Young composer, native of Suzhou, Jiangsu. He was a member of the music team for the opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games and a core member of the music team of Zhang Yimou's films "The Thirteen Hairpins" and "The Return". Winner and honorary of many international composition competitions, his works have been selected by the China National Symphony Orchestra, China Philharmonic Orchestra, China National Center for the Performing Arts Orchestra, Shanghai Opera House Symphony Orchestra, Czech Brno Philharmonic Orchestra, Japan New Philharmonic Orchestra, He has performed and recorded with Lviv Philharmonic Orchestra of Ukraine, Baroque Soloists Orchestra of Taiwan, ELA Chamber Orchestra, Sound Ways Chamber Orchestra of Russia and Eighth Blackbird Orchestra of the United States. Contemporary composer masters George Tsontakis, Morton Subotnick, Gabriel Yared and others commented that his music has "beautiful and moving harmonies and mature writing techniques".
He began learning piano with his father at the age of 5, and began studying composition at the age of 11. He was admitted to the composition major of the High School Affiliated to the Shanghai Conservatory of Music with the first overall score, and later went to the United States for further study. He received bachelor's and master's degrees in composition from Oberlin Conservatory of Music and the University of Louisville. Studied under Ye Guohui, Randolph Coleman and Marc Satterwhite.
The "Piano Etudes" composed at the age of 20 was highly praised by the music industry and has been included in the performance and piano examination repertoire many times. When I graduated from the undergraduate program, I was selected by the Composition Department as the only representative of the department to perform "Three Art Songs" at the graduation ceremony concert; my master's degree graduation work, the orchestral piece "The Color of Tears", was unanimously recognized by the jury and won the composition class of that session. A+ top grade. After graduation, he was hired back to China to serve as the resident composer of the Shanghai Opera House. He was praised by the director, Mr. Zhang Guoyong, as having "extremely excellent writing skills." The collection of Shanxi folk songs he arranged has been recorded into an album by the Shanghai Opera House singers and bands, and was performed at the 2007 "Shanghai Spring" International Music Festival and received wide acclaim.
In July 2007, at the invitation of Mr. Chen Qigang, the music director of the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games, he went to Beijing to join the opening ceremony music team as his creative assistant, and participated in and witnessed the birth of the theme song "You and Me". He composed the "Opening Ceremony Welcome Song" and arranged "Me and You" (sung by Liu Huan and Sarah Brightman), "Fantasy Rings", "Chinese Ritual Music" and "The Main Torch Lit". His outstanding contribution to the opening ceremony music was honored by the Beijing Olympic Organizing Committee, and he received exclusive interviews from many media at home and abroad, including the famous New York radio station.
Since the establishment of "One Music Studio" in 2008, a series of music works have been created, covering concerts, ballets, musicals, film and television dramas, pop songs, etc. There are various types of creations and different styles, both delicate and beautiful, as well as majestic and majestic. In 2011, he served as the music producer and orchestrator for Zhang Yimou's film "The Thirteen Hairpins". As the largest film invested and produced in China to date, the film was fully released in theaters in China and North America in December 2011. The film's soundtrack invited the famous American violinist Joshua Bell, Sweden's Almena Chorus and the China Philharmonic Orchestra to collaborate. He also composed and arranged the theme song "Heart Attached" for the CCTV documentary "When the Louvre Meets the Forbidden City", and composed music for the CCTV documentaries "Huai: The Open Door" and "Forbidden City 100". In terms of pop music, he collaborated with many singers including Yang Zongwei, Zhang Liangying, Li Jian, Zhang Jie, Chang Shilei, Wu Mochou, Meng Nan, etc., and wrote all the strings for Lin Yilian's 2012 album "Gaia", which helped her win the 24th Taiwan Golden Melody Award for Best Mandarin Album and four other awards. In 2014, he was nominated for Best Arranger at the 25th Taiwan Golden Melody Awards for two arrangements of "Fuxian Lake" and "Blooming" in "Li Jian Picks Up the Light". In 2014 and 2015, he adapted songs for the top domestic singer competition program "I Am a Singer", including Zhang Jie's "Come Back Soon", "Just the Way You Are" and "Back to Lhasa" in the second season, and Li's songs in the third season. Jian's "Chen Yuan".
The cooperation with serious art singers is also close, including a new version of "Home in Suzhou" with lyrics by Qiao Yu, music by Wang Liping and performed by coloratura soprano Chen Xiaoduo, which has become a widely acclaimed Suzhou show. Cultural brand theme song. As well as creating the ultra-high-tech theme song "Breathing Clouds" for Chen Xiaoduo's 2013 Beijing concert.
For the famous Pingtan artist Sheng Xiaoyun, he created a beautiful Chinese and Western song "Jiangnan Song" as the opening song of the 7th Peony Award for Folk Art.
In 2012, he won two international composition competitions in the Czech Republic and Russia. As a representative of outstanding young composers from mainland China, he was invited by the National Sun Yat-sen University in Taiwan to serve as the annual artist-in-residence. In addition to composing a new work for the Sun Yat-sen University Baroque Soloists Orchestra, he also conducted observations, exchanges and lectures on cross-strait cultural and artistic creations. In 2013, the suite "Le Weiyang" composed for eight folk music performers premiered at the opening ceremony of the Shanghai Traditional Music Exhibition.
In 2014, he won the first prize in two international composition competitions: the string quartet "Three Monologues" commissioned by the ELA Chamber Orchestra stood out in the Malta International Composition Competition and won the first prize in one fell swoop. , becoming the first Chinese to win the grand prize in this event. In addition, his orchestral work "Exotic Fragrance" won the championship among the nine final works in Japan's Senzoku Gakuen International Symphony Orchestra Composition Competition with "exquisite writing techniques and personal musical vocabulary", becoming the first winner of this competition. Grand Prize Chinese. The work was also selected by the American Ablaze Records for "Bandmaster Vol. 2", which was released globally in the fall of 2014.
In 2014, he composed music for the movie "One Life to Live" and adapted the ending song "Blank Space" for Yang Zongwei. The film has become the highest-grossing Chinese film in the Mid-Autumn Festival so far. In 2015, he composed music for the movie "Highway Beauty". The film was recommended by famous directors such as Zhang Yimou and Gao Qunshu, and was awarded the "New Benchmark for Pure Love Movies". Wang Yi was even nominated for the "Best Newcomer Award" at the 15th World Film and Music Awards for his music for these two films. The other nominees included the films "Birdman" (2015 Oscar Best Picture) and "Ex Machina" Waiting for the composer. Tan Dun was nominated for the "Best Newcomer Award" for "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon". Fourteen years later, Wang Yi became the second Asian to receive this nomination. Moreover, the original soundtrack of "One Life to Live" shined among more than 400 film music submissions around the world that year, defeating "Cinderella", "Carol", "Bridge of Spies", etc., and was selected as the "Mobile Original Soundtrack" in the United States. Selected as one of the world's best film scores in 2015.
The 2015 Ukraine International Composers Summit selected twelve composer representatives from all over the world regardless of age and nationality to participate. Wang Yi was the only Chinese representative selected. The four-day summit, hosted by Ukraine's prestigious Ivan Franco University and held at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, discussed the development of classical, postmodern and contemporary music. Works by twelve composers were performed at St. Mary's Cathedral in Lviv, Ukraine. In the end, Wang Yi's work "Elegy" was awarded the "Special Honor Award". The jury's evaluation of Wang Yi's work "Elegy" was: "This is a profoundly conceived piece of music that reflects the creator's outstanding musical talent!"
In addition to his talent in music creation, Wang One is also an outstanding pianist. While at the High School Affiliated to the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, he held many personal piano and composition recitals across the country. His extremely talented and unique piano playing ability even won him a scholarship from the Piano Department of the University of Louisville School of Music and a Kentucky Music Teacher Award. Outstanding recognition from the association. During his stay in the United States, he was invited to perform as a pianist in modern concerts many times, and was highly praised by the music industry and the audience.