Julian Yu

Julian Jing-Jun Yu (born 2 September 1957)^[1] is a Chinese-Australian composer.

Biography

Julian Yu was born in Beijing and studied at the Central Conservatory of Music, where he later worked.^[2][1] In the early 1980s, he studied at the Tokyo College of Music with Jōji Yuasa.^[2] In 1984 he married an Australian and the following year he moved to Australia where he taught at the Queensland Conservatorium.^[3] He then moved to Melbourne and studied at La Trobe University for a Master's degree with Keith Humble.^[3] With the support of an Australia Council Fellowship, he studied with Hans Werner Henze and Oliver Knussen at Tanglewood in 1988 and received the Koussevitzky Tanglewood Prize.^[4][1] He has won over twenty-five prizes, including winning the Paul Lowin Orchestra Prize twice.^{[5][6]: 175}

Prizes

• Koussevitzky Tanglewood Prize (1988)^[1]
• Irino Prize (1989)^[1]
• Paul Lowin Orchestral Prizes (1991, 1994)^[1]
• Vienna Modern Masters Recording Award (1992), for Wu-Yu^[1]

Compositions

• Impromptu (1982)^[4]
• Scintillation II (1987)^[4]
• 3 Haiku (1987)^[4]
• Scintillation (1987)^[4]
• Wu-Yu (1987)^[4]
• Medium Ornamental Fuga Canonica (1988)^[4]
• Great Ornamented Fuga Canonica (1988)^[6]: 55
• Reclaimed Prefu (1989-90)^[6]: 55
• The White Snake (1990), a puppet opera^[4]
• Reclaimed Prefix II (1991)^[4]

Recordings of Yu's work

• Classical Allusion: Selected Works by Julian Yu (2000, Move Records, MD 3207, OCLC 222743895)

• China Wind: Robert Schubert plays the clarinet music of Julian Yu (2012, Move Records, MD 3351, OCLC 849711216)
• For our Natural World: Julian Yu Works (2012, Nippon Acoustic Records, NARD-5039, OCLC 988950247)
• 126 Variations on Twinkle Twinkle Little Star (2015, Move Records, MD 3404, OCLC 1030203922)
• Old and Yu: The Clarinet Music of Julian Yu, Volume 2 (2018, Move Records, MD 3424, OCLC 1086292255)