Qi for Flute, Cello, Piano and Percussion (Except)

Commissioned by the New Music Consort of New York, San Francisco Contemporary Music Players and Los Angeles Philharmonic Association with a grant provided by the Meet The Composer/Reader’s Digest consortium commissioning program, the quartet it titled Qi. I try to use a mixed combination of western instruments, to create the sound from east, to express my feelings of the Qi abstractly - it’s so untouchable, so mysterious, but so strong and powerful. It melts into air and light, it’s like the space in Chinese paintings, it’s filled into the dancing lines in Chinese calligraphy, it’s the spirit in human’s mind. In My composition, I translate my general feeling of the Qi, the element of nature, into my musical language a quite free and slow tempo. There are also exaggerated textures with tension, in which I try to sound the inner voices and spirit of human beings, to experience this eternal power. - Chen Yi

Annie Tseng, flute (doubling piccolo)
Jeremiah Campbell, cello
Cynthia Chan, piano
Louis Siu, percussion

The quartet was coached by the composer in March 2008
And performed a series of performance at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music

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[estherpalermo]

wow.... Great job Jay!!! You are all amazing!

[erhantanman]

Nice sounds ..

[PSearPianist]

A really intriguing piece - I would like to have heard more of it!