Shadow of the Wolf

This work was included in the New York Philharmonic's collection of “Very Young Composer” program. 
Premiered by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra in Lincoln Center, performed by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra in Shanghai Symphony Orchestra concert hall in Asia. 

Year: 2014 
Duration: 3’00”
Instrumentation: For Orchestra  
Program Notes: 

Wolves are unruly but united. Wolves are proud and aloof. 
There are three sections: 

• Wolves are fierce, like a wild wind.
• Wolves are howling in the moonlight.
• Wolves are crying fiercely and chasing like lightning.

Elegant Cloud

This work was premiered by the MSM Philharmonic Orchestra in New York. 

Year: 2022 
Duration: ca.8’
Instrumentation: For Orchestra 
Program Notes: 

Clouds, which follow air currents in a fluid form, are mixtures of floating visible polymers, shaped by the structure of temperature, humidity, height and wind in the atmosphere. 

Elegant Cloud reveals these changing masses expressing different moods. The rippling clouds are like water blown by the wind, the linear texture is like small ripples in the shape of silk strips, and the scattered dots of material are like occasional flashes of light in the clouds. The combination of the two is like a striped curtain of clouds rippling round and round. The clouds in the sky move fast or slow, using short, powerful rhythmic patterns that contrast with long, static notes. These two elements tug, contradict, and talk to each other via different instruments and speeds, so that cloud layers and cloud groups are constantly growing and struggling with these different dynamics. Thick and huge clouds spread throughout the sky and develop vertically, filling physical space. The whole orchestra reflects this thickness in sound, achieving longitudinal and latitudinal richness, a silky luster within an extremely oppressive form. The vertical and horizontal interspersed texture produces a large amount of unstable energy, creating a huge impactful force, like a myriad of emotions constantly overlapping, dedicated, and surging. 

After expressing this intensity, returning to my senses, I depict the clouds as soft feathers and uncontrollable gauzes, randomly gathering and dispersing timbres, which resemble the brightness and darkness of clouds, flickering and ringing lightly, in freedom.

Fierce Cloud

This work was premiered by the MSM Symphony Orchestra in New York. 

Year: 2024 
Duration: ca.11’
Instrumentation: For Orchestra  
Program Notes: 

A cloud is a visible aggregate of a large number of tiny water droplets or ice crystals, or a mixture of both, suspended in the atmosphere. 

Fierce Cloud draws on various formations of clouds, using the timbral richness of the orchestra and the acoustic uniqueness of its instruments to present different perspectives of "ambition". Dark clouds are dense like the musical textures, slightly regular in shape, but indistinguishable. Clouds become unevenly luminous, like staying calm in a state of excitement, but still reveal trembling and tension through tremolo and fast rhythmic patterns. 

Stratus clouds break down into unexpected combinations of timbre, flexible and changeable, with curiosity and exploration, gathering and dispersing in a rising fog. Light passes through them, mixed with a faint hum. The luster of the cloud filaments also forms a beautiful halo in the high register, showing its confidence. 

Cumulonimbus clouds of heavy rain and thunderstorms, carry powerful updrafts from the lower register to the higher register, using the instantaneous force of the whole orchestra to emphasize the pressure. Thick and complex textures create more ice crystals and water droplets by the unfettered and wild collisions, combined with tinkling percussive sounds. The rhythms of the whole orchestra add density and impact over and over again. Clouds, finally cover the whole sky. 

Fierce Cloud — an ambitious heart.