano, by The Azure Ensemble
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjCbQFosdts>
Night Thoughts for flute, cello, and piano, by Meininger Trio
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KP9xxGlH37g&list=PLweSPkaiqSBgX2Iyn_HzAx6Evq7aiq0_f&index=147>
Night Thoughts for flute, cello, and piano, by Colleen White, Gabriel Prynn, Hitomi Koyama <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGxtATlFvVw>, Colby College, AMF, 7/25/18
Night Thoughts for flute, cello, and piano, by Colleen White, Adam Riggs, Jessica Niles
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxpaO1w6LHY> at Boulder Seventh Day Adventist Church, Green Room Artists, CO, 7pm, 8/23/18
Night Thoughts for flute, cello, and piano, by Marsyas Trio (Helen Vidovich, Valerie Welbanks, and Olga Stezhko) in 2021 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7RdWMrXkWM>
Night Thoughts for clarinet, cello, and piano, by Zhu Shuang, Dong Xue, and Chi-Kit Lam, Hainan University Concert Hall, Haikou, China, 1/2/2022
<https://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNTg0NTA1MjYyNA==.html>
Tibetan Tunes first movement Du Mu, performed by Trio Lumiere (in Boston)
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYDJA-J4VbQ> or <https://vimeo.com/46776898>
<http://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=rVFZLubE_tU>
Tibetan Tunes (I: Du Mu, II: Duo Xie) by Third Angle New Music Ensemble (Ron Blessinger, Hamilton Cheifetz, and Susan Smith) in New World CD in 2009
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8nRl50fcZ4>
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2bC0PXJ5BQ>
Ning for violin, cello, and pipa, performed by Alexandra GREFFIN-KLEIN (violin), SUN Jing, (pipa) and Alexis DESCHARMES (cello), at the Beijing International Composition Workshop 2015 in the Central Conservatory of Music, Beijing, China, 7/23/2015.
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgaS6mvxFoo#t=51>
Romance and Dance for two violins and piano by Jing Qiao and Deanna Bien (violins) and Leander Bien (piano), in Virtual Young People’s Concert at the Chinese Lounge of the National Symphony in Kennedy Center, Washington, DC, 4/26/21, from 19:40-24:00 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8lvEhWrG4E&t=1201s>.
Yangko for violin and two percussions by Xiang Gao and Quey Percussion Duo (Gene Koshinski & Tim Broscious), posted on 9/3/2021
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wx5WFF9B1z4>
Yangko for violin and two percussions by Third Angle New Music Ensemble (Ron Blessinger, Neil DePonte, and Gordon Rencher), posted on 4/3/2020
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08hE0DHdU5w>
Qi for flute, cello, piano and percussion, performed at Vanderbilt University Blair School of Music, Nashville, TN, by Molly Barth (flute), Felix Wang (cello), Heather Conner (piano), and JiHye Jung (percussion), 10/26/2021 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wzOq0caXWE>
At the Kansas City Chinese New Year Concert for string quartet by Mary Grace Johnson and Hannah Corbett, Molly Wise, and Nathan Hsu) at Rice University, Houston, TX, 3/10/2023.
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJXuWou2w4g>
Chinese Fables for pipa, erhu, sanxian and percussion (3 mvts), by Lan Weiwei, Yang Xue, Zhang Liumeng and Ni Ranran at the Beijing International Composition Workshop, 7/10/2012, Beijing, China
1st mvt: The Fox Profited by the Tiger’s Might (from 5:55)
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toqnbDf3vzs>
2nd and 3rd mvts: Master Dong-guo and the Wolf; The Snipe and the Clam
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4sKph1nWWA&feature=youtu.be%22>
Chinese Fables for pipa, recorder, cello and percussion (3 mvts), by Ensemble Dialog (2011 in Geneva) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrESTTkpdnI
Song of Spring for string quartet (2021) (I. Spring Vitality, II. Earth Dance) Commissioned by The Rivers School Conservatory (Director Gabriella Sanna), premiered by Noah Berz, Morgan Alverson, Eric Zhu, and Mateo Vidali (teacher/coach Gabriela Diaz) at the 43rd Annual Seminar on Contemporary Music for the Young, in Rivera Recital Hall, The Rivers School Conservatory (333 Winter Street, Weston, MA 02493), 5pm, 4/3/2022. <https://youtu.be/bJQgBAeZYSY>
Shuo for string quartet performed by the Ying Quartet at Q2 Music, WQXR, Jan. 2015.
<http://www.wqxr.org/#!/story/listen-tan-dun-hosts-china-new-york-music-conversation/>
Not Alone for saxophone quartet, by Red Clay Saxophone Quartet (Susan Fancher, Robert Faub, Steven Stusek and Mark Engebretson) at Tew Recital Hall, UNC Greensboro, 2/8/2022. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkPrL7Hn62I>
Fiddle Suite for huqin and strings
Xu Ke and Berlin Philharmonic String Quintet at Beijing Concert Hall, 11/9/2011, CCTV.
1st mvt (Singing) [26:56] <http://youtu.be/tdzLwIldEB8?t=26m56s>;
2nd mvt (Reciting) [32:29] <http://youtu.be/tdzLwIldEB8?t=32m29s>;
3rd mvt (Dancing) [38:59-43:40] <http://youtu.be/tdzLwIldEB8?t=38m59s> <http://www.youtu.be.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=tdzLwIldEB8#!>
3rd mvt (Dancing): <http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/r8j0FXzuGQc/>
Fiddle Suite for huqin and string quartet (first two mvts)
Lu Yiwen and Shanghai Quartet at at the John J. Cali School of Music, Montclair State University, New Jersey, 12/16/2017 <http://m.youku.com/video/id_XMzI5NDkwODcyOA==.html?from=singlemessage&isappinstalled=0&source=>
Fiddle Suite for huqin and string quartet
Wong On-Yuen and Shanghai Quartet in Hong Kong <https://youtu.be/ZHxvt5ibCS0>
Sound of the Five for cello and Chinese traditional instrumental ensemble (adapted by Phang Kok Jun???), performed by Ding Yi Music Company??? with Chu Yi-Bing??? (cello solo), cond. by Tsung Yeh??,7/20/2018, live performance of Music from Turn of the Century, Esplanade Recital Studio, Singapore.
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-qV2Gm1P8E&t=1011s>
Fire for 12 players, commissioned by Chicago Center for Contemporary Composition, premiered by Grossman Ensemble with James Baker, conductor, at the Logan Center for the Arts, University of Chicago, 3/15/2019
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=un9kW6-NJHg&list=RDun9kW6-NJHg>
Composer Portraits – Chen Yi, chamber music works (Near Distance, Shuo Chang, Happy Rain on a Spring Night, Qi, Three Bagatelles From China West, and Sparkle) performed by Curtis 20/21 Ensemble directed by David Ludwig, 12/1/2017 at Curtis.
w / interview <https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=768&v=YjdJ_s0KXs0>
Dragon Rhyme played by Barcelona Wind Orchestra cond. by Marcel Ortega I Marti at L’Auditori, Spain, 4/14/2019. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ael1TkajaJU>
Dragon Rhyme played by Hartt School Wind Ensemble conducted by Glen Adsit
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFpi6IL6v38>
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_ZbUAX32pM>
Dragon Rhyme played by Central Washington University Wind Ensemble, CBDNA, <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrmnxP0YAtg>, cond. by Larry Gookin, 3/25/2011
Dragon Rhyme played by Butler University Wind Ensemble, cond. by Robert Grechesky
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Umwz7x3BBHM&feature=relmfu> (first movement)
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOcyKQROsGs> (second movement), 10/9/2011
<http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNDc3MDM1MzQw.html>
Dragon Rhyme played by University of Hawaii Wind Ensemble, Aloha, Hawaii, cond. by Jeffrey Boeckman on 4/21/2013
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n79NQrhpDeE>
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g35IyAyc8ns>
Dragon Rhyme played by Mahidol Wind Symphony (cond. by Vanich Potavanich) at MACM in Bangkok, Thailand on 7/8/2013 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYGxIxZcvxo>.
Dragon Rhyme played by Eltham High School Symphonic Band, Eltham, VIC, Australia, cond. by Rick Plummer on September 14, 2015 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8ocj681EBw>
Dragon Rhyme played by Atlanta Youth Wind Symphony at Lakeside High School, GA, 3/16/15
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDJnOM1_nxw (Second Mvt.)
Dragon Rhyme played by Iowa State University Wind Ensemble, IW, 12/5/15
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N81tzkvXrhA (Second Mvt.)
Dragon Rhyme 2nd mvt by the Bands of Stratford High School at Berkeley County School District, SC, led by Todd Smith, 12/5/2017 https://youtu.be/nis0FY5yYJU (17:25)
Suite From China West for wind ensemble, by Stanford Wind Symphony, cond. by Giancarlo Aquilanti, 2016
I. Introduction <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iV0qNf-s_Ug>;
II. Meng Songs <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiBKSpmzP6s>;
III. Zang Songs <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fN90-lYt4aE>;
IV. Miao Dances <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF1rZnwPKOM>
Suite From China West for wind ensemble (4 mvts), by University of Hawai’i Wind Ensemble, cond. by Jeffrey Boeckman on 2/28/2016 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEi44S_m3L8>
Suite From China West for wind ensemble (4 mvts), by New Youth Orchestra cond. by Eli Steinberg Escondido, CA, 6/8/2013
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBEpC3ktM6E>
Spring Festival for middle school band
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5oa6M-5Ivk> (with score)
<https://composersforum.org/bandquest/spring-festival/>
UC Davis Concert Band and California Youth Symphony Youth Symphony Virtual Ensemble dir. by Pete Nowlen <www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlzTeXLpqms> 7/24/2020.
Selected Chen Yi Profile & Her Music on Radio Programs
Chen Yi's Chinese Myths Cantata, performed by BBC Philharmonic and BBC Singers, cond. by Jason Lai on 1/24/04, and introduced in the Discovering Music programme hosted by Stephen Johnson, in an one hour program broadcast on BBC Radio3 on 3/6/2004. <http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/discoveringmusic/audioarchive.shtml#chenyi>
Chen Yi & Her Chamber Works performed in the Composer's Portrait series by CY & Musicians from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, conversation with Andrew McGregor at the Victoria & Albert Museum; and Percussion Concerto, performed by BBC Symphony w/ EG, cond. by Yan Pascal Tortelier at Royal Albert Hall at the Proms on 8/19/2003, 1.5 hour program live broadcast on BBC Radio3.
Chen Yi & Her Music, three 30-minute programs hosted by Lin Mo, Radio Free Asia, Washington, DC, 2002/2004. <http://www.rfa.org/content/service/man/audio/kalei0613.mp3>
Kulturen verbinden, Traditionen verschmelzen: Die Musik der chinesisch-amerikanischen Komponistin Chen Yi, Ein Portrait von Heinz-Dieter Reese, Bayern 2 Radio: KlangArt, Montag, 30, August 2004, 21.30-22.30 Uhr, Bayerischer Rundfunk.
Selected Bibliography
Mia Chung: “Chinese Émigré Composers and Divergent Modernisms, Chen Yi and Zhou Long”, Elements in Music since 1945 (edited by Mervyn Cooke, University of Nottingham) on Cambridge Elements series, published online by Cambridge University Press, 4/16/2024; Print publication: 5/31/2024.
Leta E. Miller and J. Michele Edwards: “Chen Yi”, University of Illinois Press, 256-page book (6x9 in), 12/6/2020. Cloth [089-0-252-04354-3] & Paper [978-0-252-08544-4] <http://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/44dhr5bk9780252043543.html>, winner of the 2022 Leila Webster Memorial Music Award as a part of the Pauline Alderman Awards presented by the International Alliance for Women in Music on 4/10/2023. <https://iawm.org/winners-of-the-2022-pauline-alderman-awards-2/>
Gao Ying: “The Research on Chen Yi’s Compositions and Harmonies – A Case Study of her Chorus Works”, China Conservatory of Music doctoral dissertation, Beijing, China, July 2020.
Chen Yi: “Truly a Wenren – Remembering Chou Wen-chung (1923-2019)”, New Music Box magazine, <https://nmbx.newmusicusa.org/truly-a-wenren-remembering-chou-wen-chung-1923-2019/>, 11/5/19.
John Tibbetts and William Everett: “Chen Yi and Zhou Long: A Kind of Combination, with Culture and Inspiration from Both East and West”, in the book “Performing Music History”, published by Springer International Publishing AG, Switzerland, Palgrave Macmillan, November 2018.
Frank J. Oteri: “Chen Yi: Concertos for String Instruments”, CD liner-notes on BMOP/sound 1058, 2018.
Gao Ying: “On the Traditional Chinese Music Elements in Music Works by Chen Yi”, The New Voice of Yue-Fu (The Academic Periodical of Shenyang Conservatory of Music), Issue 3, 2018, China.
Mary I. Arlin and Mark A. Radice (co-editors): “Polycultural Synthesis in the Music of Chou Wen-chung”, including a chapter: Chen Yi, Zhou Long, and Mark A. Radice in Conversation about Chou Wen-chung, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, April 16, 2018.
Paul Griffths: “Composer Portraits: Chen Yi”, program notes of chamber concert of CY compositions performed by Curtis 20/21 Ensemble, presented by Columbia University Miller Theater, 12/2/2017.
Robert Raines: “Composition in the Digital World, Conversations with 21st Century American Composers”, a chapter on Chen Yi, pages 223-233, Oxford University Press, ISBN: 9780199357031, published on 3/2/15.
Jennifer Kelly: “In Her Own Words – Conversations with Composers in the United States” (Chapter 6, Chen Yi, Pages 101-120), University of Illinois Press, Urbana, Chicago, and Springfield, USA, July 2013 [ISBN 978-0-252-03759-7] (paper) and [ISBN 978-0-252-09483-5] (e-book).
Joseph Auner: “Music in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries (Anthology)” [pages 274-288], and “Music in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries (Western Music in Context)” [pages 275-276], Chapter 13, W. W. Norton and Company, New York and London, 2013.
Gong Xiaoting: “A Study of Chen Yi’s Chamber Music Compositions for Mixed Instrumentations” (134-page book), Central Conservatory of Music Press, Beijing, China, April 2013 [ISBN 978-7-81096-476-0].
Qing Nadia Feeken: The Complete Solo Piano Works of Chen Yi, A Recording, Analysis, and Interpretation, DMA dissertation, Arizona State University, USA, Dec. 2012, published in March 2013.
Zhou Hua: “An Analysis of Chen Yi’s Spring in Dresden”, Master Thesis (in Chinese), Shandong School of the Arts, China, June, 2012.
Ren Yi: “A Brief Analysis of the Artistic Features of Chen Yi’s Chinese Poems for Six Girls’ Choruses”, People’s Music (in Chinese), June 2011, Issue 578, Beijing, China.
Hsin-Yi Lin: “Musical Settings of Li Qing-Zhao of Selected Twentieth Century Composers”, DMA dissertation, UIUC, July 2011.
Yan Ming Alvin Wong: “Fusing Chinese and Western Music: Hybridity in Bright Sheng’s Seven Tunes Heard In China and Chen Yi’s Ning”, Master of Musical Arts thesis, Yale University School of Music, New Haven, Connecticut, 4/30/2011.
Rao Yunhua: “Music Compositions, Performances and Publications of Overseas Chinese Composers”, New Music in China 2009, Shanghai Conservatory Press, April 2011.
Alicia Hunt Ciccone: “The Class of 1978: New Waves in Music and the Chinese Diaspora”, BA thesis with highest honors on a subject about Asian people, Amherst College (Prof. Jeffers Engelhardt), MA, April 2011.
Li Jiti: “The Smile of Chen Yi – An Analysis Essay on Chinese Modern Music” (string quartet At the KC Chinese New Year Concert, for China National Radio’s Famous Composers & Their Works series), The New Voice of Yue-Fu, The Academic Periodical of Shenyang Conservatory of Music, Vol. XXVIII Issue 3, Sep. 2010 (in Chinese).
Guo Xin: “Controlled Timbral Transformation of Sonority – The Structurally Organizational Methods in Momentum by Chen Yi”, The New Voice of Yue-Fu, The Academic Periodical of Shenyang Conservatory of Music, Vol. XXVIII Issue 3, Sep. 2010 (in Chinese).
Wang Yin: “The Multi-style Application of Chinese Folk Music Material – An Analysis of Chen Yi’s Fiddle Suite”, The New Voice of Yue-Fu, The Academic Periodical of Shenyang Conservatory of Music, Vol. XXVIII Issue 3, Sep. 2010 (in Chinese).
Jae Eun Jung: “Four Seasons: A Study of Chen Yi’s Si Ji”, DMA dissertation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Aug. 2010.
Timothy Stulman: “A Cultural Analysis of Chen Yi’s Si Ji (Four Seasons) for Orchestra”, DMA dissertation, Bowling Green State University, Aug. 2010.
Guo Xin: Timbre and Texture Manipulation as the Structural Cohesion: An Analysis of Chen Yi’s Symphony No. 2, Journal of the Central Conservatory of Music, Quarterly, No. 2, 2010 Vol. 119.
Li Tao: The Concept of Multiple Structures and Its Analytical Principles: An Analysis of Chen Yi’s Symphony No. 2, Journal of the Central Conservatory of Music, Quarterly, No. 2, 2010 Vol. 119.
Gong Xiao-ting: A Structural Analysis of Chen Yi’s Three Chamber Works of Mixes Ensemble, Journal of the Central Conservatory of Music, Quarterly, No. 2, 2010 Vol. 119.
Xiang He (Julia): Selected Works for Violin and Piano by Chen Yi: Western Influences on the Development of Her Compositional Style, a DMA dissertation, University of Nebraska-Lincoln School of Music, USA, March 2010.
Li Tao: “The Explanation of ‘Multiple Structures’ on Chen Yi's Symphonic Music”, doctoral dissertation in composition theory, outstanding dissertation award, Shanghai Conservatory of Music, Dec. 2009, Shanghai, China (in Chinese)
Chia-Yu Hsu: "Concepts of cultural fusion in Chen Yi's Golden Flute and Chinese Folk Dance Suite”, Ph. D. dissertation, Duke University, Durham, NC, November, 2009.
Nancy Rao: “The Tradition of Luogu Dianzi (Percussion Classics) and Its Signification in Contemporary Music”, in the book China and the West – The Birth of a New Music”, Chinese translation from Contemporary Music Review, Vol. 26, 5/6, Oct./Dec. 2007, Shanghai Conservatory Press, June 2009.
Gong Xiao-ting: “Polyphonic Music Writing in Chen Yi’s Chamber Works”, Huangzhong (Wuhan Conservatory Journal), No. 3, 2009, Wuhan, China (in Chinese)
Wendy Lee: “Chinese Music Influences, Western Structural Techniques: The Compositional Design of Chen Yi’s Duo Ye”, SCI Journal, USA, 2009.
Li Jiti: “Chen Yi’s Chinese Myths Cantata”, Musical Arts (Quarterly), Shanghai Conservatory, China, 4/2009.
Sun Qi: The Formation of Aesthetics in Chen Yi’s Composition, Nanjing Arts Institute Journal, Issue #1, 2009, Nanjing, China (in Chinese)
Wu Jiajun: “An Analysis of Chen Yi’s Mixed Quintet Happy Rain on a Spring Night”, The New Voice of Yue-Fu, The Academic Periodical of Shenyang Conservatory of Music, 2008/2, Vol. 100, China
Chen Yi: “Tradition and Creation” (in English and Spanish), pp. 33-37, The New China, Contrastes (cultural magazine), #51, Spring 2009, Institut Valencia d’Art Modern (IVAM), Spain
Hu Jing-bo: “Chen Yi’s Composition and Teaching”, The New Voice of Yue-Fu, The Academic Periodical of Shenyang Conservatory of Music, 2007/3&4, 2008/1, Vol. 97-99, China
Guo Xin: “Organic Combination of Exact Calculation, Rhythm Combination, Motive Development and Timbre Design – combination form of musical factors of China and the West in Chen Yi’s composition Qi (Spirit)”, The New Voice of Yue-Fu, The Academic Periodical of Shenyang Conservatory of Music, 2008/1, Vol. 99, China
Wang Wei-lian: “An Analysis of Chen Yi’s Symphony No. 3 – My Musical Journey to America”, master thesis, the Central Conservatory of Music, June 2008, Beijing, China.
Gong Xiao-ting: A Study of Chen Yi’s Four Mixed Chamber Works (100,000 Chinese words in 126 pages), doctoral dissertation in music analysis, Central Conservatory of Music, May 2008, Beijing, China.
Guo Xin: “Absorbing Western Post-Tonal Techniques in Pitch Structure: An Analysis of Chen Yi’s Woodwind Quintet and Near Distance”, Journal of the CCOM (Quarterly), No. 2, 2008, Vol. 111, May 08, Beijing, China.
Li Tao: “Analysis of the 1st Mvt of Chen Yi’s second cello concerto”, Wuhan Conservatory Journal, 1/25/2008, No. 1, 2008, Vol. 85, Wuhan, China.
Wong Hoi Yan: Recurrence as Identity in Chen Yi's Music, MM Thesis, Chinese University of Hong Kong, July, 2007.
Gong Xiao-ting: The Characteristies of and the Polyphonic Techniques in Chen Yi’s Chinese Poems for Six Girls’ Choruses, Journal of the Central Conservatory of Music Quarterly, No. 2, 2007, Vol. 107, Beijing, China (in Chinese)
Sun Qi: A Report of the First Year’s Work of the Changjiang Scholar Chen Yi in CCOM, Journal of the CCOM Quarterly, No. 2, 2007, Vol. 107, Beijing (in Chinese)
Sun Qi: The Aesthetics of Chen Yi’s Choral Work, A Thesis of CCOM Master of Arts Degree in Music Aesthetics, June, 2007, Beijing, China
Liao Sha: An Analysis on Chen Yi’s The Points for Pipa Solo, A Thesis of CCOM Master of Arts Degree in Pipa Performance, March, 2007, Beijing, China
Anne Gray: The Wold of Women in Classical Music. p.176, Word World Publications, CA. March 07,
Zhang Ning: Music as the Bridge Linking Up Cultures of the World: An Interview with Prof. Chen Yi Who Has Given a Lecture as the “Yantze River Scholars” at the CCOM, People’s Music Reviews Edition (in Chinese), Oct. 2006, Beijing, China.
Xiaoxi Wang: Uttering Her Own Voices: The Marked Individuality of Chen Yi in Her Music Compositions, People’s Music Reviews Edition (in Chinese), Oct. 2006, Beijing, China
Zhou Xiaoying & Cheng Xingwang: A Tentative Analysis of the Use of Elements in “Baban” and the Aesthetic Orientation in Chen Yi’s Chamber Music Work, People’s Music Reviews Edition (in Chinese), Oct. 2006, Beijing, China.
Wendy Wan-Ki Lee: “Unpacking Aspects of Musical Influence in Three Piano Works by Chinese Composers”, Ph. D. dissertation (Composition and Music Theory), The University of Michigan, 2006
Ian Yeung: Chen Yi and Her Choral Music: A Study of the Composer’s Ideal of Fusing Chinese Music
and Modern Western Choral Traditions, DMA dissertation, North Texas University, Oct. 2006
Li Song-wen: East-West: Chinese Elements in Chen Yi’s Compositions, Shanghai Conservatory Press (in Chinese), May 2006 [ISBN7-80692-214-8/J.207]
Komponisten der Gegenwart, Herausgegeben von Hanns-Werner Heister und Walter-Wolfgang Sparrer, 230-pages, Germany, 2006.
Roche, Lucerne Festival, Carnegie Hall, the Cleveland Orchestra: “Roche Commissions – Chen Yi”, 200-page book in German and English, Roche, Switzerland, Aug. 2005 http://www.roche.com/roche_commissions/rc_chen.htm
Liu Jiang: “An Analysis of Chen Yi's Orchestral Work Momentum", 105-page dissertation, DMA degree in Orchestra Conducting from University of Nebraska-Linclon, Aug. 2005.
Sheila Melvin and Jindong Cai: "Rhapsody in Red, How Western Classical Music Became Chinese", 2004 by Algora Publishing, New York, www.algora.com, ISBN 0-87586-179-2, pp. 293, 326-327, 329.
Yayoi Uno Everett and Frederick Lau (editors): “Locating East Asia in Western Art Music”, Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, CT 06459, ISBN 0-8195-6661-6, pp. 7, 24, 27, 31, 38, 258, 260, 29-30, 36, 231. www.wesleyan.edu/wespress.
Mark A. Radice: “Concert Music of the Twentieth Century – Its Personalities, Institutions, and Techniques”, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458, ISBN 0-13-030466-2. pp. 278-282. www.prenhall.com
Joshua Kosman: “Violin Landscapes where the East and West meet” (Chen Yi Profile), San Francisco Chronicle, 10/21/03.
Rebecca Billock: "Selected Intermediate Piano Pieces by Seven Women of the Twentieth Century: Marion Bauer, Germaine Tailleferre, Ruth Crawford Seeger, Sofia Gubaidulina, Emma Lou Diemer, Chen Yi, and Karen Tanaka." DMA dissertation, University of Washington, 2003, pp. 70-78.
Xiaole Li: "Chen Yi's Piano Solo Music: Chinese Aesthetics and Western Models," Ph. D. dissertation, the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Aug. 2003.
Women and Music in America Since 1900, Greenwood Press, 2002, edited by Kristine Burns [ISBN 1-57356-267-X]. pp. 27, 83, 85-87, 183, 264, 410, 435, 475.
Guo Xin: "Chinese Musical Language Interpreted by Western Idioms: Fusion Process in the Instrumental Works by Chen Yi," Ph. D. dissertation, the Florida State University, School of Music, Dec. 2002.
Chen Yi: "Tradition and Creation", Current Musicology, Columbia University in the City of New York, Special Issue: Composers, ISSN 0011-3735, Dec. 2002.
Joanna Hsin-Ju Ting: "Eastern and Western Techniques in Selected Piano Works of Chen Yi," DMA lecture-recital essay, Peabody Conservatory, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, May 2002.
Sheila Melvin: "Two Composers Exchanged Vows, but Not Musical Influence", The Wall Street Journal, Leisure & Arts, D7, Tuesday, April 23, 2002.
John de Clef Piñeiro: "An Interview with Chen Yi," 7/26/2001, New Music Connoisseur, New York, 2002 <http://www.newmusicon.org/v9n4/v94chen_yi.htm>
Songwen Li: "East Meets West: Nationalistic Elements in Selected Piano Solo Works of Chen Yi", DMA Dissertation, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, May, 2001; Chapter on Baban for piano solo published on Journal of Music in China, Oct. 2001, website www.musicinchina.org
Dee Wedemeyer: "A Chinese-Born Composer and Her Own Long March", The NYT, March 27, 2001
Paul Horsley: "Woman of Two Worlds – UMKC’s Chen Yi survived China’s Cultural Revolution to become a world-famous classical composer", KC Star, 3/18/01 http://www.kcstar.com/item/pages/printer.pat,fyi/3775356f.316,.html
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, 2001, by Joanna Lee.
Allan Kozinn: “Chinese-Born Composer Wins $225,000 Ives Prize”, The New York Times, 12/21/00.
Sam Nichols: "An Interview with ChenYi", BostonMusicaViva <www.bmv.org/ChenYi.html>, 6/00.
Alan Rich: "Chen Yi & Her Second Symphony", American Symphony Orchestra League’s New American Works website www.newmusicnow.org, 7/12/99.
Irene Borger: "Interview with Chen Yi", The Force of Curiosity, CalArts/Alpert Award in the Arts, 1999, 1414 Sixth Street, Santa Monica, CA 90401, website www.alpertawards.com
Guo Xin: "Eastern and Western Techniques in Chen Yi’s Qi"; Tang Jianping: "Tradition is Alive"; Elaine Barkin: "The New Music of Chen Yi", Journal of Music In China, Oct. 1999 [ISSN 1092-1710], JMIC editor: Qinru Zhou, 1307 Barry Avenue, Suite 3, Los Angeles, CA 90025-3945, www.musicinchina.org
Xin (Sheila) Guo: Technical Innovation and Stylistic Evolution in Selected Works, 1987-1997, by Chen Yi, Master of Arts degree thesis, University of Connecticut, 1999.
Yang Yu: Today's Chinese Contemporary Music. M.A. Thesis, Mills College, 1999.
Joshua Kosman: “THRILLING MUSICAL CROSS-POLLINATION – Chen Yi’s Sparkle on CRI,
5 stars, San Francisco Chronicle, Sunday, May 16, 1999.
Francois Picard-Enzo Restagno: La Musica Cinese, p. 199-203, 1998 [ISBN 88-7063-377-2], E.D.T.Edizioni di Torino, 19 via Alfieri, 10121 Torino, Italy.
The International Who's Who in Music (12th ed.), 1990/91, 1994/95, 1998/99
Holly Selby: "'Her music is what she is'", The Baltimore Sun, 4/26/98
Barbara Mittler: Dangerous Tunes: The Politics of Chinese Music in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the People’s Republic of China since 1949, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 1997.
Moh-Wei Chen: Myths from Afar: Chinese Myths Cantata by Chen Yi, (DMA Diss., School of Music, University of Southern California, 1997)
Xiaoman Zhang Wardell: An Examination of Selected Contemporary Works Composed by Means of Numbers (Ph. D Diss., The Claremont Graduate School, CA, 1996)
Joshua Kosman: "Composer Chen Yi's music merges modern with traditional, East with West", San Francisco Chronicle, June 9, 1996
Matthew Daines: "Finding her way to the top of two worlds -- Chen Yi, once a star in China, is the latest star in a rising school of Chinese-American composers", The New York Times, 6/9/96
Yan Li: "Interview with CY" (in NY), Philharmonic (in Chinese), Beijing, No.1, 1996
The Norton/Grove Dictionary of Women Composers (W.W.Norton&Company, NY, London), 1995
Jinmin Zhou: "New Wave Music in China", (Ph. D. Diss., University of Maryland, 1993)
Su de San Zheng: "Immigrant Music and Transnational Discourse: Chinese American Music Culture in New York City", (Ph. D. Diss., Wesleyan University, 1993)
Chen Yi: "Piano Concerto", (DMA. Diss., Columbia University in the City of New York, 1993)
Contemporary Composers (St. James Press, Chicago and London), 1992
Frank Kouwenhoven: Developments in Mainland China’s New Music, Part I: From China to the United States, China Information,1992.7(1): 17-39; Mainland China's new music III, 1992: The age of pluralism, CHIME 5: 76-135; "Mainland China's new music II, 1991: Madly Singing in the Mountains", CHIME 3; "Mainland China's new music I, 1990: out of the Desert". CHIME 2.
J. C. Lee: ‘The Birth of a Composition: The Points', Artspiral vi (Summer 1992), 20-22
G. Lee: Chen Yi: A Study of a Young Chinese Composer (M. A. Thesis, Yale School of Music, 1990)
V. M. Lei: Three pieces by contemporary Chinese composers: Lam Bun-ching, Chen Yi and Zhou Long (DMA Thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1990)
Guanrong Yao: ‘Xian shi, the Viola Concerto of Chen Yi', People's Music (China) (1985, no. 1)